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WARP STORMWEAVER - BUDGET ENDGAME BUILD GUIDE @animeprincess

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Stormweaver

Sorceress

End Game

Verified

By animeprincess

Updated on Nov 20, 2025

Nov 20, 2025

Build Overview

THIS BUILD GUIDE HAS 3 DISTINCT PROGRESSION 'VARIANTS':

1) Budget Hybrid Life/ES Setup

This first variant is meant for helping to gear starting in late act 3, which is the earliest you should consider swapping over to Warp. It will carry you through early maps quite well.

2) Chaos Inoculation Swap

This is also very budget, and is what you should be aiming to gear for while going through the map tiers. Once you hit around 4k+ energy shield, it's time to swap to this tree, to gain the benefits of immunity to chaos / poison / bleed damage.

3) HIGH BUDGET 10K ES Setup

You can start progressing to this immediately after the Chaos Inoculation Swap. Gear for it piece by piece. This just exemplifies what a well-rounded T15/T16 map farmer will look like.

HOW THIS BUILD WORKS:

Clearing

To put this very briefly, for generic mapping you simply Ball Lightning into packs of monsters and unleash Lightning Warp onto the balls inside the pack. You shotgun the pack and keep doing this to move forward fast and clear everything.

Difficult Single Targets (full bossing rotation)

Now, this clearing interaction also litters the floor with Lightning Infusion. For single target damage, the full rotation is

1) Sigil of power (from a weapon swap Chiming Staff

2) Elemental Weakness

3) 2x Orb of Storms

4) Ball Lightning Lightning Warp into the boss

5) refresh Orb of Storms when they run out

i recommend pianoing your hotbar and having the skills in the correct order so its brainless. realistically you dont really have to always do the entire combo but thats how you do the most damage

Lightning Conduit autotriggers, and if really only should proc on unique monsters which is fine. its a massive nuke. Try and make sure the boss has Elemental Weakness on him when your energy is almost at 100%.

PUT YOUR BALL LIGHTNING ON LEFT MOUSE BUTTON AND YOUR LIGHTNING WARP ON RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON. NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND THANK ME LATER!

ADDITIONAL BUILD RESOURCES:

Leveling and Endgame loot filter available: type !filter in twitch chat for filters

Leveling Guide on mobalytics

Supplementary YouTube material (how to fix dps, build deep dives, etc)

VODs of all twitch livestreams, uploaded once per day

Build Variants

Budget Hybrid Life/ES Setup

Chaos Inoculation Swap

HIGH BUDGET 10K ES

The default setup assumes you have low budget and you have just hit endgame. The Chaos Inoculation swap is meant for higher investment into energy shield scaling, and is the true endgame setup we should aim for. It is still budget friendly but does require decent energy shield gear. Watch the youtube video for detailed info on when to swap!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LE5PZwloR68&t

Equipment

Budget Hybrid Life/ES Setup

Chaos Inoculation Swap

HIGH BUDGET 10K ES

Set 1

Set 2

Equipment Priority

I AM PROVIDING TRADE LINKS, with contextual explanations of how to use each of them. FOR ALL OF THESE ITEMS, enter your budget in the 'max buyout' field under 'show filters'

HIGH DAMAGE BUDGET WEAPON:

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Sort by 'sum' under the weapon stats, and buy the highest one that you can afford. Keep in mind if there are open prefixes or suffixes, you will be able to add more modifiers on via Abyss crafting or Exalted orbs.

ENERGY SHIELD BODY ARMOR:

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You want to sort via clicking the 'Energy shield' button below the item stats. The reason to sort this way, is it shows you the best to worst total energy shield values while taking into account armorer scrap currency being applied. Not that if there are no Iron Rune in the body armor, you can socket them in for a even bigger boost to energy shield.

The body armor is BY FAR the best spot to get high amounts of energy shield!.

ENERGY SHIELD HELMET:

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Also sort these by the 'Energy shield' button below the item stats. The helmet is the 2nd best slot to get high amounts of energy shield.

RESISTANCE GLOVES:

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Sort these by the 'sum' value underneath the items stats. Gloves are only 'okay' at getting energy shield, so we prioritize resistances in the early game on a budget. We ideally want a character with 75% for every elemental res.

Kitoko's Current as an alternative: This glove doesnt provide resistances, but will do a 5 second stun on rare and unique enemies via Electrocution. It's a very good defensive layer!

RESISTANCE BELT:

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Belts are a great source of fixing resistances. Sort by 'sum' underneath the item stats.

MOVEMENT SPEED/RESISTANCE BOOTS:

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Sort by 'sum' below the item stats. You ideally want high movement speed, and since boots are only 'okay' at getting Energy shield, on a budget we prioritize the resistance stats instead.

CAST SPEED RINGS

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Cast speed is a massive multiplier to damage and the most important damage stat, because it directly corrolates to how many Ball Lightning's you can churn out, which you in turn can Lightning Warp onto for massive damage. It also directly increases how smooth the build feels, because it reduces the delay of us casting Ball Lightning, which is inherently very slow compared to everything else.

RARE JEWEL WEIGHTED SUM SEARCH

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Skill Gems

Budget Hybrid Life/ES Setup

Chaos Inoculation Swap

HIGH BUDGET 10K ES

Support Gem Requirements:

Str 40

Dex 25

Int 70

Expand all

Lightning Warp

Ball Lightning

Arc

Elemental Weakness

Sigil of Power

Orb of Storms

Mana Tempest

Cast on Elemental Ailment

Gem Priority

+23

GEMS ARE IN ORDER OF IMPORTANT. FIVE LINK Lightning Warp FIRST, ITS OUR MAIN SKILL

HOW TO SET UP SIGIL OF POWER:

https://youtu.be/qtm6i6cfTLs?t=552

HOW TO SET UP ZENITH II SUPPORT ON LIGHTNING WARP:

This skill is powerful because it gives us 30% more damage and ALSO because it gives us 25% mana recoup. The recoup is so important because it drastically improves the amount of mana we get back while playing the game.

HOWEVER, if your spell costs more than 1/10 of your entire mana pool, you do not get the 30% more damage multiplier, and its therefore 'bricked'. In order to use Zenith II, you should multiply the cost of the spell its attached to, and then make sure your total mana pool is higher than this. This build will eventually want to use Archmage which wants high mana pool, anyways, so mana should be a high priority on gear when we start to minmax.

It's quite likely some spells will cost too much mana to use Zenith II on a low budget. An alternative for our main spell Lightning Warp would be Deliberation, which gives us slightly less damage, and obviously does not give us recoup.

I have taken Zenith II out of the default Lightning Warp setup because I think most people will use it the wrong way. But I am leaving this explanation, incase you decide to work in the criteria to make this function.

BALL LIGHTNING GEM LEVEL:

You may want to leave Ball Lightning at level 11, because it is not used for damage, and it will be significantly cheaper mana cost at low levels.

MANA COST EFFICIENCY

This stat is helps to manage mana cost. It lowers the mana cost of all our skills, therefore it works extremely well with Zenith II support but is honestly just a good stat to get if you want more mana sustain. Here are ways to get this stat:

Heart of the Well unique jewel - 8-16% mana cost efficiency
Talisman of Eeshta in the helmet socket - 10% cost efficiency
Conservative Casting passive node
Efficient Casting passive node

ARC IS OPTIONAL AND ALOT OF PPL MYSELF INCLUDED RARELY IF EVER PRESS IT.

It can be situationally good to offscreen some dangerous mobs you while you ES regenerates. It benefits from the infusions generated by Lightning Warp

Mana Tempest synergizes with Arc but if you are not even using arc regularly, then you may not even want to bother with it. This skill triples your Arc projectiles and chains thru an entire screen no matter how dense it is. Kind of fun for abysses.

Passive Tree

Budget Hybrid Life/ES Setup

Chaos Inoculation Swap

HIGH BUDGET 10K ES

main:

123

set 1:

set 2:

Pink weapon set

Pink weapon set is your main damage weapon

Green weapon set

Green weapon set is your backup weapon, which is a chiming staff where the mods dont even matter, for sigil of power. (refer to previous section to learn how to setup sigil of power)

Ascendancy Order

ascendancies are the same as our leaguestarter

STORMWEAVER SORC Leaguestarter 0.3.0 - @animeprincess - PoE 2 Sorceress Build Guide

Atlas Tree

Budget Hybrid Life/ES Setup

Chaos Inoculation Swap

HIGH BUDGET 10K ES

Bottom left of this tree makes you faster, stronger, and gives you occasional divine orbs via researchers strongboxes (which you should always Alchemy orb).

The rest of the tree makes waystones harder, and also more rewarding.

How it Works

Quest rewards to take:

1) charm recharge - act 2
2) mana regen from venom reward - act 3
3) tattoos - lightning resist/int/fire resist - act 4
4) boon - global defenses - interlude