Path Of Exile 2 Quick Gold

In Path of Exile 2 patch 0.5.5, Melting Maelstrom Shaman build, a revolutionary approach built around the Ultimate Mana Flask, is redefining damage output and survival logic in a unique way.

It doesn't rely on traditional main skill combos, but instead makes the flask the core engine of the entire build. It trades self-damage for damage and endless regeneration to sustain its mana, making it one of the most innovative builds in the current Forbidden Rites league.

Build Core: Melting Maelstrom

The core of this build is a unique mana flask called Melting Maelstrom, available from level 60 onwards, dropped by Kosis, The Revelation in T11+ Delirious map.

The unique aspect of this flask is that it deals Chaos damage to enemies within a 3-meter radius every 3 seconds during its effect. This damage is equivalent to 50% of your mana consumed during those 3 seconds. In other words, the more mana you consume, the higher the damage.

When the flask effect ends, it deals Chaos damage equal to 25% of your current mana to yourself. Normally, this would be a penalty, but in this build, this self-damage is cleverly transformed into a driving force for resource recycling.

Self-Damage Transformed into Recovery: The Brilliant Use of Forsaken Bangle

To turn self-damage into an advantage, a key item is needed: Forsaken Bangle Amethyst Charm.

This is a unique charm in Path of Exile 2, providing +18% Chaos Resistance and a crucial affix for this build: 50% of Chaos damage you prevent when Hit Recouped as Life and Mana during its effect.

Therefore, when Melting Maelstrom's self-damage is triggered, Forsaken Bangle converts half of Chaos damage into health and mana regeneration.

This means the more frequently you take self-damage, the faster your mana regeneration, allowing you to sustain higher mana consumption, and enabling Melting Maelstrom to unleash even stronger Chaos damage—a perfect positive cycle is thus formed.

Infinite Sustain Engine

To keep this cycle running, Flask's charges must be continuous. Melting Maelstrom Shaman constructs a sophisticated charging loop system through multiple pieces of equipment and gems.

First is Hollow Mask Hewn Mask, which grants you the Wildwood's Gifts ability, allowing you to see nearby Ancient Blooms. Collecting these grants charges to Melting Maelstrom and Forsaken Bangle Amethyst Charms.

Combined with support gems like Remnant Potency and Harmonic Remnants, it can provide you with near 100% Charm uptime.

Secondly, there are the Corpsesewade Iron Greaves, these unique boots grant you Decompose skill- every 1.2 meters you move consumes a corpse, creating a cloud of poison gas. This is the core of the entire charging engine.

Through Gorge support gem, each corpse consumed grants 10 charges to your mana and health potions. As you move throughout combat, corpses are continuously consumed, flask charges are replenished, and Melting Maelstrom can be used repeatedly, resulting in a relentless barrage of damage.

When facing bosses, there are often not enough corpses on the map to consume. This build solves this problem using Sacrifice spirit gem. Sacrifice's effect is that during its activation, your undead reviving minions can be consumed by abilities instead of corpses.

This means you can actively consume your summoned minions to trigger Decompose charging effect.

The build utilizes a large amount of Skeletal Cleric as sacrificial materials. These Cleric items are not only plentiful but can also resurrect each other. Combined with Corpse Conservation and related nodes on the talent tree, there's approximately a 75% chance of not consuming corpses.

This makes the summon engine extremely stable, maintaining Flask charge in almost any combat scenario.

Defense: Eldritch Battery and Mind over Matter

On the defensive side, this build takes a completely different path from traditional PoE 2 builds. Eldritch Battery talent tree converts all your Energy Shield into mana, doubling mana consumption.

Doubling consumption sounds negative, but in this build, it's a tremendous benefit. Melting Maelstrom damage is directly linked to mana consumption; the higher the consumption, the higher the damage.

With Mind over Matter, all damage is deducted from mana first, not life. With approximately 5000 mana, your effective life pool far exceeds the apparent 1400 life. With its extremely high mana regeneration rate, any non-lethal damage will be instantly recovered, making your character virtually invincible in most combat situations.

Since this build heavily relies on maximum mana, Chaos resistance, and Recoup, if you lack crafting resources while adjusting affixes, you can buy PoE 2 currency to replenish them quickly.

Other Gear and Passive Skill Choices

In addition to the core gear mentioned above, Melting Maelstrom Shaman also utilizes the Dream Fragments and Kalandra's Touch rings to stack maximum mana. Kalandra's Touch copies the attributes of the other ring, doubling the mana bonus of Dream Fragments.

Regarding the belt, Mageblood is not essential, but its affix 20% of flask recovery is applied instantly significantly improves mana sustain; Waistgate is another interesting option, allowing you to equip two Melting Maelstrom flasks simultaneously, theoretically doubling the frequency of Chaos damage triggers.

Regarding Shaman's Ascendancy passive skill selection, prioritize Sacred Flow, granting +40 Spirit per empty charm slot, resulting in 80 extra Spirit from two empty slots, used to summon more Skeletal Clerics.

Next, choose Wisdom of the Maji for the bonded affix bonuses to Runes and Idols, and finally invest in Avatar of Evolution for elemental defense.

In short, Melting Maelstrom Shaman is an extreme example of converting self-damage into damage. It uses Forsaken Bangle to transform self-damage into healing, Corpsewade and Sacrifice to convert corpses into potion charges, and Eldritch Battery to amplify mana consumption, ultimately creating a unique build where both damage and survivability are built upon mana cycling.

In PoE 2 Patch 0.5.5, Spirit and Skill Level are among the most valuable core modifiers on many endgame amulets, making them highly sought-after on the market.

If you choose to trade, a single amulet with these modifiers can be worth several Divine Orbs. You can also craft one yourself. Although the process is somewhat complicated, it can save a considerable amount of currency.

Base: Absent Amulet

The first thing you need is an Absent Amulet. It provides a free Spirit skill, but at the same time, it removes one prefix and one suffix. This means that when all of its modifier slots are filled, it will only have 4 modifiers instead of the 6 modifiers available on a normal amulet.

The free Spirit skill, together with the -1 prefix and -1 suffix, essentially functions as its Implicit modifiers, similar to the Rarity modifier on a Gold Amulet.

It grants a random Persistent Buff Skill for free. This skill would normally require 100 Spirit to be reserved, but with this amulet, you can use it without paying Spirit reservation cost.

If your Absent Amulet rolls Tier 1 Spirit, which grants +50 Spirit, it effectively functions as an amulet with 150 total Spirit. This can provide a huge power boost for a wide range of builds.

Absent Amulets cannot be obtained through normal drops. They are tied to Breach endgame mechanic.

You need to use an Ornate Wombgift in Forms Beyond Understanding passive node on Genesis Tree within endgame Breaches to obtain one.

The skill granted by the resulting base is completely random, which makes Absent Amulets with specific skill combinations highly valuable on the market.

Profit Crafting Tips

If you plan to craft for profit, you need to make sure that the free Spirit skill provided by Absent Amulet matches the + Skill Level modifier you are targeting.

For example, Cast on Elemental Ailment can work with almost any + Skill Level modifier, but it should not be paired with + Minion Skills.

Crafting Process

Turn Absent Amulet Into a Rare

First, make sure Absent Amulet has an Item Level of at least 75, as this is required for the +3 Skill Level modifier to appear.

Start by using an Orb of Transmutation on it. Since Absent Amulet already has -1 prefix and -1 suffix, you cannot continue using an Orb of Augmentation to add another modifier. Instead, use a Regal Orb to turn it into a Rare and give it another modifier.

Roll the Target Modifier With Chaos Orbs

Once the amulet is Rare and has only one modifier, start using Chaos Orbs until you roll T1 Spirit or +3 Skill Level.

If you roll a + Skill Level modifier that does not match what you want, you can simply sell the base, as it can still be valuable to other players.

You can use Craft of Exile to calculate the expected crafting cost. Sometimes, simply getting a base with an existing +3 Melee Skills or +3 Spell Skills modifier for 20 Divine Orbs can actually be more economical.

Add Another Modifier

Once you have the target modifier, activate an Omen of Greater Exaltation and then use a Greater Exalted Orb on the amulet.

If the amulet has Spirit, it is recommended to use a Divine Orb to roll Spirit to 50 first, because once the modifier is Fractured, it can no longer be modified or adjusted with a Divine Orb.

You can use a Preserved Collarbone to Fracture Absent Amulet. The chance of Fracturing Spirit is approximately one-third. If it fails, most of PoE2 currency invested beforehand is essentially lost, and you will have to start over.

Remove Modifiers

After successfully Fracturing the modifier, use an Orb of Annulment to remove the other modifiers, leaving only one modifier.

If you Fractured +3 Melee Skills, you can now add Quality and raise it to +4.

If you Fractured Spirit, it is recommended to wait until you roll + Skill Level with Chaos Orbs before adding Quality. Otherwise, you may roll mismatched modifiers such as +3 Minion Skills or +3 Spell Skills, causing Quality investment to be wasted.

Increase Quality

Jewellery Quality is normally capped at 20%, but after using an Essence of the Breach, the maximum Quality can be increased to 40%. This step does not require an additional Omen because only the relevant modifier can be removed at this point.

Quality can be added with Catalysts, which also come from Breach Genesis Tree.

Fracture 

Fracture Skill Level

If you Fractured + Skill Level, the next step is to use Chaos Orbs until you roll T1 Spirit. Then activate an Omen of Dextral Exaltation and use a regular Exalted Orb. The suffix added at this stage does not matter.

Next, activate an Omen of Dextral Crystallization and use a Perfect Essence of Enhancement. The Essence will only remove suffix and add Spirit, along with Global Armor, Evasion and Energy Shield.

At this point, the crafting process is basically complete. All that remains is to repeatedly use Desecrate and an Omen of Light until you get the final modifiers you want.

Fracture T1 Spirit

If you have already Fractured T1 Spirit, skip the earlier Quality step and instead use Chaos Orbs to roll + Skill Level.

Activate an Omen of Sinistral Exaltation and then use a regular Exalted Orb to add a random prefix. The specific modifier does not matter.

Next, use an Omen of Sinistral Crystallization together with an Essence of the Breach. This will grant Quality, which you should then raise above 34% so that the +3 Skill modifier becomes +4.

After that, you need to remove the maximum Quality. You can use an Omen of Whittling or an Omen of Sinistral Eraser.

If you want to conserve some currency, activate an Omen of Sinistral Necromancy and then use a Preserved Collarbone. Since Spirit has already been Fractured, this will only remove the maximum Quality.

You will then gain a Desecrate Prefix. This prefix is usually not ideal because what you actually want is All Skills Quality, which is a suffix.

Therefore, activate an Omen of Sinistral Crystallization again and use a Perfect Essence of Enhancement. This removes Desecrate modifier while adding Global Armor, Evasion and Energy Shield. After that, continue using Desecrate and an Omen of Light to roll the desired modifiers.

This process is indeed somewhat complicated, and you need to prepare various types of currency as well as an Absent Amulet base. However, as long as you follow these steps, you can obtain the modifiers you want. The exact amount of currency required will ultimately depend on RNG.