Exiles, have you found a powerful build you like in Path of Exile 2 0.5.0? If not, today POECurrency.com brings you this Doedre’s Undoing Stormweaver build. It utilizes Sorceress’s Stormweaver Ascendancy to summon a large number of Witchtoads, thus providing stable and continuous damage output.
Introduction
This build primarily relies on Doedre’s Undoing, a Lineage Support Gem, for damage. While it doesn’t significantly increase the number of summoned Witchtoads, its combination with Stormweaver’s Ascendancy Passive – Multiplying Squall – results in excellent map clearing performance.
Players can choose Essence Drain and Contagion at the start of the game. These skills can help you smoothly transition to the mid-to-late game and even compensate for the slightly insufficient map clearing ability of Witchtoads in the endgame.
This build mainly relies on stacking health and Runic Ward to ensure survival. Remnants of Kalguur help Runic Ward regenerate, Mana Remnants help restore mana, and Passives further restore a large amount of health.
Runic Ward allows Passive Skill Tree to focus entirely on output, and players don’t need to worry about whether gear prefixes have defensive attributes. This also significantly reduces POE2 currency you spend on crafting equipment, making it an excellent choice for low-cost players.
Before starting the build, POECurrency.com must remind you that Doedre’s Undoing cannot accumulate power for Meta Gems because it is a Triggered Spell. In short, this is a very beginner-friendly build; all you need to do is two steps: cast spells, then curse.
Skills
Next, let’s look at the skills that suit this build.
First is Doedre’s Undoing, the main damage source for this build, which summons a large number of Witchtoads and inflicts multiple Chaos Damages.
Next is Spell Echo, which generates additional Cursed Grounds with each cast, so you only need to cast twice to reach the maximum of 4 Cursed Grounds.
Then comes Fire/Cold/Lightning Mastery. POECurrency.com tells you that the choice isn’t important; what matters is that it provides the necessary +1 skill level. Later, when your gear is significantly upgraded, you can replace it with other skills that better boost damage.
Generally, Concentrated Area isn’t suitable for AoE damage skills in POE 2, but here it will cause Witchtoads to spawn more densely, resulting in massive damage.
Finally, Chaos Attunement/Blindside. Chaos Attunement provides consistent DPS during progression due to the wider distribution of Elemental Storms, while Blindside is more suitable for solo boss fights.
Gear
Next, POECurrency.com will recommend suitable gear.
First, Wand, Dueling Wand, Attuned Wand, and Siphoning Wand are all good choices. They fit perfectly regardless of spell level or damage type.
Next is Focus, an off-hand armor item that provides a significant amount of Energy Shield, increasing your spell damage. However, since this build focuses on Runic Ward rather than Energy Shield, we recommend Tasalian Focus, which provides a high health and mana bonus.
However, this item only drops at level 80 and above. If you want this build to have considerable damage early on, you can buy cheap and fast POE 2 currency in POECurrency.com to upgrade the common gear you already own.
Next is Helmet. Cryptic Crown is the ideal choice because it provides the highest base Runic Ward. For other modifiers, we prioritize health, mana, critical strike chance, and lastly resistances.
Since Runic Ward is the defensive core of this build, POECurrency.com recommends Wolfskin Mantle as your Body Armor because it provides the highest Runic Ward of all Body Armors. Here, we focus on health and resistances as modifiers.
Darkness Enthroned is the only unique item in this build; its conversion of Runic Ward makes you almost immune to stuns.
If you have enough POE 2 currency, Uhtred’s Chalice is a great Mana Flask choice. It provides sustained mana regeneration and even mana overflow, increasing your maximum mana.
Passive Skills Tree
Finally, let’s look at the three skill trees at levels 70, 80-85, and 90.
Level 70 Starting Tree
When players first switch to Doedre’s Undoing in PoE 2, they use Dual Specialization to allocate nodes. The focus is on increasing Spell Damage and Chaos Damage bonuses, and enhancing Despair’s ability to reduce resistance.
Weapon Set 1 primarily increases Doedre’s Undoing bonuses – Pure Chaos and Event Horizon enhance Dynamism and Invocated Efficiency, which are perfect for Triggered Spells; Ruin provides area-of-effect spell damage; and Endless Blizzard increases the level of Elemental Weakness.
Weapon Set 2 focuses on Despair bonuses. Zone of Control provides area-of-effect damage and a hider for some curses; Fated End increases the duration of curse effects; Mental Alacrity speeds up Despair casting; and Void reduces Chaos Resistance.
Level 85 Critical Strike Tree
For even higher critical strike chance, we’ve replaced Event Horizon and Pure Chaos with Critical Exploit, Sudden Escalation, and Careful Assassin. The remaining points are used to unlock True Strike, For Jugular, and Deadly Force in the top left corner. Remember to choose damage bonus over cast speed.
Level 90 Final Critical Strike Tree
Like other final optimizations in Path of Exile 2, we want to make good use of the powerful diamonds dropped by bosses. Therefore, POECurrency.com recommends prioritizing the jewel sockets near Elemental Equilibrium and using the remaining points to upgrade Arcane Surge.
This concludes the guide to Doedre’s Undoing Stormweaver build from POECurrency.com. This build uses Witchtoads as the core damage dealer and Runic Ward to ensure survivability. For beginners to Path of Exile 2 0.5.0 or casual players who don’t want to invest too much in currency, this build is a very cost-effective option.