[Build/Guide] One Shot Crossbow Gemling | 35+ Million Damage | 100% Crit Chance | Path of Exile 2

[@Flakzor123]

Great video, I find it funny that I'm basically using the same skills on my gemling with self-found gear (0 uniques) and it rips apart T15 with ease. I suspect you could single-shot clear hallways including any rares with only galvanic at T18 with +monsterlife% and +elemental resist mapmods because the tooltip dps in your description is about 40x of what I have. I don't have a "extra cold" jewel so herald of ice is a no-go for me but cast on shock "voltaic mark" sortof doubles as an extra herald. One thing I do like to add is that since I'm not a stat stacker I don't use "nimble reload" since I actually have the crossbow nodes, I use "ricochet" on galvanic instead and its absolutely lovely in confined spaces especially since I also have the extra fork nodes and increased chaining off terrain. Crossbow builds offscreen so hard with galvanic shards that it makes a joke of most content.

[@poe2_hc]

Do you have strong single target with SSF gear?

[@Flakzor123]

@@poe2_hc not to the point of oneshotting bosses no. At T15 bosses tend to survive both the plasma blast and the shockburst and needing a fresh application of shock to finish them off (I don't use elemental invocation though, that should be an improvement if I can swing the spiritcost). During the mapclearing the herald of thunder and the cast on shock voltaic mark does most of the damage but they are carried forward very far and very fast by the galvanic burst. Rares are usually very low hp when I even get to swap to shockburst to finish them.

[@poe2_hc]

@ thanks

[@InnerExile_92]

Sick build dude. Knew that crossbow skill would be nuts in some setups.

[@costajoseph1]

great vid brother, ty for reaching out about the build via twitch DMs

[@Calthos-tv]

@@costajoseph1 Hey, nice to see you again! :) Thanks for your feedback!

[@diabolusabsconditus]

very cool build. you have pob link for this to see your gear stats easily??

[@dontsleephungry716]

I would really liek to see this build in POB2, I like to see the numbers and it makes socketing jewels much easier.

[@xNellyx]

When playing as Deadeye, if you get a passive node that adds 1 projectile, I know that when you use the plasma skill, it goes out with two shots. The two jobs have different starting points for the passive nodes, but which character do you think has a better performance difference between Gemling and Deadeye due to the previous job node? And I'm curious about which part of Gemling you think is better than Deadeye.

[@Calthos-tv]

I would say on a budget, deadeye offers you more protection, movement speed and damage, due to more projectiles & atk speed. Leaving you with a smoother map clearing experience. Gemling shines at stat stacking and minmaxing, therefore nice for expensive end game and ideas like these, where you want to one shot stuff with just 1 projectile instead of multiple. I don't think the different starting points make a huge difference, but that's just an educated guess.

[@alejandropineyro7676]

Testing build. Currently feels realy good. Thanks! Any updates done yet?

[@lonelylove2402]

love this

[@istvankovacs2452]

Hi, great build, one question, I have a similar xbow, but instead of crt chance, it has crt damage, otherwise it's almost the same, that could be a problem, do you definitely need crt chance?

[@Calthos-tv]

Yes! No doubt. Crit Chance is the most important stat to make this build work. It's your base for any "increase crit chance" multipliers.

[@bugblebee9273]

Hi i try to make build like u for like 10 days. But i didnt cri properly, my cri chance in tooltip like 55% but not always cri. What your suggestion? My plasmablast have 3.9M damage in tooltip with elemental conflix or around 9.6m damage per use. Cri damage around 500

[@Calthos-tv]

@@bugblebee9273 Hey there! Are you sure that you don't crit? Lightning damage is rolled between a low number and a high one, meaning, that you can sometimes end up with a low hit. That's the only issue with lightning damage builds like this. If you find yourself hitting lower numbers in more than 30% of the cases, you probably need more base damage. So, either more intelligence, better jewels, or a crossbow with more physical damage, as Phys damage has not such a big range compared to lightning. Maybe you can still add a few level to the plasma blast skill. Every level will bring you another 500% attack damage conversion.

[@georgegeorge3619]

question: how many crit chance you want on this build ?

[@Kozi15]

I just stumble upon this master class build! Can this handle delirium (simulacrum) well?

[@Calthos-tv]

@@Kozi15 Hey there! You can definitely do it, but survivability is tough at times at higher difficulties.

[@Kozi15]

@@Calthos-tv this is great, I just plan on farming on T1 simulacrum for the flasks.👌

[@Kozi15]

@@Calthos-tv just additional question, do the skill lvl and quality of Plasma blast and Galvanic matter? Should I max it at lvl20? Thanks.

[@templarclips9235]

Does echo give any benefit on conductivity? Is the debuff doubled?

[@newtype83]

Great video. How do you deal with being stunned or frozen?

[@Calthos-tv]

I usually use a charm to avoid getting frozen for map clearing. It doesn't happen often anyway, so that is enough. Getting stunned doesn't really have an impact, as it rarely happens and just interrupts for such a short time, that it doesn't matter. That's at least my experience so far. If you want to invest 2 Passive points into it, though, you could allocate "Natural Immunity" which can help a ton.

[@ClearlyVague1]

@@Calthos-tvhow much dps should I look for when purchasing the crossbows? Or does it just need to be +6 projectile skills? Would like 500 phys dps on crossbows be enough to 1 shot bosses endgame?

[@Calthos-tv]

@ClearlyVague1 Most important 3 stats on crossbow are 6/7 proj skills, 4.4%+ crit chance, 100%+ elemental damage. The rest is just a bonus, as you get most flat damage from howa anyway.

[@newtype83]

@@Calthos-tv My crossbow has a critical hit chance of 4.19% and 4.23%. Will this make the game difficult to play?

[@JonCareyMath]

Hey there! I love this build's ability to 1-shot but I'm having trouble making it happen for pinnacle bosses. The big difference is that I have a lvl 27 Plasma Blast and I'm using the Gemling passives to double up on support gems. My Plasma tooltip DPS is 568k and with Elemental Conflux active it goes up to 800-900k. I tried to do T4 Xesh and my first plasma barely even tickled him lol. Any idea why that might be?

[@cgc7032]

The problem may be that your budget was around 50 divines and his - around 500)

[@JonCareyMath]

@@cgc7032 Yup, that about sums it up lol. It'd be nice to know what stat numbers we need to shoot for to make this actually perform similarly to how they've got it. I might go back and do a bunch of pausing and comparing :)

[@templarclips9235]

Question to gemling folks. If i am playing ssf only is there any point doing fresh gemling or it should come as 2nd char once i got at least gloves?

[@xenio8736]

Can it work with witchunter ? With decimating strike / culling it can already do 23% of bosses HP on average. Though I don't know how effects such as "when full life" work with decimating strike. Also how much attributes / + lvl / xbow dps should I aim for before trying out this build ? I have like 520 int, 375 dex, 130 str and a 550dps xbow but no +lvl

[@hadifirmansyah9709]

maybe. nope, decimating strike cant works with "when full life" passive because "decimating strike" triggered first before any hit that trigger "when full life" passive. edited : maybe im wrong, "Decimating Strike" trigger on "Full Life" also but the question is it stack with other passive ?! hard to tell

[@Countiblader_PoE-mj7yl]

Well i will try that :D

[@Gairisa]

I just don't understand how you got so many points in passive skills (I don't have that many at level 103) even though I collected almost 95% of the build (I just don't have enough stones and points to make everything like yours

[@impatxent]

is there any chance you could upload a path of building guide? i wanna see the jewels

[@Calthos-tv]

3:22 I show all my jewels that I'm running. Didn't use PoB a lot yet. Hope this answers your question, though.

[@impatxent]

​​@@Calthos-tvlmao i watched this high af and thought you didnt show the jewels. thank you!

[@newtype83]

What did you choose for Venom?

[@JB-nk8kf]

By the way FearlessDumb0 has a video showing how %Elemental damage is better the %phys damage, obviously your build is different but still using lightning im assuming it could be similar if you haven't already tried out the %ele damage

[@Calthos-tv]

If you refer to runes, yes I found out the same a few weeks ago. It makes perfect sense, because as stacking stats with howa, you will get additional lightning damage and not physical. Therefore the only Phys damage you scale with % Phys, is from your crossbow. Most damage, though, comes from howa, leading to more damage from %elemental damage than % physical. Only thing that I'm not sure of is if %phys is scaling with all flat Phys damage or just the weapon it is socketed in. As %ele seems to scale with all flat ele damage.

[@JB-nk8kf]

@@Calthos-tv sorry should of explained it a bit more, %phy and %ele on the crossbow not runes or Howa, % Increased Elemental damage will give you more of a damage increase then % Physical damage if you open the tool tip plasma does has way more Lightning damage so %ele damage should be higher prio?

[@miguelayati7706]

what about explosive shot for clearing? seems a bit more smooth. single target is perfect gg

[@Calthos-tv]

For sure usable. Comes down to preference, I'd say.

[@felipehagaren9616]

Hi, that build is too good to be true, i'm still trying to one shot the bosses, but already on the path, just saying for second skill (clear) i'm using storm wave with shattering palm, that clear all the scren with just too buttons, you can use just storm wave with ambush and with 1k int can clear 2 screens w/o problem!

[@cruzgallegos5071]

Can something similar be done without using uniques?

[@Kathylnz]

sry can i ask something. what different between primary (red line) and secondary (green line) weapon and passive skill ?

[@Calthos-tv]

Weapon 1: Plasma blast weapon. Maxing damage in 1 hit & against enemies on full life. No atk speed needed Weapon 2: Galv/Shockburst weapon. More atk speed for better DPS & reload speed on galv.

[@Kathylnz]

@@Calthos-tv What soul core in armor ??

[@Kathylnz]

@@Calthos-tv this build can fight all content ? (at t16 bad map and t4 simulacrum ?)

[@hadifirmansyah9709]

my witch hunter build is critical proton cannon like this too but no expensive equipment yet. Why you not using supercritical gem ( +100% critDmg cmiiiw), is it bad ?

[@Calthos-tv]

It would be good, if it wouldn't punish you with 20% reduced Crit Chance. It's simply a 0.8 multiplier to your overall Critical Hit Chance. Lowering my Crit Chance from 46,5% to 37,25%. Not recommended.

[@hadifirmansyah9709]

@Calthos-tv i see i tot not a big deal lol, new player first timer to poe here

[@ClearlyVague1]

How much dps do I need on the crossbows to reliably 1 shot bosses

[@icaromsantana]

Do we only manage to get 100% crit chance on first hit if we have a +5% cc xbow? I'm currently running one pretty much as good as yours but it doesn't have the +5% cc

[@Calthos-tv]

Yes, as the 5% CC is added to the Base Value of Calculations. So every % increase CC will give double the amount than w/o 5% CC. Example: Crossbow with 5% CC: 10% CC Base + 100% increased CC = 20% CC Total Crossbow without 5% CC: 5% CC Base + 100% increased CC = 10% CC Total Hope this helps.

[@icaromsantana]

@@Calthos-tv I've been running the build for a while now and I'm getting some inconsistencies, do you know how I could reduce them? My tooltip crit chance on plasma blast is now 77%, even if the "more critical chance" only works on the base crit chance instead of the total crit chance, I should be getting about 104% crit chance on my first hit on any boss but so far, t5 Arbiter is pretty much a 50/50 situation, I either one shot him or hit for around 6 mi... Any idea of how I can solve this bottleneck? Feels like this is only happening with Arbiter of Ash honestly, would be nice if I could confirm if the more crit chance works on the base or total, this way I could reduce my current crit chance to 50% and focus on adding more dmg (Currently my tooltip gets to 5.5 mi when using conflux)

[@Calthos-tv]

@icaromsantana Hey there! You should actually just need around 50%-55% Tool tip Crit Chance, as the "100% more to full hp enemies" from Ambush is not taken into account there. "More" is a multiplier for everything. While "increase" is just a multiplier for your base. So, if you have 10% base, +300% increase , + 100% more.. your total would be 80%. Regarding the 50/50 issue.. I do face that in 10% of cases, too. Even though I most often still do 60%+ of his HP. Lightning damage is sadly a bad roulette thing. Sometimes you roll a 700k base , sometimes a 7mil base hit. Only thing to fix this is just better jewels and more intelligence, honestly. So it happens more rarely. Drop some Crit Chance and get more damage I'd say. Cheers.

[@icaromsantana]

@@Calthos-tv Ty for answering o/ dropped a sub and followed you at twitch, hopefully I'll be able to catch you streaming any time soon

[@sdsu6]

my elemental conflux always hits fire and cold conflux....sometimes 3 fire/cold in a row....feelsbadman

[@toxxiix]

insane build bro i think i got too much lightning dmg i never proc herald of ice :(

[@franciscoolmosdonderis7922]

How important is physical damage on bow?

[@Calthos-tv]

@@franciscoolmosdonderis7922 it's a good damage boost, but %elemental damage, + proj skills & crit chance are more important. Phys probably comes after that.

[@franciscoolmosdonderis7922]

@@Calthos-tv Thnx! I have around 80-100divs to do the build, it will work good on t15 breach with delirium?

[@T.F.92]

Can you update the Maxroll Planner guide?

[@Calthos-tv]

Sure! What do you think is missing?

[@T.F.92]

@@Calthos-tv The skill tree you show in the video is diffrent to the one on maxroll or am i wrong? thanks!

[@Calthos-tv]

@@T.F.92 If you maximize the passive tree window, you will find a drop-down menu with 3 passive skill trees. "MINMAX" is my current setup. To help people build towards the final build, I did include a "midgame "& a "non-crit/pillar" passive skill tree. Hope this helps. :)

[@T.F.92]

@@Calthos-tv ohhhhh i did not see that, my bad, thanks mate! good guide !

[@RinFutakashi]

Why no lightning node that makes your non crit lightning "lucky" ?

[@rasmussylvestersen3852]

it is not really that good only 30% more dps if you have no crit at all, if you have a lot of crit it i probably only a 10% more dps bonus, and you have to travel like 5 nodes to it it isi s is hsit ggo on pob my god jesus what is this quetion

[@RinFutakashi]

@rasmussylvestersen3852 sorry for giving you a seizures xD I just usually ran it with tempest flurry lightning build so I was wondering if it was good since I remember ppl saying to me it's good if you can't reach 100% crit chance so I didn't know my bad my guy 😅

[@mrVAMPAIRs]

hi, i have 1.3m dps on plasma blast without conflux (3.3m average hit , main hand crit chance 47.7, crit multi 469%) and 2.3m with (5.8m avg hit), but i hit damaged xesht 4 for about 20-30% hp (without conflux, it's not proc lightning on boss sadly) and shockburst also deal 0 damage , why damage is so low, what i'm doing wrong? (i'm trying to send link for my gear and jewels, but yt delete my comment if i post link, idn why)

[@Calthos-tv]

Hey there! Sorry to hear, that you're struggling. It seems your base damage is a little low. Crit Chance & Damage are fine. Average Damage per Use of my Plasma Blast is 7.5mil w/o Conflux and 13mil with Conflux. Shockburst only deal damage, as long as the Enemie is shocked. Have in mind, that you can have some low hits here and there, as lightning damage has a huge range that can be rolled. That's why it's important to have a lot more than maybe needed on a good hit, to one shot bosses constantly. I'd recommend stacking more Intelligence for HOWA. Also, if you wait for the right Conflux to come up before approaching Xesht, you can ensure the Boost from that, too. Just wait at the entrance of the room until the outer circle starts to blink blue. Hope this helps!

[@mrVAMPAIRs]

​@@Calthos-tv thanks from answer , i have 820 int, maybe my crossbow is not that good or jewels ( /poe2/pob/8s4350y2 my maxroll )

[@Calthos-tv]

@@mrVAMPAIRs Swap that Choir of the Storm Amulet for something useful. You don't stack Spell damage, therefore it's damage is so little that it's not noticeable. Rather get a amulet with +3 proj skills + int/attr. Allocate Pure Power into it.

[@mrVAMPAIRs]

@@Calthos-tv choir for faster proc shock on boss without granade , i have amulet with +3 proj but damage changes with it or without unsugnficant

[@Calthos-tv]

@@mrVAMPAIRs I highly doubt that. If I unequip my amulet, shown at 2:56, my DPS drops from 3 mil to 1.6 mil. In any case, I would recommend allocating Pure Power into your amulet.

[@movetothemarch]

This build how many Div Bro?

[@edge4192]

Really not sure whats going on, built well, have about 10+ div into the build and still have only one shot one boss. Most bosses I hit for like 20-40% hp, conduit on the ground +3 plasma gem, ingenuity belt, howa 850 intelligence. Not sure whats going on. My Crossbow for bosses is Dyad Crossbow Loads an additional bolt +3 rune slots with 3 iron runes (60% increased phys dmg) 71% increased Physical Damage Adds 20 to 38 Physical Damage 139% Increased elemental Damage with attacks +6 to all projectile skills 13 to strength 17 to dex Any thoughts?

[@Calthos-tv]

@@edge4192 What's your critical hit chance & crit bonus damage? Swap runes for elemental damage soul cores. But I'd advice getting a crossbow with at least +4.5% crit chance. Most damage multiplier is coming from crits. Big base int & howa is important for a lot of Base damage. But you also have to multiply this by a lot. I'm carrying 12 emeralds with 14%+ crit chance, 17%+ crit bonus damage, plus 1-2 more damage modifier each. I made sure to get to 46,5% crit chance in my Skill Info. So that I get to 100% crit chance against full life enemies. Some numbers to compare: I'm currently sitting on 5,3 million plasma blast tool tip DPS during conflux. Average damage per use: 13~ million Critical Damage Bonus: 465%

[@edge4192]

@@Calthos-tv Critical hit chance is 17.46% Crit damage is +410% (plus the 100% against full life enemies.) during conflux my plasma blast is 849,000 Appreciate the help and the quick reply man, means a lot. Here's a sub and a follow!

[@Calthos-tv]

@@edge4192 thank you! Can't leave someone hanging that's trying to replicate what I shared. :) So, really, my advice would be get a crossbow with 4.4%+ crit chance. (You could divine it to 5% then later on if you want to) That will get you to around 25-30% crit chance, as it is your base multiplier. If you already use the passive skill tree that I use, get some jewels with % crit chance. It's important to get to that 46% mark, to ensure a crit. Otherwise the 400% crit damage doesn't do shit. ;) Don't forget the amulet with +3 projectile skills, if you didn't get that already! Good luck!

[@edge4192]

@@Calthos-tv excellent, you're the best. I'll hit some upgrades and follow up in the next week or so. Thanks again. Still phys and flat phys on the bow or shoot for more elemental dmg?

[@redcooler4804]

you only have 1 life from CI, and 234 total ES. how are you not getting 1 shot constantly?

[@Poetahtoh]

He's using Mind Over Matter so his mana pool (4831) becomes an extra life pool.

[@seanbaerwald1282]

Can youbdo this with infernalist?

[@coussiraty]

this is work with witch hunter?

[@RinFutakashi]

So how much crit do we have supposely? I feel like im short q.q

[@Calthos-tv]

@@RinFutakashi 46%-47% Crit Chance would be sweet spot. Crit dmg around 400%-500%

[@jertvaonlines]

How much this build?) Minimal price?)

[@JB-nk8kf]

the one against the darkness jewel is minimum 35div from what i've seen, but without that the build you can do quiet cheaply, but mapping might be a bit of a struggle if you've just finished cruel

[@eduardfriesen4321]

would this build work with a budget version?

[@Calthos-tv]

I played this build from the start of PoE2 until now. So, I'd say so. Start with a good Crossbow and follow my Gear Progression Advice. Use the Passive Skill Tree "Leveling/Midgame" from my maxroll planner. Feel free to tweak it, if you find something else interesting. :)

[@eduardfriesen4321]

@@Calthos-tv thx. iam lvl 70 now. what gear should i use?

[@Immelstorn699]

at this point just use pillar of the caged god and one shot full screens w/o any effort with staff skills. Its faster, it oneshots bosses the same, and u dont need to mess up with 3 different attack skills that have no synergy

[@leatherDarkhorse]

Haha yeah i did the same staff so much faster than crossbow in clearing

[@Tapakitchan]

this build i wanna know how much dy

[@MrSurecom]

What version of the game when you record the video?

[@Calthos-tv]

@@MrSurecom Patch 0.1.1, so the current version of the game.

[@MrSurecom]

@ wellllllllllll, it is a bit more than 35kk one shot due to changes of Arbitr :)

[@Calthos-tv]

@@MrSurecom The HP of Arbiter are still the same. He only receives reduced damage during the first few seconds of the fight. That's why I wait until he fully spawned and starts attacking before shooting him.

[@MrSurecom]

@ gotcha, interesting how you clean breach like content :) where tons of mobs

[@salihkizildag]

another howa, ingenuity, morior build very interesting indeed

[@chrisortiz432]

And gemling😅

[@grimmdawn2519]

The only mana flask its 45div XDDDDD

[@PutriKecilAyah666]

You can play anything with gemling 😂

[@laidt0rest]

howa, move along

[@lemonhead2205]

Isn't it like 2 divs only

[@Calthos-tv]

@@lemonhead2205 yes, with the corruption it's a bit more. People are just fed up of Attribute stacking builds featuring howa. Which I do can understand, as build variety seems to die.

[@kenzou84]

THANK YOU!

[@implosesgm]

@@Calthos-tv unfortunatelly thats THE only way to scale dmg in attack build, poe 2 mod pool and unique variety doesn't have 1% of what poe 1 has to offer.

[@Calthos-tv]

@@implosesgm Yeah, it's sad. But we have to have in mind that it's still early access and theres more to come! 💪 As a side note, I do think this build is viable without howa, just not oneshotting everything with 1 plasma blast hit.

[@dekodekomo3072]

its have howa, ingenuity, astramentis, morior unvictus, herald, ice / thunder, and i dont even watch the video 😮‍💨

[@truth_hearts_1940]

another howa bait

[@harveyhernandez6619]

And itll be nerfd soon

[@redcooler4804]

Howa. YEP Ingenuity. YEP Stat Stacker. YEP. Man, GGG how far you have fallen from the glorious build diversity of poe1. Early access, yes we know.

[@redcooler4804]

That being said, this looks super cool. love plasma blast as a skill and this is a build version I've been looking for. might give it a roll myself

[@sdsu6]

Does it work with witch hunter aswell?

[@zyjen1338]

not as well but it should. Decimating strike might make up for the loss of lightning damage since u cant stack nowhere near enough mana