Amazon Lightning Spear Endgame Build

Introduction

The Lightning Spear Amazon build features an engaging two-button playstyle. Our Lightning Spear and Storm Lance skill combo creates lightning explosions to destroy groups of enemies while mapping.

The Huntress is incredibly lethal and will help you fly through the endgame while making bosses easy. This class’s flow feels amazing and excels with high damage and enough defenses to take a hit through the endgame. The build can also be played in SSF (Solo Self Found).

Later on, you will transition into an ES/Evasion version of the build, which we are currently still working on and expect to have finished in a couple of days. We will add this to the guide also.

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Strengths and Weaknesses

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Build Mechanics

Lightning Spear throws a single copy of your spear. When it hits an enemy it bursts, firing a secondary lightning bolt Projectile at multiple other enemies within a large area around it.

Storm Lance is our dedicated single target. We can have up to four active electrified spears at once. By utilizing Electrocution, we can also stun bosses.

Sniper’s Mark is our Frenzy Charge generator. Later we will automate Frenzy Charges to deal heavy burst damage on bosses.

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Skill Rotations

Follow the basic skill rotation below to progress through the endgame.

Your main clear will be Lightning Spear. You’ll want to make sure you have Frenzy Charges and Volt Charges before you throw this skill.

Volt provides a massive amount of chain along with extra Lightning Damage. This makes it extremely important to only throw your Lightning Spear after you have enough Volt. Make sure you have at least 20 charges before using Lightning Spear. Volt Charges are gained by moving around.

1. Check if you have any Frenzy charges, if not, use Sniper’s Mark on any target.
2. Throw Lightning Spear; if your Frenzy Charges are not consumed, you can keep throwing
   Lightning Spear as long as you have 20 Volt Charges. Ideally, you want the max of 30 Charges.
3. If encountering a Rare or Boss, throw Storm Lance and alternate with Sniper’s Mark to maintain Frenzy Charges.

For Frenzy Charge sustain we have a few options:

Make sure you’re using Perpetual Charge on Lightning Spear to help maintain charges.
Kitoko’s Current Gloves are a fantastic way for early Frenzy Charge Generation. They will allow your Lightning Damage to Electrocute which will make it so Combat Frenzy will give you Frenzy Charges.

An alternative to Kitoko’s Current Gloves would be using Neural Overload and Electrocute on your
Herald of Thunder. This will make it so your Herald of Thunder no longer shocks, but applies Electrocute. You would lose the benefits of stunning bosses due to not wearing the gloves, however, you gain the ability to wear rare gloves with the stats you need.

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Video Guide

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Skill and Support Gems

The Amazon Lightning Spear Huntress utilizes the following Skill Gems and Support Gems, listed in order of socket priority.

Skill Gems	Support Gem 1	Support Gem 2	Support Gem 3	Support Gem 4	Support Gem 5
Lightning Spear	Volt	Bullseye	Perpetual Charge	Fork	Longshot
Storm Lance	Primal Armament	Overextend	Lightning Infusion	Blindside	Deliberation
Sniper’s Mark	Mobility	Inspiration	Ingenuity	Arcane Tempo	–
Thunderous Leap	Martial Tempo	–	–	–	–
Infuse Weapon	Neural Overload	Blind	Conduction	Lightning Exposure	Strip Away
Spearfield	Rage	Rearm	Encumbrance	Soul Thief	–

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Spirit Gems

The Spirit Gem setup requires 100 total Spirit. Defeat The King in the Mists (Act 1, Normal Difficulty) and Ignagduk (Act 3, Normal and Cruel Difficulty) for 100 base Spirit, which is enough to run our Spirit Gems.

Skill Gems	Support Gem 1	Support Gem 2	Support Gem 3	Support Gem 4	Support Gem 5
Herald of Thunder	Reach	Innervate	Elemental Focus	Deadly Herald (if enough spirit)	–
Wind Dancer	Life Thief	Arms Length	Punch Through	–	–
Combat Frenzy	Profusion	Precision	–	–	–

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Ascendancy

Amazon is the recommended Ascendancy for the Lightning Spear Huntress. Select your first Ascendancy after completing the Trial of the Sekhemas in Act 2. The trial is not difficult, so complete it within the level range of 20-30. During the early access of Path of Exile 2, you have the option between Amazon and Ritualist, but for this build guide, we recommend going with Amazon.

Amazon Ascendancy Order

The Amazon is the best Ascendancy choice due to its extremely high Critical Strike Chance. Allocate the Ascendancy nodes in the following order:

1. Accuracy and Critical Strike — This allows you to scale Critical Strike Chance through Accuracy stacking.
2. Skill Speed and Predatory Instinct — This gives you a damage multiplier to Rares and Bosses.
3. Elemental Damage and Elemental Infusion – This consumes your Frenzy Charges to give your spear throws bonus Elemental Damage.
4. Accuracy and Penetrate — Please make sure you have at least 200 Accuracy Rating on your weapon before picking up your last ascendancy. This gives you bonus physical damage based on the accuracy rating of your weapon.

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Passive Skill Tree

Path of Building is a build planner with helpful theory-crafting tools. Use the following URL for advanced details and calculations on the Lightning Spear Amazon Huntress.

For more instructions on downloading the application, check the guide on Path of Building 2.

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Gear

The preferred gear for the Lightning Spear Amazon Huntress is listed below with affixes and runes ranked in order of importance. Prioritize gear with the correct base stats and beneficial explicit affixes.

Equipment Slot and Base Stats	Prefixes	Suffixes	Sockets
Spear	+% Increased Physical Damage Adds # to # Physical Damage + # Accuracy	#% Attack Speed #% Critical Hit damage #% Critical Hit Chance	Greater Iron Rune, if you have the 4th Ascendancy use Greater Vision Rune
Buckler	+% Increased Block Chance +#Maximum Life +# Evasion	+#% Cold, Fire, Lightning, and Chaos Resistance	Any Resistance Rune you need
Helmet	+#Maximum Life +# Evasion +% Evasion	+% Critical Chance +#% Cold, Fire, Lightning, and Chaos Resistance	Any Resistance Rune you need unless Resistance capped than use Greater Iron
Body Armor	+#Maximum Life +# Evasion +% Evasion	+#% Cold, Fire, Lightning, and Chaos Resistance	Any Resistance Rune you need unless Resistance capped than use Greater Iron
Gloves	+#Maximum Life Adds # to # Physical Damage Adds # to # Lightning Damage +# to Accuracy Rating	+% Attack speed +#% Cold, Fire, Lightning, and Chaos Resistance Gain # Mana per Enemy Killed	Any Resistance Rune you need unless Resistance capped than use Greater Body
Boots	+% Increased Movement Speed +#Maximum Life +# Evasion	+#% Cold, Fire, Lightning, and Chaos Resistance +# Atributes	Any Resistance Rune you need unless Resistance capped than use Greater Body
Amulet	+#Maximum Life +# Sprit +% Evasion	+# to Level of all Projectile Skills +% Increased Critical Chance +% Increased Critical Damage
Left Ring Slot	+#Maximum Life Adds # to # Physical Damage Adds # to # Lightning Damage +# to Accuracy Rating #% increased Lightning Damage +# Evasion	+#% Cold, Fire, Lightning, and Chaos Resistance +# Atributes Gain # Mana per Enemy Killed
Right Ring Slot	+#Maximum Life Adds # to # Physical Damage Adds # to # Lightning Damage +# to Accuracy Rating #% increased Lightning Damage +# Evasion	+#% Cold, Fire, Lightning, and Chaos Resistance +# Atributes Gain # Mana per Enemy Killed
Belt	+#Maximum Life +% increased Flask Life Recovery rate +# to Armour	+#% Cold, Fire, Lightning, and Chaos Resistance +# Charm Slots +# to Strenght

Jewels

The beneficial affixes for Jewels are listed below, ranked in order of importance. Prioritize Rare Jewels with two prefixes and two suffixes.

• Prefixes
  1. Increased Attack Damage
  2. Increased Projectile Damage
  3. Increased Lightning Damage
  4. % increased Magnitude of Damaging Ailments you inflict with Critical Hits
  5. Damage Penetrates Lightning Resistance
     
• Suffixes
  1. Increased Critical Hit Chance for Attacks
  2. Increased Critical Damage Bonus for Attack Damage
  3. Recover of maximum Mana on Kill
  4. % increased Attack Speed

Campaign Buffs

Quest rewards during the campaign offer a selection of buffs to your character. Choose the following buffs for the build:

• Valley of the Titans Altar
  1. 15% increased Mana Recovery from Flasks
  2. 15% increased Life Recovery from Flasks
• Venom Draught
  1. Ailments or stun
  2. 10% Chaos Resistance

For more details, check the guide on Campaign Difficulties and Permanent Stat Bonuses.

Flasks and Charms

Prioritize the following Flasks and Charms:

• Health and Mana Flasks
  • Prefix: Increased Amount Recovered
  • Suffix: Increased Charges or Increased Charges Gained
• Charm: Stone Charm or Thawing Charm. I prefer Thawing Charm if only one slot.

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Changelog

• April 12th, 2025: Guide created for Path of Exile II, Early Access.