HOWA dex/int stacking crossbow bolts only. 1 button clear/ 2 button bossing. Strongest dps crossbow build

Probably the strongest version of any crossbow build there is currently, if you want to scale damage bolts are far superior to grenades but i haven't seen every nade build there is so feel free to prove me wrong. key mechanics are HOWA giving massives attack speed and decent flat dmg + doryani making all monsters resistance -60% + abusing the strongest support fresh clip.

GGG please no nerf.

Clear: Galvanic shards + herald of thunder will literally 1-4 hit delete everything in maps aside from bosses. 4 hits sounds alot but when your galvanic hits 10+ times per second its really not.

Pinnacle Bossing: starting with plasma blast. which is really just there to apply a long shock and nothing else. if your using hour glass make sure to hit. you got 3 chances with scattershot. after hitting boss, switch the shockburst and start bursting the boss down, if the boss likes to stand still, feel free to put down ballista for extra damage, life regen and mana regen. if the boss is extremely aggressive and gives you no time to charge up, just use galvanic shard to apply the shock it wont last as long but the only bosses that are the aggressive are map bosses who dies instantly to shockburst anyways.

Map bosses: start with plasma blast and than delete them instantly with shockburst or just skip the hassle and use galvanic shard to apply shock

Gem step up: in order

mapping:

DMG:

galvanic shard- lightning infusion- innervate- martial tempo- primal armament- heft

shockburst- fresh clip- concentrated effect- elemental focus- rising tempest- close combat

Plasma blast- Lasting shock- scattershot- lightning mastery- overpower- hourglass

UTLITY:

emergency reload- premediation- persistence- ingenuity

ripwire ballista- font of rage- font of blood- font of mana- iron wood- ancestral urgency

SPIRIT/AURA:

Herald of thunder- magnified effect- electrocute- longshot- neural overload- overshock

winder dancer- cannibalism- pin- blind- knockback

overwhelming presence- vitality- precision- clarity

PINNACLE BOSSING dmg setup:

galvanic shard- close combat- innervate- rising tempest- primal armament- heft

shockburst- fresh clip- concentrated effect- lightning infusion- martial tempo- elemental focus

Plasma blast- Lasting shock- scattershot- lightning mastery- overpower- hourglass

TREE: I will not say how you should allocate the attributes, its different for every and the kind of gear they have, some might have alot of flat dmg already so they would want more dex other might want more flat, some might need str, etc.

level 90: https://poe2db.tw/us/passive-skill-tree/AAAABgkCcemDLC-UqYUN3k64Lq8kl3uuPenp1JHB-fgmvftU-_JjCx_UCsud02_TU9n6sNgoIaUoUtWskN7XwiBfv0DqXJblvtWTF0ksM77OrhbfbA5MZBNdUBzeQv5DvJ2VUxoYVpeeD5swF_p3Qt5J6_Qu3fKpn7VC8hgdZlREe8NT93rJpyouMYTf1siO4K-E7T9e3xS5YNIRGhi6O2fqgg1nqErGDcRlfi1h36JsZ0AyWulcCWiLcCzwXgbkHQke_kMMielIyfuXSDjLrui-hd4PcKNtjHh3i1d5xBoEmIqRZEYjf_sAAA==

level 100: https://poe2db.tw/us/passive-skill-tree/AAAABgkCe-mDLC-UqYUN3k64Lq8kl3uuPenp1JHB-fgmvftU-yZh8mMLH9QKy53Tb9NT2fqw2CghpShS1ayQ3tfCIF-_QOpcluW-1ZMXSSwzvs6uFt9sDkxkE11QHN5C_kO8nZVTGhhWl54PmzAX-ndC3knr9C7d8qmftULyGB1mVER7w1P3esmnKi4xhN_WyI7gr4TtP17fFLlg0hEaGLo7Z-qCDWeoSsYNk7XEZX4tOYTy6WHfomxnQDJa1-vpXAloi3As8F4G5B0JHv5DDInpSMn7l0g4y67ovoV_-94PcKNtjHh3i1d5xEW-GgSYipFkRiMDpir2U74D-wAA

ASCENDANCY: WITCHHUNTER- obsessive rituals- ceremonial ablution- witchbane- no mercy

Why no explode or cull and decimate? Herald of thunder clears better than the explode and explode actually stops you from being able to shock enemies as the explode it self can't shock. But if you feel like your dmg is high enough than feel free to grab explode instead of no mercy. As for cull and decimate, they are just extremely trash at endgame, cull might as well not exist and decimate doesnt do much when your already 1 or 2 shotting everything including rares.

GGG also made it so concentrate doesnt reset when the boss phases or immunes unlike in poe 1, so its basically a perma 30% more dmg after the first 2-3 seconds.

Main Build mechanic:

1. the unique glove hand of wisdom and action is the most crucial item as it gives the most important stat we need for this build attack speed, and the decent amount of flat lightning also helps. Why is attack speed important? Because crossbow bolts has one if not the strongest support in both poe 1 and 2. FRESH CLIP it looks pretty meh at first glance. 1% more dmg per clip? thats ass. but what if you can attack over 25 times an second? that 1% more dmg suddenly becomes 150% more dmg after 6 seconds of ramping, which is ludicrous when most supports only give 25% more dmg or 40% dmg with a massive downside. Shockburst have innate 450% attack speed base which lets us easily scale it up to 25+ attacks per second and with more investment 30+ is doable too.
2. Doryani prototype: basically a chest that says 60% more dmg for this build. As you want to be stacking as many dex and int as possible we are pretty starved for resistance on gear. doryani allows you ignore the lightning resistance completely as lightning now is affected by armor, this allows you to stack even more int and dex instead of worrying about lightning resistance. Downside is due to sorcery ward you would only have max around 25-35% armor which is a pretty hard downgrade from 75% lightning res but it's covered by the massive 3k sorcery ward for elemental hits but the armor only applies to lightning hits which means any lightning dots will eat you alive like the mana siphoners.

Defense:

around 60-70% evasion

25-35% armor

3k ward against elemental hits that recovers after 6 seconds, which basically means you will never die to any elemental hits unless your getting blasted by lightning over and over.

herald of thunder eletrocute in maps, this doesnt work against map bosses or pinnacles of course.

high clear, best defense is dead mobs after all.

BOSSING VIDS:

unoptimized dmg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akp37XJA7_8&feature=youtu.be

optimized dmg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwgXHpvEGPE&feature=youtu.be

GEARING: Prioritization order

WEAPON: 100%+ phy- 33-45+ added phy- 13%+ attack speed- added lightning 1-100+/ 100%+ elemental dmg- projectile skill- extra bolts- everything else

the attack speed roll is like 50% more than what it gives on the weapon since it double dips with the fresh clip. so a 13% attack speed roll on weapon will give like 20% mor dmg than 13%.

Helmet (armor and evasion base)- 100+ life- 30%+ cold- 30%+ fire- 25+dex/int- evasion and armor%- everything else

body- doryani with 3 or 4 RUNES, look for em they exist

amulet- 40+ spirit- 20+ dex- 20+ int- 15+ all attribute- 100+ life- everything else

rings- 30+ dex- 1-50+ added lightning dmg, 90+ life- 30+ int, fire/cold res depending on what you need- everything else

belt- 100+ life- 30+ fire res- 30+ cold res- 15+ chaos res- added armor- added evasion- everything else-

boots (armor and evasion base)- 30+ movement speed, 100+ life- 30+ fire res- 30+ cold res- 30+ dex/int- inc armor and evasion- everything else

AS ALWAYS the stats i put down are only recommendations, lower the numbers to fit your budget, but remember to cap fire and cold res and IGNORE lightning res

RUNES:

you should have 6 or 7 runes if you bought a corrupted doryanis, use the runes to first cap out any fire or cold res problem. leave the runes for doryani last. now with doryanis you could either use the chaos resistance core from ultimatum for more chaos res, or use the armor and evasion rune, its up to you, but personally the only chaos dmg you die to are the purple explosions and even at 75% chaos res you probably will still die to them, do i would get more armor and evasion.

BUGS:

shockburst quality isn't working, as such the dmg should be around 15% more than shown in the video.

WEAKNESS: chaos dmg, lightning dots, lots and lots of lightning dmg, high physical dmg. dots in general.

MIN MAX: probably around 2-3x more dmg than shown in the video.

COST: around 200ex to start and around 300-400ex to be at the level in my video.

Closing thoughts: even with all these juicing and abusing the strongest support, for the same investment there are build who does 3-6x more dmg than this and doesn't have to jump through all sorts of hoops to make the build do actual dmg. Bolts needs a buff heavily asap, bolts have 3 notables on the tree, 1 which is just 50% inc dmg basically, 1 is reload speed and 1 is crit dmg which is entirely useless as crossbolts literally can't even get 40% crit even if you have the highest crit chance on the crossbow with all surronding crit chance nodes, so out of 3 notables bolts get only 2 are usable and both are quite meh and boring. Plasma blast should at minimum do 5-10x more dmg than it does currently when it has a unscaleable 2 second attack time no matter what, it should not be a glorified shock applier.