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[0.4] Ice Shot Final Form by Ignatius

0.3 TTE
End Game
Verified
presentationHuntress
presentationAmazon
Updated on Dec 11, 2025
Dec 11, 2025

Build Overview

0.4 Update

IMO the strongest leaguestart would be to campaign/early map with Hollow Palm Technique on Amazon (I have a guide and build for this), then swap over to Ice Shot when you get the Spirit for Rhoa Mount and a decent bow.

The Rhoa increase spirit cost is not a problem for this archetype, as we only need Wind Dancer and Herald of Ice. Additional spirit can be invested in things like Ghost Dance, or you could run The Coming Calamity until you get the giga-spirit gear that this would need to get everything online.

Also IMO this will still be the strongest hands-down bow build. We even have buffs to Ice Shot and Snipe.

We have an absolute freaking guru on this build in discord. @hodor in Discord in our Ice Shot channel, and you can't go wrong. GLGL

Final Form Update

The build is finalized and features 140-240 Movement Speed, 150 Rarity, Cadiro's Gambit for insane clear, and off-screen Herald of Ice mapping like never before.

Video for final form here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44rO7RwawO0

INTRODUCTION

This is exclusively an end game build and I will not provide a leveling guide or "budget" option for this build. If you want to level a Huntress/Amazon, please see my comprehensive Hollow Palm guide, MOST of the items from the HPT build can be ported to this build. Here is a link to my HPT guide: https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/builds/0-3-league-start-the-hollowed-one-detailed-league-start-guide-to-endgame-ignatius

This build is WILDLY potent, and is easily a contender for the strongest mapping build of the 0.3 season. As usual, Ice Shot is completely overlooked, and with the crit-cap on Amazon combined with Herald of Ice, this build wrecks even the most difficult maps with EASE. This is not "the vision", this is truly the lazy-man's farming build.

There is also a tech in the build for deleting Pinnacle Bosses in one-shot via FREEZE mechanics on Freezing Salvo and Ice Shot, then consuming the freeze with GIGA-DPS via Barrage and Snipe. The single target on this combo is around 50 million damage when shot-gunned properly.

HOWEVER, all this fanciness is not really needed. You can just run up to Xesht and use Ice Shot and Tornado Shot and kill him in about 7-10 arrows. lmao.

HOW IT PLAYS

This is the lazy-man's clear-everything build. Enjoy it for what it is. You run around and shoot mana-free Bow Shot to casually clear while proccing Ice Bite and Innervate. When there are big mobs, you swap to Ice Shot, with Nova Projectiles this takes care of almost everything. Occasionally you have a very dense mob or stronger rares, and in this case you drop a Tornado Shot and fire an Ice Shot in the Tornado, to amplify your projectiles / DPS.

Note that a 6-link Herald of Ice is actually doing most of the ancillary clearing work. Keep an eye out on your Cold Attunement support gems to make sure they are actually increasing DPS. And, if you have % Damage as something other than cold on your items, you can use Embitter to convert this to cold.

You also need 60 extra spirit in order to run Rhoa Mount alongside Wind Dancer with Precision I, Ghost Dance, and Herald of Ice

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQ)

Is the build expensive, can it be done for cheap?

Yep, it's expensive, we are on bows now. Again, if you want a cheap clearing Amazon, see my HPT guide, which has a 1-Div T15 mapping variant that is incredible.

No, it really can't be done for cheap; bows and quivers that are good are just expensive.

Is ____ class better (i.e. Deadeye)?

Nope. These classes are strong and certainly strong enough to clear everything just fine, but Amazon (along with Gemling) is the exclusive class that offers ceiling-less endgame scaling. Critical Strike and Stalking Panther inherently synergize with the ideal gear pieces and passives to provide damage and defense. And Penetrate gives insane flat Weapon DPS basically for free.

What about ____ item / ____ skill (that I see on other builds)?

There's a lot of fanciness with surrounded and mana techs on bow builds. These are fine, but ultimately they are just unnecessary and consume gear / point slots that we can leverage elsewhere for higher dps and more defense. This is definitely in part because on Amazon you can actually hit 100% chance to critically hit with the right passives, and this opens up a lot of opportunities. ... That's really all there is to it.

TRADE SEARCH LINKS FOR GEAR

These are in the equipment section for the end game build.

I will build searches for the Uber variant after it is finalized.

Strengths and Weaknesses

  • The joy of ice and shatter
  • Lazy-man's one-button clear everything
  • Maximum clear speed / efficiency
  • Incredible single target
  • Actually nothing

Build Variants

This is the giga-expensive finalized form of the build.

You get away with Cadiro's Gambit by investing in Flat on Rings and Gloves (use the tree to support without quiver nodes if needed).

Stacking Shock Magnitude for Lightning Rod for bosses is really OP.

Equipment

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Equipment Priority
+12

Your Constricting Command needs to be 5 or 6 on the Surrounded Affix in order for everything to work.

You need a source of life leech on either Ring or on the Gloves.

The Morior Invictus is now fixed, which can juice rarity and provide some defensive bonuses.

If you don't have Headhunter then Ingenuity is solid.

Skill Gems

Support Gem Requirements:

Str 80

Dex 70

Int 85

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1

Bow Shot

Bow Shot
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Ice Shot

Ice Shot
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Herald of Ice

Herald of Ice
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Tornado Shot

Tornado Shot
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Lightning Arrow

Lightning Arrow
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Lightning Rod

Lightning Rod
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Barrage

Barrage
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8

Ghost Dance

Ghost Dance
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9

Rhoa Mount

Rhoa Mount
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Wind Dancer

Wind Dancer
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Gem Priority
+47

Please note that Barrage linkage is only there to activate the chill immunity for Crystallised Immunities. I do not actually use Barrage in this build anymore.

Use Ice Shot with Herald of Ice for general clear.

Use Lightning Rod and Lightning Arrow for bosses on Weapon Swap 2. Drop Tornado Shot in there one time for giga damage.

Note that Ghost Dance is now gone because we are mostly moving on from ES.

Passive Tree

main:
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123
set 1:
20
20
set 2:
20
20

There is a weapon swap for bosses. The only gems that go on swap 2 are Lightning Rod and Lightning Arrow

The "Red" nodes are swap 1. The "Green" nodes are swap 2.

Changelog

First draft published --> 09/18/2025
Interim Update for Final Form --> 09/02/2025

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