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[0.4] Bigdaddy 🔫 Witchhunter Xbow - The #1 Xbow Build

Verified

Starter

End Game

Speed Leveling

0.4 TLotD

Mercenary

Witchhunter

By BigDaddy Gaming

Updated on Feb 5, 2026

Feb 5, 2026

Build Overview

Still updating a few things on this so no video guide yet!

The Best 🩷Witchhunter🩷 Xbow build from 0.1 is back for 0.4!

💖Be sure to add to favorites! it takes a lot of time making these! 💖

🧠About the Build

This build is all about using the "bolt" XBow skills. (Shockburst Rounds and Galvanic Shards)
Having a machine gun/ Shotgun in Poe is just Insanely FUN!

When I play xbow I don't think of it as the Highest damage/Best clear build tbh. We play Xbow because it is FUN. :) That being said it can pump out some serious DPS numbers! (over 22 MILLION DPS on the Giga ver)

Why Witchhunter? well the changes to Sorcery Ward have really made WH POP off! with enough evasion you will be almost immortal to hit damage! Overall WH has insane defense scaling and decent DMG/Clear options.

💡Tips

Make sure you setup you xbow to be used in both weapon sets! (just right Right click the "lock to all weapon sets button.)
make sure your Galvanic Shards and Shockburst Rounds are on the correct weapon tree! (check in the gem/passive tree sections!)
In most of these setups im setting Shockburst Rounds up to be the highest damage skill but you can also make your Galvanic Shards do more damge by swaping these 2 gems around (Rakiata's Flow and Garukhan's Resolve for Elemental Armament II and Lightning Penetration)

📈Leveling

I only have a twink leveling setup atm, you can find it under the "Twink Leveling" variant.

Strengths and Weaknesses

Explosions
Good Clear/Boss DPS
Almost immortal to hit damage

DOTS are the main thing that will kill you
hard to fit rarity

Build Variants

High

Giga

Live PoB

Twink Leveling

💎High Budget Setup💎

Main PoB: https://pobb.in/yhoojtkfQv8W

Under 1 Mirror Budget

Equipment

High

Giga

Live PoB

Twink Leveling

Set 1

Set 2

Equipment Priority

Gear/Jewels info

Rite of Passage if you can afford one, i used the stag ver.
Prism of Belief use +3 Shockburst or +3 Galvanic

Spirit Requirements

Spirit Sources: 100 Campaign, 65 from amulet, at least 26 (16 if you drop Precision I) from another source (helm corruption etc)

Setup 1: 191 Spirit Total (you can drop Precision I for a 181 total if short)

Cast on Critical (91) -- Weapon Set 2 only
Blink (60)
Herald of Thunder (30)
Ghost Dance (30)
Wind Dancer (30) + Precision I (10)
Time of Need (30) > can swap this with Herald of Ice

Would like to note that you can also just manally cast Thunderstorm if you dont mind pressing an extra button ;) that will really cut down spirit costs as you can then remove Cast on Critical

Skill Gems

High

Giga

Live PoB

Twink Leveling

Support Gem Requirements:

Str 65

Dex 70

Int 45

Expand all

Shockburst Rounds

Set 2

Galvanic Shards

Set 1

Cast on Critical

Level 14

•

Set 2

Sorcery Ward

Level 20

Emergency Reload

Level 21

Herald of Thunder

Set 1

Wind Dancer

Level 19

Blink

Level 18

Ghost Dance

Level 19

•

Set 1

Time of Need

Level 18

•

Set 1

Gem Priority

+37

Passive Tree

High

Giga

Live PoB

Twink Leveling

main:

123

set 1:

set 2:

How it Plays

Mapping
Spam Galvanic Shards

Bossing
if you are NOT using the Cast on Critical setup for Thunderstorm then cast it on top of the boss. first
use Shockburst Rounds with Emergency Reload to burst em down.

How it Works

Galvanic Shards has good clear with lots of coverage coming from chains and forks. We also have explode for more clear!

Shockburst Rounds has insane single target but requires the target to be shocked. We apply consistent shocks with Thunderstorm and the Shock Conduction II support.