TbXie's Voidfletcher Ice Shot / Barrage Deadeye Passive Skill Tree and Gem Links (PoE Crucible)

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September 20th, 2023, 15:07

Passive Skill Tree, PoB, and Gem Links

You can find an optimized Path of Building here. Every build I release will use the community fork of Path of Building, which is maintained and updated in a much more regular fashion than the original one. You can find PoB’s Fork, by LocalIdentity, here.

If you are not comfortable with Path of Building, PoePlanner’s website offers you a non-PoB alternative to import the code from the above link. it is highly recommended you install Path of Building to follow builds most optimally.

Gear, Jewel & Flask Page

Progression Advice

This build almost exclusively scales off of gear and support links so it doesn’t really matter in particular what you do while leveling. I would advise you to get all you gear before leveling the character (or at least the amount of gear you can afford) so you can equip as much of it as possible when you reach maps. The Path of Building however has leveling trees you can follow if you wish.

Gem Links

Ice Shot – Main Link (6-Link)

Ice Shot, as mentioned, before relies on getting more than enough damage to feel very nice. That’s also why there is a huge emphasis on Awakened Gems. Obviously, if you can’t afford them, the build won’t instantaneously fall flat but the differences are immense. Awakened Greater Multiple Projectiles Support offers a bit more clear speed, but I suggest you test out regular Greater Multiple Projectiles Support and either Inspiration Support or Hypothermia Support (that doesn’t require you to change socket colors) first to see if you feel better about having more coverage. Inspiration or Hypothermia helps damage and at certain levels of gear it might actually feel better that way, since you already have 8 Additional Projectiles from Dying Sun, Deadeye, the Skill Tree and Death’s Opus.

I obviously haven’t been able to try this yet, as the Skill Tree ones are relatively new, but I expect you’re not going to be running Greater Multiple Projectiles anymore. The best option here is most likely Increased Critical Damage Support but depending on colours, Inspiration Support or Hypothermia Support wont be far behind.

Barrage – Single Target Damage

Barrage is a bow’s best single target skill, but in this case it also makes it easy to unload all of your Void Shots instantaneously, which is a nice upside. At top levels of gear, both of these combined will reach over 10 Million sustained DPS which is incredible.

Debuffs

Because manually casting a Hex, a source of Exposure, and a Mark is incredibly tedious, I chose to run an Asenath's Mark. Hydrosphere gets you extra damage, Snipers Mark is your “curse” of choice and Ice Spear linked to Power Charge on Crit gets you Power Charges. This being automated is a huge QoL.

Auras

In the high end version of this guide, we’ve managed to fit in an extra aura, or well, a better precision, mainly which is about a 10% damage step up. In order to achieve that, you’ll first need an Enlighten, which is going to net you a sizeable chunk of levels on precision and in a later stage the anamalous precision to even further reduce its mana cost, allowing you to level it up even further. This will eventually lead to you being able to drop accuracy on gear & therefore find even more damage from the item that has freed up an affix.

Anomalous Precision (level 20)

Buff and Movement Skill

Blood Rage
Blink Arrow or Dash

Choices

For your last skill slot, there’s choices. I personally recommend putting a Steelskin on your Left Click to automate an occasional spike in Health Pool.

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