[0.5] PhazePlays MINION CULL WARPER: The Fastest Minion Mapper in PoE2 — 400% Culling Threshold

PhazePlays Minion Cull WARPER Witchhunter Build Guide for 0.5!

This build can farm all content in the game, including full-tablet juiced 200% Delirium maps!

Rapidly Lightning Warp through maps and kill everything you or your minions touch! With Witchhunter's Zealous Inquisition, enemy explosions further elevate map clear. Runic Ward fuels the new Wardbound Minions minions for enormous damage. Repulsion and Living Lightning II automatically loop for an Autobomber playstyle!

This unique minion build has 400%+ culling strike threshold while mapping through Horror's Flight and Myris Uxor. This means any normal or magic monster can be warped to, even at full life, culling everything in a large area!

• Lightning Warp is the bread-and-butter for mapping. It handles both mobility and clear!
• Repulsion + Blasphemy sends out shockwaves when you or your minions hit anything, culling enemies, and spawns Verisium Manifestations and Living Lightning II minions
• Weave in triple-cast Ember Fusillade volleys while bossing to spawn 6 Raging Spirits for extra damage
• Wardbound Minions provides a huge chunk of burst damage for bosses and rares!

This build is incredibly fun to play and shreds maps with unparalleled speed among minion builds!

Snapshot of my Current Character

Mapping

Lightning Warp handles the vast majority of mapping as it combines map clear and mobility in 1-button

• Scan your screen for Blue Orbs overlaying monsters as you move to find your next Lightning Warp destination
• Continuously chain Lightning Warp to kill packs of monsters and travel through the map (it has no cooldown, a very short cast time, costs no mana with Soul Drain, and has no noticeable range limit)
• Rare Enemies:
• • Cast Frost Bomb and then Elemental Weakness
  • Or just Frost Bomb and then Wardbound Minions
  • Try to keep the Rare enemy inside of your Blasphemy Repulsion radius so that it's culled at 50% life

BUG PSA: It seems that when your character levels up, Blasphemy + Repulsion will stop working until you toggle it off and then back on

Bossing

1. Maintain Elemental Weakness and Frost Bomb exposure
2. Cast Wardbound Minions in a spot where they'll take minimal damage
3. Occasionally, triple cast (or hold briefly) Ember Fusillade to launch a volley of embers aimed at the boss — optionally, aim it at a nearby wall. This will only create Raging Spirits if it hits an enemy or collides with a wall!

Optional: Swap in a +2 Minion Level Helmet with high evasion for difficult pinnacle bosses

Culling Strike Threshold

400%+ threshold is required to Lightning Warp to Magic enemies that are at full life. Mapping won't be super comfortable until you hit this number

• 115%+ Myris Uxor (Corrupted)
• 200% Horror's Flight — Must have the Raven-Touched line
• 20% Hunting Companion Glove Annoint (Guilt / Envy / Ire)
• 25% Bounty Hunter Amulet Annoint (Despair / Suffering / Guilt)
• 25% Heart of the Well The roll range is (15—25)%
• 20% Culling Strike II linked to Repulsion

Total: ~405% Culling Strike Threshold

• Normal & Magic monsters die instantly
• Rare monsters die around 50% Life
• Unique monsters die around 25% Life

Ascendancy Order

1. Pitiless Killer
2. Zealous Inquisition
3. Obsessive Rituals
4. Ceremonial Ablution

Runic Ward

• The Runic Ward needed to fuel Verisium Manifestations and Skyfall comes from:
• • Runeforged Tasalian Focus with +2 Minion Levels and Cast Speed. Optional: use a Sovereign Alloy to apply the (24—30)% increased Runic Ward prefix
  • Runeforged Cavalry Boots

This should be all you need! Runic Ward will stay low will mapping due to Repulsion automatically summoning Verisium Manifestations — so typically Skyfall typically won't be usable until there's some downtime. RunWarding Rune of Bodyguards in your Sceptre for minion onslaught

Sorcery Ward Scaling

This build can reach 3500+ Sorcery Ward, here are some things look for to scale it further:

• Passive Tree: There are at least 14 passive points to take near the start of Witchhunter: Battle-hardened, Feel no Pain, and Backup Plan. 12% armour/evasion nodes are worth clicking too
• Make sure all of your gear is 20% quality
• Body Armour:
• • Morior Invictus (check Gear Notes section for ideal mods)
  • (9—12)% increased Global Armour, Evasion and Energy Shield per Socket filled
  • 3x Perfect Iron Rune, 1x Rune of Foundations
• Amulet:
• • Up to 50% increased Evasion (Prefix)
  • Perfect Essence of Enhancement: (20—30)% increased Global Armour, Evasion and Energy Shield (Prefix)
  • If your Amulet has Defense mods, and isn't aiming for +4 minion levels, consider using Carapace Catalysts for quality
• Belt: Plate Belt — up to +351 Armour (Prefix)
• Boots: Ideal Prefixes are 35% Movement Speed, Life, and a high %Evasion or Flat Evasion roll
• Jewels:
• • (10-20)% increased Evasion on Diamond jewels
  • Desecrated Prefix: (5—10)% increased Evasion Rating / Minions deal (4—8)% increased Damage
• Rings: up to +233 Evasion (Prefix)
• Heart of the Well:
• • (40—60)% increased Evasion Rating from Equipped Body Armour
  • (40—60)% increased Armour from Equipped Body Armour
• Qimah Quest Reward: 15% increased Global Armour, Evasion and Energy Shield
• Other Options:
• • From Nothing: Iron Reflexes or Oasis have Evasion/Armour wheels near them
  • Path to the bottom middle jewel socket and grab Afterimage and Defiance
  • Passive tree wheel with Saqawal's Hide and Saqawal's Talon

Take a look at My Character for an example of a defensive setup

Spectres

• Powered Zealots — these cost 55 Spirit when using Bind Spectre
• Zone: Etched Ravine in Interlude 3 of the campaign
• There are multiple variants of Powered Zealots, make sure yours casts Spark!

Alternative Setup: Varashta

Disciple of Varashta is a solid alternative option for this build but it's quite expensive!

• Aldur's Legacy + Deathblow
• Put Legacy of Deathblow into Horror's Flight (Raven-Touched mod is required)
• Palm of the Dreamer in Weapon Set 1
• • Assign Lightning Warp
• A +4 Rare Sceptre in Weapon Set 2
• • All other spells assigned to Weapon Set 2
• Delete Rares and Bosses with Kelari's Deception

The Varashta version of the build is still being worked on

• June 13
• • Added an Ascendancy Order section
  • Ember Fusillade: changed Mobility to Blind II
  • Changed Body Armour in the main loadout to Morior Invictus, check the Gear Notes section for ideal mods. Result: Sorcery Ward is slightly higher, slight evasion loss, gained armour, gained ~700+ energy shield
  • Added a Sorcery Ward Scaling section
  • Slightly modified Passive Tree to get more exposure from Stripped Defences
  • Added a Sorcery Ward support gem
  • Verisium Manifestations: changed Last Gasp to Efficiency II. This lowers the runic ward cost of each minion spawned — should result in more minions while mapping. May slightly lower the value of the Warding Rune of Bodyguards
• June 14
• • Added Uhtred's Omen to Sorcery Ward
  • Changed Skyfall to Wardbound Minions. Verisium Manifestations may become droppable depending on how and when you use Wardbound Minions. If you end up dropping Verisium Manifestations, use the extra spirit on another Spectre if possible or something like 1-2x Skeletal Cleric with Brutus' Brain. Wardbound Minions is very strong
  • Reworked guide a bit to incorporate Wardbound Minions