Looking for crossbow build that utilizes full physical crossbow and no crit.

So last league I had fun with my explosive shot zoomzoom giga aoe speed build to push lvl 100, and today I decided to craft a fairly solid phys crossbow, however, looking at poeninja majority of the crossbow builds I'm finding are playing either a mix of phys+elemental dmg xbow and often with crit (BM plasma blast).

Have everything crafted for the build, except for amulet, but I'm in the process of crafting one right now.

Crossbow in question that I want to play around with.

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Poggy__5 months ago4

Galvanic Shards + Shockburst Rounds will be perfect (Witchunter)

You will explode the screen and melt bosses.

Basically you need to shock bosses with Galvanic Shards then you go SR and their life becomes a loading bar.

wondermayo5 months ago3

Permafrost + frag would convert all that phys to cold, more or less.

First-Actuator64055 months ago2

I like my ""bleed/culling/leech" witchhunter mercenary a lot. I don't even have a high end crossbow. I killed easy arbiter with him and xesht t3. In mapping he feels very tanky. here you go: https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/MalvinGorch-2584/character/Bihda_Gorch

saxovtsmike5 months ago1

I play a explosive shot / Oil/explostive/gas grenade spammer. With a bit of fail purchases and testing I found out that gains fire damage or adds fire damage works better on my mostly fire build than pure phys, yet your crossbow has so much phys that it might work again, but waaaay our of my financial options.

With auto reload from heavy stun and that high phys, it should work well as explosive shot spammer, too

Angelbot50005 months ago1

You can play every skill with a physical crossbow, there’s nothing that doesn’t scale with physical damage, even if they convert part of that damage to elemental. Just play whichever skill feels best to you. If there is a specific reason you want to scale phys damage only, I would suggest Siege Cascade if you are Tactician and Gas Grenade if you are anything else (especially Pathfinder, but you can make it work with any class or ascendancy). You can pair Gass Grenade with armour break and do some decent single target damage with High Velocity and Fragmentation Rounds too. Jazzarus made a cool Shaman gas grenade build, you can use it as a blueprint.

_bk__5 months ago1

Played an APR + Cluster Grenade build this league, is really smooth on Gemling

https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/Gedomajin-7998/character/Demas