Hybrid Witch Hunter Mercenary build viable?

Man sometimes you just gotta take the plunge. Its a game and build crafting is part of it. Its not wasting time lol I cant tell you how many builds ive tired to make and didnt work but thats the beauty of a game like this. Finding a good build is part of the fun and part of the grind. Try it and see. When templar comes out ive got an idea already depending on where his tree his.

Mercenary Sorc felt like a worse version of crossbow. I had much more fun with screen wide Spearfield and a lot of corpse (bleed) explosions. I ended up using crossbow for utility only. Oil grenades with maim and blind are bonkers this patch. They increased base slow from 20% to 40%.

The main gripe with spells in Merc area is that it's just not a lot of damage unless you have good staff. Once you do have it I'd imagine it will be good enough to play but why Merc? Crossbow has built in elemental combos between skills so there is no point in trying to fit in Sorcery.

Depends what you more concretely want from it. Generally the issue is that spells and skills don't scale damage from the same modifiers, so if you expect to use some non-special attacks and spells together half of them probably don't do much.

If you find a synergy and spec on it, though, sure, it can work. If you find the right one, it can work absurdly well for absurdly easy, even.

One problem is you’ll have to raise all three attributes to use both your crossbows/sorcery and hybrid armor.

I initially wanted to combine Frost Bomb, Vines, and Thunderstorm with bow skills. But I could just achieve the same results with just using 2-3 weapon skills instead.

I remember crosbow skill that does more damage when target is frozen, and flame wall applies fire damage to any projectile that passes through it. But it's not very effective. I wouldn't try to combine spells and crosbow, i would just make a spellcaster WH (without ward unfortunately)

why don't you try it and tell us?

https://poe2db.tw/us/Crown_of_Eyes could be of value grabbing spell dmg off passive tree affects attack. can even do cast on spells off attacks idk.

Cast/attack hybrid should be workable Id assume just path northwest to druid section. and use lots a weapon set points.

DEX/STR Crossbow.

INT or STR/INT for spells. the ''druid'' spells tend to be long duration fire and forget then you weapon swap.

playing Ice/Lightning wyvern/wolf/caster at the moment.

(gonna do wolf/crossbow later)

Making a build is just as fun, if not more fun, than actually playing it lol. I usually try one or two builds a league and take them as far as possible, until next league with something crazier.

Also, hybrid is in a very rough spot ngl.