Best Bleed Huntress build in Path of Exile 2

Discover everything you need to know about the best Bleed Huntress build in Path of Exile 2 and what makes this build stronger.

Path of Exile 2 has received its first ever major update that brings a lot of changes and new additions, including a new class, ascendancies, and support gems. Huntress is the newest class, along with the two new ascendancies. The Bleed Huntress Build is the strongest damage-dealing setup that includes a spear and a buckler to deal damage to enemies. Choosing the best stats, ascendancy, gear, and passive skills are crucial for this build, as your gameplay mostly depends on them. The skills you choose for the Bleed Huntress build determine your strategies and approaches on a battlefield. In this guide, we’ll discuss the Best Bleed Huntress Build in Path of Exile 2, including the best gear and passive skills to use.

Bleed Huntress build in Path of Exile 2 Explored

The Bleed Huntress build in Path of Exile 2 focuses on high single-target damage with physical damage scaling and great mobility. This unique setup excels particularly for bossing and focuses on the efficient scaling of bleed damage. Bleed is a damage-over-time effect that applies when you deal physical damage to an enemy. The more attacks you land, the more bleed you can stack on enemies. Our build includes skills like Twister, Whirlwind Lance, Spearfield, Blood Hunt, Shield Charge, Bloodhound’s Mark, Herald of Blood, Combat Frenzy, and Wild Dancer.

We add the Support Gems with each skill to make that skill gem even more powerful and effective. Investing in regular stats, defensive stats, and offensive stats is crucial as they complement your playstyle. Sword Spear and Grim Spin Ridged Buckler are the best weapons to choose for the Bleed Huntress build in Path of Exile 2. However, this build depends on physical damage and requires high attack speed to dominate enemies.

Bleed Huntress Build Pros	Bleed Huntress Build Cons
Damage Over Time	Depends on Physical Damage
Great For Bossing	Requires High Attack Speed to Shine
High Mobility

Best Bleed Huntress skills and support gems in Path of Exile 2

Here are all the best active skills and Support Gems for the Best Bleed Huntress build in Path of Exile 2.

• Twister
  • Retreat (Support Gem)
  • Deep Cuts (Support Gem)
  • Lacerate (Support Gem)
  • Acceleration (Support Gem)
• Whirlwind Lance
  • Salvo (Support Gem)
  • Malady (Support Gem)
  • Martial Tempo (Support Gem)
• Spearfield
  • Bloodlust (Support Gem)
  • Rage (Support Gem)
  • Incision (Support Gem)
• Blood Hunt
  • Execute (Support Gem)
  • Concentrated Effect (Support Gem)
  • Close Combat (Support Gem)
• Shield Charge
  • Ingenuity (Support Gem)
• Bloodhound’s Mark
  • Single Out (Support Gem)
• Herald of Blood
  • Magnified Effect (Support Gem)
  • Reach (Support Gem)
  • Bone Sharpnel (Support Gem)
• Combat Frenzy
  • Profusion (Support Gem)
  • Precision (Support Gem)
• Wild Dancer
  • Maim (Support Gem)
  • Vitality (Support Gem)

Twister

Whip up a twister with a flick of your Spear. The twister moves forward erratically, blinding and repeatedly hitting enemies within. If a twister touches a Whirlwind from your other skills, it consumes the Whirlwind to create additional twisters that deal more damage. Passing over Elemental Ground Surfaces or Consuming an elemental Whirlwind will grant twisters extra damage of that element.

• Blinds Enemies
• Pierces All Targets
• Twister Radius is 0.5 Metres
• Twister Duration is 3 seconds
• Consumes Whirlwinds to create an additional Twister and deal 80% more damage per Whirlwind stage
• Elemental Twisters gain 50% of damage as damage of the corresponding type
• Twisters fired at the same time can hit the same target
• Target no more than once every 0.66 seconds

Retreat (Support Gem)

Supports Skills which create Projectiles. Supported Skills deal more damage with Projectiles if you have struck with a Melee Hit in the last eight seconds but cannot themselves deal Melee Damage.

• Supported skills deal 25% more projectile damage if you have damaged an enemy with a melee hit in the last eight seconds
• Supported skills deal no melee damage

Deep Cuts (Support Gem)

Supports any skill that hits enemies, causing it to deal less damage but inflict more potent Bleeding.

• 75% more Magnitude of bleeding inflicted with Supported Skills
• Supported Skills deal 25% less damage with Hits

Lacerate (Support Gem)

Supports any skill that hits enemies, giving it a chance to inflict Bleeding.

• Supported Skills have a 30% chance to inflict Bleeding.

Acceleration (Support Gem)

Supports Projectile skills, making those Projectiles travel faster.

• Supported Skills have 40% more Projectile Speed

Whirlwind Lance

Throw a Spear with enough force to kick up a Whirlwind where it lands, slowing enemies and blinding them in its area of effect. Entering the Whirlwind collapses it, dealing damage and causing Knockback. Consumes a Frenzy Charge if possible to create the Whirlwind with one more than its normal maximum number of stages.

Salvo (Support Gem)

Supports Attack Skills you use yourself which fire Projectiles. Supported Skills accumulate Seals over time, and consume them when used. For each Seal consumed, the Attack will fire additional Projectiles. Projectiles from Supported Skills are fired in random directions. Cannot Support Skills which require Combo, have a Cooldown or already gain Seals.

• Projectiles from Supported Skills are fired in random directions
• Supported Skills fire 2 additional Projectiles per seal consumed
• Supported Skills consume all Accumulated seals on use
• Supported Skills have 3 maximum seals. Supported Skills Accumulate a seal every 2 seconds

Malady (Support Gem)

Support Skills which can cause Damaging Hits, causing base chance to inflict Bleed with Supported Skill to instead apply to base chance to Poison, and causing base chance to Poison to instead apply to Bleed.

• Base Bleed chance instead applies to Poison for Supported Skills
• Base Poison chance instead applies to Bleed for Supported Skills

Martial Tempo (Support Gem)

Supports Attacks, causing them to Attack faster.

• Supported Skills have 25% more Attack Speed

Spearfield

Stab the ground, causing multiple spears to burst out of the ground in front of you in a large area. The spears remain for a duration or explode when enemies touch them, damaging and maiming them.

• Creates 1 Spear per 0.2 metres of Radius: Spears emerge within a 4.3 metre length cone
• Spear duration is 6 seconds
• Maximum 70 active Spears
• Additional Effects from Quality: Hazards created by this skill have a 0(0-10)% chance to rearm after they are triggered
• Maim on Hit
• Maims from this skill Slow an additional 10%
• Explosion Radius is 0.6 metres
• Spears that have existed for at least 0.5 seconds deal 300% more damage
• Hazards created by this skill have 0(0-10)% chance to rearm after they are triggered

Bloodlust (Support Gem)

Supports Melee Attacks, causing them to deal more damage against bleeding enemies but preventing them from inflicting bleeding.

• Supported skills deal 30% more Melee Physical Damage against bleeding enemies
• Supported attacks cannot cause bleeding

Rage (Support Gem)

Supports Melee Attacks, causing them to grant Rage on Hit.

• Supported Skills grant 3 Rage on Melee Hit.

Incision (Support Gem)

Supports Attack Skills. Supported Skills inflict Incision on Hit, which causes Enemies to be increasingly more likely to be inflicted with Bleeding. All Incision is removed from a target by inflicting it with Bleeding.

• Hits from Supported Skills inflict Incision
• 3% more Magnitude of Bleeding inflicted with Supported Skills per Incision consumed recently, up to 30%

Blood Hunt

Lunge at a target and skewer them. Hitting an enemy that has suffered Blood Loss will cause a blood explosion and also Consume Bleeding. This skill cannot be Ancestrally Boosted.

• +0.15 seconds to Total Attack Time
• Explosion Radius is 1.3 metres
• Deals 25% of Consumed Blood Loss as additional unscalable Physical Attack Damage
• 10% more Area of Effect per 18 Blood Loss Consumed, up to 500%
•  Additional Effects from Quality: +0(0-0.4) metres to explosion radius

Execute (Support Gem)

Supports any skill that hits enemies, causing it to deal more damage against enemies on low life.

• Supported skills deal 40% more damage with hits against enemies that are on low life

Concentrated Effect (Support Gem)

Supports any skill with an area of effect, causing that area to be smaller but any area damage it deals to be higher.

• Supported skills deal 40% more area damage
• Supported skills have 50% less area of effect

Close Combat (Support Gem)

Supports Attacks, causing them to deal more damage to enemies based on how close they are to you.

• Supported Skills deal 25% more attack damage to enemies within 1 metre of you, scaling down to no bonus at 3.5 metres or further

Shield Charge

Channel to charge in the target direction. You will crash into enemies on your path, stopping your charge and dealing damage to enemies in an area, and extra damage to the enemies you collide with. While charging, your Shield is raised, and you will block all incoming Blockable hits.

• 7 to 10 Base Off Hand Physical damage
• 2 to 3 added Physical Damage per Armour on Shield
• Impact Radius is 2.4 metres
• Knock Back enemies
• 50% more Stun Buildup

Ingenuity (Support Gem)

Supports skills with Cooldowns, increasing the rate at which those Cooldowns recover.

• Supported skills have a 30% increased cooldown recovery rate

Bloodhound’s Mark

Mark a target, making them suffer Heavy Stun build-up from Blood Loss. If they suffer enough Blood Loss while marked, the Mark is consumed, and they will release an explosion of blood when killed or Heavy Stunned. The duration doesn’t tick while the target is suffering Blood Loss.

• Limit 1 Marked target
• Mark duration is 8 seconds
• Marked target releases a Blood Explosion when Heavy Stunned
• Marked target releases a Blood Explosion on death if they had at least 20% Heavy Stun buildup from Blood Loss
• Marked target receives Heavy Stun buildup equal to 200% of Blood Loss
• 67 to 100 base Physical Damage
• Cannot cause Bleeding
• Explosion radius is 2 metres
• Gains up to 100% more damage and 100% more area of effect based on the percentage of target’s Heavy Stun buildup caused by Blood Loss

Single Out (Support Gem)

Supports Mark Skills. Enemies affected by Supported Marks will have their Armour Broken by Physical Damage they take.

• Enemies marked by Supported Skills have armor broken equal to 10% of Physical Damage taken.

Herald of Blood

While active, killing an enemy with Blood Loss will cause a bloody explosion that deals Physical Attack damage to surrounding enemies based on the life of the exploded enemy, destroying their Corpse in the process. The explosion also has a chance to aggravate Bleeding.

• Base Physical Damage
• Can’t Be Evaded
• Explosion Radius is 1.8 Metres
• Deals 15% of exploded enemy’s Blood Loss as unscalable Physical Attack Damage
• 55% chance to Aggravate Bleeding on Hit
• Enemies with Blood Loss you kill explode

Magnified Effect (Support Gem)

Supports any skill with an area of effect, making it larger.

• Supported Skills have 40% more area of effect.

Reach (Support Gem)

Supports Attack Skills which deal Damage in an Area. Supported Skills have significantly increased Area of Effect but are less Accurate against nearby targets.

• Supported Skills have 80% less accuracy rating against enemies within two meters
• Supported Skills have 35% more area of effect.

Bone Sharpnel (Support Gem)

Supports Skills which Hit Enemies, Supported Skills trigger Bone Shrapnel explosions when killing Pinned Enemies.

• Supported Skills cannot cause Pin buildup
• Supported Skills trigger Bone Shrapnel Explosions on killing Pinned Enemies
• Deals 25% of Pinned target’s Maximum Life as Physical Damage
• Cannot cause Pin buildup
• Explosion radius is 2 metres

Combat Frenzy

While active, it grants you a Frenzy Charge when you Freeze, Electrocute, or Pin an enemy. This can only occur once every few seconds.

• Gain a Frenzy Charge when you Freeze, Electrocute, or Pin an enemy, no more than once every 6.1 seconds.

Profusion (Support Gem)

Supports skills that can generate Charges, giving them a chance to generate and additional Charge when they do so.

• Supported Skills have 50% Chance to Grant an Additional Charge

Precision (Support Gem)

Supports Persistent Buff Skills, causing you to gain increased Accuracy while the skill is active.

• 30% increased accuracy rating while a supported sill is active

Wild Dancer

Grants a buff that gives you more Evasion per stage. Being hit by a Melee Attack while you have this buff consumes all stages to damage and knocks back enemies around you

• 3 maximum of three Stages
• 10% more Evasion Rating per stages on being hit by an enemy, consume all stages to trigger Gale Force
• Gain a stage every (1,1-1,5) seconds

Maim (Support Gem)

Supports Attacks causing them to Maim enemies.

• Supported attacks always Maim on hit

Vitality (Support Gem)

Supports Persistent Buff Skills, causing you to gain Life Regeneration while the skill is active.

• Regenerate 1% of Life Per Second while a Supported Skill is active

Best Bleed Huntress Stat Priorities

There are certain aspects and new mechanics that you must consider for a Bleed Huntress build in Path of Exile 2.

Regular Stats

• Physical Damage
• Increased Bleed Damage
• Attack Speed

Physical damage is essential for increasing your bleed damage, including base physical damage and added flat physical damage from gear or passive trees. Use the passive nodes or ascendancy bouses to amplify your overall physical damage. Bleed damage is crucial for maximizing your bleed output. Any item or node that increases bleed damage needs to be prioritized. Attack speed is also vital because it directly influences how fast you can apply bleeds and stack them on enemies. Faster attacks allow you to trigger bleeds more quickly.

Defensive Stats

• Life
• Evasion Rating
• Energy Shield
• Fire, Cold, and Lightning Resistance
• Movement Speed
• Mana Recovery

Evasion Rating is a key defensive mechanic for a Huntress-style build. It helps you avoid incoming attacks. You’ll want to stack this stat to dodge physical attacks. Energy Shield is essential for an additional layer of defense in tough encounters. This becomes increasingly useful with certain gear choices or ascendancies. You must cap your elemental resistances at 75% as it is one of the most crucial aspects of defensive stats, ensuring you don’t die to elemental damage. Life adds extra survivability by stacking life rolls on gear. Invest points in boots with high movement speed. Armour can reduce physical hits effectively in combat. Evasion is effective for summoners or chaos builds. Stats like mana regeneration rate and modifiers mitigate the mana cost of spells.

Offensive Stats

• Critical Strike Chance
• Projectile Damage
• Bleed Duration

Critical Strike Chance is important for scaling your crit chance while using Spear and Buckler. Increased Bleed Duration can help the enemy bleed for longer. This can lead to more damage over time affect on the enemies. Increasing projectile damage boosts both your attack and the damage dealt by your bleeds. This stat is specifically useful when scaling projectile-based attack skills.

Best Bleed Huntress Passive Skills

Path of Exile 2 offers passive skill nodes that we recommend grabbing when you can because they’re highly effective. The Huntress has stronger early options for the passive skill, enhancing the initial survivability. However, if you want to min-max more, they are easily respec-ed. You will get a massive boost to attack power and rate without depending on flasks. Consider picking notable passives in the star-shaped cluster from your starting point.

• Predatory Instinct- Reveal Weaknesses against rare and unique enemies. 50% more damage against enemies with an Open Weakness.
• Primal Instinct- It grants +10 to Dexterity, 8% increases attack speed, and 8% increases the area of effect.
• Stalk and Leap- 30% increased projectile damage if you’ve dealt a melee hit in the past 8 seconds. 30% increased melee damage if you’ve dealt a projectile attack hit in the past 8 seconds.
• Prolonged Assault- It grants 16% increased attack speed, 16% increased skill effect duration, and buffs on your expire 10% slower.
• Fast-Acting Toxins- Damaging ailments deal damage 12% faster.
• Wasting- It provides a 15% increased duration of damaging ailments on enemies and 30% increased damage with hits against enemies affected by ailments.
• Perfectly Placed Knife- It gives a 30% increased critical hit chance against bleeding enemies. 20% chance to aggravate bleeding on targets you critically hit with attacks.
• Exposed Wounds- It provides a 15% increased chance to inflict ailments. Hit breaks 30% increased Armour on targets with Ailments.
• Bloodletting- 10% chance to inflict bleeding on hit. 15% increased magnitude of bleeding you inflict.
• Lay Siege- 1% increased damage per 1% chance to block.

Best Ascendancy for Bleed Huntress Build

The Amazon is the best Ascendancy to choose for the Huntress build in Path of Exile 2. It offers a dynamic playstyle with a focus on critical and elemental damage. It is just doubling down on the Huntress, making your spears more valuable using things like power charges and frenzy charges. This is only to get different elemental bonuses, increasing your abilities against rare and unique enemies with opened weaknesses. It allows you to deal 50% more damage and do some interesting things with your life and mana flasks. It also allows you to leech life with both elemental and physical damage. The next one here, the Forgemaster, is very interesting.

You can forge your weapon and increase its viability in the middle of battle. This adds explosions to your weapon with a tempered weapon. You can also craft your chest piece using the ascendancy. Your body armor will essentially be a blank slate where you can add different stats on top of it using your ascendancy. This is a unique thing, and it allows for some interesting customization. This is where you normally wouldn’t be able to get some of these mods or be able to just perfectly change your build on a whim if you get an upgrade somewhere else. However, the Amazon requires proper positioning and charge management as well.

How Skill Tree is Set in POE2

For most new players, the passive skill tree is extremely daunting, but actually, it’s quite simple. A character is granted one passive skill point every time they level up and are sometimes even granted more from completing certain quests. In extremely simple terms, we have the intelligence section, which focuses on spell damage, summoning, and elemental damage.

Next, we have the Dexterity section, which is more focused on ranged combat, evasion, and speed. At the bottom left, we have the Strength section, which is more melee and defense-oriented. Next, we’ve passive nodes and they are split into two categories. The small passives grant minor bonuses, such as a small increase in attack speed, spell damage, melee damage, or attributes.

Second, we’ve got notable passives. These are larger passive points that grant greater bonuses than the smaller ones but they have stats on them that are often closely related to the small passives leading up to them. Think of these as checkpoints to work towards. On top of this, we have a third passive point, but it is not entirely comparable to the other two. For the third one, we have the keystones, which are build-changing and character-defining and often provide a massive amount of power with a downside. However, these downsides can be reduced or worked towards.

Following a specific setup is extremely useful, and understanding the passive skill tree can make or break your character. Investing more time in this specific section will upgrade your knowledge of the game.

Best Bleed Huntress Gear

Gear Slot	Gear	Requirement	Effect
Main Hand Weapon	Sword Spear	52 level, 37 str, 92 dex	(110-134)% increased Physical Damage Adds (6-9) to (11-16) physical damage +(168-236) to accuracy rating +(17-20) to Dexterity +(3,1-3,8)% to critical hit chance (11-13)% increased attack speed
Off-Hand Weapon	Grim Spin-Ridged Buckler	Level 22, with 42 dex	Grant Skill: Parry 30% Increased Evasion Rating +28 to maximum life +15 to Dexterity +12% to lightning resistance
Shield	Ancestor Tower Shield	50 level, 92 str	Grant’s skill: Raise Shield
Helmet	Expert Elite Greathelm	75 level, 139 str.	+(200-214) to maximum Life +(34-36) to Strength +(17-18) to all elemental resistances
Body Armour	Pandemonium Suit Vagabond Armour	Level 17, 20 Str, 20 Dex	+30 to Armour +38 to evasion rating 16% increased armour and evasion +16 to Strength 2.6 Life Regeneration per second
Gloves	Advanced Riveted Mitts	45 level, 73 str.	+(200-214) to maximum Life
Boots	Bushwhack	33 level, 57 dex	(15-25)% increased movement speed (50-80)% increased evasion rating +(10-20) to Dexterity Physical damage is pinning
Ring 1	Advanced Riveted Mitts	45 level, 73 str.	+(200-214) to maximum Life
Ring 2	Iron Greaves	11 level, 20 str.	+(200-214) to maximum Life 35% increased movement speed
Amulet	Amber Amulet	8 level	+(10-15) to Strength +(150-174) to maximum Life Adds (12-19) to (22-32) physical damage to attacks +(36-40) to fire resistance

How to Play Bleed Huntress in Path of Exile 2

You always have Spearfield as an option for the pack of enemies. If you want to slow things down or be more methodical, that can be placed before enemies come into range. Also, they are rushing towards you to stop them dead in their tracks. You don’t have to use that, though, for easier enemies. If you’re just pushing through and trying to clear faster, then you’re going to just start with explosive Spear.

You can place two of those at your enemy’s feet, then you will dash into melee range either with Whirling Slash or with Rake. This allows you to start dealing that melee damage. Rake tends to be good for single targets or smaller groups of bosses, while whirling slash is going to be better against larger groups. You can spam it multiple times to increase your AOE damage. That skill specifically maxes out at three casts, giving you a larger size storm. This way, you can dodge-roll out of the way for it to explode for even more bonus damage. So, you’ve got an explosion from spears and your whirling/ tornado. If anything happens to survive that or if more enemies are rushing in, then they often will be exploded by your Bloodherold skill. However, it has a slightly delayed pop as you start to finish off enemies.

Bleed Huntress against Bosses

You have three to four different types of explosions, all happening in sequence. Now, for bosses at this point, you can do something kind of similar firing off your two explosive spears. You can dash into melee either with a slash or again using rake if you want to focus on bleed damage. Just keep moving, though- Do a slash or two, then dodge back to get some distance, and fire off those explosive spears again. That’s your ranged attack and then you back into melee range for a few more slashes and simply rinse and repeat from there. Overall, it’s a really fun and active play style and it’s easy to do a lot of damage while also staying mobile and avoiding boss damage at the same time.

Best Bleed Huntress build in Path of Exile 2 Summary

FAQs about Best Bleed Huntress build in Path of Exile 2 (POE 2)?

How important is gear for my Bleed Huntress build?

Gear in Path of Exile 2 is crucial for any build, including your Bleed Huntress build. The Gears determine how strong and survivable your build will be in combat. Gear in the Bleed Huntress build allows you to handle the tougher battles in Path of Exile 2, so always focus on improving gear through crafting, buying, or farming.

How do I acquire Bleed Huntress’s new skills?

Yes, you can respec your Bleed Huntress build by refunding passive skill points through The Hooded One, an NPC located in the Clearfell Encampment. Complete the “Sorrow Among Stones” quest in Act 1 to unlock this feature. However, it will take you 2 to 5 hours, depending on your pace.

Can I re-spec my Bleed Huntress build if I make a mistake?

The Huntress class in Path of Exile 2 has a wide variety of skills, primarily centered around elemental damage. Getting new skills involves obtaining skill gems that you can socket into the equipment to grant corresponding abilities. You can obtain the skill gems while progressing through the campaign or you can purchase the skill gems from the vendors.

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