Path Of Exile 2 Campaign Boost

Diablo 4 announced at 2025 TGA that Paladin class would be launched in season 11, which brought surprises to players, and Path of Exile 2 patch 0.4.0 was not to be outdone either. In addition to the previously announced new class Druid, the official also announced a new Ascendancy class, Disciple of Varashta, without any warning.

Disciple of Varashta is a Sorceress Ascendancy class. Its gameplay is mainly summoning, and it may be the strongest summoning Ascendancy currently. It has many ways to play, and today we will mainly introduce the gameplay based on Sand Djinn.

Disciple Of Varashta Overview

Disciple of Varashta has three main summons that you can manipulate to cast spells. They are very powerful, but they play differently from a traditional summoning build, and it is more like a spellcaster build.

• Ruzhan, the Blazing Sword: A pure output Djinn that can burst out with powerful damage.
• Kelari, the Tainted Sands: It can not only release spells to cause damage, but also apply a shield to the character.
• Navira, the Last Mirage: A support-oriented Djinn that provides health regeneration and freezes enemies.

Players can choose which Djinn to fight together and order them to use specific skills. Each Ascension talent point grants a Command Skill.

Djinn are invulnerable. Even if all the player's other summoned army dies, the monsters alone can easily clear the map and kill the boss.

You need to increase the damage by stacking summon damage, command skill-related talents, critical strikes, and support gems (Support Gems). All skills of each monster share the same set of auxiliary gem links, and universal damage support gems work well.

Sand Djinn Disciple Of Varashta Build

Advantages And Disadvantages

This build not only has powerful burst damage, but also has a huge energy shield pool. Its ability to regenerate energy shield builds is unparalleled, energy shield regeneration activates extremely quickly, and the farming map experience is smooth and enjoyable.

However, if you pursue maximum damage, Boss battles require frequent button presses, high-intensity operations, and no particularly fast movement methods.

Djinn Select

This build mainly uses Flame Djinn and Sand Djinn to fight together to cause extremely high damage. Additional skill slots for each monster are unlocked at character levels 40, 65, and 90.

Kelari, The Tainted Sands

Its base can cause physical damage, has a high base critical hit rate and additional critical hit damage bonus, and can apply multi-layer critical hit vulnerability effect.

Kelari's Brutality

Djinn throws a row of blades at the cursor, which explodes after a short delay. Store 2 times of use. Both clear map and single target damage are good. It is recommended that you use it before bursting into a combo to apply the critical vulnerability debuff.

Kelari's Deception

Creates an area-of-effect explosion at the cursor, leaving a short-lived clone behind. Store 3 times of use. Continuous use will cause 50% more damage each time, and each surviving clone will copy the explosion effect. Casting 3 times in a row can produce up to 5 explosions. This is one of the most damaging skills in the build and can significantly reduce the boss's health.

Ruzhan, The Blazing Sword

Whenever the player uses a damaging skill, Ruzhan will automatically attack near the cursor, causing moderate damage and applying a basic Exposure effect.

Ruzhan's Brand

The brand is attached to the enemy. Up to 3 of them can exist at the same time and can be stacked on the same target. They will automatically explode after 3 seconds. The damage is acceptable but the priority is low. It is only recommended for players who like extreme active play. It can be cast three times quickly between skills to supplement the damage or clear out dense monster groups.

Ruzhan's Trap

Throws a sword at the cursor, then generates 8 randomly located runes on the ground. If an enemy steps on the rune, a static flame whirlwind will rise that lasts for 4 seconds. The damage of multiple cyclones can be stacked. By casting it close to a wall or in an enclosed area, you can narrow the rune generation area and make the whirlwind more concentrated. This is an excellent map-clearing skill and the single-target damage is also good.

Skill Gems And Gear

• Ruzhan, the Blazing Sword: Bidding II, Muster, Long Fuse II, Hulking Minions. Magnified Area II.
• Kelari, the Tainted Sands: Bidding II, Brutality III, Muster, Hulking Minions, Heft.
• Skeletal Reaver: Fire Attunement, Muster, Feeding Frenzy II, Heft, Immolate.
• Skeletal Storm Mage: Shock, Overcharge, Muster, Feeding Frenzy II, Rapid Casting II.
• Skeletal Sniper: Fire Attunement, Muster, Feeding Frenzy II, Heft, Immolate.
• Skeletal Frost Mage: Rapid Casting II, Muster, Minion Mastery, Multishot II, Projectile Acceleration III.
• Skeletal Arsonist: Fire Attunement, Muster, Multishot II, Feeding Frenzy II, Heft.
• Skeletal Cleric: Meat Shield II, Last Gasp, Rapid Casting II, Minion Mastery.
• Skeletal Brute: Muster, Fire Attunement, Feeding Frenzy II, Heft, Immolate.
• Elemental Weakness: Heightened Curse, Efficiency II, Focused Curse, Magnified Area II, Rapid Casting II.
• Frost Bomb: Potent Exposure, Overabundance I, Spell Echo, Cooldown Recovery II, Short Fuse II.
• Skeletal Warriors: Culling Strike II, Hulking Minions, Muster, Fire Attunement.

Since Ascendancy cannot be performed until the second act, you still need to upgrade in the normal way in the early stage. After obtaining Disciple of Varashta class, the talent tree requires more options to increase the life of the summoned object.

There are no special requirements for equipment. You can even choose all rare equipment, as long as their affixes include increasing the damage of the summons or the level of the summons. However, you can prepare a set of weapons with talent gems that increase the minion area of effect to obtain a larger clearing range. Djinn are very powerful on their own, but the more POE 2 currency you invest in them, the more damage they do.

How To Farm The Map?

Ruzhan's Trap, keep moving and let the enemy trigger the rune. Even if there may be fish that slip through the net, your army of summons will clean them up.

In the boss battle, the exposure effects of Elemental Weakness and Frost Bomb are maintained. If Kelari's Deception has 3 charges, cast it three times in a row to cause a huge burst. Ruzhan's Trap and Kelari's Brutality are both served after cooling.

If you have a lot of Spirit, you can use it to summon Skeletal Reavers and occasionally press Enrage to get a damage boost.

This is just one way to play Disciple of Varashta. You can also play it without playing a pure summoning build and combine it with other spells, as long as they give you a comfortable experience in the campaign.

Path of Exile 2 Patch 0.4.0 introduces the new Druid class, which features three transformation forms, each with its own unique skills and combat style. You can switch between these forms at any time during combat.

Of these three forms, the bear form excels at utilizing Rage resource to increase damage output and create synergistic effects between multiple skills. This form also possesses tank-like characteristics, allowing it to withstand damage.

Based on this, we will introduce a build that focuses on transforming into a bear and creating fissures to damage enemies in combat - Raging Fissure Bear Build.

Raging Fissure Bear Build Overview

The bear form of Druid is characterized by its slow speed but extremely high defense and survivability, making it suitable for melee combat. Although it's not as fast as the wolf or wyvern forms, with the right build, it can clear groups of enemies with AoE damage.

For example, Raging Fissure Bear Build is crafted based on one of the key bear form skills, Fury of the Mountain.

Fissure Warrior playstyle has always been quite powerful in PoE 2, but now the bear form combined with this skill can achieve similar, or even better, results.

This skill unlocks at Tier 5 and requires equipping Animal Talismans. You will transform into a bear and repeatedly pound the ground to create lava fissures.

These fissures convert 80 physical damage into fire damage, granting 3 Rage for each enemy hit and creating another fissure, with a maximum of 12 fissures active simultaneously.

Due to the accumulation of Rage, this makes your attacks much more powerful than normal attacks in bear form, as the multiple fissures allow you to create three branching fissures with each ground pound, and Rage generated by the fissures triggers totems.

Other Bear Form Skills

While Fury of the Mountain is the foundation, it needs to be used in conjunction with other bear form skills to meet your damage output needs. These mainly include:

• Maul: As the main attack method in bear form, it performs a powerful sweeping attack, accumulating Rage with each enemy hit.
• Furious Slam: Creates a shockwave by slamming the ground, and can consume Rage to increase the shockwave's power, leaving behind jagged ground. This ground can interact with other skills to deal additional damage.
• Rampage: This skill guides you forward, continuously slamming the ground, suitable for clearing groups of enemies and for quick movement. Consuming Rage can also extend its duration.
• Ferocious Roar: As a Warcry skill, it instantly generates Rage when there are enemies nearby and empowers subsequent attacks to break through enemy armor. It can also be triggered in human form by equipping a supporting gem.
• Walking Calamity: As the ultimate skill in bear form, it triggers when your Rage reaches its maximum, summoning a meteor shower that deals fire damage to enemies and restores Rage over its duration.

Overall, Raging Fissure Bear Build relies on slam and fissure damage. Therefore, in each battle, you should use Fury of the Mountain at least once or twice, then sequentially cast Maul and Furious Slam as a combo.

Properly Combining Human Form Skills

After transforming into a bear, you can still use your human form Druid skills, and they are an important part of crafting any Druid build. For Raging Fissure Bear Build, the essential human skill is Volcano.

The skill's damage itself isn't impressive, but after using Fury of the Mountain or Rampage, Volcano can help accumulate damage and ignite enemies, making them more susceptible to your sustained damage.

More importantly, if you later unlock Invigorating Hate passive node, it transforms Volcano into a healing skill, restoring your health by consuming Rage, 1% for every point of Rage consumed.

Considering that you will constantly accumulate Rage, either actively or passively, while using this build, this passive node will significantly enhance your survivability and self-healing capabilities as a bear, allowing you to survive even in boss battles.

How To Choose Your Ascendancy Class?

Druid has two Ascendancy Classes: Shaman and Oracle. Here, we recommend unlocking the former, because Shaman has two passive abilities that are very important for accumulating and using Rage: Druidic Champion and Furious Wellspring.

As we've emphasized multiple times in the previous sections, Raging Fissure Bear Build is a build that relies on Rage. Druidic Champion can increase your spell damage by accumulating Rage, and Furious Wellspring helps restore the consumed Rage.

It's worth noting that to fully utilize the advantage of increased spell damage, we recommend equipping Tornado skill gem.

This skill creates a tornado that continuously damages surrounding enemies. You can also utilize projectiles to collide with the tornado as it moves forward to deal even more damage.

If the tornado covers elemental ground, it will absorb nearby debuffs for 4 seconds and apply that effect to enemies within the tornado. This is also expected to work very well in conjunction with the wyvern form.

How To Choose Gear?

Since the skill switching and usage suggestions are already quite complex and comprehensive, this build doesn't have very high gear requirements, especially in the early stages of the league.

Of course, if you have the time to farm rarer gear, or any PoE 2 currency that allows you to modify gear affixes, we recommend choosing gear according to the following guidelines:

• Weapons: Prioritize Talismans with fixed damage and attack speed bonuses.
• Armor: While striving to stack defensive attributes, also consider your elemental weaknesses. Having energy shields would be even better.
• Other: Anything that increases damage output or elemental resistance is good.

That's all the information about Raging Fissure Bear Build that we have for you today. If the bear form is your preferred playstyle, then why not try Raging Fissure Bear Build using our guide? You're sure to gain something from it!