PoE Snipe Build 3.25 – Path of Exile: Settlers of Kalguur

The Snipe build in Path of Exile 3.25 is a powerful and versatile setup for bow users, designed to maximize damage output through precise and charged attacks. This build focuses on channelling to charge up your bow, releasing devastating attacks that can clear enemies and bosses alike. Here’s an in-depth guide to mastering the Snipe build.

Skill Overview

Snipe

• Type: Attack, Projectile, Channelling, Physical, Bow
• Level: 20 (Max)
• Mana Cost: 6
• Attack Speed: 180% of base
• Attack Damage: 100% of base
• Quality: +20%
• Requirements: Level 70, 155 Dex

Skill Description: Channel to charge up your bow, gaining stages. Release to trigger one supported bow skill for each stage gained. If there are no supported skills, but at least one stage was gained, this skill will fire its own arrow instead. Cannot be used by Totems.

• Maximum 7 Stages
• This Skill’s Arrows deal 108% more Damage with Hits per Stage
• This Skill’s Arrows deal 80% more Damage with Ailments per Stage

Snipe Support

• Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 50%
• Cooldown Time: 0.05 sec
• Supports: Bow attack skills. Cannot support channelled skills, instant skills, Vaal skills, or skills used by totems, traps, or mines.
• Supported Skills deal 40% less Damage
• Supported Skills deal 108% more Damage with Hits per Snipe Stage
• Supported Skills deal 80% more Damage with Ailments per Snipe Stage

Key Mechanics

• Channelling Stages: The Snipe skill allows you to charge up your attack, gaining stages that significantly increase the damage of your bow skills when released.
• Damage Multiplier: Each stage gained increases the damage of your arrows, making it crucial to channel for as long as possible before releasing.
• Support Skills: Snipe can support various bow skills, enhancing their damage output through the stages gained during channelling.

Gear and Weapons

• Bow: Choose a bow with high physical damage, attack speed, and critical strike chance. Look for modifiers that enhance projectile speed and damage.
• Quiver: Use a quiver that adds physical damage, attack speed, and critical strike multipliers.
• Armor: Prioritize armor with high evasion, life, and resistances. Gear that reduces mana cost and increases channelling speed is beneficial.
• Accessories: Equip amulets, rings, and belts that boost physical damage, attack speed, life, and resistances.

Support Gems

• Snipe Support: Essential for increasing the damage of your supported bow skills.
• Physical Projectile Attack Damage Support: Boosts the physical damage of your projectiles.
• Increased Critical Strikes Support: Improves your critical strike chance, increasing overall damage.
• Increased Duration Support: Extends the duration of your channelling, allowing for more stages.
• Elemental Damage with Attacks Support: Adds elemental damage to your attacks, increasing overall damage output.
• Vicious Projectiles Support: Enhances the damage of your projectiles.

Passive Skill Tree

• Projectile Damage: Focus on nodes that increase projectile damage and attack speed.
• Channelling Nodes: Invest in nodes that enhance channelling efficiency, damage, and speed.
• Physical Damage: Boost physical damage through the passive tree to maximize the damage output of your arrows.
• Life and Resistances: Ensure survivability by picking life and resistance nodes.

Flasks

• Life Flasks: Use instant recovery life flasks for quick healing during tough encounters.
• Utility Flasks: Equip flasks that increase evasion, movement speed, and resistances. A Diamond Flask is recommended for increased critical strike chance.

Defensive Strategies

• Evasion and Dodge: Utilize gear and passive skills that increase evasion and dodge chance to avoid incoming damage.
• Life Recovery: Invest in life leech and life regeneration to sustain health during prolonged battles.
• Channelling Management: Maintain optimal channelling duration to ensure maximum stages and damage output.

Utility Skills

• Dash: Provides mobility for quickly repositioning and escaping danger.
• Blood Rage: Increases attack speed and life leech, enhancing both damage output and survivability.
• Precision: Increases accuracy and critical strike chance, boosting overall effectiveness in combat.

Playstyle Tips

• Channelling: Channel for as long as possible to maximize stages before releasing your attack.
• Positioning: Maintain optimal positioning to ensure your arrows hit multiple enemies and maximize damage.
• Mobility: Stay mobile to avoid damage and reposition for better angles of attack.
• Flask Management: Regularly use life and utility flasks to maintain health and defenses during combat.

Conclusion

The Snipe build in Path of Exile 3.25 offers a unique and powerful playstyle for characters using bows. By focusing on channelling mechanics, projectile damage, and efficient support skill usage, players can effectively clear maps and handle tough bosses. Strategic positioning, proper flask usage, and investing in the right gear and passive skills will ensure the success of this build.