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PoE 2 Build

0.4 ICY SHOT Deadeye Leveling

Ranger

Deadeye

Creator

0.4 TLotD

By Medieval Marty

Updated on Dec 9, 2025

Dec 9, 2025

Build Overview

Deadeye is one of the fastest and most powerful ascendancies in 0.3, and ice abilities had not only a huge buff, but some new abilities, making it both incredibly powerful and fun this league.
By combining Ice Shot with Ice-Tipped Arrows we have insane amounts of damage. Throw in the super powered Freezing Salvo, this build destroys everything in the campaign.

Strengths and Weaknesses

S Tier Ascendancy This League
FASTEST Movement Speed
HUGE damage
FREEZE makes leveling a joke

Squishy

Build Variants

Early (Act 1)

Early (Act 2-3)

Final Leveling Build

Endgame build

This is for the early game before we unlock our main abilities. We will combine a mix of Lightning and Ice until we get the main ice abilities

Equipment

Early (Act 1)

Early (Act 2-3)

Final Leveling Build

Endgame build

Set 1

Set 2

Equipment Priority

Focus on items that give you more damage as a priority:
Bow, quiver, gloves, rings.

And look for the following:

Added cold damage
Added pyhiscal damage
levels to projectile skills

Skill Gems

Early (Act 1)

Early (Act 2-3)

Final Leveling Build

Endgame build

Support Gem Requirements:

Str 20

Dex 15

Int 20

Expand all

Lightning Arrow

Lightning Rod

Herald of Thunder

Freezing Salvo

Ice-Tipped Arrows

Frost Bomb

Gem Priority

Passive Tree

Early (Act 1)

Early (Act 2-3)

Final Leveling Build

Endgame build

main:

123

set 1:

set 2:

How it Plays

This is a deadeye icy shot leveling build. Due to not unlocking Ice Shot shot until we have a level 9 skill gem. We start out with lightning and ice, and slowly move over to more and more ice damage we unlock the new and better abilities.

How it Works

We open up with Freezing Salvo for massive AoE damage. Then we pop Ice-Tipped Arrows and pump enemies with Ice Shot. This create a ton of AoE and single target damage that freezes everything. If you have a frozen elite enemy, pop snip for insane amounts of single target damage.

We also have Frost Bomb - this gives us a lot of damage while leveling and applies Cold Exposure.

Herald of Ice gives us tons of AoE ice damage everytime we shatter an enemy, and we use Freezing Salvo on cooldown as it wrecks everything this league.