demon
SCREENWIDE Explosions! – Glacial Bolt Witchhunter – Path of Exile 2

Endgame needs some work, but the game is so good I don’t care much!
Build Guide here: https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/profile/182edffb-f0aa-466c-a2ee-362130c9b26f/builds/d9c052fd-cfa3-4038-b420-5da9f53b0df7
Follow me on X
https://x.com/big_ducks
Follow me on Twitch
https://twitch.tv/bigducks
Neversink Loot Filter:
NeverSink's PoE2 Lite-Filter: Highlights all* important items, sounds, map icons, hides nothing
byu/NeverSinkDev inPathOfExile2
TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Intro
01:52 Skills Used
08:38 How to Gear
12:15 Ascendancy
13:43 Passive Tree
15:00 Campaign Bonuses
One day my boots will have movement speed…
I know this question is a month too late but if you see it I have a question about two nodes on the tree.
Shattered Crystal: 60% reduced Ice Crystal Life
Ice Walls: 200% Ice Crystal Life
Ice Crystal Life: Ice Crystals are solid blocks of ice which can be damaged. When destroyed, Ice Crystals will deal Cold damage in an area.
Should I want the Ice crystals to have more life or less life?
I am assuming Glacial Assault wants more ice life to do more damage but if I am using a lesser damaging build then I want less ice life?
I have a unique crossbow that build high freeze should i follow through with using it ps just clearin though act one in manor now tho
can we have a update on this build?
The build only starts at level 41, so it's probably unsuitable for leveling up to that point. But after that it seems to be fun.
Another tuber spreading the false narrative that it's a 15% exp loss on death when it's absolutely a 10% loss. I you're going to make content like this you should have some responsibility to ensure you're stating actual facts. Just saying.
I've got the same build with a couple of iterations. I use a spirit armour/amulet so I can use blink, herald of ice and the aura for curses, which I use both cold exposure and the slow aura. I also go into reduced cool down for blink so I can teleport more often, it's pulled me out of so many sticky situations and helps get past any walls you get stuck on.
I also use unique gloves for decimating strike so i dont need those nodes and spec into corpse explosion, which makes your AOE massive, and unique helm for 100% increase threshold to culling strike
For bossing I actually use scattershot on glacial bolt, it chunks extremely hard
This was the build I was looking for in terms of my merc, thanks to much for making it. A question, how do you feel about the ring polcirkeln? which will make chilled enemies explode.
Hi, can i do this build with Gemling Legionnaire ? thx
I don't know why this got me so hard but I was laughing out loud which is crazy rare as far as YT videos go.
It is fun. A little clunky as 2 buttons play style usually is but I don't mind. The payback of huge AoE is nice enough to counteract that. Only made possible because of the overlapping explosions actually making up for lack of damage. GGG making changes to the skill tree(like less AoE nodes to take) can absolutely demolish this 'payback' but until then, I will continue enjoying this build.
My only compliant is this won't function on a narrow corridor. The skill spawns a single lonely ice crystal when placed on such location or when blocked by a pillar :(. My atlas spammed Crypt on me and I'm really mad lol. Or when the mechanic spawns insane amount of small, fast ads that they all swarm me before any of the walls go up or explode. I keep hailstorm and permafrost around for these two reason but they are less than optimal since all the good support gems went to Glacial.
Anyway, thank you for working this out and sharing with us. I hope more detailed + endgame guide comes out soon 😀
this really changed the game experience for me. guess I'm just low skill ..lol.. whatever, but I've struggled trying to find a class that i can actually play well. once I finally got to glacial bolt (lvl22 – gem 7 iirc) this changed everything. really enjoying this. you are clear, well presented and informative. no hyperbole bs like most "guides". super grateful, thank you!
What are your thoughts on pandemonious amulet for the cold pen?
I'm sure you have a reason, but why no herald of ash? Is it just not strong enough to consider it, or does it conflict somehow? You seem to have enough spirit now that the build isn't using herald of lightning.
I use this build with lightning shards with elemental equilibrium
do support gems like "60% crossbow reload speed" works across all skills when equipped or just one skill that gem is attached to?
they nerfed freeze broooo
how does he trigger the effect of herald of lightning without electricity damage?
how do you get enough intelligence to get herald of ice?
really like how you explained everything from a normal player perspective and being thoughtful to introduce a good loot filter. A big thumbs up! 👍
if you're having trouble bossing, I specced into a bunch of bleed nodes on the tree and they do pretty good boss damage if you give deep cuts support gem to frag rounds
I'm waiting for you to update the build. I've followed you since Poe1 and will continue to follow. Thank you.😅
@BigDucks do you still take shock nodes after herald of thunder nerf if not were do you spend them?
I'd love to hear your thoughts about converting this to use FrostFire
The issue with herald is …. The support gem adds lightning damage🤦🏾♂️ Herald of thunder applies to your attacks. The support adds to herald of thunder… Herald of thunder affects all of your attacks
I have issues hitting ice crystals with fragmentation rounds. In fact this is the combo I wanted to play from the get go but it barely seems to work on me lol
Your health is my birth year…
How about using Scatter Shot in Glacial Bolt? Would it stack in a weird way? Also, do any of the other detonators work to explode the ice walls, like Explosive Shot?
Could you theoretically use the call of brotherhood ring, which converts all lightning damage to cold damage and spec into lightning damage on the tree?
Did you find a solution for better bossing? I made a similar build to this but I enter the boss fight with the pulse snipe charged with triple shot and inevitable crit (100% crit) attached to chunk the boss initially. Then I damage with wall and frag like you do until frozen and quickly use the hail bolts to shoot 21 of those on the boss. Then I use emergency reload to make it 42 bolts on the frozen boss instead. This takes a second to shoot both. Right after I charge the snipe and blast the boss right before or as it defrosts.
It's a cool routine and very satisfying but I wonder if there are better ways than this. Would love to hear anyone's idea.
new player here, sorry if thats a stupid question, but where do you get the 45 int from? cant see it on the gear anywhere and just realized i dont even have the 25 for some of the support gems, only str and dex, thanks for help!
Does this build still work since herald got gutted?
nice to see someone not playing the gas grenade build
excellent guide, d2r player here. Loving merc.
I was playing something similar, but dmg depending on putting up ice wall was annoying in locations with narrow corridors with only one crystal
While this build has been super good to me throughout the campaign, going into maps it's starting to feel clunkier due to irregular spawns of push resistant mobs and annoying rares like those reapers or wolfs that can run around/away from the walls before you can get your frag rounds off.
13:40 Would it work if you go with ranger for this build?
Build got nerfed hard
I have been playing the exact same build. Im very new to path of exile and struggled with it alot. Your support gems really helped alot. I had a hard time exploding the ice with the fragmentation rounds they just did not explode the walls at times