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0.4 Amazon Lightning Arrow/Rod Tank

Huntress

Amazon

Verified

End Game

0.4 TLotD

By Onemanaleft

Updated on Dec 17, 2025

Dec 17, 2025

Build Overview

While this will play virtually identical to all other bow builds, a key difference with amazon is the ascendancy point Stalking Panther which can let amazon double up on evasion rating while still using a pure ES body armour for ES scaling. This results in a character with much higher evasion rating than any other ascendancy (exceeding 60k in end game) while still being able to reach 4k+ ES to use Ghost Dance in order to be virtually invincible. the setup became even stronger in patch 0.3 thanks to the addition of the deflection mechanic, which causes you to take less damage from hits based on a conversion from your evasion rating. All of this means your evasion scales you 3x defensively that are multiplicative with each other. Ghost Dance has been changed in 0.4 to recover approximately 28% less ES however in 0.3 even with 4k+ ES my ghost shroud was recovering over my entire ES pool. Many players in 0.3 found deflection and evasion both underwhelming with the new formula because frankly with "regular" amounts of around 20k having only 65% evade and maybe 45% deflection the combination isn't that good, but a higher amounts from Stalking Panther the defensive triple dip really starts to work.

the following are update videos from 0.3

my initial progress video on about a 1 divine budget

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD4Xn-ipPkQ

Then my 1 week update is around 70d budget

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFuihRzn24w

Finally my latest update is 350-400d budget

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGUHt11qpfA

Strengths and Weaknesses

This setup is one of the absolute tankiest setups in the entire game. in 0.3 I was able to afk simulacrum on the highest difficult and tank all 8 uber arbiter meteors. despite this level of tankiness it still blasts maps with full offscreen aoe in 60-90 seconds. at one point i made it 12 days without dying while deliberately trying to kill my character the entire time

in 0.4 Rhoa was changed to 100 spirit which essentially drops the temporal chains blasphemy setup out of the build, however I wasn't using this setup for 95% of the league anyways. Lightning rod has lower single target in 0.4 but bosses still die basically instantly since the average damage of rod wasnt touched. you are limited to only 1 Countess Seske's Rune of Archery as well but there is a wheel on the tree for surpassing chance of extra projectile, and frankyl 4 proj was already overkill

Build Variants

Before an end game quiver can be obtained the build gets the advantage of using much chearper bows with a tier1 accuracy roll alongside the ascendancy node Penetrate in order to get a bow on par with a 400-500 dps bow for quite cheap. Using accuracy runes also works with this ascendancy points.

Critical Strike in the end game gives good base crit to Widowhail if you can manage to use the newer crafting recources added in 0.3 such as abyss desecration and reworked essence in order to make a top tier quiver.

In the end game setup you can get virutally all of your %increased damage from a quiver setup by combination of Widowhail and the essence bow damage, then projectile speed which also gets multiplied gets double scaling from Projectile Acceleration III and the talent point Feathered Fletching which can produce over 600% increased damage from 1 quiver. this setup allows you to essentially ignore all %increased damage scaling on the tree to opt into more defense, speed, or things which give MORE damage such as crit chance, crit multi, lucky damage, shock effect etc

Equipment

Set 1

Set 2

Equipment Priority

+10

deflection is a good suffix on gear but just the amount you can take on tree is enough to a good base amount

For the end game chest I grab the Feathered Raiment base and then try to get the abyssal suffix for an additional 20% damage taken from mana before life, which gets me 30% of damage taken from mana before life which is a huge tankiness boost against damage over time that can bypass your healing from Ghost Dance

I have a quiver video. this has changed to not have omen of homogenization in point 3 however which makes this more difficult. essentially now you would fracture T1 lightning damage then chaos into proj speed on an 82 quiver base, next you can essence for 50% bow damage and your prefixes are done. next you can desecrate a suffix to use as a blocker mod for life/mana on kill (unless you desecrate into a good mod) then try to perfect double slam suffixes. it is fine to settle on combinations of the top 3 tiers of crit, attack speed, crit multi, or +2 gem levels. you can then omen of light the remaining mod you want with abyssal echos. this is expensive and will cost 20-30+ div but result in a quiver good enough to swap widowhail. dont feel rushed to do this and dont swap too early, the build will play just fine with an accuracy gemeni bow and Penetrate all they way through the full end game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3X0ejq_wpo

Skill Gems

Support Gem Requirements:

Str 30

Dex 50

Int 40

Expand all

Wind Dancer

Tornado

Barrage

Ghost Dance

Rhoa Mount

Lightning Arrow

Lightning Rod

Blasphemy

Gem Priority

+18

you will most likely not be able to achieve enough spirit to run blasphemy temporal chains without a crazy Against the Darkness combination so otherwise that can be ignored.

Rakiata's Flow can be ran in lightning arrow most of the time and then you can manually swap it to lightning rod for a really big boss fight like a citadel or pinnacle boss. you usually wont have to swap for a non empowered map boss

for the Widowhail version you add Projectile Acceleration III into the gem links shown at the bottom. I use Rakiata's Flow in lightning arrow for clearspeed and swap it with a Stoicism II thats in the lightning rod links also at the bottom if im about to fight a really juiced boss such as a citadel or pinnacle

Brutus' Brain has been patched to not work with

i would consider a Herald of Thundera good option for clear speed if you have extra spirit on your aumlet otherwise it does not fit by default

add Precision II (or 1 depending on spirit) wherever needed, but its cheaper on the rhoa since the added on spirit inherits the rhoa points for res efficiency

there is a very powerful Controlled Metamorphosis with a large ring on the top gem socket to pick up Spaghettification Kite Runner Chakra of Thought and Harmonic Generator with even Finesse and Conservative Casting being good floater points

Mana sustain can be hard, especially with a quiver suffix for +proj gems or attack speed. in 0.3 there were 2 ways to fix this and while Walker of the Wilds has changed from a keystone to a lineage gem these are still the 2 fixes. you can get 1 roll of phys leech on rings, or gloves, and use this lineage gem to solve mana spend. the alternative is to get 1 jewel, either a sapphire or Heart of the Well with 2% mana gain on kill. the combination of this 2% on kill roll and mana flask for bosses (which should still die faily fast anyways) should cover your mana sustain. I never actually ran Walker of the Wilds in 0.3 but you can start to point travel points into intelligence for more mana pool once you start getting some damage taken from mana before life on Feathered Raiment and pick up The Winter Owl for extra evasion stacking. having a 1200 mana pool was plenty for this even with level 34 gems. Considered Casting from using the large Controlled Metamorphosis can also help with mana sustain if this isnt quite enough but you dont want to give up a support to run the new lineage gem

Passive Tree

main:

123

set 1:

set 2:

The top of the tree is what youll ignore at lower levels, i reccomend not going for the top area until you can afford a large controlled metamorphasis for spaghetti + kite runner + chakra + general electric + for the jugular

The Tree has been updated to the version for widowhail and crit. See the initial video PoB for the lower level version

How it Plays

it plays like any poe 2 bow character except can be much more agressive and carefree about positioning or mechanics. feel free to dive into the middle of packs once youre geared up