When you first get your hands on Path of Exile 2’s Infusion system, it really hits you how much it can mess with old build habits. Instead of just linking a bunch of support gems to your main skill, Infusion actually lets you cut open one ability, take some of its core power, and jam it into another skill entirely. It feels a bit like weapon crafting, but for skills.
I was playing around and realised it turns theorycrafting into a rabbit hole you could lose whole evenings in. It’s one of those changes that makes you rethink your entire character roadmap. And when you combine that with the idea of a Stormweaver – a build that blends lightning and cold – the creativity just explodes. Oh, and yes, farming PoE 2 Currency suddenly matters even more because gear choices get wild.
A Stormweaver’s magic comes from tying together the shock and speed of lightning with the chill and control of cold. That combo means you hit hard but also slow enemies down before they can retaliate. It’s not the same as simply adding cold damage to Arc. With Infusion, Arc could chain from mob to mob, freezing them in place or leaving icy ground underneath every target it touches. Suddenly, skills you only ever used for raw DPS double up as defensive tools. It’s the kind of layered utility you don’t usually get without sacrificing damage – yet here, you’re boosting both.
Things get even crazier when you start infusing movement skills. Imagine Lightning Warp fused with Ice Nova. You blink into a pack, boom – ice explosion goes off right as you land, freezing half the screen before they even spot you.
It changes how you plan fights, and it shifts priorities on your passive tree. You’re not just chasing ‘lightning damage’ or ‘cold damage’ anymore. You start caring about broad ‘elemental damage’ nodes, plus gear that triggers bonuses from shock and chill at the same time. It’s less tunnel vision, more open possibilities.
Once you really get into it, you see that Stormweaver is just one flavour of what’s possible. You could be stacking fire with chaos, or mixing physical hits with bursts of lightning. It’s easy to imagine leagues where the meta flips overnight because somebody discovers a ridiculous fusion that nobody saw coming.
The Infusion system feels like GGG handed us a new toolbox and said, “Go on, break the game in clever ways.” And with trading now as important as grinding, you’ll definitely be on the hunt for rare cheap PoE 2 Items that make these builds hit even harder.