Explosive Shot Mercenary Early Endgame Build Guide | Path Of Exile 2

Explosive Shot Mercenary Early Endgame Build Guide | Path Of Exile 2

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Timestamp!
00:00 - Intro
00:49 - Important Changes
02:31 - Skill links
08:40 - Complete Passive Tree
11:46 - Ascendancy Passives
12:10 - Gear
16:09 - Subscribe For More Path Of Exile 2 Content!
18:04 - Build Showcase

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[SpinkEM]

Just a quick comment and something for you and viewers to try out with explosive shot.

I used the chaos orb "method" to get a 5 link on my skill gem. I will eventually use the regular jewelers orbs to make a new 6 link but this method is pretty cheap early on to get another support gem slot on Explosive Shot. You can still upgrade gem level even if its corrupted but you can't add the final socket is the only catch.

Here's what I'm running on it:

Explosive Shot->Scattershot->Over Power->Auto-Reload->Support Gem of Choice (Long Shot, Heft, Devastate, etc).

I also went all over the skill tree and took a bunch of nodes that "increase stun chance" and I'm hoping I can then remove Over Power skill gem and replace with something damage related instead. Just a few more levels until I see how good it works.

Basically whenever you "heavy stun" an enemy, ANY enemy, the Auto-Reload gem reloads you crossbow. Using Explosive Round with Scattershot procs this all the time on regular mobs meaning you never have to reload. Just point and destroy. If you use the Dyad crossbow you get a "spare" bolt so you can get rid of double barrel.

A nice skill to pair with it is Oil Grenade. It gives fire exposure on hit, slows the enemy, and explodes when shot with your main attack. I use my 2nd copy of Scatter Shot and any other support gem that pins, slows, etc. This is a nice opener to hit enemies with and it primes them for more fire damage from explosive shot.

The downside is that it doesn't boss all that well. I have kind of a crappy crossbow with mediocre damage stats right now though.

Trying to find a second ability to help chunk bosses a bit better and I don't want to run gas grenade explosion Hybrid build.

[In_Dog_We_Trust]

Getting HP is such a pain, the nodes from passive tree hardly give anything

[uncleboi]

I switched from nades to this build and im having more fun with mercenary! Thank you and im going to keep track of your upgrades on this build!

[craiglee]

Really cool, keep it up. Earned like and follow

[leekuan]

Jagged Ground may be another option to go with the Holy Descend.

[cajunsassafras]

Hey, thanks for the detailed guide.
Since respeccing in order to change builds is so expensive, can you recommend a place/act to farm gold? I'm not able to kill bosses in act 3 with my mishmash build so am changing everything but man it's not cheap

[em-nruw]

I find oil and gas granades are mandatory for the explosive shot build, i dont know but the ignite and the fire damage just scales a lot better with this build. Still its a bit tough with bosses tho.

[snayke]

hi man, i started E.S too and wanted to push it to the max. long before i saw this vid.
i have it now on a 6 link (scattershot, martial tempo, heft, close combat, double barrel)
thanks to my xbow that gives +6 proj. my E.S is now level 21.
however with all of that when i look at my dmg i sit at 2.6k (projectile) + 3.1k(explosion) which puts me at 5.7k
i dont know if this ability can scale further than this, i feel like my options are pretty narrow at this point

[itsonlyagame]

seems pretty good
was thinking about rolling to witch or monk
i am still pretty new just lv 26 and can say that im getting sick from spamming gas and fire nades in order to clear
but seeing this vid might make me stick to it and maybe try different class much later
enjoyed it thanks for sharing

[ElBloodyBones]

Thank you for the showcase. I actually found this skill more more mobile than grenades.

[I-VisiBomb-I]

I just wonder here. im at act 2 and my first intuition was to put scattershot and execute on this, and it works amazing since it shoots 3 shots so by the 3rd hit of the attack execute already works and kills stuff. is there a better combination considering im using whispering mist at the moment?

[Lietomint]

The Explosion convert 80% physic damage to Fire, shoudnt we focus on Fire damage bonus instead of Physic?

[fiddlebender]

Does crossbow count as a 2-handed weapon? I'm looking at your skill tree and wondering why you have specced so much into 2-handed when you only use mace for Leap Slam.

[NotCaleb]

how well would you recommend this build for a witchhunter ? i could definitely re spec and get all the passives and i have the support gems for the skills but just dont want to re spec if you dont recommend for witchhunter. great video btw

[synergistex]

Question: Would this build struggle on endgame? Since most of the mobs are resistant to fire. TIA

[jdfording]

What do you recommend for gas grenade besides scattershot since I'm using that on explosive shot. I'm a witch hunter.

[redbloodreaver]

Does it make sense to path up a bit further to the left for the Avatar of Fire and fire damage nodes?

[MeecroSkills]

does heft really give more damage than the 25% elemtnal supports? you gotta check the impact and explosion totals. p sure elemental gives more

[helluva]

I'm level 45 somewhat stuck on viper napuatzi fight spamming grenade and getting bored of throwing grenades and dodging. Do u think respec-ing at level 45 and switching to this would still be strong enough?

[psychowaifu]

im really looking into this kind of exotic build everyong was going Granadier.