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PoE 2 Build

[0.4] Lightning Crossbow Pathfinder

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Starter
End Game
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By ds_lily
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Updated on Dec 13, 2025
Dec 13, 2025

Build Overview

Lightning crossbow is a very solid starter build with a super smooth campaign and mapping experience. This season it'll be run as a pathfinder due to significant pathfinder buffs getting no sprinting stun, more damage / defence, and slight deadeye nerfs. This build also has many powerful builds to pivot to if you feel like lightning crossbow isnt for you. You can easily swap to explosive shot / grenade pathfinder, lightning arrow pf/deadeye, poisonburst pf, and more

Venom Draught: stun threshold + chaos resistance

tattoos: resistance

pillar: movement speed


!!!!!!!READ THE NOTES BELOW EACH SECTION!!!!!!

Strengths and Weaknesses

  • Good clear
  • Good damage
  • Great leveling
  • Can't be knocked down while sprinting after 2nd lab
  • Solid all rounder
  • Grenade leveling can be clunky if skill issue, but you can also go lightning arrow / rod

Build Variants

The build starts off by leveling as grenades as it is by far the smoothest starter. You can still use Lightning Arrow / Lightning Rod as most of the nerfs were for later in the game

Equipment

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Equipment Priority
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Gear priorities

Crossbow: Flat lightning > Flat Phys + % phys > Flat cold > really any damage mods you can get

Rings: Flat damage / resistances > life

Gloves: Flat damage / resistances

Belt: Res / life

Body: Evasion > res > life

Helmet: Evasion > life > res

Amulet: Res > proj skills > life

Boots: Move speed > res > life

Skill Gems

Support Gem Requirements:

Str 5

Dex 20

Int 5

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Contagion

Contagion
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Explosive Grenade

Explosive Grenade
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Flash Grenade

Flash Grenade
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Frost Bomb

Frost Bomb
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Herald of Ash

Herald of Ash
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Wind Dancer

Wind Dancer
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Gem Priority
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You can choose Herald of Ash or Wind Dancer, preference up to you if you want more clear or defence

If you find a good bow but cant find a good quiver you can continue using Lightning Arrow for clear

Passive Tree

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set 1:
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set 2:
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Table of Contents

1. Build Overview2. Strengths and Weaknesses3. Build Variants4. Equipment5. Skill Gems6. Passive Tree

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