[0.4] Update 4 Builds! WH Armour Piercing Rounds, Armour Break, Fire & Ignite, All Endgame Content

Finally, an Update — Sorry for the Delay!
I do work a normie 60-hour work week job, so thank you for your patience.


I’m providing an update on all 4 Armour Piercing Rounds builds I have been playing since season 1, this weekend for S4 (Fate of the Vaal), with a full update video dropping ASAP.
All builds are S3-tested, S4-ready, and just got buffed hard.

You can get the build information from the Maxroll Build Planner links below.

4 updated APR builds, 3 Witch Hunter, 1 Warbringer
All updated for S3, All ready for s4, All receiving buffs for S4

Do you want to shoot fast?
Do you want to break the armour of hordes and enemies and watch them burn to piles of ashes?

These builds clear ALL content: t16 Juiced Maps, Bosses, and all Endgame Bosses

Then I have the builds for you.

Presenting my Witchhunter Mercenary Endgame Armour Piercing Rounds, Armour Break Explosion & Fire Pops w/ Ignite Build. And now an APR Warbringer Build

Cheap, Starter, Good Map Clear, FIRE, Shooting, More Shooting, No melee, Shooting, No spells, Shooting, Ballista Shooting, Grenade throwing.
Visceral in your face combat, this isn't a standoff ranged class, you're in their face, shooting, bombing, dodging

Burning those Heretical ENEMIES TO ASH!!

The Build links:

S4 100% Physical APR Run and Gun *PrePlanned* *This May Change*

Season 4 Level 1-60 Build:
https://maxroll.gg/poe2/planner/70zc0u8f

I have just finished the campaign and am about to complete the interlude and start mapping. I am focusing on Attack Speed, Skill Speed and the new Projectile Speed nodes.
The build is going strong, and everything is getting gunned down.

1. The last 3 skill points to 60 will go into Fortifying Blood, and that will synergize with Fast Metabolism to round out our defence and health sustain to start mapping.
2. I stop using Fragmentation rounds mid-30s when I feel I have enough attack and skill speed to prevent being overwhelmed when using Armour Piercing Rounds
3. Once you have enough DPS to stop using Fragmentation rounds, use the below DMG cycle loop

⦁ Explosive Grenade on Left click, Armour Piercing Rounds on Right Click, holding down APR and click pointing with Explosive Grenade to clear packs.
It is imperative to learn how to shoot APR continuously and throw grenades at the same time, while placing your ballista!

⦁ Shoot with Armour Piercing Rounds to Break Armour and cause an Explosion to clear packs, then follow up with an Explosive Grenade for any tougher mobs and packs. This should be a fast, natural cycle with you moving around and through the packs to finish them off.

⦁ For Tougher Rares and Bosses:
1. Open with Armour Piercing Rounds to Full Break Armour
2. Swap to High Velocity Rounds to consume Full Armour break and apply Riven Armour
3. While the Monster has Riven Armour,
4. Swap back to APR, Shooting
5. Use Emergency Reload (Once you get it)
6. Dump All your Grenade Charges
7. Repeat, stay alive, avoiding mechanics
Riven Armour is a DMG debuff mechanic, and when combo'd together with Fully Armour Broken and the fast attacks of this build, you can melt huge chunks from bosses and rares.



S3 100% Physical APR Run and Gun.
S3 Highlight Video, No music, no talking, just gameplay in a T16 juiced map.

Baseline build! Start here Use the gear in the build for an example of the gear you need/want for all 4 builds. Use a normal Armour, Life, Resist belt instead of Head Hunter or Ryslatha's Coil. Rondel of Fragility can be used when levelling for a HUGE boost, and it's cheap. Get one with the most skill speed you can afford.
https://maxroll.gg/poe2/planner/wg38l0yt

S2 100% Physical Bleed & Incision APR Run and Gun (updated for S3)
https://maxroll.gg/poe2/planner/q83j0u4t

S1 Avatar of Fire Conversion APR & Oil Grenade.
Start here to burn the world (updated for S3)
https://maxroll.gg/poe2/planner/dmvfu0vu

S3 APR WarBringer! This build works
https://maxroll.gg/poe2/planner/9da0p0c9
Warbringer Highlights, Armour Break, which synergizes with APR. Extra Ballista, Meat Shields from the Ancestral Spirits, and additionally Damage, Defence, and attack speed from the buffs provided by the Spirits. See the Wiki link below.


The Build Video: WIP Will update ASAP This weekend

Levelling: Fast Info
1. Focus all efforts on a Physical Xbow with Attack speed and + Projectile levels
2. Basic Life, Armour/Evasion, Resist gear, mana leech.
3. Attack speed on Gloves and Sockets, and anywhere else
4. Flat Phys on Rings
5. Gem: Take the level 1 version as you access them, upgrade to the lvl 2 & 3 when you can. Use filler gems when needed, Armour Break Explosion, Mobility Speed, Fresh Clip, etc.
6. Levelling Tree passives: Use the Hunter, Pass through Rounds and the Big Crossbow nodes at the bottom of the tree to HOLD skill points until you can then respec and dump them into Run and Gun, Falcon Dive, Careful Aim, Unleash Fire or any of the far away node areas.
7. If you are having issues clearing as you level, make sure you have Pass through Rounds passive & Armour Break Explosion support.

Patch .4: Last of the Druids Updates and Changes

All build versions received huge buffs and changes. Notably, Witchhunter & Warbringer Ascendacies. More defence for WH & More Damage for both. !!Oil Grenade got a MASSIVE buff!! And the ignite changes should improve throughput for the Avatar of Fire Version



This is my first big Poe build project. Let me know what you guys think and where the build can be approved.

Added skill gems and explained scattershot support & Exploit Weaknes use. Reserved for future updates.

Can you share some leveling tips for the build? Mainly with skill/support gems? Did you play armor pierce/high velocity rounds the entire time once you get them? I'm only level 10 ish and the damage feels REALLY bad with APR. Is this not SSF viable?

Have you considered scattershot on high velocity rounds for more burst when armour is broken? Scattershot makes HVR shoot 3 times instead of once.

Culling Strike is applied after damage is dealt, so wouldn't Herald of Ash not work since there is not Overkill?

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Heavydfr8#2269 wrote:

Culling Strike is applied after damage is dealt, so wouldn't Herald of Ash not work since there is not Overkill?

Herald of Ash is working. I have tested it numerous times.
I believe the damage application is:
Decimation, HIT+Armour Break, Armour Explosion POP which OVERKILLS, extra DMG below 35% life (low life) then culling strike.

I tested this by doing maps by; justrunning Armour Explosion, just HoA, and then combined.

I’m providing an update on all 4 Armour Piercing Rounds builds I have been playing since season 1, this weekend for S4 (Fate of the Vaal), with a full update video dropping ASAP.
All builds are S3-tested, S4-ready, and just got buffed hard.
See the OP.

Provided S4 Build

S4 100% Physical APR Run and Gun *PrePlanned* *This May Change*
See the Spoiler link above to the Poe Ninja build tree.

Waiting for leveling build)

Provided the Season 4 Level 1-60 Build:
https://maxroll.gg/poe2/planner/70zc0u8f
And some additional leveling tips.

Make sure you have Leech Life on your gloves, ring or Xbows to benefit from the Life Leech skill passives. Additionally, mana leech helps with mana sustain.