The Best Builds for Breach in PoE2 (And How to Adapt If You're Not Using One)

After choosing a farming strategy and optimizing your Atlas tree for density, one crucial question remains: "Is my character's build (BD) good enough to farm Breach?"

Let's get the conclusion out of the way first: Almost any build can farm Breach. The real difference lies in your efficiency and how you adapt your strategy to your character's strengths.

The core mechanic of a Breach is simple: the more monsters you kill, the longer it stays open. Your efficiency, therefore, is directly tied to your clear speed. But don't worry, the Atlas Passive Tree gives us powerful tools to customize the experience to fit any build, from the slowest bruiser to the fastest screen-clearer.

Understanding Your Options: Adapting the Atlas Tree

In our main Breach Atlas Passives Guide, we established that pathing for monster density is key. However, the final major passive you choose should be a direct reflection of your build's clear speed. This choice revolves around two keynodes.

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Path A: The High-Speed Clearer (Maximum Efficiency)

This path is for builds that delete monsters across the screen in an instant. If you can clear packs the moment they appear, this is the optimal strategy for you.

• Recommended Builds: Skills with massive area of effect, chaining, or proliferation are ideal. Think of meta clearing builds like Lightning Spear, Essence Drain (ED), or Lightning Arrow.
• Your Key Passive: Interdimensional Assault
  • This passive increases the opening and closing speed of Breaches and further boosts their monster density.
• Why it Works: For a fast build, the increased closing speed is not a threat. You kill monsters so quickly that you easily counteract the faster timer, keeping the Breach open for a long time. The result is a frantic, high-density slaughterhouse that yields the absolute maximum currency and experience per hour.

Path B: The Steady Clearer (Making Any Build Viable)

This path is for builds that have a more methodical pace. Perhaps you have immense single-target damage but lack screen-wide AoE, or your character is simply not built for speed.

• Recommended Builds: Any build that can't instantly clear multiple packs of monsters.
• Your Key Passive: Sustained Siege
  • This passive significantly reduces the rate at which Breaches close, effectively giving you more time.
• Why it Works: This passive is a lifeline. It provides a much larger window to kill the monsters necessary to expand the Breach and keep it open. It forgives slower clear speed, making the content accessible and profitable even for off-meta builds. While it might yield less per hour than the high-speed method, it's infinitely better than skipping the content entirely.

Summary: Don't Let Your Build Stop You

The beauty of the Breach mechanic in Path of Exile 2 is its flexibility. While a fast-clearing build running Interdimensional Assault will always be the pinnacle of efficiency, the existence of Sustained Siege means the door is open for everyone.

The takeaway is simple:

• Assess your build's clear speed.
• Adjust your Atlas Passive Tree accordingly.
• Start farming!

Don't ever feel like you're "locked out" of a farming strategy because you're not playing a meta build. Analyze your strengths, adapt your strategy, and go shatter some Breaches.