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0.5 Ice Shot Deadeye Leveling Guide

Ranger

Deadeye

Starter

Speed Leveling

0.5.5 FR

Beginner

Fubgun

Verified

By Fubgun

LIVE

Updated on Sep 12, 2026

Sep 12, 2026

Build Overview

This is my leveling guide for Ice Shot Deadeye, swap to the endgame guide after campaign.

Endgame Guide: https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/builds/ice-shot-deadeye

While this is a Ice Shot leveling guide, you unfortunately don't unlock the skill until lvl 31, so you have to start off with Lightning Arrow and Lightning Rod.

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Follow the leveling filter from here: https://www.pathofexile.com/item-filter/orPBmkto
(Just click follow, go in game and you'll see it in your filter list).

Build Variants

lvl 1-14

lvl 15-23

lvl 24-30

lvl 31-41

lvl 42-59

lvl 60+

Equipment

lvl 1-14

lvl 15-23

lvl 24-30

lvl 31-41

lvl 42-59

lvl 60+

Set 1

Set 2

Equipment Priority

Bow: Your last bow upgrade is going to be at lvl 46 with Artillery Bow. Because this base has such high base phys, you really want a bow with good %phys. It beats out pretty much any other combination of stats. Of course if you cant find one with %phys, just use one with high flat rolls. Also this is not a hard requirement, any bow with high DPS will work well, Artillery Bow is just the best base to craft on at this lvl.

Flask: Remember to constantly upgrade your life/mana flask throughout campaign, you can always buy a new one at the vendor when you meet the lvl requirements for the next tier (lvl 10, 16, 23, 30, 40, 50 and 60).

Quiver: One with +lvls and high amount of flat damage, the base isn't too important.

Boots: Movement speed on boots is also extremely good if you can find them, try to search the vendor every 1-2 lvls. I would never swap out movement speed boots, only replace them with other boots that have movement speed.

Other gear:
Ideally you should stick to evasion or evasion/es hybrid gear, but use whatever looks best at the time.
Helmet/belt/amulet are good slots to acquire attributes (str on belt, dex or int on helmet).

Besides that you're just looking for life/resist on gear, but flat damage is the most important on gloves/rings. High evasion chest is also quite good for defense if you find one.

-Important
Always salvage weapons with quality for whetstones and always salvage items with sockets for artificers orb, this is extremely important for gear upgrades throughout the campaign.

I also personally prefer to vendor all rares for gold to gamble in act 3 or act 4 for better gear.

Skill Gems

lvl 1-14

lvl 15-23

lvl 24-30

lvl 31-41

lvl 42-59

lvl 60+

Support Gem Requirements:

Str 40

Dex 40

Int 40

Ice Shot

Set 1

Snipe

Set 1

Freezing Mark

Set 2

Herald of Ice

Barrage

Set 1

Ice-Tipped Arrows

Set 1

Combat Frenzy

Wind Dancer

Tornado Shot

Set 1

Gem Priority

+24

Lesser Jeweller's orb priority - Snipe -> Ice Shot -> Freezing Mark -> Herald of Ice
Quality Priority - Freezing Mark -> Herald of Ice -> Snipe

If you drop a 2nd Greater Jeweller's orb during campaign, than use it on Ice Shot for Fork. (first one goes to Snipe for more boss damage).

Your first lvl 5 support gem should be Charged Mark for Freezing Mark. This will give you consistent shocks on bosses for even more damage.

Essentially the goal is to freeze the boss, press Barrage into a perfect window Snipe. (if you struggle with Snipe, you can takeout Window of Opportunity I for Hourglass or Elemental Focus, but it's not that bad).

Boss Rotation: use Ice-Tipped Arrows before the boss spawns, cast Freezing Mark, shoot Ice Shot until the boss is frozen, when you freeze cast Barrage into Snipe.

For general clear, I just use Ice-Tipped Arrows, Freezing Mark for the as extra buff and Ice Shot Generally only need Ice-Tipped Arrows for rares or big pack.

Tornado Shot can be used for both clear and extra boss damage, for bosses just place it down on top of the boss before it spawns.

Passive Tree

lvl 1-14

lvl 15-23

lvl 24-30

lvl 31-41

lvl 42-59

lvl 60+

main:

123

set 1:

set 2:

Once you reach lvl 31, you'll want to setup your weapon swap points (you should have 10 after killing the monkey in act 3 in jungle ruins).

It's very simple, you want Freezing Mark on weapon swap 2 and take the mark nodes at the bottom. Every other skill should be weapon swap 1. (click on the skills detail in your skill menu to assigned weapon sets).

Ascendancy order:
Projectile Proximity Specialisation(point blank) -> Endless Munitions -> Gathering Winds

Quest Rewards

Check which quests you’ve completed on your character

Clearfell — Beira of the Rotten Pack

+10% to Cold Resistance

Hunting Grounds — The Crowbell

Grants Two Weapon Set Passive Skill Points

Freythorn — The King in the Mists

+30 to Spirit

Ogham Farmlands — Una's Hut

Grants Two Weapon Set Passive Skill Points

Ogham Manor — Candlemass, the Living Rite

+20 to maximum Life

Keth — Kabala, Constrictor Queen

Grants Two Weapon Set Passive Skill Points

Valley of the Titans — Medallion

30% increased Charm Charges gained

+1 Charm Slot

Deshar — Final Letter

Grants Two Weapon Set Passive Skill Points

The Spires of Deshar — Sisters of Garukhan

+10% to Lightning Resistance

Jungle Ruins — Mighty Silverfist

Grants Two Weapon Set Passive Skill Points

The Venom Crypts — Venom Draught

25% increased Stun Threshold

Jiquani's Machinarium — Blackjaw, the Remnant

+10% to Fire Resistance

The Azak Bog — Ignagduk, the Bog Witch

+30 to Spirit

The Molten Vault — The Molten Vault

Reforging Bench

Aggorat — Blood Sacrifice

Grants Two Weapon Set Passive Skill Points

Journey's End — Captain Hartlin

Two Weapon Set Passive Skill Points

Skill Gem(Lv 13)

Delirium Drop

Whakapanu Island — Great White One

+30% increased Global Armour, Evasion and Energy Shield

Eye of Hinekora — Navali's Rest

5% increased Maximum Mana

Halls of the Dead — Yama The White

Grants Two Weapon Set Passive Skill Points

Halls of the Dead — Tawhoa's Test

+5 to Dexterity

Abandoned Prison — Goddess of Justice

30% increased Life Recovery from Flasks

Halls of the Dead — Tasalio's Test

+5% to Cold Resistance

Halls of the Dead — Ngamahu's Test

+5% to Fire Resistance

Halls of the Dead — Tribal Medicine

+30% increased Global Armour, Evasion and Energy Shield

Wolvenhold — Oswin, the Dread Warden

Grants Two Weapon Set Passive Skill Points

The Khari Crossing — Akthi and Anundr

Two Weapon Set Passive Skill Points

The Khari Crossing — Molten Shrine

5% increased Maximum Life

Qimah — Tabana's Pillar

3% increased Movement Speed

Kriar Village — Lythara, the Wayward Spear

+40 to Spirit

Howling Caves — The Abominable Yeti

Grants Two Weapon Set Passive Skill Points

Comments

CoolShield•11d ago

Why use weapon set 1 and 2, if I am using only one bow?

GrimFlame•15d ago

SO WHEN IT SHOWS ANY ATTRIBUTE WHAT SHOES I BE PUTTING FROM THESE LOWEER LVLS ON THE TREE TO HIGHHER LEVELS

Pharcyde•16d ago

I understand weapon swapping but I dont see a secondary weapon to use on the swap so where is mark benefitting?

RustyShield•17d ago

Herald of ice on both weapon sets? Or just 1

jrock2004•18d ago

I still need to figure out it but when we switch to weapon set passives, I am not sure the best way to do it beyond doing a full tree respec

ShinyKey•18d ago

how you can assign skills to weapon set 2 whan you dont have second weapon?

jrock2004•18d ago

Make sure you have nothing in 2nd weapon slot. You then can right click the "I" above your weapon and it sets the same one to both 1 and 2

WorthyDragon•20d ago

How do I get enough int for pounce or upgrades on frost bomb?

StoneDagger•19d ago

You don't. Drop them both at act 1 or 2

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jrock2004•18d ago

Attributes on gear. Travel nodes, I usually put 1 or 2 with int.

I am Uncut•21d ago

Could someone explain the spirit usage for me.

We‘re using 3 skills that each use 30 spirit but at my current point I have max 60..

Do I need a chest or something with +spirit?

Timote•21d ago

When you get to the interludes the doryani quest line gives you an additional 40 spirit. Until then you can pick up an amulet pretty cheap that has at least +30 spirit on it so you can run all 3 gems.

Later in the end game you might want to try and target an amulet that has +50 spirit or maybe even a little bit more so you can run all the lineage gems, but that will be a bit before you get there. For now, +30 on an amulet would be good until you get to mapping. Once you get the +40 in the interludes, the additional +spirit on your amulet will let you run herald of ice, wind dancer, combat frenzy and mirage archer all at the same time as long as you pick up a good unset ring for the extra gem slot.

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ichaos monk•22d ago

fun build, what does it mean when youre skills are showing pink and green?

Timote•21d ago

The pink skills are set to weapon set 1, and the green skills are set to weapon set 2. Likewise, the passive tree has some routes and nodes in red and others in green. The red ones (attack nodes) use weapon set one and the green ones (defensive nodes) should be set to weapon set two. Double dipping very nicely :D

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fuzzybaztard•22d ago

why does the build show herald of thunder but then it mentions herald of ice in the quality priority list??

RustyFlame•21d ago

You swap over to herald of ice lvl 31 when u get ice shot

Timote•21d ago

If you read through the leveling stages shown on the tabs at the top (and also in the writeup descriptions) you’ll see that you swap out Herald of Thunder for Hrald of Ice as soon as you’re leveled enough to to cut that gem.

Don’t waste quality on Herald of Thunder as you are replacing it very early.