Saboteur in Path of Exile 2: What Does It Mean?
The Saboteur is an ascendancy class in Path of Exile 2 that specializes in traps, mines, and advanced triggering mechanisms. This class offers unique playstyles centered around strategic placement and detonation of explosives to control the battlefield and deal massive damage to enemies.
Core Mechanics
The Saboteur's playstyle revolves around the use of traps and mines, offering several benefits such as increased trap and mine damage, reduced cooldowns, and enhanced placement speed. These mechanics allow players to set up intricate traps and surprise enemies with devastating effects.
- Trap and Mine Damage: Saboteurs gain significant bonuses to the damage output of traps and mines, making them highly effective against both single targets and groups of enemies.
- Advanced Triggering: The ascendancy class provides skills that enhance the effectiveness of traps and mines through automated detonation and chaining effects.
- Area Control: With strategic placement, Saboteurs can control large areas of the battlefield, utilizing traps and mines to bottleneck enemies and deal with threats efficiently.
Strategies and Synergies
Choosing the Saboteur ascendancy opens up various strategies that can be tailored to different combat scenarios.
- Chain Reactions: By placing traps and mines in strategic locations, Saboteurs can create chain reactions that clear entire groups of enemies, utilizing skills like Volatile Dead to maximize damage output.
- Defensive Traps: Saboteurs can use traps not only for offense but also for defense, deploying traps that impair enemies' movement and reduce their effectiveness in combat.
- Support Synergy: Utilizing support skills such as Guardian's Blessing Support can enhance the survivability and effectiveness of the Saboteur's traps and mines in battle.
Recommended Skills and Items
For optimal performance, Saboteurs should focus on skills and items that enhance trap and mine mechanics. Key skills include:
- Seismic Trap: Ideal for dealing with large groups of enemies by creating seismic waves that cause significant area damage.
- Shattering Steel: Combine this with traps for a mix of direct and area damage, perfect for clearing waves of enemies. More about this skill can be found on the Shattering Steel page.
Equipping items that increase trap and mine damage, as well as reducing their cooldowns, will further enhance the Saboteur's effectiveness on the battlefield.