Bleed Bow Witchhunter Build

This is a Bleed Bow Witchhunter starter build for Path of Exile 2 (PoE 2). Check out the Bleed Bow Witchhunter starter build, including its gear, socketables, skills, and playstyle!

Bleed Bow Witchhunter Build Summary

JayTX's Witchhunter Bleed Bow

This Bleed Bow Witchhunter starter build is based on a build by JayTX over at JayTX (Youtube). The video includes details on how to gear up to get the build online. You can check JayTX's Twitch Channel for more Path of Exile 2 content and ask questions about the build!

Bleed Bow Witchhunter Build

Build Setup
Bleed Bow Witchhunter
High Burst Damage Excellent Mobbing and Bossing Low Defenses High Mana Usage

The Bleed Bow Witchhunter starter build focuses on maximizing your damage with Combo Frenzy and unleashing huge burst damage with Rain of Arrow and Spiraling Volley that are great for clearing mobs and taking on Bosses.

When coming from the Mercenary base class, you can swap out your default Bow Shot attack once you reach Act 3 for Rain of Arrows, which turns into your main clearing skill that synergizes well with Combat Frenzy to deal even more damage.

Bleed Bow Witchhunter Gear Setup

Equipment and Modifiers

The most important part here would be acquiring a Warden Bow with an Increased Physical Damage modifier, and your Quiver to have the Adds Physical Damage to Attacks modifier as these will be the key towards fully maximizing the Bleed Bow Witchhunter build. You can also look for Level of all Projectile Skills and Increased Damage with Bow Skills modifiers as well since this will boost the damage even further for this build.

Bleed Bow Witchhunter Skills and Passive Tree

Active Skills

Skill	Support Gems
Spiral Volley	Brutality Perpetual Charge
Rain of Arrows	Concentrated Effect Pin
Snipe	Window of Opportunity Deep Cuts Heft
Freezing Salvo	Cold Infusion Hourglass
Escape Shot	Deep Freeze
Combat Frenzy	Profusion
Wind Dancer	-

During the early game before Act 3, you will be using your default attack Bow Shot a lot with a few support gems you can slot in such as Brutality, Chain, and Lacerate.

As for your other skills, Spiral Volley will be your main clearing skill once you reach Act 3, Freezing Salvo will be for freezing large mobs, Snipe for huge burst damage against bosses, and Escape Shot as your mobility skill for when you start getting surrounded.

Combat Frenzy will work wonders for this build as it works well with Rain of Arrows and Spiral Volley to deal 120% more damage which is great for both clearing mobs and taking on bosses, while Wind Dancer can be your failsafe to trigger Knock Back on surrounding enemies.

Passive Skill Tree

Ascendancy Tree
Ascendancy Group Node
Passive Nodes
1.	Exposed Wounds and Feel No Pain	2.	Bloodletting and Cruel Methods
3.	Natural Immunity and Aggravation	4.	Advanced Munitions and Bleeding Out
5.	Cull the Hordes and Deterioration	6.	Perfectly Placed Knife and Wasting
7.	Feathered Fletching	8.	-

The Blood Bow Witch Hunter passive skill tree path focuses on boosting your Bleeding effects, applying Armour Break, and maximizing your Bow damage. Multiple passive skills such as Bloodletting, Aggravation, Bleeding Out, and Perfectly Placed Knife are some of the best ways to increase the damage of your Bleeding effects.

Taking nodes related to Ailments affects your Bleeding effects as well so make sure you have Exposed Wounds, Natural Immunity, Advanced Munitions, Deterioration, Fast Acting Toxins, and Wasting for maximum ailment effects. Lastly, take Cruel Methods to boost your Armour Break as this effect is extremely powerful, and Feathered Fletching to highly increase the damage of your Bows.

As for your Ascendancy nodes, Zealous Inquisition will give you a chance of exploding your enemies on kill which helps you greatly when mobbing, while Judge, Jury, and Executioner will give you a chance of procing Decimating Strike.

Bleed Bow Witchhunter Playstyle and Skill Rotation

Skill Rotation for Mobbing

The Bleed Bow Witchhunter build for mobbing revolves around freezing your opponents with Rain of Arrows and Freezing Salvo and finishing them off with Spiral Volley. The rotation is as follows:

1. Use Rain of Arrows or Freezing Salvo on a large mob to Pin/Freeze them and generate Frenzy Charges.
2. Use Spiral Volley to explode the large mob and consume Frenzy Charges for a huge damage bonus.
3. Follow up with Snipe on modified enemies.

Skill Rotation for Bossing

The Bleed Bow Witchhunter build for bossing revolves around dealing huge burst damage with Snipe and consistently damaging them with Rain of Arrows and Spiral Volley. The rotation is as follows:

1. Channel a Perfect Timing Snipe as the fight starts and start dealing Bleed damage right away.
2. Use Rain of Arrows on the boss when it is in place and stops moving.
3. Use Freezing Salvo as needed when off cooldown and against small mobs the boss summons.
4. (Optional) Use Spiral Volley if you have Frenzy Charges up from Pin/Freezing with your Rain of Arrows/Freezing Salvo.
5. Channel another Perfect Timing Snipe and repeat from step 2.

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