Other than the reload on dodge roll and shards scavenger what are ways I can get past the reload on crossbows
Edit: Hoping theres something I can get before level 65 as im making a new character
Pohx explains how to set up your crossbow skills for smooth auto reloading in the beginning parts of this video.
https://youtu.be/8g3OLgAGNcs
I'm using armor pericing rounds as my main skill and it has 19 per magazine so reloads don't bother me
I played ice shot with a bow and used this crossbow as secondary weapon for bosses. Maybe an alternative?!
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Hi semi crossbow enjoyer here. Starting from level 1 until around act 3, you can use the rampart raptor crossbow. It has a mechanic that makes the crossbow have infinite ammo after reloading. You still reload but way way less than normal. When this weapon gets weak, you can transition into last lament. It was broken last season, not sure how much it could work right now. You use hp to get ammo and not really reload. Not sure how much you can sustain it now, but supposedly with enough leech and or maybe atziris acuity(i think?) you could sustain the hp cost. If you don't want to try last lament you and/or you need something else before you transition to this, you could use permafrost bolts and fragmentation rounds setup on different weapon sets. You would also need shard scavenger. Shard scavenger is a spirit gem wherein when you cause an immobilization, in this case freeze with permafrost bolts, consume it then with fragmentation rounds, you will have a duration of unlimited ammo. The downside for this is it's on a cooldown, but not exaclty a cooldown. The length of the buff and the 'cooldown' are tied both tied to skill effect duration(iirc) and you would have to choose whether you want more procs of the unlimited ammo, or longer durations of the proc of unli ammo.
You could load 2 crossbows for 1. and 2. weapon set. You can reuse one xbow in both weapon sets. You choose the ammo skill for weapon set 1 or 2 and it reloads only this. But you need both shooting skills in bar to shoot with first and second weapon set. This way you have at least 2 different ammo skills active without switching. It will automatically reload if the ammo is empty. You can reduce reload time in passive skill tree, so it feels less clunky.
grenades
get reduced Xbow reload time on at least 3 jewels on your passive tree and its almost instant. There are also xbow support gems that reduce reload time
shards scavenger
Shards scavanger combo'd with the Thunderstorm setup gives you infinite ammo on cooldown.
This build ran into problems for me on mana and defences that I don't have the currency to fix, but the concept is solid.
There's another liege gem, if you kill with the supported skill you get free reload of all your crossbow skills. Can be fine (except against bosses obviously), assuming you have enough DPS.
Ballista totems! You don't even use your Xbow! Never have to reload!
I got bored at this stage in the league and decided to spend many of my hard earned divines on a small project. Wouldn't it be funny to stack Energy shield for a min-level char? [https://poe.ninja/poe2/pob/1a027](https://poe.ninja/poe2/pob/1a027) Tabula rasa has relevant jewel mods noted on it in POB so the math actually works out since it doesn't seem to work properly in POB. second screenshot is with a lvl 29 discipline aura with 36% increased aura magnitude - I didn't wanna spend another several thousand divines on a support character, I just wanted to see how well it would work theoretically >3000 ES without aurabot is possible, however, its basically impossible in practice. As of now, there are \*18\* 2 socket uncorrupted crown of thorns left on trade - on average it takes \~11 to hit a 30% and then another 1 in 3 to get a 3 socket one. Hitting a double corrupt on said 3 socket would be better then my current one, but that's not plausible sadly. Same for the boots. Hitting a better double corrupt on the gloves and focus would likely be plausible, but I couldn't buy more bases from Finn. Grip of Kulemak 59% ES \*should\* be possible, but it already took me over 40 attempts to hit 57% so I think I'll just leave it as is. Belt I didn't find any other way besides the 25% corrupt to get ES without a level requirement - if anyone has any idea tell me. Amulet could sanctify for 19/19 but again, would require silly amounts of currency (each try is \~30 div as is with annoint + sanctify + quality). I \*think\* patient barrier should be best annoint, but correct me if I'm wrong. Total investment into this character so far is about 3000 divines, probably a bit more. further thoughts \- maximum technically possible is 3112 ES at level 2 unless I'm missing something important. POB [https://poe.ninja/poe2/pob/1a02a](https://poe.ninja/poe2/pob/1a02a) \- doubting this but: is it possible to get an ascendency at this low level by skipping straight to geonor with a helper? In which case it might be possible that xp penalties kicking it would allow me to ascend at lvl 2? This would allow +20% +20% (ascendency) +60% (jewel) ES, which would get me to 3218 ES (actual build) / 3732 ES (max technically possible) Did I miss anything?
I made an elemental crossbow varashta sorc this season as my starting build (goal was to exploit yoke of suffering's full potential, you can find poe ninja below, don't be fooled by the dmg tooltip, it kill ubers before they can move) and so since I was in the intel side of the tree I used my weapon swap to maximize exposure (with whispering ice) and curse magnitude. Here with some non-optimized gear I'm reaching a total of -338% res (that's -169% on bosses), meaning it's better than rakiata's. I use cursed ground support to apply the curse and icestorm (which comes with the staff) with prolonged duration and potent exposure to make the exposure last longer. This tech doesn't require much investment apart from your weapon swap and a few sockets at most so it can be plugged into many elemental builds. As it is now, it requires you to cast the spells with your weapon swap, so I use it mostly for bosses, but i might cast icestorm on bulky rares in juiced maps once in a while. If you have a skill dedicated for mapping, it'll propably better to use rakiata on it, and remove it or use another skill for bosses. Here's the poeninja: [https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/McZaatar-0907/character/Dendjala](https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/McZaatar-0907/character/Dendjala) I might make a build showcase if people are interested, it's a fun league starter build. With yoke and the electrocution node on the tree, enemies have 120% damage taken, more if they're cursed, on top of the giant res drop, plus you benefit from a lot of the "damage against enemies with ailments nodes" so that's why the tooltip is low (explosive grenades indicate 60k in game but they hit bosses for like 2M) at first I was playing with permafrost bolt with frost nexus + navira's fracture + fragmentation rounds, it was a fun combo and really strong for leveling but I couldn't scale navira's fracture damage in late game (I had command + minion nodes on my second weapon instead of the curse/exposure at the time) Hope this inspires some of you!
The Oracle Death Star is fully operational- only took 30 days of playtime. GGGs https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/L0L-breh-1628/character/ShapesofWrath