Best Amulet Anointments in Path of Exile 2

One of the most significant ways to empower your character’s progress in Path of Exile 2 is by using the Anointment process on your Amulet. Most Notables on the game’s massive Skill Tree can be anointed, so here’s a list of some of the best ones you can use.

Best Amulet Notables in Path of Exile 2

The most effective Amulet Anointments are those that provide substantial benefits to your build without requiring you to path over to the Notable in the passive tree. After all, if the Notable is already close to your current investments, anointing it on an amulet becomes unnecessary. With the wide variety of viable builds in Path of Exile 2, there are several Anointments worth considering. Here are some of the most potent ones to prioritize.

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Pure Power

This notable rewards Intelligence-based builds that utilize Lightning damage. For every 10 points of Intelligence invested (through gear and Passives), all Lightning damage is increased by 2%. This scaling mechanic provides a means for Intelligence to offer up a significant boost in Lightning damage, encouraging gear and passive selection that bolsters Intelligence to maximize damage output.

In practice, Pure Power is most effective in setups prioritizing intelligence as a primary attribute, ensuring consistent damage growth through passive stat investment. It is one of the best Notables to have as a Lightning character, whether you’re playing Melee, Ranged, or Spells as your focal point.

Lightning Rod

Lightning Rod enhances the reliability of Lightning Damage by treating non-critical hits as Lucky, meaning they roll damage values twice and use the higher result. This significantly boosts overall damage consistency, particularly for strategies that rely on frequent Lightning strikes but lack critical strike scaling. Consistency is important for Lightning builds because Lightning Damage has the largest Damage Range of any elemental damage type in the game.

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This Notable is a solid pick for setups focused on rapid lightning-based attacks, where consistent Lucky hits can improve damage output without requiring heavy investment in Critical Strikes.

Coming Calamity

This Notable dramatically increases Elemental Damage (Fire, Ice, Lightning) by 50% when the corresponding Herald skill (Herald of Fire, Herald of Ice, Herald of Lightning) is active. The most potent value of this Notable is that it makes the Herald skill viable for boss encounters, thanks to the major damage boost they provide.

Coming Calamity is especially valuable for setups that integrate multiple elemental effects, ensuring a high damage boost for both area clearing and single-target encounters.

Drenched

Drenched offers dual benefits: a 40% increased chance to Shock enemies and a conversion mechanic, granting 5% of Lightning damage as Cold damage. This synergy enhances elemental interactions, enabling Lightning builds to inflict both Shock and Chill, increasing overall crowd control and damage potential.

This Notable functions well in hybrid elemental setups, ensuring consistent application of multiple Ailments for added utility and damage scaling.

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Volcanic Skin

Volcanic Skin enhances Fire damage by granting an 8% bonus as Extra Fire Damage and provides 20% Fire Resistance. This dual offensive and defensive benefit makes it a must-have for fire-focused builds seeking increased survivability against fire-based enemies and makes reaching the ‘75%’ Resistance threshold much easier to reach without relying on gear.

The Extra Fire Damage portion of this Notable is also valuable because the damage that results from it scales separately from all other multipliers. Instead, it sits closer to an addition to other multipliers rather than being affected by multipliers, meaning that it provides you with a lot more damage than a standard boost to Fire Damage normally would.

Branching Bolts

With a 60% chance for Lightning Skills to chain an additional time, Branching Bolts increases the reach and efficiency of all Lightning-based attacks. It is ideal for clearing groups of enemies and adds flexibility to both single-target and area-of-effect strategies.

This notable is particularly strong for setups focused on chain mechanics, providing excellent utility for clearing tightly packed enemies, but it is still a strong pick-up for the majority of Lightning-focused builds.

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Power Conduction

This Notable improves the Shock Ailment, increasing both its duration (25%) and magnitude (25%). Builds that rely on shocking enemies will benefit from greater damage amplification and longer debuff uptime, making it a key choice for lightning specialists.

Power Conduction is a cornerstone for setups centered around frequent Shock applications, ensuring maximum efficiency in both crowd control and damage amplification.

Breaking Point

Breaking Point balances duration and potency by reducing Elemental Ailment durations by 10% while amplifying non-damaging Ailments by 30%. It is highly situational, favoring strategies that maximize Chill, Shock, Freeze, or other control effects for utility over prolonged ailment uptime.

This notable feature is best suited for setups focusing on controlling enemy movement or amplifying non-damaging effects for tactical advantage. Since Shock Magnitude increases damage taken, this Notable directly boosts your damage output if you’re utilizing the Ailment.

Lay Siege

Lay Siege provides a scalable damage boost by converting your block chance into damage, with a 1% increase in damage per 1% block. It is perfect for tanky offensive builds that emphasize Block mechanics, blending defense with strong offensive capabilities. It also works exceptionally well for casters using Wands or Spectres that want even more damage while boosting survivability.

Shield-based setups benefit the most from this notable, turning their defensive investments into an offensive edge during combat.

Offensive Stance

Offensive Stance mirrors the effects of Lay Siege, offering the same damage-for-block conversion. This redundancy suggests potential stacking opportunities or alternative placement, allowing flexibility in choosing Notables within different tree branches.

It is particularly effective for builds combining high block with melee-focused strategies, enhancing damage output while maintaining strong defenses.

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Mental Perseverance

This notable mitigates incoming damage by redirecting 10% to Mana before Life. It is an excellent choice for mana-stacking builds that prioritize Mana Regeneration and sustain, reducing direct life damage and improving survivability in longer engagements.

Mental Perseverance pairs well with strategies utilizing high mana recovery, making it a defensive cornerstone for builds reliant on mana sustain.

Adverse Growth

Adverse Growth trades Life Regeneration for Mana sustain, reducing Life Regeneration by 20% but recouping 20% of Damage taken as Mana. It is an interesting trade-off for builds that focus on Mana recovery and utility over traditional health sustain.

This Notable is ideal for builds that use rapid Mana Regeneration or large mana pools to offset the loss of health recovery.

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Roil

Roil increases spell Area of Effect (AoE) by 30% but reduces Area Damage by 10%. This trade-off benefits builds focused on crowd control or clearing large packs of enemies, sacrificing raw damage for increased coverage. 10% Damage loss is also easily made up via other means like gear and other Passive nodes.

It works best in setups where maximizing area control is a priority, ensuring wide coverage for consistent crowd management. Breaches and Dellerium runs are great reasons to consider using this Notable.

Ruin

Ruin does the opposite of Roil, reducing Spell AoE by 10% but amplifying Area Damage by 30%. This is ideal for concentrated area damage builds that prioritize burst damage over wide coverage. Spells like Flameblast benefit massively from this Notable.

Ruin is a powerful option for strategies that emphasize single-hit potential in confined areas, ensuring maximum impact.

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Briny Carapace

Briny Carapace enhances Stun Resistance, increasing the stun threshold by 60% each time you’ve been Stunned recently. It is a defensive tool for builds vulnerable to stuns, offering greater resilience during intense combat situations.

This Notable is a strong choice for builds that do not have large health pools and must find other means to mitigate the stun Ailment. It is a strong defensive option for most general builds, anyhow.

Master Fletching

This notable amplifies the bonuses from equipped quivers by 30%, making it a vital choice for Bow builds that rely on quiver stats for damage, defense, or utility. The unique Bow, Widowhail, also stacks with this Notable, considerably increasing effectiveness.

Master Fletching is most effective in setups that prioritize Bow builds with strong, well-invested quivers.

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Alternating Current

Alternating Current rewards Shock-focused builds by increasing Mana Regeneration Rate by 25% if you’ve Shocked an enemy recently. Additionally, it increases the Magnitude of Shocks inflicted by 20%, bolstering both resource sustain and damage amplification.

Lightning-focused setups benefit the most, maintaining consistent resource pools and damage enhancements.

Greatest Defense

Greatest Defense synergizes offense with defense, granting a 2% attack damage increase for every 75 Armor or Evasion rating on your shield. This is ideal for shield-based characters aiming to convert defensive investments into offensive power. As another scalar node, it has the potential to be build-defining.

Setups leveraging high-armor shields see the best results, turning their sturdy defenses into potent attacks.

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Towering Shield

Towering Shield boosts shield-based defenses, increasing defenses from the equipped shield by 50% and granting a 25% Chance to Block if you’ve blocked recently. It is a cornerstone notable for tanky, block-centric builds thanks to the extra Block chance gained from blocking previous attacks.

This notable is essential for builds using shields to mitigate damage, providing both sustain and survivability at the same time.

Fulmination

Fulmination significantly enhances all Damage against Ignited enemies, increasing ignite chance by 40% and Hit damage against ignited targets by the same amount. This synergy is highly effective for Fire-based builds, but almost any build can benefit from the considerable damage boost so long as the enemy is Ignited.

This Notable is notably out of the way for many Spell-based builds, so it is a strong option to consider for the Annulment process.

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Pile On

Pile On amplifies damage against enemies with Fully Broken armor, increasing it by 60%. It is an excellent choice for builds that rely on the Armor Break mechanic, ensuring substantial payoff during the window of opportunity. Powerful skills like Flameblast or Hammer of the Gods benefit most from this Notable.

Additionally, this Notable is best utilized in strategies focusing on weakening enemy defenses, ensuring maximum damage output.

How to add Notables to your Amulet in Path of Exile 2

The process of Anointing your Amulet and unlocking one of the above Notables is done using Distilled Emotions earned from participating and progressing Delirium Events on the Atlas World Map. This means you need to have completely finished the campaign and have access to the Atlas following its events.

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Each Distilled Emotion listed above has a special effect when applied to a Waystone, enhancing it by adding additional mechanics. For now, just make a note of this as it’s not important for putting Notables on your Amulet.

For Anointing, you must combine three Distilled Emotions together in the correct order to obtain the Notable you desire. The process is started by clicking on a Distilled Emotion in your inventory.

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Doing so will open the Instilling Window with four slots available to you. The top slot is where your Amulet will go, while the bottom three are where you need to place Distilled Emotions. When you place any three Distilled Emotions into the window, you will be shown what Notable you’ll be able to put on your Amulet. Some combinations will result in nothing, and you’ll be informed as such in that scenario.

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In order to pinpoint the Notable you desire in the tree, you need to open your Passive Tree and find the Notable you’re looking to add to your Amulet.

For example, if you wanted to put Pure Power on your Amulet, find it in the Passive tree, and before rolling your cursor over it, hold the ALT modifier key. While holding it, roll your cursor over Pure Power you will be able to see which Distilled Emotions you need to add to your Amulet in the right order.

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Pure Power requires the Distilled Emotions: Suffering, Guilt, and Suffering, in that order. Knowing this information now, you can place these in the Instilling Window and put Pure Power on your Amulet.

What are Distilled Emotions?

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Distilled Emotions are specific items that drop randomly following a Delirium Event’s conclusion. There are several different types, and each one plays a role in helping you get the Notable you want on your Amulet. They are the following:

• Distilled Isolation: Players in the area are 50% Delirious.
• Distilled Ire: Players in the area are 7% Delirious; 20% increased Magic Monsters.
• Distilled Guilt: Players in the area are 9% Delirious; 8% increased Pack Size.
• Distilled Greed: Players in the area are 10% Delirious; 8% increased Rarity of Items found in this area.
• Distilled Paranoia: Players in the area are 12% Delirious; 15% increased number of Rare Monsters.
• Distilled Envy: Players in the area are 15% Delirious; 30% increased Waystones found in the area.
• Distilled Disgust: Players in the area are 18% Delirious; 30% increased Precursor Tablets found in the area.
• Distilled Despair: Players in the area are 20% Delirious; 30% increased stack size of Simulacrum Splinters found in the area.
• Distilled Fear: Players in the area are 22% Delirious; Rare Monsters have a 25% chance to have an additional modifier.
• Distilled Suffering: Players in the area are 25% Delirious; Unique Monsters have 1 additional modifier.

Some Distilled Emotions are considerably rarer than others, so if you’re looking to obtain one of those, you may need to farm Dellirum Events quite a bit. The better you perform during an event, the more likely you’ll see a rare Distilled Emotion drop.

Lastly, the modifiers listed are the effects that will be added to a Waystone if you decide to Instill a combination of Distilled Emotions to one, instead of an Amulet. This results in a much more enhanced Waystone, which can result in better loot if you’re lucky.

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