Cold Molten Blast | Deadeye | ALL CONTENT

This build is soooo much fun and can do all the content in the game! This is as close to a one button build as you can get.

Why Deadeye?

• This build excels with lots of attack speed and additional projectiles. Deadeye gives us both of these things with Gathering Winds & Endless Munitions.
• Other ascendancies would also work but I felf like deadeye is the best option.

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Starting Out

Full levelling guide for gear and trees below.

While Molten Blast is our final ability, we want to level with bow skills. It feels smooth and is incredibly easy to make it through the acts. We switch over to Molten Blast when you can afford to buy Brutus' Lead Sprinkler. I recommend switching when you finish the acts around level 60. You also want to have taken Endless Munitions before making the switch.

We start with Lightning Arrow & Lightning Rod for bosses. We use these skills until level 31 when we can switch to Ice Shot & Snipe. We also add Freezing Mark once we swap to Ice Shot. Use Ice-Tipped Arrows when available!

If you need more assistance while leveling, Fubgun has a very in-depth guide to get you through the acts. My build is similar while leveling. Return to this guide when ready to switch to maces around level 60.

https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/builds/ice-shot-deadeye-leveling-guide

MODS TO LOOK FOR WHILE LEVELING BOWS

• Flat damage
• Attack Speed
• Elemental Damage
• Attack Damage
• Mana on Kill
• Mana Regeneneration
• Life on Kill
• Evasion
• Life

Switching to Maces/Molten Blast (~Level 60)

Use Brutus' Lead Sprinkler as well as a Rare Mace with Strength, Attack Speed, and FLAT elemental damages. We want to dual-wield so we get the extra projectiles. Using a shield instead of dual-wield maces causes us to lose 2 projectiles and feels bad.

We convert fire damage to lightning using Valako's Vice Gloves until we convert Fire to Cold using Twisted Empyrean and Giant's Blood

Get as much STRENGTH AND MANA as possible. Our damage scales from both of these mods!!

MODS TO LOOK FOR WHILE LEVELING BOWS

• STRENGTH
• MANA (Scales Cold Damage when you switch to Twisted Empyrean
• Dexterity
• Intelligence
• Flat damage
• Attack Speed
• Elemental Damage
• Attack Damage
• Mana on Kill
• Mana Regeneration
• Life on Kill
• Evasion/Armor
• Life
• Deflect

Ideally, we go pure evasion. But to roll STRENGTH on items we need to use hybrid Evasion/Armor gear. so we try to get as high of rolls as possible on gear to get as much evasion as possible.

Strength is our most important attribute, but we still need as much Dexterity and Intelligence as possible. Take almost all strength nodes in the tree

Uniques

Brutus' Lead Sprinkler (Essential)

Astramentis (Lots of attributes)

Twisted Empyrean (Converts Fire damage to Cold)

Hand of Wisdom and Action (Attack Speed & Lightning Damage)

From Nothing (Chaos Inoculation)

• • Take Thin Ice > Heavy Frost > Pure Chaos

Annoints

Beef if you want more strength and haven't pathed there yet

Agile Succession (Cheap, offence and defense

Essence of the Mountain (More Cold Damage)

Tenfold Attacks (Strength and Attack Speed)

Ascendancy Order

Projectile Proximity Specialisation > Point Blank

Endless Munitions

Gathering Winds

Called Shots

Attributes

This build takes advantage of all 3 attributes and the benefits that come along with them:

• STRENGTH
• • Flat Fire damage for every 25 strength
  • LIFE (Benefits are halved after we take Giant's Blood)
  • Chance to proc Molten Shower every 25 Strength
• DEXTERITY
• • Provides a lot of accuracy
  • Accuracy scales our attack speed w/ Hand of Wisdom and Action
• INTELLIGENCE
• • Provides MANA
  • Mana scales with Twisted Empyrean to give us added flat cold damage
  • No mana issues when spamming abilities

Jewel Mods

Sapphire and Emerald are best bet:

YOU NEED ONE "2% Mana on Kill" Jewel

OTHER MODS TO LOOK FOR

• Attack Speed
• Cold Penetration
• Elemental Damage
• Freeze Buildup
• % Strength
• Attack Damage

Heart of the Well is nice if you can find good mods

From Nothing is explained above in the UNIQUE section

NEED MORE CLEAR?

You can remove Wind Dancer and replace with Blasphemy + Repulsion setup from the END GAME tab as early as you feel you need to. I added it when I got to higher tier maps and had good freeze buildup. Freeze buildup helps since we lose a bit of defenses.