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Voltaic Grenade Stormblast Bolts Freeze Witchhunter (+4 Projectile Skills)

Witchhunter·MercenaryPatch 0.5.0·byPublic Builds
Version 2·Updated Jul 2, 2026
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Overview

Offense

1. Shockburst Rounds
1.50M
2. Stormblast Bolts
121,768
Hit DPS
1.50M
Attacks/sec
11.8
Average hit
127,632

Utility

Mana
601
Spirit
150
Gear spirit
100
Move speed
x1.59

Defense

Life
1,936
Character armour
419
Gear armour
460
Character evasion
7,002
Gear evasion
2,161
Fire res
74%
Cold res
75%
Lightning res
75%

Passive Tree

132
Nodes
31
Notables
0
Keystones

Key Passives

Thrill of BattleNotable
20% increased Attack Speed while Surrounded
Speed
Pitiless KillerNotable
Culling Strike
15% chance to Cull enemies below 20% Life
15% increased damage
Attack
Coming CalamityNotable
40% increased Cold Damage while affected by Herald of Ice
40% increased Fire Damage while affected by Herald of Ash
40% increased Lightning Damage while affected by Herald of Thunder
Cold DamageFire DamageLightning Damage
Obsessive RitualsNotable
-50% less Armour and Evasion Rating
Armour
Leather Bound GauntletsNotable
+1 to Evasion Rating per 1 Item Armour on Equipped Gloves
Armour
Escape VelocityNotable
3% increased Movement Speed
30% increased Evasion Rating
Movement SpeedEvasion
Lightning QuickNotable
8% increased Attack and Cast Speed with Lightning Skills
14% increased Lightning Damage
SpeedLightning Damage
Tactical RetreatNotable
+5 metres to Dodge Roll distance while Surrounded
10% increased Movement Speed while Surrounded
EvasionMovement Speed

Effect Profile

EffectStats
Attribute
PassiveCountTotal
  • to any Attribute36+180
  • to Strength2+16
  • increased Dexterity18%
  • to Dexterity1+10
Attack Damage
PassiveCountTotal
  • increased Attack Damage while Surrounded8270%
  • increased Attack Damage while moving6102%
  • increased Attack Damage448%
  • increased Attack Damage if you have been Heavy Stunned Recently125%
Evasion
PassiveCountTotal
  • increased Evasion Rating12200%
  • gain Deflection Rating equal to # % of Evasion Rating217%
  • increased Evasion Rating while Surrounded260%
  • increased Evasion Rating while moving140%
Movement Speed
PassiveCountTotal
  • reduced Movement Speed Penalty from using Skills while moving6-24%
  • increased Movement Speed38%
  • companions have # % increased Movement Speed228%
  • increased Movement Speed if you have at least # Green Support Gems Socketed15%
Speed
PassiveCountTotal
  • increased Attack Speed521%
  • increased Skill Speed316%
  • increased Attack and Cast Speed with Lightning Skills18%
  • increased Attack Speed during any Flask Effect16%
Elemental Damage
PassiveCountTotal
  • increased Elemental Damage648%
  • increased Elemental Damage with Attacks456%
  • increased Damage for each type of Elemental Ailment on Enemy120%
Armour
PassiveCountTotal
  • increased Armour and Evasion Rating454%
  • increased Evasion Rating from Equipped Body Armour1100%
  • less Armour and Evasion Rating1-50%
  • to Evasion Rating per # Item Armour on Equipped Gloves1+1
Life
PassiveCountTotal
  • chance for Enemies you Kill to Explode, dealing # % of their maximum Life as Physical Damage Chance is doubled against Undead and Demons110%
  • increased Attack Damage while on Low Life125%
  • increased Attack Damage while you have no Life Flask uses left125%
  • increased Maximum Life if you have at least # Red Support Gems Socketed15%

Gear

Sorrow Core

Desolate Crossbow

Item Level 82
Rare
Properties
Range120
Physical Damage40-158
Quality20
SocketsS S
Lightning Damage12-285
Attacks per Second1.9
Critical Hit Chance5%
Total DPS470.3
Physical DPS188.1
Elemental DPS282.2
Requirements
Level77
Rune
  • 50% increased Attack Damage against Rare or Unique Enemies
  • Gain 5% of Damage as Extra Damage of all Elements
Bonded
  • Bonded: +1 to Level of all Attack Skills
  • Bonded: 8% chance to gain an additional random Charge when you gain a Charge
Desecrated
  • Gain 4 Mana per enemy killed
Explicit
  • Adds 12 to 285 Lightning Damage
  • 113% increased Elemental Damage with Attacks
  • 19% increased Attack Speed
  • +4 to Level of all Projectile Skills
  • Corrupted
Crafted
  • Gain 33% of Damage as Extra Lightning Damage

Constricting Command

Viper Cap

Item Level 79
Unique
Properties
Evasion215
Quality20
SocketsS S
Requirements
Level50
Rune
  • +18% to Cold Resistance
  • +4 to Maximum Rage
Bonded
  • Bonded: +20 to maximum Life
  • Bonded: +20 to maximum Mana
Explicit
  • +109 to maximum Life
  • +15 to all Attributes
  • 11.2 Life Regeneration per second
  • Require 4 fewer enemies to be Surrounded
  • Corrupted

Hyrri's Ire

Armoured Vest

Item Level 80
Unique
Properties
Evasion1337
Movement Speed-3%
Quality20
SocketsS S S
Requirements
Level73
Rune
  • 12% increased Rarity of Items found
  • Regenerate 1.5% of maximum Life per second
  • Idols socketed in this item gain the benefits of their Bonded modifiers
Bonded
  • Bonded: +5% to Quality of all Skills
  • Bonded: 10% increased Quantity of Gold Dropped by Slain Enemies
Implicit
  • 39% increased Elemental Ailment Threshold
Explicit
  • 147% increased Evasion Rating
  • Gain 19% of Damage as Extra Cold Damage
  • +33 to Dexterity
  • 25% increased Freeze Duration on Enemies
  • Evasion Rating is doubled if you have not been Hit Recently
  • Corrupted

Eagle Mitts

Massive Mitts

Item Level 82
Rare
Properties
Armour460
Quality25
SocketsS S
Requirements
Level80
Rune
  • 8% increased Attack Speed
  • Can roll Marksman modifiers
Bonded
  • Bonded: 20% increased Projectile Damage
  • Bonded: 20% reduced Slowing Potency of Debuffs on You
Desecrated
  • Adds 1 to 51 Lightning damage to Attacks
Explicit
  • 97% increased Armour
  • Adds 10 to 18 Physical Damage to Attacks
  • +2 to Level of all Projectile Skills
  • +31% to Cold Resistance
Crafted
  • 27% increased Critical Damage Bonus

Sorrow Hoof

Drakeskin Boots

Item Level 82
Rare
Properties
Evasion609
Quality20
SocketsS
Requirements
Level80
Rune
  • 5% increased Movement Speed
Bonded
  • Bonded: 10% increased Cooldown Recovery Rate
Desecrated
  • +122 to maximum Life
Explicit
  • 35% increased Movement Speed
  • 99% increased Evasion Rating
  • +41% to Cold Resistance
  • +44% to Lightning Resistance
  • Gain Deflection Rating equal to 21% of Evasion Rating

Headhunter

Heavy Belt

Item Level 80
Unique
Properties
Charm Slots2
Requirements
Level50
Implicit
  • 28% increased Stun Threshold
  • Has 2 Charm Slots
Explicit
  • +53 to maximum Life
  • +32 to Strength
  • +32 to Dexterity
  • When you kill a Rare monster, you gain its Modifiers for 60 seconds

Loath Gorget

Absent Amulet

Item Level 79
Rare
Requirements
Level78
Enchant
  • Allocates Zarokh's Gift
Desecrated
  • 18% increased Rarity of Items found
Implicit
  • -1 Prefix Modifier allowed
  • -1 Suffix Modifier allowed
Explicit
  • +50 to Spirit
  • +3 to Level of all Projectile Skills
Crafted
  • 28% increased Global Armour, Evasion and Energy Shield

Behemoth Loop

Breach Ring

Item Level 82
Rare
Requirements
Level40
Desecrated
  • Adds 38 to 58 Fire damage to Attacks
Implicit
  • +20% to Maximum Quality
Explicit
  • Adds 6 to 110 Lightning damage to Attacks
  • Adds 37 to 58 Cold damage to Attacks
  • +15% to all Elemental Resistances
  • +42% to Fire Resistance
  • +45% to Lightning Resistance

Kalandra's Touch

Ring

Item Level 79
Unique
Requirements
Level0
Implicit
  • Reflects opposite Ring

Nascent Hope

Thawing Charm

Item Level 80
Unique
Properties
Charges Max40
Charges Per Use40
Duration30
Quality0
Requirements
Level12
Implicit
  • Used when you become Frozen
Explicit
  • 25% Chance to gain a Charge when you kill an enemy
  • Energy Shield Recharge starts on use

The Fall of the Axe

Silver Charm

Item Level 80
Unique
Properties
Charges Max40
Charges Per Use20
Duration30
Quality0
Requirements
Level10
Implicit
  • Used when you are affected by a Slow
Explicit
  • Grants Onslaught during effect

Beira's Anguish

Dousing Charm

Item Level 80
Unique
Properties
Charges Max40
Charges Per Use30
Duration30
Quality0
Requirements
Level32
Implicit
  • Used when you become Ignited
Explicit
  • 24% Chance to gain a Charge when you kill an enemy
  • Creates Ignited Ground for 4 seconds when used, Igniting enemies as though dealing Fire damage equal to 500% of your maximum Life

Substantial Ultimate Life Flask of the Doctor

Item Level 61
Magic
Properties
Quality20
Requirements
Level60
Implicit
  • 61% increased Amount Recovered
  • 27% Chance to gain a Charge when you kill an enemy

Lavianga's Spirits

Gargantuan Mana Flask

Item Level 80
Unique
Properties
Charges Max75
Charges Per Use10
Duration20
Mana Per Use185
Quality20
Requirements
Level49
Implicit
  • This Flask cannot be Used but applies its Effect constantly
  • 70% reduced Amount Recovered

Skills & Gems

Emergency Reload(Lv18)5 gems

Instantly reload all your Crossbow Ammunition clips and Empower each clip's Ammunition to deal more damage for a duration.

Buff Empowers bolts with 12% more damage
Uruks SmeltingSupports any skill, causing Armour Break it inflicts to be stronger. Fully Breaking Armour with Supported Skills permanently increases the Physical Damage taken by those affected, up to a cap.Lv1
LifetapSupports any Skill, turning its Mana cost into a Life cost. Does not support Skills which reserve Spirit.Lv1
IngenuitySupports skills with Cooldowns, increasing the rate at which those Cooldowns Recover. Cannot modify the skills of minions.Lv1
InspirationSupports any skill, making it cost less to use. Cannot support skills which reserve Spirit.Lv1
PersistenceSupports any skill that has a duration, making that duration longer.Lv1
Wind Dancer(Lv19)5 gems

While active, periodically grants stages of a buff that gives you more Evasion per stage. Being Hit by an Enemy while you have this buff consumes all stages to damage and Knock Back enemies around you.

Gain a stage every 1.5 seconds
Life ThiefSupports Attacks, causing their Physical damage to Leech Life.Lv1
BlindSupports any skill that Hits enemies, causing them to Blind on Hit.Lv1
BludgeonSupports any skill that Hits enemies, causing it to Knock Back enemies.Lv1
Magnified EffectSupports any skill with an area of effect, making it larger.Lv1
MaimSupports Attacks, causing them to Maim enemies.Lv1
Stormblast Bolts(Lv21)5 gems

Load your Crossbow with charged bolts that land around the target location and explode if hit by a Detonator Skill. Using this Skill again reloads the clip.

Primal ArmamentSupports Attacks, causing them to deal more Elemental damage.Lv1
Martial TempoSupports Attacks, causing them to Attack faster.Lv1
PinSupports any skill that Hits enemies, allowing its Physical damage to Pin enemies but making it unable to Stun.Lv1
Lightning PenetrationSupports any skill that Hits enemies, making those Hits Penetrate enemy Lightning resistance.Lv1
Elemental FocusSupports any skill that Hits enemies, causing it to deal more Elemental Damage but be unable to inflict Elemental Ailments.Lv1
Galvanic Shards(Lv21)5 gems

Load your Crossbow with charged bolts that fragment in flight, releasing Chaining Lightning beams when they Hit enemies. These fragments can Merge.

Pietys MercySupports Projectile skills and any other skills that Chain, causing them to Chain more times.Lv1
Double BarrelSupports Crossbow Ammunition Skills, causing them to load an extra bolt at the cost of reload speed.Lv1
Primal ArmamentSupports Attacks, causing them to deal more Elemental damage.Lv1
Ammo Conservation FourSupports Crossbow Skills, causing them to load a bolt into all Crossbow Ammunition on kill.Lv1
DefySupports Attack Skills you use yourself. Hit Damage from Supported Skills is Lucky if you are Surrounded.Lv1
Shockburst Rounds(Lv21)5 gems

Load your Crossbow with a clip of charged bolts which release damaging pulses upon Hitting an enemy affected by a Lightning Ailment. Using this Skill again reloads the clip.

10 Bolts loaded per clip
DefySupports Attack Skills you use yourself. Hit Damage from Supported Skills is Lucky if you are Surrounded.Lv1
Primal ArmamentSupports Attacks, causing them to deal more Elemental damage.Lv1
Fresh ClipSupports Crossbow Skills, granting them more damage for each bolt reloaded by that Skill in the last 6 seconds.Lv1
Elemental FocusSupports any skill that Hits enemies, causing it to deal more Elemental Damage but be unable to inflict Elemental Ailments.Lv1
Lightning PenetrationSupports any skill that Hits enemies, making those Hits Penetrate enemy Lightning resistance.Lv1
Herald of Thunder(Lv20)5 gems

While active, killing Shocked enemies with a non-Herald Attack Hit will cause subsequent Attack Hits to release lightning bolts which deals Attack damage to all surrounding enemies.

Lightning Bolts strike the targets of your next 2 Attack Hits after killing a Shocked enemy with Attack damage
Primal ArmamentSupports Attacks, causing them to deal more Elemental damage.Lv1
Elemental FocusSupports any skill that Hits enemies, causing it to deal more Elemental Damage but be unable to inflict Elemental Ailments.Lv1
BlindSupports any skill that Hits enemies, causing them to Blind on Hit.Lv1
Concentrated EffectSupports any skill with an area of effect, causing that area to be smaller but any area damage it deals to be higher.Lv1
LongshotSupports Attacks, causing them to deal more damage from farther away.Lv1
Voltaic Grenade(Lv19)5 gems

Fire a bouncing Grenade that discharges an Electrocuting Lightning blast when its fuse expires, causing all Lightning Hits against enemies to contribute to Electrocution buildup for a duration.

Explosion radius is 2 metres
150% more Electrocution buildup from Hits with this skill
Primal ArmamentSupports Attacks, causing them to deal more Elemental damage.Lv1
Magnified EffectSupports any skill with an area of effect, making it larger.Lv1
ScattershotSupports Projectile skills, making them fire extra Projectiles. Also lowers Attack and Cast speed of supported skills, as well as lessening their damage.Lv1
Lightning InfusionSupports any skill that deals damage, causing them to Gain Lightning Damage but deal less Cold and Fire Damage.Lv1
RageforgedSupports any damaging skill that you use or Trigger yourself, causing it to spend Rage to deal more damage. If you don't have enough Rage to spend, the damage bonus will not apply.Lv1
Voltaic Mark(Lv19)4 gems

Mark a target, making them more susceptible to being Electrocuted. When the Marked target is Electrocuted, the Mark Activates, granting a Buff which gives extra Lightning damage and Consuming the Mark. Marking another target while you have the Buff will remove the Buff.

Hits against Marked enemy cause 25% increased Electrocute buildup
PersistenceSupports any skill that has a duration, making that duration longer.Lv1
Lightning MasterySupports Lightning skills, granting them an additional level. Does not support skills which do not have levels.Lv1
InspirationSupports any skill, making it cost less to use. Cannot support skills which reserve Spirit.Lv1
Charged MarkSupports Mark Skills, causing them to Trigger Charged Mark when they are Activated. Charged Mark creates Shocked Ground at the target's location.Lv1
Sorcery Ward(Lv20)1 gem

Passively manifests a protective barrier which takes Elemental Damage from Hits for you until depleted. The barrier instantly recharges to its full value a short time after it stops taking damage or is fully depleted.

Barrier recharges after 8 seconds
Cold MasterySupports Cold skills, granting them an additional level. Does not support skills which do not have levels.Lv1
Eternal Rage(Lv18)1 gem

While active, you constantly regenerate Rage.

Regenerate 0.25 Rage per second
VitalitySupports Persistent Buff Skills, causing you to gain Life Regeneration while the Skill is active.Lv1
Berserk(Lv16)1 gem

While active, strengthens your Rage, but causes you to lose Life while not losing Rage.

Grants 40% increased Rage effect
VitalitySupports Persistent Buff Skills, causing you to gain Life Regeneration while the Skill is active.Lv1
Enemy Explode(Lv1)No supports

No support gems detected for this skill.

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