Lightning Spear Storm Lance CI
0.2 DOTH – Day 20 – April 23, 2025
I know… I know… the most meta build of POE2 0.2 Dawn Of The Hunt. And by far! But it’s a new class, a new weapon type, a new ascendancy, new skills, so I had to try it out before it gets the triple GGG nerf. Here is my experience with Lightning Spear / Storm Lance Amazon Huntress.
It’s my second build of the league so I was able to buy some Twink items such as:
I also bought early 2 cheap items that we will use it all the way to level 90:
I looked at 2 levelling guides to help me:
- Fubgun Ranger/Amazon Fast leveling guide which is for a second character with a bunch of unique to fast track your levelling
- Asmodeus Optimized Huntress Leveling Guide which is for a league start character not relying on unique gear.
I did a combination of these 2 guides, tried different skills at the beginning but around the act 2, 3 (I can’t remember), when you can generate Frenzy charges reliably, I followed the real build guide by Fubgun (YouTube video available in this Mobalytics guide and also below).
I completed the campaign at level 63, in 11h30, with 3 deaths. Beginning was a bit rough when I was trying to parry and the early skills but once you can equip some of the gear and use the skills from the build guide, it’s pretty smooth.
I slightly differed from the build guide as I wanted to be CI. I had to sacrifice some DPS but I ended up, I think, more tanky; and the build ended up cheaper as you don’t need to worry about Life and Chaos Resistance on your gear. If you’re interested, here is my Better Trading (Chrome extension to save your trade searches) link so you can maybe leverage my searches to find your gear:
I stopped playing this character (for now) at level 90, after 22h and 11 deaths. I didn’t do any bossing (beside the map bosses) but I think it should kill Arbiter lvl 1 for sure, maybe even higher level with this gear. But it’s a mapping character first.
More details below with POB, pros and cons, DPS, etc.
| Bossing | ★★★ |
| Defence | ★★★ |
| Mapping | ★★★★★ |
| Budget | ★★★★ |
| Overall score | 15 |
Builds Comparaison
Impossible to be fair but I'm trying my best. I'm trying to get all characters to lvl 90, 4 ascendancies, 5L, gem level 19 and under 10 div.
What I liked
- Mapping – Blow entire screen with a couple of spear throws
- Cheap – As it’s a bit OP now, you can get decent results with cheap gear
- Fast – Right side of the tree so a lot of MS, and the mount
- Respectable defenses – A bit of block, a bit of evasion, CI + Eternal Youth for ES flask was pretty good. Still susceptible to one shots though
What I disliked
- Aiming – not gonna lie, I threw many many spears in the void
- Single target – pretty efficient but I didn’t enjoy the Storm Lance, Sniper’s Mark, Barrage rotation while the boss is moving. A better player would be more efficient than me.
- Dismount – might be a bug but at some point, I couldn’t see the stun bar on my mount anymore and I would get the bad surprise. It worked in the beginning though?
Would I play it again?
Yes if it’s still OP, otherwise, not my favourite archetype
Path Of Building and stats
POB is setup for bossing with Storm Lance, but 80% of the time, you would use Lightning Spear when mapping.
Almost impossible to really know Storm Lance DPS as there are 4 components of DPS (Projectile, Frenzied charge, Lodged Spear, Explosion) and you have 3 more components with Sniper Mark, Barrage and the Open Weakness on enemies. I put the Lodged Spear DPS as it was the closest to what I felt IG.
| POB | In Game | |
| DPS (Guardian / Pinnacle) | 138,000 | 113,000 |
| Hard Core? | NO |
| Solo Self Found? | YES-ish |
| League starter? | YES |
| Levelling skill | Since lvl 6 |
| Budget | 4.5 div as per 0.2 DOTH – Day 20 – April 23, 2025 |
| Death count | 11 |
| Level | 90 |
| Played | 22 hours |
Please visit this Google Sheet to see the main information and POB data I kept track of. You can more easily compare with other builds.
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