Quick question for anyone i have a Ranger (DeadEye) and im finishing act 3 cruel difficulty, if i want to play this i need to level a whole new char or there is some kind of armory like in that diablo-like game called diablo 4 ? ty
At 8:08 you talk about how Heft support actually works with damage conversion, which is confusing to me given how the ingame tooltip explains how conversion works. My best guess is that Heft’s more damage multiplier is specifically affecting the base physical damage range because it says maximum? So with Heft, your damage is rolled now with the new higher base physical range and then gets converted. If the gem instead said “30% more physical damage” then it wouldn’t work for scaling the converted damage because that is being applied after the base damage roll has happened and according to the new conversion rules, that damage can only be scaled by modifying the new damage type. Is this correct?
You are the first one mentioning the attackspeed reload speed thing. I was unaware.. why go for attack speed if reload is slow. lol What a game changer. This is so good to know. +1 to you Palsteron.
I think Pal is onto something but it's an oversight... That 25% more is not more it's merely increased off a unknown value... I have magnified support (40% more area effect) on my lightning warp has 4m base radius and 40% should give me 5.6m radius but instead it gives me 4.7m instead... So idk there is something fundamentally wrong or the wording is wrong. 😂
Pal is probably the 7th person to release a crossbow bolt build this week.. and every one of them talk about this.. I figured this out on my own maybe an hour into launch.. i didn't even know there were ppl out there saying AS doesn't affect reload...
@@MrRaja Base radius and Area of Effect isn't the same. to get a 1.4 times more AoE (40% more) you increase radius from 4 to 4.7. You can do the calcs yourself (The area of a circle formula) and you'll see it is aprox 40% more. EDIT: To clarify, 4m vs 4.7m radius means 50m^2 vs 69m^2 AoE (aprox)
@@Baraxal1 This is the main problem, actually. GGG has completely forgotten that this is an ARPG. Yes, you can make a slow ARPG, but they are definitely not fun overall. I'm not saying they're impossible to enjoy, but for the vast majority of the playerbase, this game is unplayable on the long term. This is a game they should've released as a single player game where you beat all the content once, maybe try 2 or 3 more builds, and then never touch the game again in like 1/2 years (Basically like what happens in Souls series and Elden Ring)
@@Baraxal1 I agree with you but its more satysfying to do combos tbh. I tried to play a combo based build but the monsters are way too fast. U die before you can do a combo...
10/10 build. Went from lvl 45 to lvl 65 oneshotting litterally everything yesterday and boss fights were a f****ing joke. 3-4 second boss fights. Tried it out in a T1 one map right before bed and I have never seen a breach explode up like that before. I can highly recommend.
im new to this, and i chose the wrong ascendancy. am i fucked now?? :D And how do you guys "respec" so fast. u have to grind the skill gems right?? :) sorry, been playing wow for ages, but got tired of Blizz' greed...
@@cocopopsrockz For the ascendancy you are forced to start a new character. Regarding rerolling, after the first pass at the campaign when you understand the bosses and items a bit, it becomes so much faster to go through it. Especially if you find/buy some items good for leveling
videos like that make want to have a way to store different builds. I've invested way too much on my build to be able to change and give a try to a build like this even though it's something that combines ranger and merc which are my favorite classes on the game right now.
You can also just get a high phys/reload/attack speed base without loads additional bolts for cheaper, and then just use ammo conservation as your 5th/6th link! That support is insanely good along with the chance to not consume bolts in the tree. Great build video, loving crossbow!
For the early leveling phase, there are 2 unique bows that work wonderfully and can carry easily to lvl 60 and make the entire campaign a walk in the park. Widowhail up to lvl 28, from there deaths harp. Only need to upgrade quivers every 10-15 lvl. Cheapest way through the campaign. Deaths harp with gas arrow is so absurdly powerfull.
@Jean-sx8ms yes, it's glorious. Deaths harp and that helmet carry campaign so hard. It's a bit expensive though and absolutely playable without the helmet and flame wall instead, more qol than really needed but turns it completely into one button play style.
I found this unique huntress chest armour that increase movement speed by 20 at full health. Is it good or no? I been using it to basically just run circles around whatever im fighting lol.
Quick tip I found if you switch between explosive about to shock burst and back to explosive and so on without firing a round it counts as a reload thus counting as a skill used. Free tailwind up all the time
Did you have 5 nodes on shockburst when you switched? I can get a max of 3 or 4 nodes with vaal gamble. Just want to know if the 4-5 nodes for explosive arrow and shockburst are needed to make the build work
this build looks really cool, i had a level 50 deadeye i stopped playing so gonna try this on it. i do worry a little about defenses for later tier stuff since 6 portal defenses are gone but we will see how it goes
I'm gonna roll this build soon, thanks! If sockets are tight in the early game, there should be multiple techs to get shock effect instead of relying on explosive shot. Such as ignite>storm caller arrow, or ball lightning>lightning warp, or getting shocked ground.
I'm playing this build also! Glad to see someone talking about it ,You can use the poison grenade stick corrosive and extra poison dmg support gem and the other one doing poison dmg converted to armor debuff you can get even higher amount of dps if have a high base dmg it's very useful against high res/high armor based bosses gained me about 4-5 seconds at level 55 Viper (Easy farm for this build) didn't get to do her Flying AOE blast and this build works for me in endgame maps I would definitely recommend it..
Doing this build right now. Lvl 65 here and change to it at 45. Jesus, after you understand and get the build going, is amazing. thank you for the work.
Hey @Palsteron I noticed that you are not using your weapon specific skill points and I think there is room for improvement. Would you consider running voltaic mark? You can spec all your mark points to your other weapon (does not matter what it is) and gain a huge benefit for bosses. Since now the bosses: Get shocked more easily Have bigger shock on them (And with passive skills) Have 15% decreased accuracy Are blind (including enemies around it) Cannot crit you Take 10% increased damage And you have culling strike against them Just spec the mark so that you automatically swap weapons when you cast it and you can reap all the benefits when you swap to the other weapon for damage. I run similar build with galvanic shards and infinite shock and the mark works wonders for me!
I think you are the GOAT of poe2 build guides!!! you explained this soooo well. nice work man! you making me reroll to ranger just for this build i got a nade merc gemling on lvl88.. build is ok but the thing is boring... looking on floor dropping nades to aoe and boss fight.. this weapon switching for aoe and boss iss sooo goood. mann this is a very good tech from that unique helm! sheeesh you the goat! you enabled that helm easyyy
Yes please I'm starving for something other than grenade spam in maps so fsr nothing seems close and ik too poor to respec and regear for something else without knowing it will work
@@unluckyrican I feel like they should have made mercenary have a minion that threw grenades or something because manually doing all of it gets boring fast.
I run the build with gemling legionnaire and it works fine, although I use a 2nd cross ow to shoot regular grenades and specced it into shock and grenade stuff, since they have 80% phys to fire which shocks with three dragons.
I’ve been running glacial shot in witch hunter and it’s been great, haven’t seen any builds for it at all and clearing fast. But this gives me a lot of ideas, thanks
This looks like a blast pun intended. I liked what I saw in the Mercenary showcase and when the class was first shown but I didn't want to deal with the reloading of the crossbow, but this build solves most of that.
I'm loving my poison warrior. Unique boots causes corpses to turn into gas clouds without using any skills. And anyone in it just turns instantly shocked, ignited, or lose all armor, depending of which gems u use. It's so nice bc warrior with fire weopons and ash herald to cause entire rooms to explode
If you stack stun buildup at least on non boss mobs you can use the support gem that reloads on heavy stun and chain cast explosive shot and never have to reload
Dude this trade page is worthless. For 2 days I have messaged over 50 people to buy that helmet, and the only response I got was one I accidently clicked that was asking for a devine orb for it. Going price is 1 to 2 ex orbs, but literally standing around back and forth for hours waiting for someone to reply. I give each person about 5 minuets and then refresh and try again.. Yes even tried trade chat, but no luck.
If you want to try starting out with xbows, There's a unique xbow that gives you infinite ammo for 4s per reload + aspd at the expense of reload time. If you are twinking, buying one of these + dropping nimble reload on the fragmentation rounds is a *very* funny way to level early. I cant say it's the best, but for me the xbow held on until the end of act 2 which i spent an exalt to get a semi decent "real" wep.
This is ridiculously awesome. Exactly the build I’ve been looking for. Thank you so much. Can you do a leveling build to reach this build you have shown here please?? Thank you! (Subscribed)
Thanks for the guide! I just expensive respecced my merc at 60 and screwed up the build lol 😅 so starting a ranger sound fun. That extra projectile perk is nuts
I could be wrong, but I was watching someone and they mentioned that conversion doesn't work the same here as in PoE 1, so scaling your phys won't increase your lightning damage post conversion. But again, I could be wrong. I guess we just need testing for optimal setups! Thanks for the guide, will be testing this because like you I am not the biggest fan of Galvanic which I'm playing right now. Hoping this keeps up in red maps so my swap doesn't brick me.
If you're talking about Heft Support, I was saying the same thing until someone showed me it worked. So idk if it's a bug or just a badly worded support.
Im probably not gonna make it to this build in time before it gets "adjusted", but I really hope I do. You destroyed that 3rd (or 4th, can't remember which one) Ascendancy challenge with this build.
Three dragons with the painters gloves will allow you to build all three at the same time. It's a really beautiful pairing. Been using this on my invoker. Also, charge infusion gives you skill speed per frenzy. Just throwing that out there.
Thank you very much for the video! One question, for the weapon if you have to choose between more physical damage vs all projectile skills +4~6, which one would you choose?
Played this since yesterday. As a medium-low skill player with map starter gear (6 ex), you'll die a lot & not make much progress. Not much defence & all this map zooming wont work. This build requires at least solid gear to work well. Palsteron's gear is fantastic & he's showcasing lvl69-70 maps. Any build with fantastic gear at lvl 70 maps will faceroll. He can just do it faster & less complicated. Not a starter build IMO.
@@ralfm7989 This build annihilates cruel with a 3ex crossbow. My gear in T5s was a 10ex crossbow (at the time) and mostly selffound gear +/- 15ex. T10s rn, build looks exactly the same in performance with the only change being almost rescapped from jewelry and weaponswapping for fire/lightning trees + improving the base tree. What you're experiencing are some major mistakes on your end.
Great video. I like the thinking outside the box. My biggest question about bows/crossbows: will they benefit from passives for two handed weapons? In reality, both are two handed weapons. I just dont know if the devs realize that.
great video & build my friend. i think i missed something however. with electric damage contributing to cold instead of shock, where does the initial shock come from(
switched from cast on shock/lightning arrow/lightning rod/ball lightning ... its amazing! super fast! super easy! got my 3rd ascendancy on first try because its super strong!
Do you get Tailwind per reload or per bolt? I really dislike the grenade gameplay. The fuse time is just annoying. I want to try your/a similar build. Shockburst rounds look amazing.
My man thank you for this but I have a question, can I use this build as a Gemling ? I am getting really bored of grenades, I would appreciate your answers. Thanks in advance.
Just started a deadeye yesterday, went through all the 3 first acts with crossbow, if you have unique one that makes you consume no bolts for 4 sec after reload, take it, but from act two it's gonna get harder. I started explosive shot from level 41 and was shocking bosses with galvanic shards, actually galvanic shards was op for clear act2-3 but single target was lacking a lot until level 41. All in all swapped at lvl 45 and I am one shotting cruel act 1 bosses now with explosive shit only lol 😂
damn that looks exactly like something i wanna play :D didn't like the crossbow but this is sweet :D anything planned to add cast on shock or something? :D
I have a question: I made the same build, but I don't have Herald of Ash yet. Is that why I'm not doing AOE damage, or did I not equip something correctly since my explosive shots don't do AOE like in the video?
Maxroll Guide: maxroll.gg/poe2/build-guides/explosive-shot-deadeye-build-guide
Leveling Guide: th-cam.com/video/qJWzcs8ojaE/w-d-xo.html
Full Video Guide: th-cam.com/video/2SapQf3G56c/w-d-xo.html
NERFS: Patch notes looking clean, think we're safe
What is the highest tier content you have done?
lootFiltr have?
Looking forward to lvling version
Quick question for anyone i have a Ranger (DeadEye) and im finishing act 3 cruel difficulty, if i want to play this i need to level a whole new char or there is some kind of armory like in that diablo-like game called diablo 4 ? ty
At 8:08 you talk about how Heft support actually works with damage conversion, which is confusing to me given how the ingame tooltip explains how conversion works. My best guess is that Heft’s more damage multiplier is specifically affecting the base physical damage range because it says maximum? So with Heft, your damage is rolled now with the new higher base physical range and then gets converted. If the gem instead said “30% more physical damage” then it wouldn’t work for scaling the converted damage because that is being applied after the base damage roll has happened and according to the new conversion rules, that damage can only be scaled by modifying the new damage type. Is this correct?
You are the first one mentioning the attackspeed reload speed thing. I was unaware.. why go for attack speed if reload is slow. lol What a game changer. This is so good to know. +1 to you Palsteron.
Didn't you check you ingame tooltipps?
I think Pal is onto something but it's an oversight... That 25% more is not more it's merely increased off a unknown value...
I have magnified support (40% more area effect) on my lightning warp has 4m base radius and 40% should give me 5.6m radius but instead it gives me 4.7m instead... So idk there is something fundamentally wrong or the wording is wrong. 😂
Pal is probably the 7th person to release a crossbow bolt build this week.. and every one of them talk about this.. I figured this out on my own maybe an hour into launch.. i didn't even know there were ppl out there saying AS doesn't affect reload...
@@MrRaja Base radius and Area of Effect isn't the same. to get a 1.4 times more AoE (40% more) you increase radius from 4 to 4.7. You can do the calcs yourself (The area of a circle formula) and you'll see it is aprox 40% more.
EDIT: To clarify, 4m vs 4.7m radius means 50m^2 vs 69m^2 AoE (aprox)
Yeah i noticed my xbows with more aspd always had more reload speed. Its a game changer fr
Jonathan here. Thanks for pointing out our next nerf
ggg should decide if you need to do combos with builds or not... I think they wanted to make combo based gameplay not 1 skill based builds
@@Kaissazcombos suck, they will never not suck. Ggg doesnt even know how to make them semi fun or viable, so they suck even more.
@@Baraxal1 This is the main problem, actually. GGG has completely forgotten that this is an ARPG. Yes, you can make a slow ARPG, but they are definitely not fun overall. I'm not saying they're impossible to enjoy, but for the vast majority of the playerbase, this game is unplayable on the long term. This is a game they should've released as a single player game where you beat all the content once, maybe try 2 or 3 more builds, and then never touch the game again in like 1/2 years (Basically like what happens in Souls series and Elden Ring)
@@Baraxal1 thanbwhy are you here? Why do you play?
@@Baraxal1 I agree with you but its more satysfying to do combos tbh. I tried to play a combo based build but the monsters are way too fast. U die before you can do a combo...
10/10 build.
Went from lvl 45 to lvl 65 oneshotting litterally everything yesterday and boss fights were a f****ing joke. 3-4 second boss fights.
Tried it out in a T1 one map right before bed and I have never seen a breach explode up like that before.
I can highly recommend.
im new to this, and i chose the wrong ascendancy. am i fucked now?? :D And how do you guys "respec" so fast. u have to grind the skill gems right?? :) sorry, been playing wow for ages, but got tired of Blizz' greed...
@@cocopopsrockz For the ascendancy you are forced to start a new character. Regarding rerolling, after the first pass at the campaign when you understand the bosses and items a bit, it becomes so much faster to go through it. Especially if you find/buy some items good for leveling
OMG this is an instant reroll, thanks pal!
what are we leveling with to get to 45 though? lightning rod?
@@WheatSupreme gas
@@WheatSupremedid you watch the video? You start with lightning and transition to gas. In the words of the great Joe Biden: COME ON MAN!
videos like that make want to have a way to store different builds. I've invested way too much on my build to be able to change and give a try to a build like this even though it's something that combines ranger and merc which are my favorite classes on the game right now.
It's called reroll
@@kawaifreezz4567 its called timewaste
play d4 you can make the newest meta crap build every 15 min so you can be a Lemming like the rest of the noobs
Respec is going much cheaper should be fine after that
what would you socket into the bows?
You can also just get a high phys/reload/attack speed base without loads additional bolts for cheaper, and then just use ammo conservation as your 5th/6th link! That support is insanely good along with the chance to not consume bolts in the tree. Great build video, loving crossbow!
For the early leveling phase, there are 2 unique bows that work wonderfully and can carry easily to lvl 60 and make the entire campaign a walk in the park. Widowhail up to lvl 28, from there deaths harp. Only need to upgrade quivers every 10-15 lvl. Cheapest way through the campaign. Deaths harp with gas arrow is so absurdly powerfull.
Do you use the radiant grief helmet with it as well or no?
@Jean-sx8ms yes, it's glorious. Deaths harp and that helmet carry campaign so hard. It's a bit expensive though and absolutely playable without the helmet and flame wall instead, more qol than really needed but turns it completely into one button play style.
Hey thats my infernalist ignite build hah. Just using the hounda@@Matze-cr8vv
I found this unique huntress chest armour that increase movement speed by 20 at full health. Is it good or no? I been using it to basically just run circles around whatever im fighting lol.
what do you support gas arrow with?
Wow. I can’t believe you combined my favorite two crossbow builds into one. Thanks you!
Quick tip I found if you switch between explosive about to shock burst and back to explosive and so on without firing a round it counts as a reload thus counting as a skill used. Free tailwind up all the time
Amazing. Was already lvling explo shot. Thanks for the Video
Just got 45 on my ranger and switched over to this and, omg, does it feel amazing. You got my sub from this build, thank you so much for sharing
Did you have 5 nodes on shockburst when you switched? I can get a max of 3 or 4 nodes with vaal gamble. Just want to know if the 4-5 nodes for explosive arrow and shockburst are needed to make the build work
@jamyorday I'm running with just 4 on explosive, and only 3 on shockburst and it carried me through act 1 and 2 in cruel, and still slapping in act 3
this build looks really cool, i had a level 50 deadeye i stopped playing so gonna try this on it.
i do worry a little about defenses for later tier stuff since 6 portal defenses are gone but we will see how it goes
I'm gonna roll this build soon, thanks!
If sockets are tight in the early game, there should be multiple techs to get shock effect instead of relying on explosive shot.
Such as ignite>storm caller arrow, or ball lightning>lightning warp, or getting shocked ground.
I'm playing this build also! Glad to see someone talking about it ,You can use the poison grenade stick corrosive and extra poison dmg support gem and the other one doing poison dmg converted to armor debuff you can get even higher amount of dps if have a high base dmg it's very useful against high res/high armor based bosses gained me about 4-5 seconds at level 55 Viper (Easy farm for this build) didn't get to do her Flying AOE blast and this build works for me in endgame maps I would definitely recommend it..
Nice, looks awesome Palsteron.
Can’t say it often enough. Love the quality of your content over all others. This is my next build!!!
Doing this build right now. Lvl 65 here and change to it at 45. Jesus, after you understand and get the build going, is amazing. thank you for the work.
Thank you very much for an interesting build and nice to view video guide
This build is so good. I'm having so much fun. Thank you!!
QUICK TIP:
We can socket additional emergency reloads in free skill slots, they dont share a cooldown lol so we can load quicker with several of them
nice tip!
wondered if we could use this, ta
Instant respec from lightning arrow ranger for me. Luckily the passive trees match quite nicely so it wasn't that expensive. Loving the build!
Hey @Palsteron I noticed that you are not using your weapon specific skill points and I think there is room for improvement. Would you consider running voltaic mark? You can spec all your mark points to your other weapon (does not matter what it is) and gain a huge benefit for bosses. Since now the bosses:
Get shocked more easily
Have bigger shock on them
(And with passive skills)
Have 15% decreased accuracy
Are blind (including enemies around it)
Cannot crit you
Take 10% increased damage
And you have culling strike against them
Just spec the mark so that you automatically swap weapons when you cast it and you can reap all the benefits when you swap to the other weapon for damage.
I run similar build with galvanic shards and infinite shock and the mark works wonders for me!
I tried to make galvanic shards work but failed, can you elaborate your setup?
I think you are the GOAT of poe2 build guides!!! you explained this soooo well. nice work man! you making me reroll to ranger just for this build i got a nade merc gemling on lvl88.. build is ok but the thing is boring... looking on floor dropping nades to aoe and boss fight.. this weapon switching for aoe and boss iss sooo goood. mann this is a very good tech from that unique helm! sheeesh you the goat! you enabled that helm easyyy
omg thank u sooo much , this feels SOOOO goooood mate
Thanks for posting the guide, was about to start a new class. Hope there is a maxroll soon.
Please Pal, in the video guide make a small section to explain how to adapt this for the Mercenary (if possibile).
I'm done with the stupid grenades.
Hmm, good idea. Will make a vid about it in the coming days!
Yes please I'm starving for something other than grenade spam in maps so fsr nothing seems close and ik too poor to respec and regear for something else without knowing it will work
@@unluckyrican I feel like they should have made mercenary have a minion that threw grenades or something because manually doing all of it gets boring fast.
And what about kamenit, i think this ascendency is very good in potential @@Palsteron
I run the build with gemling legionnaire and it works fine, although I use a 2nd cross ow to shoot regular grenades and specced it into shock and grenade stuff, since they have 80% phys to fire which shocks with three dragons.
I’ve been running glacial shot in witch hunter and it’s been great, haven’t seen any builds for it at all and clearing fast. But this gives me a lot of ideas, thanks
like the video, I am looking forward to the detailed guide!
So awesome, was looking for a build like this.
I'll be waiting for the guide. this build looks crazy fun!
i started this build 4 days ago, having a blast, doing hammer of the gods for single target though and more ignite oriented
man, your builds are always so awesome and creative, bro. keep it coming!
Nice I really enjoyed shooting and reloading way more than the grenades. Definitely have to try this
This looks like a blast pun intended. I liked what I saw in the Mercenary showcase and when the class was first shown but I didn't want to deal with the reloading of the crossbow, but this build solves most of that.
Did the build survive the patch notes today?
The audio engineering is perfect! Looks like I'm going to try this out!
Daamn!! This looks so friking fun. I will swap to this at 60 for sure. I'll keep an eye out for any updates. Thanks!
Love this build! Thank you for sharing
Wow! Very interesting build. GJ!
I'm loving my poison warrior. Unique boots causes corpses to turn into gas clouds without using any skills. And anyone in it just turns instantly shocked, ignited, or lose all armor, depending of which gems u use. It's so nice bc warrior with fire weopons and ash herald to cause entire rooms to explode
What are those unique boots called?
this looks fun. im currently doing the lightning rod deadeye
Sick build!! So glad I went ranger. Switching from boring lightning arrow to this!
If you stack stun buildup at least on non boss mobs you can use the support gem that reloads on heavy stun and chain cast explosive shot and never have to reload
This reminds me of some Grim Dawn builds that used dual pistols, very similar.
Rly nice build. Iam loving it. Thx for the guide
Dude this trade page is worthless. For 2 days I have messaged over 50 people to buy that helmet, and the only response I got was one I accidently clicked that was asking for a devine orb for it. Going price is 1 to 2 ex orbs, but literally standing around back and forth for hours waiting for someone to reply. I give each person about 5 minuets and then refresh and try again.. Yes even tried trade chat, but no luck.
i love my merc dude. theres so many build options especially when you really multiclass with both ranged classes
If you want to try starting out with xbows, There's a unique xbow that gives you infinite ammo for 4s per reload + aspd at the expense of reload time. If you are twinking, buying one of these + dropping nimble reload on the fragmentation rounds is a *very* funny way to level early. I cant say it's the best, but for me the xbow held on until the end of act 2 which i spent an exalt to get a semi decent "real" wep.
Next patch shock is harder to proc so the build is kind of nerfed. Do some t15 to see if it perform well
This is ridiculously awesome. Exactly the build I’ve been looking for. Thank you so much. Can you do a leveling build to reach this build you have shown here please?? Thank you! (Subscribed)
GG Guess I need to look for other skills to experiment with on crossbow deadeye
This was a insta reroll for me! And im loving it so far!
Just respecced from LA and even with much worse gear this build feels so much better. Looking forward to the endgame guide!
Won’t happen lmfao you were better off staying with LA , this can’t even scratch t10 anything lol
@@SonnyDa3rdWhy not ?
@@SonnyDa3rd i have absolutely shit gear with a crossbow that cost 5c and im doing t12 no problemo
@@SonnyDa3rd doing t10s rn, stop speaking so confidently about things you're clueless about.
@@Paul_1927 it will get nerfed xD
Thanks for the guide! I just expensive respecced my merc at 60 and screwed up the build lol 😅 so starting a ranger sound fun. That extra projectile perk is nuts
I could be wrong, but I was watching someone and they mentioned that conversion doesn't work the same here as in PoE 1, so scaling your phys won't increase your lightning damage post conversion. But again, I could be wrong. I guess we just need testing for optimal setups! Thanks for the guide, will be testing this because like you I am not the biggest fan of Galvanic which I'm playing right now. Hoping this keeps up in red maps so my swap doesn't brick me.
If you're talking about Heft Support, I was saying the same thing until someone showed me it worked. So idk if it's a bug or just a badly worded support.
Holy moly that looks so satisfying!
Hope you update us on the supposed override between Herald of Ash -and Ice. Great vid!
Great video man!
I really liked this build, you are using just one button??
You can also put Maim support into Wind Dancer for an extra layer of defense
Im probably not gonna make it to this build in time before it gets "adjusted", but I really hope I do. You destroyed that 3rd (or 4th, can't remember which one) Ascendancy challenge with this build.
Looks amazing lol probably be my next build!
Nice bro! I just switched off my ranger to run a gremlin shock build with my bow! Now I can run my ranger with a crossbow to build a shock merc
Three dragons with the painters gloves will allow you to build all three at the same time. It's a really beautiful pairing. Been using this on my invoker.
Also, charge infusion gives you skill speed per frenzy. Just throwing that out there.
I know weapons are physical damage, but what are the important options priorities for raising damage? I love this build. It's the best!
You might’ve convinced me to play poe2. First build I’ve actually seen that looks fun.
Looks like i found my new alt build. Thank you Pal!
Thank you very much for the video!
One question, for the weapon if you have to choose between more physical damage vs all projectile skills +4~6, which one would you choose?
Build is great, swapped from lightning arrow and lightning rod for this, then saw that freeze is being nerfed noice
I'm so happy i bought a three dragons yesterday lol. I can put this together easily now.
Looks like a lot of fun!
Nice build , I think it’s great work in mercenary too
how many exalt needed to spent for decent gear like you?
i'm currently running lightning deadeye, kinda want to swap to explosive shot
Played this since yesterday. As a medium-low skill player with map starter gear (6 ex), you'll die a lot & not make much progress. Not much defence & all this map zooming wont work. This build requires at least solid gear to work well. Palsteron's gear is fantastic & he's showcasing lvl69-70 maps. Any build with fantastic gear at lvl 70 maps will faceroll. He can just do it faster & less complicated. Not a starter build IMO.
The "this crossbow is something I picked up" is better than anything that I rolled from the beginning and I'm completing tier 5 maps now.
@@ralfm7989 I doubt his gear is that good if his health is still under 2k brother
@@ralfm7989 This build annihilates cruel with a 3ex crossbow. My gear in T5s was a 10ex crossbow (at the time) and mostly selffound gear +/- 15ex. T10s rn, build looks exactly the same in performance with the only change being almost rescapped from jewelry and weaponswapping for fire/lightning trees + improving the base tree. What you're experiencing are some major mistakes on your end.
I dropped my galv/shockburst char due to the awful clunky galv reload. Might give this a try. Nice work
This looks really cool. whats the highest tier that youve done with this build? any issues w bosses?
Great video. I like the thinking outside the box.
My biggest question about bows/crossbows: will they benefit from passives for two handed weapons?
In reality, both are two handed weapons. I just dont know if the devs realize that.
In Poe1 two handed weapon passives and gear stats did affect bows. Don’t know if it’s still the case though.
Very nice build i will test this
Nice build indeed, gg dude.
great video & build my friend. i think i missed something however. with electric damage contributing to cold instead of shock, where does the initial shock come from(
Great build thanks
switched from cast on shock/lightning arrow/lightning rod/ball lightning ... its amazing! super fast! super easy! got my 3rd ascendancy on first try because its super strong!
The king build maker the real GOAT of POE build makers, thanks Pal! You are my Pal! :D
Nice. I couldn't even get my Deadeye past the Act 1 boss playing Crossbows.
In the leveling video will you also include the loot filter that you use?
Is it specific to this build or just good in general ?
Much love :)
Do you get Tailwind per reload or per bolt?
I really dislike the grenade gameplay. The fuse time is just annoying. I want to try your/a similar build. Shockburst rounds look amazing.
Per shot/bolt
@@DavDav2233_ That's amazing. Thanks for clarifying.
Brrrrt shots get them up to max instantly then.
Both. U can also swap between different loaded bolts without firing to quickly build up tailwind stacks
@@kurosujiomake shh
My man thank you for this but I have a question, can I use this build as a Gemling ? I am getting really bored of grenades, I would appreciate your answers. Thanks in advance.
Just started a deadeye yesterday, went through all the 3 first acts with crossbow, if you have unique one that makes you consume no bolts for 4 sec after reload, take it, but from act two it's gonna get harder. I started explosive shot from level 41 and was shocking bosses with galvanic shards, actually galvanic shards was op for clear act2-3 but single target was lacking a lot until level 41. All in all swapped at lvl 45 and I am one shotting cruel act 1 bosses now with explosive shit only lol 😂
No, Extra projectiles does not increase projectiles for Shockburst Rounds, it just increases the clip size so you don't have to reload as often.
I tried to make this build day 1 but the helm was missing. Nice 👍 imo the theorycraft works great and it looks really
Smooth
@Palsteron I was wondering whats a good amulet annoint to go for?
Hey cool build. What would u recommend for amulet anoint?
Great build!
what is the amulet skill point that we should get?
Try auto reload support gem on explosive arrow, works like a charm
Pretty convenient to spec into from LA as well
by far my favorite build. level 72 and its shredding
I switched last night and man is it good.
damn that looks exactly like something i wanna play :D didn't like the crossbow but this is sweet :D
anything planned to add cast on shock or something? :D
I have a question: I made the same build, but I don't have Herald of Ash yet. Is that why I'm not doing AOE damage, or did I not equip something correctly since my explosive shots don't do AOE like in the video?