Crossbow Warrior Is RIDICULOUS In Path of Exile 2

[@sera3718]

the only issue about this build is that I play this game in a dark room and everytime I kill a pack I got flashbang on my screen.

[@bigdogang]

Lmfao fr those flash bangs are wild at 3am

[@wtfronsson]

Windows Night Light setting does help. You use it a couple hrs before going to sleep, and your sleep quality will be better too.

[@kedern]

how does this work exactly? im new to poe

[@wtfronsson]

@@kedern My first tip is don't look at older guides like this. Can't say if there's anything wrong with this specifically, but it's generally possible a patch changed whatever juicy interaction the build was geared for.

[@Kerath]

If we moan for the Giant's Blood to work on Crossbows long enough, you think GGG will eventually let us use them with shields?

[@feketeee]

Or dual wielding two crossbows. Or two bows.

[@evaluator8906]

​@@feketeeeYeah two bows with what, pulling the strings with our mouth as animations? Lmfao

[@vaztard4813]

​@@evaluator8906 with giants blood we should be strong enough to throw bows like boomerangs at the enemies.

[@fast1nakus]

​@@evaluator8906as if there is anything realistic about the current crossbow

[@Murasame]

@@evaluator8906 Yeah but also there's magic so they don't have to use irl logic.

[@Fandelgore]

How to fix melee classes? Equip a crossbow lol

[@bigdogang]

Lmao fr

[@ThanhLai5]

Or play minions LOL

[@drayvnx]

If you can give us a guide via Mobylitics or even Maxroll as their planners are great. I would defo follow this and see how you came about it too, there's not alot of variation with the Warrior class so i think this will be a great addition for others to see

[@jacobflohre4531]

i would def like to see all the skills and full tree

[@fenrirunchained6398]

was literally hoping for this

[@Valkaneer]

Not so much of a guide, but more so gems, skills, and what he leveled as. He feels uncomfortable writing a guide, but a more skeleton version is more than enough.

[@StruthGaming]

maxroll.gg/poe2/planner/m610ll01

[@drayvnx]

@@StruthGaming Awesome, thank you for doing this for us, if you have been playing still please keep us up to date!

[@leoncca]

You know, crossbow plays like an isometric shooter so close enough for the channel haha

[@reicoringa96]

You can put increased chill chance on the herald and equip the unique ring that allow you to explode chilled ememys to allow infinite explosions with herald.

[@tylerphillips4902]

What’s the support gem called for it?

[@kedern]

name of unique

[@Miensoludziec]

@@kedern name is Polcirkeln

[@Devin_Laugherin]

Negative armor break is very underestimated (if it works, there was investigations on how it might not actually do "below zero" thing rn). I was so intrigued on this concept i've made my first character all about it. But i also was Very excited to play crossbow. So i took bones of Wooile guide and mixed it wigh generic good crossbow progression. And it surprisingly works pretty well. No uniques needed. Got 3rd Ascendancy first try before maps. My solution to constant freeze-clear is generic Frag rounds+Glacial bolt. Frag rounds do insane pure phys on frozen targets. And GB does great cc since: 1) physically blocks mobs and projectiles (nice defence); 2) for some reasone mobs do aggro on walls, so you always can distract mobs with wall and break it for BIG pop. HoA+HoI+AB explosions+Frozen explosions all stack with each other for BIG CLEAR (without uniques!). HoG (orbitral strike) is giga strong on broken armor with nice thick bleed on top. Can mix it up with Sunder when it on cd. Its so fun to run around with shotgun, its kinda feels like playing Doomslayer.

[@action-science]

can you share ur build

[@Sanja_Malam]

Please share ur build

[@RexZShadow]

I mean if you need freeze you can just do what every explosive shot build already does. Three dragon make your explosive shot shock and make your herald of thunder freeze.

[@Devin_Laugherin]

@@RexZShadow yeah, but i play ssf, so i always plan my builds without specific uniques. And having pure phys aoe on shatter nearly comparable with slams in terms of damage but without terribly slow animation is making greater use of negative armor break. And in general shotgunning is fun. It's would be too many buttons to play in poe1, but in poe 2 it makes sense.

[@snipel3756]

can you share the build on maxroll or mobalytics pls?

[@StruthGaming]

maxroll.gg/poe2/planner/m610ll01

[@Archalithron]

I also figured out that you can combine a warrior and crossbows, but it was hard to do, because I focused on turrets, but I just needed to upgrade shots.

[@Toadalitarian]

I feel like giant bowd and crossbow(ballistas) would be fun, super large and slow range weapon, but makes hou stationary when you shoot

[@kelvinsbowties]

Do you have a leveling guide for this for anyone who wants to try it from the beginning? Would love to try it !

[@AnotherComputer]

I was following Woolie's armor break warbringer guide and it was alright but as soon as I hit maps, it felt very clunky just running in straight lines with stampede. I switched to this but it semi-works. I don't have the unique gloves, so I can't proc the frost explosions, hence I am not using Herald of Ice. I have Herald of Ash instead and have slotted Scattershot, Armour Breaker and Magnified Effect to the Explosive Shot, I'm only allowed 3 slots right now. So, breaking the armor is not an issue, one or two salvos will do it, it's the rest of the damage that is not coming. I have an Oil Grenade to help me kill groups and occassionally pop Infernal Cry for a boost. Hammer of the Gods is slotted with Exploit Weakness, Lacerate for the bleed and Heft for more damage. It works, but it's not as smooth as I'd like it to be.

[@Exilidus]

Look up carnarius’s molten titan build, it works with woolie’s but you also have to invest in gear too.

[@mrsundaymorning]

You can just buy the glove for cheap bro

[@AnotherComputer]

@@mrsundaymorning I don't like trading, I'm trying to avoid it.

[@kuroh0241]

@@AnotherComputer trading literally exists to get those 1 pieces missing from your build instead of wasting hundred of hours farming them or not being able to try a build at all. Buying a unique that enables a build is no "abusing" trading bro. There is nothing to feel bad about.

[@AnotherComputer]

@@kuroh0241 It's not about abusing anything, I understand the purpose. But I'm not going to base a whole build around a unique, if I don't find it, I'll change the build or play something else. I just don't like interacting with players to trade with them, that's all.

[@Sorain1]

Funny how Crossbow basically brings FPS style gameplay to PoE2. I kind of love it.

[@Benjmensch]

low vibration comment

[@Scorptice]

A genius build in the spirit of PoE.

[@taleofsonata1]

So basically Ancestral spirit spawn when you summon totem, ballista counts as totem. Does that mean you can go crossbow warbringer totem build?

[@RaumBances]

interesting build. This is what I love about POE. There is such variety possible. Thanks for the build guide. I'm finding any standard warrior build to be too squishy in POE2 and have been searching for alternative builds.

[@Evilewokz]

Nice. I wondered about deadweight and warrior crossbows. Being right next to the grenade nodes helps alot

[@Kisimotto]

GGG: "so, do u want to tell me that warriors can fast clean maps??hm..WE will "fix it"

[@KusoTrevor]

Have you tried this with the xbow that allows you to keep shooting after a reload?

[@zhongjie]

Might as well go three dragons and then use herald of thunder and ice so you get giga damage. Same concept as the crossbow ranger with explosive shot pretty much

[@pppp-p1j]

more info plz

[@franzhulk2947]

Doing this with stat stacker gemling. Ash and frost lightning wave. Huge clear

[@tmastodon8174]

This is actually pretty crazy - I have 81 Warrior Titan with Stampede, swapped all my runes around with the gloves and I now deal ice/freeze dmg.. Dont think anyone has done this yet but its fun. Still trying to figure out why not erverything is freezing immediately but this is funt o play around with now. .

[@PhoenixBlacke]

You need to get more cold buildup and Herald of ice

[@jdRamza]

Very nice. Love to see other weapons being used. Hammer of the gods is great addition to any build that can scale it for single target. Perfect strike is also good but im not sure with the conversion to cold will effect it

[@Lutnar]

Did they fix warbringer armour below 0 does it work now ?

[@NOTKNOWNLOGIC]

you should use the unique crossbow that makes reload speed longer but makes it so you can spam stuff without reloading for a bit

[@Thurok]

Your maxroll build is missing what stones you use in ancestral and totem, can you update plz?

[@kira555007]

Please update build for totem crossbow

[@creepadept]

im confused on how armour breaking or negative armour breaking helps since you do convert all your damage from phys to cold!!

[@kedern]

how about a break down on the tree early to late game and show the full tree

[@MooseMeus]

this looks fun. got kind of tired of using perfect strike/ corpse explosion on my warbringer

[@antihero615]

This is cool! Do the totem ascendancies help this build?

[@LastAphelion]

A more elegant solution for freezing you say... 😏Maybe you should try a bow/xbow stormweaver next with all damage contributes to shock (for the damage buff) and chill nodes, then use a Polcirkeln ring so all chilled enemies count as frozen to shatter, which makes herald of ice recursive with itself, as its own explosion will chill everything around it, and with enough damage shatter those enemies and so on. After hearing how bad melee was and then seeing the armor break builds my first thought was also.. what if I find a better way to do it with bow/xbow? And then it got patched before I finished leveling and Ill revisit the warbringer later. Cause next thought was why make a deadeye when I could make a titan and see how many stupid nodes I could stack for damage or aoe or ailment magnitude with hulking form? And they're doing alright but then I thought.. why not just make a bow sorc and use stormweavers passives to keep double shock and chill applied to everything? Somehow the bow sorc ended up being stronger on the way to 60 than the bow titan I don't know why. It's just a couple ele damage, pen, and shock magnitude clusters vs titan with ~600% damage, 330% lucky low hit damage, and over 150% aoe at just level 60 🤣 The bow sorc is even better because of how much chill, freeze, and the boosted perma shock debuff I keep on everything its ended up being as much a party debuff build as it has a good dps. All bosses and monsters end up feezing immediately and do all their attacks in ultra slow motion, its so good for team mates who suck at dodging (like me perhaps). And me when I can't see what to dodge when they're spamming the floor with too many effects lol. I just saw there are full on zdps builds for parties too so I may experiment more with that later.

[@miklaz1199]

Does Armor break mechanics contributes to more elemental damage? I thought Armor only mitigate physical damage.

[@muller-h1b]

@Palsteron did something similar with a unique helmet that makes the herald auras trigger of each other

[@Murasame]

What's the best crossbow to use for this?

[@idn]

I wonder how well cast on freeze comet would help if you scale cold DMG at all.

[@Zeldakostv]

i cannot wait for Templar to be released so i can play out my Holy Werewolf Hunter fantasy with the Crossbow

[@gustavomesquita3693]

Crossbow is a weapon do fun to play, but the fact we need to recharge every time, and change the ammunition every single skill is SO ANNOYING, i couldn't with it since i take the second ammunition

[@coltshanks457]

Hey the maxroll just shows gloves and the weapon would love to see a more indepth video / explanation please

[@ThanhLai5]

I love to try out all of the Ascendancy (except Chayula Monk) and you build idea may encourage me to try out Warbringer for the first time. Thanks

[@Fr6P]

Just ended the campaign with this build, i still see no point of Glacial shot and Fragmentation Rounds 🤔

[@wolfofodin-gaming7268]

A leveling guide to get where your at would be cool

[@SomberEthics]

Finally a good build to be released on youtube.

[@Wahapendium]

Does warbringer's ability to break armor with all damage override the payoff tag of skills like High Velocity?

[@joshtenney4143]

From what I've seen any skill that naturally or supported to consume broken armor doesn't apply any armor break.

[@miGz325]

Can you go titan instead and use the same build?

[@ChibatZ]

nope, you need the 10% armour break with any dmg from warbringer

[@InfectiousDucky]

This is a great build, would you mind if i swiped it and made somw tweaks?

[@alwaysgaming3698]

Aimtrains even in ARPG!

[@StruthGaming]

They added WASD movement, so the least I could do is throw in some crossbow flick shots.

[@RamenxXxNoodles]

does it work with titan or

[@unbeatable617]

you need armour explosion for good clear. It's much easier to get that from warbringer

[@Valkaneer]

As usual, GGG can't seem to make any melee skill not make another ranged skill scale harder...... I don't know how many times this has been said on the PoE forums.

[@MamboMaske]

Iam new to the game, but can this build work with mercenary too or similar ?

[@Kisimotto]

Hey! what crossbow do u have? like cold% and phys% dmg? or just phys?

[@paintwhisperer]

I’ve been wanting to continue playing my warrior and I think this will be the build to get the dust off him thanks for sharing it 🫶🏽

[@McLiipee]

Do you use evasion, armor or energy shield?

[@aqueelagames]

Hey man. Im just wondering what your sensitivity is. Can you show it to your viewers what sensitivity you are using in Roblox Arsenal?

[@Dr.omar_Chaudhry]

I did Go the same way but it gets slow and lack damage at higher tier maps above 12

[@LedeTech]

This looks like a top-down version of Helldivers. Rocket launchers and calling down artillery strikes.

[@petterkarlsson3138]

Check out helldivers 1 😅😁

[@mayflower72]

any update on this build?

[@bradjenkins2861]

my problem with this build is reload speed. Im level 45 does it get better?

[@krispe2512]

There are nodes reload speed. Search reload in passive tree and they will pulse so you can see them

[@BubasparksAB]

Issue with this one is that you will need to invest in int and dex, sacrificing strength, so you will lose a bunch of hp...and all you do is compensating one support gem. Idea is cool, but how it will do on juiced maps or big bosses survivability wise that's the question. I think gemling would do better for this one. Or maybe multiple balistas would be more safe way to play.

[@swegmeister1114]

does this build still work?

[@corbtv]

A more elegant solution is polcirkeln with added cold on the gear lmao

[@Freddie_Pasta]

I think this build looks interesting, but I have a quick question though. Might be a silly question, but having Exploit Weakness on Herald of Ice. Is it really worth it? I mean, With your shots you will already explode because of the; Shatter Armour, then if they survive, the build-up of cold must be enough to trigger which then freezes an enemy before it dies so that Herald of Ice procs. Is it more of a "fail safe" if someone doesn't die from the initial explosion, or could you put exploit weakness on something else instead? (Hammer of the Gods for example.) Also. Would Herald of Ash work with the Gloves? And could that be more effective?

[@timthom148]

It totally works.

[@eight216]

Alright im mad now.... I had a xbow warrior cooked up and this puts it to shame. I was running around throwing out poison nades and using armour piercing rounds like a chump when i could've been breaking entire screens with explosive shot

[@renkiryu6764]

can u do this with titan ascendancy?

[@ipinreplay]

i really want to try this build, but my gear disagre wimme

[@bogdanlicarete9486]

very cool idea man, never would have thought of that

[@danphoenix6569]

Lord I NEED the breakdown

[@FlameForgedSoul]

First thing We did after the Miller was equip a crossbow; Warrior speed and damage issues _solved._ We were a bit heartbroken at not being able to use Giant's Blood to dual wield crossbows.

[@autisonm]

Dual wielding crossbows would have been OP but badass.

[@Sorain1]

Honestly, Crossbow and Shield would be an amazing look and style.

[@preslim84]

cool build, probably wont be viable end game because of how armour works right now, its bad unless you're using a shield and all warrior builds require shields to survive. I wonder if theres a witchhunter variant to this with sorcery ward and the unique flame cloak that converts 40% phys to fire dmg. not sure if just the one support gem is enough to break armour with explosive shot, but the poison cloud one does it well.

[@callmeconvay7977]

Poison armour break is too slow to proc the armour break explosions since it's a DoT and won't scale with # of projectiles. Splinter also requires physical damage, so you either have to be a Warbringer for the generic damage type armour break or convert very little (if any at all) of your damage from phys to something else.

[@Pittboss4127]

This actually looks really fun.

[@agustmarusson3166]

Yes please put down your build, I would like to try it out. Merry X-mas btw ;)

[@StruthGaming]

maxroll.gg/poe2/planner/m610ll01

[@exoaable]

is it t17 viable?

[@барченкоша]

can you show your character equipmentt and support gems?

[@CayossAda]

Can this work with Titan or is warbringer locked in?

[@krispe2512]

Warbringer based on armor breaking ascendancy

[@4l3xm4r]

and... tier 15? work?

[@justinmorris7631]

great stuff, would really appreciate a more detailed breakdown video!

[@Lavi3250]

Where is the build ?

[@StruthGaming]

maxroll.gg/poe2/planner/m610ll01

[@PhoenixBlacke]

Me- Man, I hate maces, maybe I'll delete this guy. My merc sucks, but I want to do crossbow.. Your video- These gloves transfers fire to ice. Wait what! Literally bought them in 5 minutes and switching back to warrior. We just been playing him wrong!

[@LilBiggy10]

@StruthGaming pls show us ur mobalytics. i need see everything

[@zellfrainbow]

Man, i was thinking sth like this..ty

[@dogank8080]

Main Skill Explosive Shot with: Amor Explosion, Scattershot, Demolisher, Supercritical

[@bigdogang]

Build link plz

[@StruthGaming]

maxroll.gg/poe2/planner/m610ll01

[@bigdogang]

@ Thz a lot!!!

[@czairkolmoslink5952]

How do you trade for the item? I don’t know how you trade

[@krispe2512]

Look up videos about trade website

[@AndrewR.Ludlow]

Why not do herald of ice AND Herald of Ash?

[@runslinganOG]

Looks great thank you

[@RexZShadow]

Also given all the stun build up you have seem pity not to take Perfect Opportunity where you get lucky hit against heavy stunned enemies. Also run xbow with additional bolt so explosive shit has 2 bolt then auto reload support where you reload on heavy stun. You basically never have to reload while mobbing.

[@RileyZoid]

any updates?

[@GamingRemo]

Melee would be fixed if you could move while swinging... Like EVERY OTHER THIRD PERSON WASD "SHOOTER".

[@ms6425]

Can you tell all support gems ?

[@StruthGaming]

maxroll.gg/poe2/planner/m610ll01

[@StruthGaming]

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[@pppp-dm4cj]

I don't need an Anime mouse pad I need this build

[@blackflytr]

my thumb was nb 1000 :) up. looks amazing, could this work with my titan?

[@baconoverlord7982]

AoE scaling is massively broken for Warrior... meaning it's "fun" and GGG can't stand that for long.

[@nicoollilainen9362]

And here i am thinking my grenadier merc is strong lmao.

[@highmanbong]

Love this idea

[@seshedup]

OMG YES ur a genius earned my sub

[@leoncca]

BTW, what do you think about aiming in PoE2? It's close enough to a shooter, but my problem is that it has a very slight auto-aim where if you hover over any enemy it will roughly target their center of mass. When using a shotgun crossbow skill or any aoe skill, I wanna be able to shoot at an exact point, and that has been bothering me. Otherwise, I think aiming well does help playing PoE2 more than it would seem at first.

[@StruthGaming]

The auto-aim is pretty annoying tbh. With explosive shot it's not a big deal, but for a lot of my leveling I was using High Velocity Rounds and they'd often fly off in some random direction.

[@carstenh3924]

Try a Controller. It feels like a twinstick shooter.

[@leoncca]

@@carstenh3924 Oh, I respect the choice, but an isometric aRPG I really gotta play on mouse. They're made with mouse in mind first, generally. But yeah, I remember those older twin stick shooters, brings back memories.

[@implosesgm]

This shit is annoying af, and having no way to "disable" it tilts me so hard...

[@autisonm]

If you're playing WASD movement then you have an aim assist on. Click to move doesnt have that aim assist.

[@youret6187]

why there are armor explosion and demolisher the first one says "cannot break armor" and another "breaks 40% more armor" btw you still playing this?

[@alqamedian1773]

armour break come from Warbinger's passive Anvil Weight, so the explosion still can be triggered

[@carstenh3924]

I play a xbow lightning titan. Love it!

[@adbrz09]

Builds looks fun and solid. Looking for mobalitycs link

[@StruthGaming]

maxroll.gg/poe2/planner/m610ll01

[@RexZShadow]

hmm interesting, was feeling kinda stuck on my deadeye explosive shit so why try warbringer one XD

[@volv]

Why do you feel stuck? I’m in the process of making one. Should I do something else?

[@RexZShadow]

@volv it's not the character but more the state of the game currently. I reached t14 map and still have no real problems. Just I been using same gear since I reached maps. And with the super inflated market getting any upgrade just feels so painful.

[@fixinghitman93]

can’t wait to change my build to this just in time for it to be nerfed and brick another character

[@seshedup]

LMFAOOOOOOO im in the same boat

[@redbloodreaver4935]

RANGED BONK