Crafting Guide: Grenade Crossbow

Today's guide will take you through the steps needed to craft an extremely powerful endgame Grenade Crossbow that I am using on my Doomslayer Deadeye Grenade Build

Required Materials

• 24+ Normal Rarity Siege Crossbows (ilvl 79-82)
• 24+ Perfect Orbs of Transmutation
• 24+ Perfect Orbs of Augmentation
• A few Exalted Orbs
• Omen of the Liege
• Omen of Sinistral Necromancy
• Preserved Jawbone
• Perfect Essence of Battle
• Perfect Essence of Haste
• Greater Essence of Abrasion

Step 1: Getting % Phys on a Magic Siege Crossbow

You can either buy a Magic Siege Crossbow with Tier 2+ (155%+ Physical Damage - check for the price before starting as this is often cheaper later into the League) or roll it yourself. Using Perfect Transmute and Perfect Augments, you have a 1 in 25 chance to hit T2 % increased Physical Damage (weight of 50/2255 on prefixes)

If you get unlucky, you can use the Reforging Bench to 3-to-1 your Siege Crossbow bases to try get ones that you can Perfect Aug a Prefix onto to try get T2 % Phys.

You should now have a Magic Siege Crossbow with Tier 2 % increased Physical Damage and any Suffix (use a Perfect Augment on your Crossbow if it only has the % Phys before moving to the next step)

Step 2: Getting the Flat Physical Damage

This next step is easy, just use a Greater Essence of Abrasion to get flat Physical Damage (Tier 3 equivalent)

Step 3: Getting the Grenade Damage Modifier

Pay attention here so you don't make a mistake! In this step, we use Omen of the Liege, Omen of Sinistral Necromancy and a Preserved Jawbone

• Right click BOTH Omens to make sure they are active
• Use the Preserved Jawbone on the Crossbow - this guarantees it will add a Prefix and that Prefix will grant an Amanamu Modifier (the Grenade Modifier is one of these)

• Take it to the Well of Souls and Reveal the modifier

The modifier we want is % increased Grenade Damage/Grenade Duration and is seemingly guaranteed when Revealing an Amanamu Prefix

Step 4: Filling the Suffixes

Before we move on to applying our Perfect Essences, we HAVE TO FILL OUR SUFFIXES!

• Use an Exalted Orb until your Crossbow has THREE Suffixes

POTENTIAL PITFALL!

There is a chance your Exalted Orb hits a low Tier +# to Level of Projectile Gems which will prevent the use of the Essence of Battle that we use in the next step. If this happens, use the Perfect Essence of Haste to try to remove it. If you fail and the Crossbow still has this low Tier of Projectile Gems, you're a bit stuck and might need to restart the craft as all other options cost more than starting from the beginning (for example, using an Omen of Whittling, checking the see if a Chaos Orb with this Omen active would remove it, or using an Omen of Dextral Annulment in an attempt to Annul it). Alternatively, you can go for the "yolo Annul" and attempt to annul off the modifier and hope that it doesn't Annul the modifiers you do want to keep, but even this is quite pricy.

Assuming you don't hit this modifier, you are free to continue.

We will now be using an Essence of Haste and Essence of Battle. These Essences will remove a random modifier before adding their special modifier. These modifiers both happen to be Suffixes, which means that if we have full Suffixes, they will have to remove a Suffix to make space to add their special modifier. The Physical Damage and Grenade Damage modifiers are all Prefixes, so these are safe, so long as our Suffixes are full before we use these Essences

• Use an Perfect Essence of Haste. This will the 20-25% chance to gain Onslaught on Kill (this is cheaper than Essence of Battle, so we use it first)
• Next, use a Perfect Essence of Battle to add +6 to Attack Skills. This has a 1 in 3 chance to remove the Perfect Essence of Haste mod we just added. If this happens, use another Perfect Essence of Haste and hope it doesn't remove the Essence of Battle modifier. Luckily these can only remove Suffixes, so our Prefixes are safe on this step

Once you have both Essence modifiers on the Crossbow, you are done and should have something like this

Thanks to Monsieur for sharing this Crossbow craft with me - it's super great for my Doomslayer Deadeye build