I'm using a build similar to this one, (shock burst rounds) I'm close to your build in terms of HP and ES (2375hp and 302 ES), although the build is very fun, it feels very squishy in the late game and some things can one shot you if evasion doesn't save you, especially boss mechanics. What would be your advice on this, how can I go more tanky?
I think it's just a deadeye issue. Without being pure ES, it's very hard to get a high hit pool. Olroth's Resolve could help, I believe it gets really high guard with investment.
@@ILYABARINOV-q7j i think this one happens the most when you are clicking an empty clip. If you hold click against a single target it’ll be smoother. I spam click only while mapping.
Loving the build. Here are couple issues I’m running into. 1. Does crossbow always feel this clunky? Or am I missing some stats? When ever I click fire, there is like a 0.5sec delay. 2. I been stacking reload speed on all my jewels and the reload speed tree. But my EA reload speed is at 0.29sec. I feel like it take a little too long in between shots. Do I just need to go buy a new weapon? Stack more reload speed? Or should have stacked attack speed? 3. How else can I get more aoe and bigger and bigger chains. I’m just addicted to endless herald chains. My main objective is to go zoom zoom and explode everything, but the delay in between shots is holding me back. I tried a xbow with additional bolt, it felt better but on juiced map I ain’t 1 shotting packs like my pure phys xbow.
@@Eqnotalent i use a crossbow with two bolts. One bolt might force you to reload even when you stun. I don’t reload outside of boss fights. Reloading would be clunky yeah
@@Eqnotalent attack speed does affect reload speed, but you can also get up to 20% reload speed on jewels. Both work, so get as much as you can of both!
@@BoiCleancut is auto reload never activating for you with a two bolt crossbow? Delirium and the stun threshold mod can mess it up, but other than that I just get stuns on every hit with the build that I have linked.
Been following your guide and I love the build so far, I did yesterday see a version of this where they drop the grenades and instead take a lightning machine gun skill I forget the name of for single target. Kinda curious what the tradeoff is that I'm missing that you're sticking with the grenades? The lightning machine gun seems like a best of both worlds since you'd still use explosive shot for the clearing like you're doing now and you only really use grenades for single target and that lightning ability seems to blast single target. Also random dumb question I missed in the last video but where does the 3rd projectile come from for the grenades? Mine currently shoots 2 out in this awkward v pattern that goes to the left and right of the enemy xD
@@Bacon-egg-cheese yeah shockburst rounds. I think they’re good but I don’t really have room for it, you need to invest a lot into shock duration. The single target is quite a bit higher if you want to go with that route, at the cost of a lot of support gems and investment on your tree. I have my weapon swap points in an extra grenade projectile, I keep forgetting to cover the weapon swap but the trees are on mobalytics
@@mikedawglol Mmm I think I may end up just sticking with this because weirdly enough I kind of want to fight the bosses. Maybe when I've killed these dudes hundreds of times I'll be more into deleting them while they're frozen but its a lot more enjoyable for me right now actually getting to experience the fights. And ah I see the weapon swap stuff now, I'd definitely appreciate if you made a quickie video just showing that stuff really fast as I've never messed with it myself and I imagine there's a ton of others in the same boat. Not really sure exactly how that all works.
Would ingenuity belt with 2x breach rings, both rings with Phys + Lightning damage boosted with attack quality 50% be better than ryshlata belt + breach rings?
Yeah I think I'm gonna have to. I heard you just get a little bit on your body armor and neck and run Grim Feast, and maybe an ES anoint. I'll take a look tomorrow and see if I can make it work.
@@mikedawglol yes we can get 60% pierce chance for 4 passives point and free the anoint, I also planning to completely drop out evasion because it is useless anyways. Then I can use full es chest
Es eva is really good for survivability with grim feast, however it feels very hard to get the dmg, 550 pdps bow and after swapping to this setup i stopped getting massive aoe chains and even white packs take few shots. Maybe you can come up with a better setup
@@tangnt1834 lightning damage. Lightning freezes with Three Dragons. Your HoT needs to deal enough lightning to freeze. I have added lightning on my breach rings.
Evasion + energy shield is probably better, but it's a lot more investment that I don't think is necessary for me. If you want the tankiness though then you should go for it, it looks good!
@@christophersmith9949 I only use default crossbow shot to stack tailwind - if you swap ammo back and forth it’ll stack up tailwind. I put nimble reload there but i don’t know if it does anything
@@mikedawglol I found a good solution to the boss low dmg probleme : Remove the 2 grenades skills and do 1- take Shockburst rounds 2- take artillery ballista and put the 3 gem to boost shock chance + duration + ligthning exposure 3- place the ballista who will proc everthing you need for your shockburst to do amazing dps on bosses, you can also add conductivity in your bar for hard ones.
@@christophersmith9949 that is interesting, I like the idea of maintaining the shock with a totem. There's also the option of setting up stormfire support with some sort of ignite too, right? I find that my single target is more than good enough for map bosses, but I do want to figure a good solution for low single target so I have been messing around with shockburst rounds
@@mikedawglol SHockburst is the most obvious solutions for crossbow single target dmg, i tried the others but without succes. For the stormfire support i tried to play with the glacial bolt, it's quite interesting, but needs something more. I can't find an easy way to maintain the shock without loading another bolt, explosive grenade is too much of a pain to aim.
I get 35% pierce from 2 jewels, and then go for reload speed, ele damage, attack damage, projectile damage, attack speed, attack speed with crossbows, damage with crossbows, damage with hits against unique enemies, evasion etc etc. Basically just a complicated "count" search on poe trade.
If you want to do what he is doing, it won't quite happen that low because of passive points needed OR enough support skill slots for your skills... BUT you can mostly level with Exploding shot. Bossing you may want more variety in skills
Very charismatic personality and more importantly, great high quality content!
When I look at your ranger… it feels like I’m playing a different game
Exactly what I was looking for :D love chaining heralds
Great video Michael
finally dropped three dragons in ssf, blasting with it :D
I give it a thumbs up bc it’s honest work
Thanks Mike
I am playing it on titan. Stunning everything and reloading automatically with every shot basically.
Why no "+ lvl of all projectile skills" on crossbow?
It's a good stat, about 5% damage per level. I'd use it if I had it available.
Its so satisfactory to watch😅
I'm using a build similar to this one, (shock burst rounds) I'm close to your build in terms of HP and ES (2375hp and 302 ES), although the build is very fun, it feels very squishy in the late game and some things can one shot you if evasion doesn't save you, especially boss mechanics. What would be your advice on this, how can I go more tanky?
I think it's just a deadeye issue. Without being pure ES, it's very hard to get a high hit pool. Olroth's Resolve could help, I believe it gets really high guard with investment.
wouldnt tempest bell provide a huge burst on bosses if you use a quarterstaff on the second set since each explosive shot hits like 8 times?
Yo, how do you dodge bug with reloading crossbows skill? It's bugged and it looks like it's jammed while reloading.
@@ILYABARINOV-q7j i think this one happens the most when you are clicking an empty clip. If you hold click against a single target it’ll be smoother. I spam click only while mapping.
I noticed that a lot too where its like my crossbow jam and doesn't fire.
Why can't I trigger the freeze? It's my configuration. What's wrong? What is your discord ID that I need your help with
is there a way to tell if your herald of thunder is freezing?
Yes you'll get Ice Bite if you have it linked to HoT. If you don't get the Ice Bite buff, your HoT didn't freeze.
hi bro, can you share all gear this build , i'm newbie
I cant understand why ppl using shockburst round for single target.even though explosive shot itself has good single target potential for deadeye
Because it is so much better, will nuke the bosses he killed in this vid in a quarter of the time.
is this build just much better on deadeye compared to witchhunter?
Я столкнулся с проблемой маны у меня она быстро кончается, как быть?
Herald of Ice can't cause freeze buildup. Just like how Herald of Thunder can't shock? Or am I missing something?
Herald of Thunder can't shock, but it CAN Freeze, if you have 3 dragons equipped.
@@Hectic2525 si 3 dragons is mandatory for this build to work?
@ yes
Loving the build. Here are couple issues I’m running into. 1. Does crossbow always feel this clunky? Or am I missing some stats? When ever I click fire, there is like a 0.5sec delay. 2. I been stacking reload speed on all my jewels and the reload speed tree. But my EA reload speed is at 0.29sec. I feel like it take a little too long in between shots. Do I just need to go buy a new weapon? Stack more reload speed? Or should have stacked attack speed? 3. How else can I get more aoe and bigger and bigger chains. I’m just addicted to endless herald chains. My main objective is to go zoom zoom and explode everything, but the delay in between shots is holding me back. I tried a xbow with additional bolt, it felt better but on juiced map I ain’t 1 shotting packs like my pure phys xbow.
@@Eqnotalent i use a crossbow with two bolts. One bolt might force you to reload even when you stun. I don’t reload outside of boss fights. Reloading would be clunky yeah
@ what stat effect reload speed the most? Attack speed? How is attack speed work with xbow compare to reload speed?
@@Eqnotalent attack speed does affect reload speed, but you can also get up to 20% reload speed on jewels. Both work, so get as much as you can of both!
@@mikedawglol how do you constantly stun them? i never stun them at all? is it just a deadeye thing? im playing a witchhunter
@@BoiCleancut is auto reload never activating for you with a two bolt crossbow? Delirium and the stun threshold mod can mess it up, but other than that I just get stuns on every hit with the build that I have linked.
Any way to target farm that belt?
Been following your guide and I love the build so far, I did yesterday see a version of this where they drop the grenades and instead take a lightning machine gun skill I forget the name of for single target. Kinda curious what the tradeoff is that I'm missing that you're sticking with the grenades? The lightning machine gun seems like a best of both worlds since you'd still use explosive shot for the clearing like you're doing now and you only really use grenades for single target and that lightning ability seems to blast single target.
Also random dumb question I missed in the last video but where does the 3rd projectile come from for the grenades? Mine currently shoots 2 out in this awkward v pattern that goes to the left and right of the enemy xD
@@Bacon-egg-cheese yeah shockburst rounds. I think they’re good but I don’t really have room for it, you need to invest a lot into shock duration. The single target is quite a bit higher if you want to go with that route, at the cost of a lot of support gems and investment on your tree.
I have my weapon swap points in an extra grenade projectile, I keep forgetting to cover the weapon swap but the trees are on mobalytics
@@mikedawglol Mmm I think I may end up just sticking with this because weirdly enough I kind of want to fight the bosses. Maybe when I've killed these dudes hundreds of times I'll be more into deleting them while they're frozen but its a lot more enjoyable for me right now actually getting to experience the fights.
And ah I see the weapon swap stuff now, I'd definitely appreciate if you made a quickie video just showing that stuff really fast as I've never messed with it myself and I imagine there's a ton of others in the same boat. Not really sure exactly how that all works.
Does somebody know how to get bigger aoe explosions? My explosive arrow explosion is waaaay smaller
Try using magnified support
Would ingenuity belt with 2x breach rings, both rings with Phys + Lightning damage boosted with attack quality 50% be better than ryshlata belt + breach rings?
@@Jtotheohan yeah i think so, that’s what i have right now. Not sure if fire or lightning is better
@@mikedawglol Im in the process of buying new breach ring, maybe get one with phys+lightning and one with phys+fire? what do you think about that?
playing this for a few day and dying to a lot of on death effect (one shot), any hope for es version?
Yeah I think I'm gonna have to. I heard you just get a little bit on your body armor and neck and run Grim Feast, and maybe an ES anoint. I'll take a look tomorrow and see if I can make it work.
@@mikedawglol yes we can get 60% pierce chance for 4 passives point and free the anoint, I also planning to completely drop out evasion because it is useless anyways. Then I can use full es chest
Es eva is really good for survivability with grim feast, however it feels very hard to get the dmg, 550 pdps bow and after swapping to this setup i stopped getting massive aoe chains and even white packs take few shots. Maybe you can come up with a better setup
Maybe get good
Can i create something similar whit mercenary?
When u say we need to improve out gear for herald chain, what are the "improvement" u meant? Cold damage? Lightning?
@@tangnt1834 lightning damage. Lightning freezes with Three Dragons. Your HoT needs to deal enough lightning to freeze. I have added lightning on my breach rings.
an additional bolt or skill lv which is better on crossbow
I like the additional bolt, it feels like the auto reload is less consistent with only one bolt
@@mikedawglol i got a Dyad Crossbow with 450 physical dps and one more bolt , so im searching a build for it
thx a lot
wow, so full evasion is better than evasion + energy shield on items?
Evasion + energy shield is probably better, but it's a lot more investment that I don't think is necessary for me. If you want the tankiness though then you should go for it, it looks good!
Hi, thx for the build idea, really nice big explosions :p
Tell me, what gems do you use on the default crossbow shot skill ?
@@christophersmith9949 I only use default crossbow shot to stack tailwind - if you swap ammo back and forth it’ll stack up tailwind. I put nimble reload there but i don’t know if it does anything
@@mikedawglol I found a good solution to the boss low dmg probleme :
Remove the 2 grenades skills and do
1- take Shockburst rounds
2- take artillery ballista and put the 3 gem to boost shock chance + duration + ligthning exposure
3- place the ballista who will proc everthing you need for your shockburst to do amazing dps on bosses, you can also add conductivity in your bar for hard ones.
@@christophersmith9949 that is interesting, I like the idea of maintaining the shock with a totem. There's also the option of setting up stormfire support with some sort of ignite too, right?
I find that my single target is more than good enough for map bosses, but I do want to figure a good solution for low single target so I have been messing around with shockburst rounds
@@mikedawglol SHockburst is the most obvious solutions for crossbow single target dmg, i tried the others but without succes.
For the stormfire support i tried to play with the glacial bolt, it's quite interesting, but needs something more.
I can't find an easy way to maintain the shock without loading another bolt, explosive grenade is too much of a pain to aim.
how do you think about acrobatic?
How the hell do you have so much movement speed ? Anything I'm missing apart from the skill points in your tree ?
30 boots, 10 tailwind, and about 22% from the tree? Nothing too special
@mikedawglol the video is sped up then ?
@ i didn’t change anything with the speed so i don’t think so, unless my software changed it automatically somehow
@@mikedawglol you are bugged then, with 63 movement speed i run half as fast as you gg
any written guide for this?
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How did you get 10dps on explosive shot? I have 120-390 crossbow but it's only 5k
same here, did u figure out?
@LucifersRevengeDE well, the key is ring with qualiti in Phys attack i guess, sadly they kinda expensive with resists
What mods to look for on jewels?
I get 35% pierce from 2 jewels, and then go for reload speed, ele damage, attack damage, projectile damage, attack speed, attack speed with crossbows, damage with crossbows, damage with hits against unique enemies, evasion etc etc. Basically just a complicated "count" search on poe trade.
@mikedawglol legend
what stats make better and how much str dex int ?
I have 119 str, 205 dex, 85 int.
The stats you want are physical damage and added fire/lightning to rings/gloves I think.
@@mikedawglol so ur flame buff how much need int ?
i mean about flammabillity need 178 int or what i need use this?
oh i see ned take low lvl
@@milsmilso1399 Exactly yeah, I use 7 Flammability, 13 Herald of Ice, 13 Herald of Ash
Clear is insane. For bosses it seemed trash to me.
how did you level this build?
I just followed Ruetoo's Grenadier Deadeye on Mobalytics
Always level with lightning arrow, on any build.
What lvl can i start this? I’m lvl 38
You need lev 45 for the helmet which is mandatory
If you want to do what he is doing, it won't quite happen that low because of passive points needed OR enough support skill slots for your skills... BUT you can mostly level with Exploding shot. Bossing you may want more variety in skills
How do you change weapons to kill bosses. Do I need two crossbow?
same question.
first