Gas Grenade Shield Swap Witch Hunter Build Guide – For Late Endgame Bossing & Maps
This is the culmination of nearly 200 hours played on my Gas Grenade WH. I’ve finally got the build to a place where I can clear all endgame content, including juiced maps and max level Pinnacle Bosses. This build utilized an interesting animation cancel tech with ‘raise shield’ to allow you take advantage of 48 additional passive skill points from the ‘Weapon Master’ ascendancy talent.
https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/profile/121bd4bb-be1e-413d-9624-ee19159a5689/builds/062927d1-128c-445b-9333-33ff052d59b1
0:00-1:17 – Introduction
1:17-4:55 – Animation Cancel Tech
4:55-9:54 – Skills and Gems
9:54-11:44 – Stats and Gearing
11:44-13:25 – Passive Tree
13:25-16:52 – Weapon Master Explained
16:52-21:50 – Breach Map
21:50-24:30 – Bossing
24:30-25:39 – Disclaimer & Closing Thoughts
A bug currently exists right now that occurs when you are holding ‘raise shield’ and blink at the same time. You can become trapped in the ‘raise shield’ state which slows your movement speed. This can be avoided by releasing ‘raise shield’ before using blink.
Also you cannot currently hold shield block and use a loaded crossbow skill (such as explosive shot). Again, you will need to release block before using the ability or you will become stuck in the block animation. This is not an issue with grenade based skills.
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Wwtf.. XD this build is insane! i'm gonna try immediatly, I have a question, I still need to do 4th ascendency, what is better to do with ascendancy skill points?
Rad. I’m going to try this tonight.
Hey dude idk if you’re still playing this build but if you stick the frost breath slim mace in with the shield swap, you’ll freeze the enemies when the grenades explode and it triggers HoI too.
I love this build
I've copied every single thing here. I still feel very weak though. If I blink in the middle of a pack I can get headshot easy.
I still need to play more but essentially you throw a grenade+shield swap every single time?
Or do you throw a series of grenades then do the shield swap for the regen?
I don't feel the tankiness though, I'm at 2.6k/4k ES for Weap 1/2 respectively.
how do u blink and swap weapon thx
Thank you! Really awesome video. I was tinkering around also, artillery ballista and voltaic grenade etc. never worked really well.
If armor isn't fixed in the next few weeks I will unfortunately have to swap to ES build like this
I mean
This was the best witchhunter setup i ever see man keep it up
Can I switch into this at level 81 but gemling legionnaire? Great setup and technology by the way!
Gas grenade need to revert the nerf now this build is so bad for damaging the pinnacle bosses
Awesome build dude where you got that armour chest or it's a skin ?
Do Radiant Grief and Decimating Strike have anti synergy? Always ignite vs requiring enemy to be full life. I am curious
I think you would get more value for 2 ascendancy points elsewhere. You really don't need extra 20 swap points. I just pop 1 gas and 1 flash grande and the pack is gone. On a 500 dps crossbow. I use swap to shield for shield charge, but I need to think about shield raise. My flash granades stun everything so rarely I need that defensive layer.
What will make this feel even better is getting weapon swap speed on the gems and moving over to an explosive shot so you don’t need to wait for the damage. Really like the tech with shield swap, I hadn’t thought about using block as the active button to get in and out of the second weapon set smoothly.
Accuracy actually changes the damage number for grenades in the skill sheet. No idea why! but it does.
Survivability is nice but you deal no dmg.
very boring gameplay
this is so real, my map are move that way now, the es basically solve way too many problem like 1 shot. but i just run with explosive shot.
Wouldnt fire Infusion provides an additional 25% dmg in gas grenade, instead of your flexspot?
Interesting variant on gas grenadier build.
this is great – i was already thinking of enrolling new class bc of lack of mobility – the blink/jump dash combo looks amazing!!
insane build bro