(Bug Fixed) Glacial Bolt Armour Explosion Warbringer Build Overview & Interactions | Path of Exile 2

[@dreamcore_gg]

One week into PoE2's early access, how is everyone doing?

[@lavq7000]

Still finishing act3 . Real life stuff keeping me away. This game is SOMETHING GOODD . Been enjoying my Titan playthrough so far. Really a different feeling from PoE1 but some things never change. My mind is tickling with all the build possibilities I can fathom.

[@AndThenShwarmaAfter]

waiting for something fun to happen in maps...shit is a snoozefest holy fuck. feels like D4 all over again after the honeymoon phase.

[@jgmweston]

Just finished Act 3, Deadeye Crossbow. Super fun. Cool story so far, the end of Act 3 was rad.

[@Wismito]

Was doing great with my CoF stormweaver until they nuked it, now im doing well with my magnetic salvo deadeye until they nuke lightning rods

[@matsbarnheim2928]

Early mapping here and having fun playing Titan. The game looks amazing, I'm fully clearing everything just to see the awesome details here and there :)

[@ThatsRealNeato]

Thanks for the shoutout! This is awesome, I never considered glacial bolt as an option. I've been doing cast on ignite ice wall triggered by molten blast but this looks a bit more consistent.

[@zurielsama]

This is such an ingenious build, blows my mind how you came up with it.

[@CheckTheWiki]

Can't wait to level up a warrior to try this and be nerfed into the ground.

[@aaronscottmatthews7883]

Clever! I hope GGG is paying attention to these builds so they can be sure to tweak their skill and passive systems accordingly ensuring we can do more things like this

[@TeaThyme-ci4cl]

you i and everyone else knows that if they make any changes related to this build it will be to completely delete it from the game with a "nerf"

[@knightofwhale2834]

Yes! No weapon is bound to a specific class! Glad people are starting to really utilize that! Im working on a minion warbringer build myself

[@JosephKing-qb9fd]

Straight applause to you and your brilliance, man. Ive been playing on and off between watching my kids and life and l was looking for a mercenary bleed build without the grenades meta and somehow came across this gem. Seeing how your mind started to map out every aspect to your end goal for the build was awesome. Great video. Keep it up.

[@TheRandRPodcast]

This is what I love about path of exile and the community. They always come up with amazing ways to mix and match things that you didn’t think about.

[@DRUBIN1986]

MAN this is literally what im going for leveling right now here you are with a beautiful video.

[@dreamcore_gg]

[@Multi_Plex]

Finally someone else that realized how good it was to mix in ranger skills onto warriors. Been running Gas Arrow on my TItan fire build. Great to have that for mapping full screen explosions while also having my boss one shot hammer of the gods.

[@idrisbay7236]

Amazing concept creation! Kudos

[@TimoNausch]

The first truly insane build concept I have seen, sick idea

[@fireballloadout]

I don't know if everyone knows this but actually there is a way to break armor by using poison damage, it's a support skill that take your poison damage and Deals armor break equal to 80% if my recall is correct. I've been using it on my witch, using the command attack of the summon archers as they do a area of effect poison

[@elderwiz3165]

Yep, it works great if you have some good poison damage skills.

[@fireballloadout]

@elderwiz3165 for me what I've been doing is using my archers for the large poison area and then I have warriors with pin build up instead of stun so I can trap creatures in the poison effect, that also includes bosses

[@davidchaput5484]

@@elderwiz3165 Doesn't need to be an amazing skill, general grenade build can slot in gas grenade with that and can quickly break someone armor off, then you add something like daze on break to enter stun heaven.

[@elderwiz3165]

@@davidchaput5484 Yes, indeed. just do enough poison damage and it works wonders. I think mainly ranger, merc and witch minions have this kind of poison in their skill setup, but there may be many other ways to apply this.

[@fireballloadout]

There is one particular setup if you use a poison cloud to do the armor break, one of the support skills makes it to where there is an explosion when you break armor... using this particular setup mindset once you use the gas to break the armor you then have a explosion that ignited the cloud doing a area of effect

[@lotowarrior]

This got deleted with the latest patch. "Fixed a bug where the Explosion from the Armour Explosion Support could explode inanimate objects."

[@Ashtarte3D]

What, a clever build the uses mechanics in an interesting way? QUICK, GET DOWN MISTER PRESIDENT, THE FUN POLICE ARE COMING!

[@RaduStancu]

patchnotes tomorrow: walls no longer have armour and can't be armour broken

[@Xalphus]

More likely they'll just limit armor explosion to melee

[@valhero_]

@@Xalphus That's actually less likely, because it's even stronger on a proper melee build. I think they will remove armour from walls

[@MatthewKelley-mq4ce]

​@@valhero_maybe. I doubt it. They'll definitely take a look at it at some point.

[@N0RTH8408]

Definitely 😂

[@kurtsaidwhat]

New mechanic found: “nerf it!” This shit is still worse than gas lmao

[@luc_xott]

I hadn’t even read that skill! Very cool interaction, Neato is a great build maker too.

[@wolfcam4462]

You can do this with the gas grenade and corossion support too, its also an easy way to generate endurance charges with the other support , cant remember its name. If you add the firey death and armor explosion support too you basically become Mr.Torque with all the explosions

[@LastAphelion]

TOO MANY SYLLABLES! APOLOGIZE!

[@kingfisher1638]

I like your tech. I was thinking of building lightning damage into the build for herald of lightning and putting exploit weakness on it. I am also using scepter with shield on the off setup for blink/shield charge mobility and using cast on freeze with ice wall for extra spawns. I pathed into the crossbow node and projectile damage but I think you are correct in that it isn't needed. Only the reload reductions matter.

[@dreamcore_gg]

👀 Blink tech sounds good I'll have to try that

[@kingfisher1638]

@@dreamcore_gg Its a gamechanger. Shield charge +blink gives big mobility and you still have dodge roll when crossbow is out.

[@Nubcrawler]

Flash grenade, heavy stun breaks armor, armor explosion has pretty good clear from my testing.

[@fistwizard2552]

goddamn this is so fucking cool, well done man

[@UltimegaSeven]

Ive been playing Stampede Armor explosion since EA release and im sweating real hard right now. I can feel the cold shadow of Jonathon's ban hammer hovering over me.

[@MelvinDorkus]

rest in peace this build. bug fix: inanimate objects no longer explode with armour explosion support, sadge

[@aliveformusic5623]

As a beginner in this type of game i'm not sure my thought will be relevent but i love doing weird stuff and one of them is to try making a build with a Titan warrior and try to find dumb small node effect that would get borken after a the "double small nodes". I am slowly going through the crossbow build and am testing if it is possible to consume 0 ammo infinitely. Loved your video and gave me some motivation to continue on my quest of finding dumb stuff!

[@Mugi-v7w]

Armour break is pretty nutty. I'm working on a Titan summoner that uses skeleton archers supported with armour break and then I just wack the 0 armour boss to death lol

[@kingfisher1638]

Hell yeah this is my build too.

[@BlackVincentChaos]

Just a notice from my side - there is in fact a support gem called "corrosion" which breaks armour equal to 80% of poison damage dealt - so this is in fact another non physical damage way of breaking armour

[@Murlo695]

Warbringer is quite underwhelming at the moment I'm glad you found something cool with it

[@Gore-okami]

i like your mindset.

[@markossrarkos2729]

5:50 corrosion - "Poison applied by supported Skills also breaks Armour equal to 80% of Poison Damage dealt"

[@MrDracosaur]

I had been playing this and definitely expected it to get nerfed. I just thought it might fly under the radar for a bit. You can just stack AoE and shotgun 9x armour explosions and 9x frost wall explosions per bolt. Making it 200% ATK x 18 objects. Life gain on hit was also busted since you hit 54 times in one bolt. Also for map clear you couldve just put in fork support, it doesnt affect your damage since neither explosions are projectile tagged.

[@tylerpickens1096]

Pretty neat. I bet with some more testing you can solve the clearing issues

[@Cakasaur]

Wow. My first merc was a glacial bolt + frag round build and i dropped it since my fingers was hurting from the high apm of switching rounds and detonating the ice walls on mobs, am going to try this tech out to see how it feels. As for solving the clear issue, consider using herald of ice instead of fire. Reason being that most of the damage comes from multiple instances of relatively low damage hits (10 x 100% as compared to 1000%), so your overkill damage, and thus the ignite damage, is low.

[@Cakasaur]

Did some basic gem testing on my witchhunter, this build definitely needs warbringer as it's too expensive and inconsistent to setup with witchhunter (armour break support gem only applies to phys damage, aka the phys damage portion of the bolt from glacial shot itself). What i find to help detonate the wall is to use the icicle support gem (50% less crystal hp) so that the ice crystals actually detonate. An anoit on the shattered crystal notable (60% reduced crystal life) might also help in that aspect.

[@kenc5199]

This build would def benefit from the second weapon set to be used as a map clear. Use a skill with a lot of aoe or chain effect then use weapon points power it up. So one set is raw dps and protection. The other set for clearing mobs. If your already scaling cold maybe frost bolts with cold snap

[@LastAphelion]

Omg this works for leveling! I wanted to have fun experimenting and not leveling with melee so I tested leveling warrior with different bow and xbow skills and ofc LA+rod is best as always. I was actually doing gas+nade combo and grabbing the 2 fire and 2Handed damage nodes by our tree because of the complete lack of any other damage source for ranged till later, and it was still working out for me lol. I wanted to try Glacial Bolt as soon as possible to see if its even feasible at low levels, and YES as soon as you can ascend and get Glacial Bolt it WORKS. I almost 1 shot every pack, and it looks like I kill Azarian at level 27 in about 12 shots, no twink uniques! And build is dead with today's patch. I'm sad I won't get to finish leveling with it, but at least I got to experience it for one day... All my ideas I wanted to play with with armor break at end game are all dead.

[@4eLoBeKBopC4]

Been playing my "quadro" herald titan from the start. Titan "Crushing blows" work with all hits (I'm sure ill try it with phys spells when there is more in the game) I'm using Galvanic shards for clear linked with Armour explosion-Devastate-Martial tempo-Fork (5 link with those utility gems is enough) I have a flat fire roll on my crossbow and enough flat cold and lightning on my rings to reliably shock freeze and ignite in t15. So i proc all 3 heralds and armour explosions at the same time. It feels really great doing anything with high mob density. And at high atlas points investment it means every single map. For single target it's always the same. It's Plasma blast for bosses with initial animation or attack wind up. And Shockburst rounds for rares. As a titan you can easily go crit, even with mediocre weapon. And well you are just 50% better than any other class just because Hulking form exists. The only thing it's missing is Ranger movement speed. But even with 30% ms boots you are just straight up zooming. If you want to explore this concept i trully recommend making a titan. For any other person reading, you can also drop herald of ice for an Armour scavenger aura to get more defenses (and because if your gear is bad you probably don't have enough INT to go HoI)

[@lowfatlatte0]

my first character was based on the wall armour explosion interaction its super fun :D

[@joshbirmingham4313]

Id be keen to see this with the Rampart Raptor crossbow. Perhaps it would make mapping a bunch easier.

[@cenobit0815]

warbringer with artillery totems is really nice. also works with armor break

[@MorbidAnimosity]

Omg such a funky build i love it 🤣😁

[@Chocolaids]

thats a sick build

[@martinmingosuarez8690]

you should try granades for map clearing, they mostly scale aout of aoe damage. Great build idea! thanks for sharing

[@benjaminfleming2681]

This is so cool !!!!

[@quicksilver2923]

Cool. I love armor break/stun. It would be nice if we had a skill that inflicts daze without relying on support

[@njuve7837]

I'm also doing warbringer + crossbow but didn't know ice crystals have armor break. I will try it

[@Emilgod]

ive been liking flash grenade with devastate and armor explosion , really amazing aoe and clear speed , but you would have to do gem swaps for bossing w unless ur gemling legionaire

[@Galvain123]

I've seen a rage when hit affix on a jewel as well.

[@Flakzor123]

Heck yea, testing cool stuff is what EA is all for! :D I have to say after respeccing to Woolie's auto attack armour explosion build and also toying with molten blast on the side I really DON'T think our ascendancy will survive until full release without some sort of nerf to the armour explosion node. The amount of proliferation you can get from aoe scaling and global damagescaling makes me think of poe 1 not poe 2.

[@kenc5199]

This build would def benefit from the second weapon set to be used as a map clear. Use a skill with a lot of aoe or chain effect then use weapon points power it up. So one set is raw dps and protection. The other set for clearing mobs.

[@carlostrevisan1980]

Sooooo, ive just ascended. Im about 30. I was going for warbringer basic atrack bunks and your build shows up. Ive tested it with a very low damage crossbow and the walls didint even get destroyed (so we need to upgrade as lvls go). And then ive added a “good” crossbow and bang: its so fun, so fun, that im sure the fun police will destroy it. Thanks for sharing. Im having a blast with your build. But ill start farm some gold for when they brik jt.

[@TonnyAbreu]

Hi mate, i'm around 38, can you share your passive tree, what nodes did you went early since you 30 ish, want to try bu dont want to spens all damm gold 😅😂

[@Armadan7]

My version of this build drummed up yesterday after watching Woolie's armor explosion 1tap build is to use Explosive bolts and HV rounds. It's going to have to wait until the Below 0% is fixed. Interesting take on elemental though!

[@googleplaynow9608]

If only high velocity rounds could break armor. I'd be so happy

[@Armadan7]

@googleplaynow9608 HV rounds to replace Sunder on bosses for distance

[@czairkolmoslink5952]

I say try out the fortress gem with frost wall. As it circles around the monsters captureing them.

[@AndrewR.Ludlow]

I LOVE the warrior. I have a warbringer armor break build and just sunder for guaranteed crit each time i break their armor (which i can do in one or two hits). I can take down bosses pretty quickly. This looks so fun! Too bad that imploding impacts is broken. I'm hoping they fix it soon.

[@paulm1237]

Now we wait and see if it fits "the vision" or gets uber nerfed

[@hdes937119]

So its basically a wall-bringer build?

[@combatical7872]

Hey there thanks for the video. Curious I'm trying to do this on my merc but amour explosion doesnt seem to be exploding. Is this because of the warbringer skill Anvils Weight? Sorry if this is a stupid question.

[@CAPTAINCHAOS_]

Did the recent patch (or upcoming patch) “fix” this?

[@carlostrevisan1980]

So, im about lvl 36. Got it on act two (first ascendancy about lvl 30) and just cruise the act with the build. Im on act 3 now Some notes: - i dont know how to scale damage properly yet. - im using controler on PC (its awesome everybody should try, im using 360) and sometimes i keep aiming at monsters and the damages fall of id the monster its big, you want to target the ground then the wall. -many the wall explodes but still keep phisically blocking the way, this can be a problem. I think ill need better damage I wonder if use the support gems that scale Up or Down the wall damage, i dont have currency to buy, but maybe they will help break them more ease and more explosions if scale down or bigger damage if scale up? Not sure if interacts with the armor of the wall… I wonder how you doing DreamCore, did you give up the build?

[@dreamcore_gg]

Sadly the build gave up on us, it has been bug fixed in the most recent patch

[@carlostrevisan1980]

@ really, im leaving the work. Soo they brik it? Sad, i was having a lot of fun. I was hopping to be effective since i didint feel any OP compared to many many sorc and dead eye build ive seen on youtube, the glacial bolt was safer but a oot slower compared to those builds…

[@dreamcore_gg]

@@carlostrevisan1980 Yeah they removed the ability to armour explode objects, sadly. I don't think it was OP but I did believe it was a bug all along so I'm not too disappointed

[@carlostrevisan1980]

@ its on todays patch?? Or im playing all the week with the “nerf”? The poe its off line, i cant see ir now

[@derpataur1162]

I'm just sad that High Velocity Rounds and Sunder don't apply the Anvil's Weight... Also that Armour Explosion doesn't seem to explode gas clouds even if you ignite an enemy with it. I did notice that Gas Arrow does apply the armour break but it's super hard to hit anything with the arrow because it seems to prioritize shooting the ground near your enemy and not the enemy itself.

[@danphoenix6569]

okay but what is making the firy explosion when its ice on ice?

[@Krytos13]

ive been trying to make this work on my merc! this looks better! :D

[@maxhay9911]

So, the latest update kinda ruined this build, I was cooking something similar but now you can't break your own ice wall armour with the glacial bolt itself. RIP

[@suthtech]

I don't yet have the funds for EA, but my build-brain is running on overdrive.

[@HasXXXInCrocs]

If you take titans blood can you use a crossbow and a shield?

[@carlostrevisan1980]

No, they only works with some two handed weapons, like hammers, greataxes and swords

[@TL-fe9si]

the keystone is limited to two-handed martial weapons

[@everythingbageI]

Wtf this is so cool

[@ZovcDrafts]

I don't know if it would upgrade your shenanigans, but Overabundance would give you another Solar Orb and make them do less damage.

[@bankbank]

cool build

[@cayninek9]

I give this a 50/50 to either be the first "build of the week" of Poe 2 or nerfed.

[@karawanatatana1724]

Armour explosion doesn’t work no more :( would’ve had a lot of potential

[@viisum]

My gas build does mapping and bossing better, but this is indeed a cool concept

[@Leo-he8eo]

They killed the build with todays patch, it was fun while it lasted

[@BasegFarmer]

Did you try the tempest bell?

[@frustratedsquirrel]

Sadly you can't poison ice walls, otherwise I was going to try to use this tech with my gas grenade armor explosion build.

[@DeadZer0-y8l]

I wanted to do an Ancestral Totem build using the ballistas since they are considered totems. Not sure if it would work though.

[@Hans-Kortz]

And here I thought my idea was special xD, but mine will be my titan

[@Kay2kGer]

Corossion on poison, breaks armor. Using it on my gas granate

[@akn_9220]

Would this work with a ballista focus build?

[@weepingmoon1159]

I use similar build on my merc - glacial bolt+fragmentation rounds, cause they blow up crystals and deal like 989% damage to frozen enemies on lvl 14 gem. I believe there can be a good combo with building frag rounds towards fire damage with Frostfire support (consumes freez and applies X2 burning power) aswell as Herald of Ice increases damage from blowing up frozen enemies. But i'm new to PoE, and not that smart to calculate how this should work together, or will it work even.

[@zagvozdkin]

Данный подкласс из видео будет лучше. Только у него можно так ломать стены. Только у него. Охотник на ведьм, к сожалению, очень слабый подкласс, как оказалось (добивание есть в виде камня, а его Милосердие есть в перчатках уникальных, взрывы от Вестника холода) Итог: подкласс мусор.

[@HeyHoRangerJooo]

I tried it out today, glacial bolt and armor break and it doesn't work for me, the walls don't explode each other, I find that quite weird

[@dreamcore_gg]

The crossbow you're using needs to deal enough damage to make 10% of that hit break armour(crossbow from starter won't work)

[@Raven_Sol]

does the circle wall gem work on this build? maybe it gets you better trash clear?

[@dreamcore_gg]

Fortress is extremely weird on Glacial Bolt and seems to be bugged - sometimes when aiming far away the terrain is just glitching out and you're trapping yourself in icewalls, it makes moving around way worse sadly

[@barrywise7185]

Might have to fact check me, but I think Alva gambler in the Act 3c town scales with your level? so you might be able to just blow through a ton of cash to try and get something better

[@enkilonde3601]

Thats a very cool and ingenious build. However, I doubt it is intentional that we can break the walls armor, so it is quite likely to be "nerfed" in the future

[@dreamcore_gg]

Yup I think a bug fix will be incoming soon

[@polios3123]

try Thorns build!

[@sergeyt2947]

Thats crazy __)

[@mr_oger]

I an doing a warbringer high-velocity rounds bleed, and a little bit sad to hear that this doesn't really work for mapping, cuz i'm kinda at wit's ends about finding a good clear skill that is at least comparable to a single sunder slam that just deletes packs xD

[@googleplaynow9608]

Explosive bolt with the reload on heavy stun support gem is really good for mapping.

[@RationallyChallenged]

RIP build, patch today is removing this interaction... GGG really needs to just let the fun things exist

[@dreamcore_gg]

Rip indeed

[@RationallyChallenged]

@@dreamcore_gg Thanks for the fun while it lasted, played into act 2 cruel and started farming the respawning rare beetle... sad it wasn't left alone, but I jumped on the build as soon as I could to play it while it was here

[@AlienFromBeyond]

It didn't even seem that OP considering what people are doing with stuff like Archmage Spark.

[@RationallyChallenged]

@ it’s not OP, it’s just not intended, so they got rid of it

[@kingfisher1638]

Very dumb to call this a 'bug fix'. This was a legit interaction. Now you can't even get scrap armour from shield wall ability. What is the point of shield wall walls now? Aren't we supposed to interact with ice crystals to cause explosions? This is a bad change. The armour explosion -> stun -armour break -> explosion loops desrved to be nerfed but the inanimate objects are immune to armour break 'bug fix' is just unneccesary.

[@mohammad_kael]

u think it might get nerfed?

[@justinmaynard8305]

Any chance you could work in a weapon swap for clearing like the other armour explosion builds or is that not possible

[@googleplaynow9608]

If you want better clear speed, I think explosive bolt is better. This is much better for bosses, but the walls get in the way of clearing and the aoe isn't as good as explosive. Also, explosive is still 70% physical on the projectile.

[@felipeleon108]

Gas grande can also break

[@IgnisNPignis]

Merc stands in the corner

[@Leo-he8eo]

nvm play it now with siege cascade, it works really well

[@yoshistr007]

What do you mean? Do you still use glacial bolt?

[@Leo-he8eo]

@@yoshistr007 yes, but i put armor explosion in the siege cascade skill, so i put up some walls and cascade rains down on each wall segment. havent tried against bosses, but the clear is very good.

[@yoshistr007]

@@Leo-he8eo But the ice crystals can't have their armour broken anymore?

[@Leo-he8eo]

@@yoshistr007 really? i guess they just explode from the cascade impact then.

[@pierreracine128]

cooooooooooool

[@frederik_9269]

Uh i dunno, everytime i see an interaction that could be unintentional, i just expect a nerf

[@Vulgaels]

RealNeato is such an amazing build creator. Great minds keep a like haha I am doing something similar woth grenade and strike Titan :) titan works great with this considering how easy it is to stun and break armour. You can easily use stampede on a maceand shield off hand or 2handed shield. You can use font of rage even on Bow Builds btw! With the vine arrow

[@phatle2737]

there so much things that arent explained at all in this game as a newcomer

[@WOMFT]

After many rerolls 😔

[@luc_xott]

Perfect build only needs 1 ascendancy to be great 😂

[@rogerelzenga4465]

im theory crafting a support build...... im currently giving my party members 300%+ dmg

[@doicaini7734]

AMG brain

[@MasterRisto]

RIP my build

[@Son1cdragon123]

Imploding impact doesnt work its bugged so thats another reason not to grab it 😅