Currently gaining popularity around the world, Path of Exile 2 offers a ton of build options for players to create different builds to suit different play styles. For example, in the leveling stage, you need builds with strong clearing and damage capabilities, while for the endgame stage, you need builds with strong survivability and defense capabilities.

However, it is worth noting that most builds require you to select a lot of skills that need to be cast in sequence. Although the combat effectiveness and visual effects they present are very good, the complex skill rotation will make some players with insufficient operation level often feel flustered, which greatly reduces the specific effect of this powerful build.

So, in this guide, we will show you some one-click builds for POE 2 Dawn of the Hunt league that are worth trying. Although they only focus on a single castable skill, if you can select several Chain Links that can be activated consecutively, you can move around freely during battle and rely on them to complete the corresponding combat tasks.

With that in mind, this guide will also cover some of the skills and special gear that are used with these builds to help maximize this most important skill and make it just as effective as a regular build with multiple skills.

1. Lightning Spear Amazon/Deadeye

When Path of Exile 2 launched its first league, Dawn of the Hunt, in Early Access and brought a game-changing patch 0.2.0, Lightning Spear has become a favorite skill among players and is often considered a primary damage skill.

While Lightning Spear requires you to activate other skills to help it get the most out of it, it is only a onetime task, and you can then throw the spear while moving to deal some damage. Since Deadeye and Amazon both have very similar passive skill trees, Lightning Spear works very well in both Ascendancy classes.

Lightning Spear Amazon is more suitable for endgame content, because its passive skill Critical Strike ensures that all skills used have critical effects and you only need to spend a small amount of POE 2 Currency to stack accuracy to get super strong single target critical ability.

For Deadeye, the advantage of an easy generation of Frenzy Charges can keep the damage ability of Lightning Spear high, especially when it is combined with Avidity and Thrilling Chase. So this is more suitable for the high clearing ability required in the leveling stage, and the stackable critical effect requires some specific gear or more strength attributes in Deadeye.

Herald of Thunder and Sniper’s Mark are optional skills, but they are important for taking down powerful enemies. Kitoko’s Current and Tangletongue Forked Spear are essential pieces of equipment.

2. Exploding Gas Arrow Deadeye

Another easy-to-use skill that’s perfect for Deadeye is Exploding Gas Arrow, which lets you throw a gas arrow and create a gas layer that will continuously explode once enemies enter it, with the help of the passive effect provided by Radiant Grief Lace Hood.

Not only that, but the support gems you can choose for this powerful skill are also very easy to obtain, such as Martial Tempo, Scattershot, and Inspiration. You can also choose a Herald of Ash Spirit Gem for it, so that you can quickly kill enemies with low health with basic attacks while exploding so that you can pick up more POE 2 Currency for upgrade your gear.

If you want more range, you can choose Death’s Harp Dualstring Bow for Exploding Gas Arrow Deadeye build, which will allow you to fire up to four additional arrows and provide you with health and mana buffs with each kill.

Among the triggerable passive skills that complement this build, you can choose Point Blank and Endless Munition, as the former can provide you with an additional 20% damage ability, while the latter can provide you with the opportunity to throw an additional projectile.

3. Detonate Dead Blood Mage

Although Detonate Dead has been significantly nerfed in the latest POE 2 patch, making it less effective against pinnacle bosses, it is still the best one-click skill for Blood Mage builds.

Normally, Detonate Dead requires you to kill a few enemies so that you can detonate their corpses to deal more area damage. But if you want to make it a one-click skill, you can install Sacrifice Spirit Gem first, which will allow you to directly detonate your minions, thereby gaining unlimited explosion damage.

Because of the addition of this Spirit Gem, you need to have a lot of Spirit to build your minion army, so you should spend as many POE 2 Divine Orbs as possible to make your gear that can generate Spirit more effective. In addition, Skeletal Cleric effect that shortens the respawn time of minions is also worth placing in your build.

Since Blood Mage build has always been considered by all POE 2 players as a glass cannon in the current game, you should use passive skills to boost your defensive capabilities to ensure smooth skill rotation and maximum effectiveness.

And the high stacking of health can maximize the basic critical efficiency and damage value of Gore Spike and Sunder the Flesh provided by this Ascendancy class. The last passive skill that can be activated is Between the Cracks, which will allow you to ignore the armor of the monster when you are in a critical attack, thus directly threatening its health.

The above are some very simple builds that are worth trying in the current Path of Exile 2 Dawn of the Hunt league. Hopefully, with their help, you can get through some boring grinding stages more easily or successfully complete some challenging boss encounters, thereby improving your position on the league rankings. I wish you a happy game!