The Huntress in Path of Exile 2 (PoE 2) is a class that weaves in both melee and ranged, and also ascend into a Amazon or Ritualist in Path of Exile 2 (PoE 2). Check out more information on the Huntress's ascendancies, class guide, skills, builds, playstyle, and whether you should pick the Amazon or Ritualist for the Dawn of the Hunt update!

Huntress Ascendancies

During the Early Access, you will have the choice to pick between 2 Ascendancy classes for the Huntress:

Ritualist

The Ritualist embraces the dark side of the Huntress' ways. It focuses on corrupted arts that allows her to cause enemies to burst upon death by desecrating their bodies. The Ritualist also has the ability to equip an additional ring and enhancing all equipped rings' effects.

Additionally, the Ritualist can also perform rituals to absorb rare monster's modifiers or sacrifice your own life to invoke a random elite monster's power and use it for yourself.

Ritualist Ascendancy Overview and Skills

Amazon

The Amazon allows you to exploit weaknesses againt elites that gives you the extra damage you need to take these strong foes. You are also able to convert your excess accuracy to critical hit chance.

You are also able to leech life from your elemental attacks and gain health from mana potions and mana from health potions which makes the Amazon a great ascendacy choice if you want to gain extra damage and dueling capability.

Amazon Ascendancy Overview and Skills

Which Ascendancy Should You Pick?

Amazon is the Better Ascendancy

The Amazon is currently the best ascendancy option for the Huntress. It gives the Huntress everything she wants that will further the class' capabilities, be it critical strikes or elemental attacks. The Amazon is a purely offensive ascendancy and you can't go wrong with this choice.

The Ritualist, while good on paper, is an ascendancy that is hard to maintain through the progression process, meaning it only shines when you already have a strong foundation in the latter stages of the game.

Huntress Class Overview

Class Summary

The Huntress
Attribute	Dexterity
Weapon	Spears

The Huntress is a versatile class that uses its abilities to mow down enemies in close and ranged combat, making it easy for damage setups with its mobility and range options.

Dexterity Focus

The Huntress is a Dexterity-based class, it's a hybrid combatant focused on using both melee and ranged attacks during combat. The Huntress is capable of using bleed-inflicting attacks as well as large AoE-centric elemental attacks while being a hyper mobile class that can weave itself in and out of combat.

Huntress Builds

Huntress Leveling Build

Bleed Huntress

Bleed Huntress NEW
	Focus: Leveling, AoE, DoT, Bleed
Summary: This Bleed Huntress utilizes her Rake skill to inflict bleed and dish out several melee and ranged attacks in combat.

Leveling Builds

Huntress Endgame Builds

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Build	Patch
Lightning Spear Amazon Focus: Endgame, Mobbing, AoE, Lightning, Fast Clear	0.2
Bleed Twister Amazon Focus: Endgame, Mobbing, Single Target, DoT, AoE, Bossing	0.2
Poison Bleed Rapid Assault Ritualist Focus: Endgame, Poison, Bleed, Burst	0.2

PoE 2 Best Huntress Builds

Huntress Skills

All Spear Skills

Spear skills are the Huntress's main skill kit. There are Twenty-two active skills for Spear skills tab which the Huntresss or other classes may use. The list for all the available Spear Skills are as follows:

Tier	Skills
1	Disengage			Whirling Slash			Twister			Explosive Spear
3	Lightning Spear			Cull the Weak			Fangs of Frost			Rake
5	Barrage			Rapid Assault			Spearfield			Storm Lance
7	Blood Hunt				Glacial Lance				Primal Strikes
9	Thunderous Leap				Bloodhound's Mark				Tame Beast
11	Whirlwind Lance						Elemental Sundering
13	Wind Serpent's Fury						Spear of Solaris

List of All Gems

All Huntress Persistent Skills

Huntress has 9 Persistent skills, each of which grant passive buffs that can help any build regardless of class.

Tier	Skills
4	Herald of Thunder				Wind Dancer				Herald of Blood
8	Combat Frenzy						Trail of Caltrops
14	Rhoa Mount				Attrition				Trinity

List of Spirit Gems

How to Play Huntress

Weave Combos in and out of Combat

The Huntress is focused on combining its own skills by fighting in both melee and ranged combat. Unleash strong AoE close ranged DPS to whittle enemies in your vicinity and demolish enemies from afar with destructive elemental spear attacks.

Parry, Gain Frenzy Charges, and Counter Enemies

The Huntress focuses on using a Buckler as an Offhand that allows her to parry enemy attacks and leave them vulnerable to a counter. Parrying also grants you a Frenzy Charge which allows you to unleash devastating counters against enemies and open up new combo choices from a defensive skill.

Combo your Attacks With Elemental Attacks

You can combo several moves that allows you to grant attacks with additional attributes. An example would be the Huntress' Twister attacks. Using it on Elemental Ground allows you to add that ground's elemental attribute to your twisters. Combo around the twister to unleash devastating elemental hurricanes to your foes.

Path of Exile 2 (PoE 2) Related Guides

List of Classes

List of New Classes

List of Early Access Classes

Class	Ascendancy Classes
Huntress	Amazon Ritualist
Mercenary	Tactician Witchhunter Gemling Legionnaire
Monk	Invoker Acolyte of Chayula
Ranger	Deadeye Pathfinder
Sorceress	Stormweaver Chronomancer
Warrior	Smith of Kitava Warbringer Titan
Witch	Lich Infernalist Blood Mage

List of Upcoming Classes