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Path Of Exile 3.26 Explosive Arrow Ballista Elementalist Build: How To Choose Skills And Gear?

Posted: Jun 24, 2025 Views: 16

POE 3.26 brought back a lot of players, and the new leagues made everyone start over. Choosing a good starting build can save you a lot of time. But POE 1 and POE 2 are very similar, the item drop rate is too low compared to other similar games, so players need a build that does not rely on unique items and POE 1 currency, and is good to farm speed and boss damage.

Such requirements seem too high, but POE 1’s class system is designed to be very complex and therefore can meet the various needs of players. Explosive Arrow Ballista Elementalist is a very useful build from the beginning of the season to the endgame.

Path Of Exile 3.26 Explosive Arrow Ballista Elementalist Build: How To Choose Skills And Gear?

Pros And Cons

Pros

  • High damage with a small amount of gear
  • Safe playstyle
  • Solo Self-Found friendly

Cons

  • Defenses may be breached
  • Damage has some delay

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Skills

The following skills represent all the skill gems and support gems included in this build once it is fully built:

  • Explosive Arrow: Ballista Totem Support, Ignite Proliferation Support, Awakened Elemental Damage with Attacks Support, Awakened Burning Damage Support, Awakened Deadly Ailments Support
  • Summon Chaos Golem: Summon Stone Golem, Summon Flame Golem, Summon Lightning Golem.
  • Arcanist Brand: Flammability, Flame Surge, Flame Wall
  • Cast when Damage Taken Support: Molten Shell
  • Precision: Determination
  • Grace: Enlighten Support, Flame Dash, Arcane Surge Support
  • Frenzy: No
  • Blood Rage: No

In the early stages of the game, you play as a witch in the same way as a normal witch. But after you get Fixture of Fate, you need to go to Library and find Gem Vendor to get the following gems for backup:

  • Explosive Arrow
  • Ballista Totem Support
  • Faster Attacks Support
  • Grace
  • Haste
  • Blood Rage
  • Frenzy

You will need to embed these gems into your weapons later.

When you reach Act 4, you need to go to Oyun and get your Golems. You can get them from Vendor in the town. Each Golem requires 1 Chance Orb. Here are Golems you need:

  • Summon Flame Golem
  • Summon Lightning Golem
  • Summon Stone Golem
  • Summon Chaos Golem

Although these Golems can’t take much damage, you will enjoy the benefits of these Golems after you get Liege of the Primordial. They can provide resistance and health regeneration.

But remember to reactivate them every time you change equipment or socket out.

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Equipment

The advantage of Explosive Arrow Ballista Elementalist build is that it is not very dependent on equipment, because the game’s drop mechanism does not always drop the equipment you need. If the equipment is better, then change it.

However, since the survivability of this build is relatively weak, you need to pay attention to stacking more resistances when adjusting equipment, and your goal is to stack all resistances to 75%.

You can equip Sapphire Ring and Ruby Ring after level 20 to increase your resistance to the maximum.

Besides resistance, you can pay attention to the following affixes when choosing equipment:

  • Increase attack speed
  • Increase casting speed
  • Increase dodge
  • Increase accuracy (make sure to reach 100%)
  • Increase maximum speed

In addition, you need to avoid some misyakes:

  • 1. First, this build needs to use a bow, but you need to avoid using slow bows, and they will seriously reduce your DPS.
  • 2. Secondly, avoid making the number of projectiles an even number, because this may cause your arrows to split and miss the boss.
  • 3. Finally, you must pay attention to Accuracy. Although Explosive Arrow is your skill, it is the same as your normal attack. If Accuracy is not high enough, your arrows will not hit the enemy. Especially in the later stages of the game, stronger enemies will make it more difficult for you to hit, so it is best to let Accuracy reach 98 to 100.

After you have cleared all the campaigns, you can start to really build your weapons and armor. At this time, all your unused POE Divine Orb, Chaos Orb, etc. will come in handy. You don’t have to buy POE 1 currency anymore. Find a normal or rare equipment as a base and try to reroll the affixes you need most.

Since the survivability of Explosive Arrow Ballista Elementalist is relatively weak, you also need Flasks to provide you with additional resistance in battle. You can use currency to change the affixes of each Flask. Below are the Flasks and affixes you need.

  • Eternal Life Flask: Immune to Bleeding or Corruption Bleeding while Flask is in effect
  • Quartz Flask: Increases evasion while Flask is in effect
  • Quicksilver Flask: Increases armor while Flask is in effect
  • Granite Flask: Increases movement speed while Flask is in effect
  • Jade Flask: Reduces curse effects while Flask is in effect

This build may have some damage deficiencies after you enter the endgame, you can convert it to other builds to increase damage. You can also continue to improve various aspects of this build, which can also bring good damage.

The above are the equipment and skills required for Explosive Arrow Ballista Elementalist builds. This is a build used for leveling and early transitions, so there is a lot of flexibility in the choice of skills and equipment, and you can adjust it according to the currency and equipment you have.

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