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PoE 2 Build

Rue's Human Rhoa Nova Exploder

0.3 TTE
Verified
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Updated on Nov 20, 2025
Nov 20, 2025

Build Overview

The build at its core its an Explosive Grenade + Explosive Shot build that uses alot of the new stuff in 0.3. It is league startable with low budget and is a great endgame mapper.

Strengths and Weaknesses

  • Full Screen Clear
  • No need to Aim
  • Super fast up to 160+++ MS with really good gear.
  • No slow penalty while shooting , Human Rhoa
  • One shots bosses with gear.
  • No mana management
  • Needs sunglasses for long gaming hours
  • Grenades are clunky

Build Variants

This is the endgame version of the build. I will break down the details of everything below.

Equipment

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Equipment Priority
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Crossbow - You want to get a Siege crossbow with high increased physical (Cruel+) with a magic base and use perfect aug on on the suffix. Then you see greater essence of abrasion to slam flat physical on it. Then we want to use Omen of sinistral necromancy on the item, then use an ancient jawbone. Then unveil the Xbow to try to hit Hyrbrid Increased physical damage, Damage with elemental attack skills, Flat fire damage, Flat lightning damage. Then use greater exalts to fill your suffix. Then use Perfect essence of Haste to get the onslaught mod. The use perfect essence of battle for +6 Because the game cannot give you 4 suffixes it will always remove a suffix so your prefixes are safe in this craft.

Constricting Command is the heart of the build. Surrounded means 5 Enemies when you roll 5 on the helm yt allows you to use all the surrounded nodes on the tree which gives you big damage, attack speed and movement speed. It also allows you to use Defy II but that's currently bugged and the mana mod doesn't work. When this get fixed you will no long have to worry about any mana issues.

Valako's Vice Lets use convert all the fire damage from Explosive Shot and Explosive Grenade into lightning damage to shock enemies.

Body Armour - The new corsair base has 20% reduced penalty for attacking while moving combined with all the tree mods we have 78% reduced giving us the name human rhoa. You want high life high evasion. Resistance.

Rings - You want high life because that is our only pool in this build, evasion, rarity, flat fire, lightning or physical for our prefixes. For the suffixes you want resistance or rarity.

Amulet - Focus on Rarity here, + projectile skills is also good. High life is great, any resistance is good. annoint Devastation.

Boots- 35% MS and high life. Resistance for suffixes. If you are really rich you can use essence of horror on boots and try to corrupt them for 2 sockets and use the Farruls gems for huge movement speed.

Belt- Huge life , Resistance

Jewels - Movement speed, Crossbow damage, crossbow attack speed, attack speed, lightning penetration, shock magnitude, ailment magnitude, lightning damage, elemental damage, projectile damage.

Heart of the well Diamond. Fire as extra, lightning as extra, skill speed, evasion from body armour, movement speed.

Charm - Freeze, stun. Ngamahu's Chosen - Because you use Catalysis 1/3 of all physical hits will be taken as fire and it will proc this for 30 rage for a short duration. Still good damage when it procs.

Life flask - Make sure you get instant recovery.

Skill Gems

Support Gem Requirements:

Str 75

Dex 50

Int 15

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Crossbow Shot

Crossbow Shot
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Crossbow Shot

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Explosive Shot

Explosive Shot
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Herald of Thunder

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Flash Grenade

Flash Grenade
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Explosive Grenade

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Wind Dancer

Wind Dancer
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Rapid Shot

Rapid Shot
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Gem Priority
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Updated 9-4 switched back to windward ascendency and added herablism 2 for better heals.

Explosive Shot is our main skill. The current setup is for maps and we fire them in a circle giving us insane clear speed. Arjun's Medal allows us to refill bolts without reloading making this skill very smooth to play. If you need to do pinnacle bosses you want to switch your gem setup completely I will put a second explosive shot for single target on the bottom. Make sure your gear is good enough before switching to the Nova Projectiles setup. You can use Multishot II Pierce II instead of Magnified Area I before that.

Explosive Grenade is our big burst damage. Use this on bosses or tanky rares and explode them with Explosive Shot.

Herald of Thunder Helps us clear with shock from Explosive Shot and Explosive Grenade.

Called Shots casts Voltaic Mark every 5 seconds and gives us explosions mapping and shock magnitude for single target.

Rapid Shot You use this before bosses to charge up heat and get 50% fire as extra for your Explosive Grenade.

Flash Grenade you use to stun bosses so you can use Explosive Grenade

Passive Tree

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Set your Grenades to tree 1 and Explosive and rapid to tree 2. Make sure you check the box on top of your weapon to lock them both into place so you can use 1 weapon with 2 trees.

Pretty straight forward tree.

We use Spray and Pray, Freedom of Movement and Unhindered to become the human rhoa.

Alot of our tree is dedicated to movement speed so we can blast maps.

Surrounded nodes are for Constricting Command explained above


The most recent patch lets use 2 different trees with the Crossbow bug fix.

Path of Building Code

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