Crossbow skills feedback

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Twelten#1961 wrote:
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teobibu#1278 wrote:
I spend a lot of hours playing with crossbow style from the beginning. I'm now 95 level and keep walking to 96 with slow but stable steps.

Crossbow had a lot of issues when the game released to early access.The 3 most important are:

1) A lot of investments that make passive points seem like dust in the wind.

2) Missing one extra gear slot that will solve the huge injustice between crossbows and bows. A gear like quiver in bows is essential for crossbows mechanism.

3) Reload time is pain in the a.s. Most time deaths come from this. If you surrounded and crossbow stucks,jams,reloads (whatever) you'll get a certain death.

After all with many attempts to Steam voice and Poe2 site, we managed convincing Devs to raise a little bit the damage to Crossbows. Thanks for that but is not enough to fill the injustice gap between bows and crossbows.

Yeap , most crossbow skills are dead nobody uses them at all


I played like 1000hrs++ as a crossbow user, I strongly agree with OP

I have around 1000 hours on crossbow aswell and more 200 on different weapons
Crossbows need more love from the devs
oh yes i forgot to mention how bad it feels, to need use the "LOAD XYX BOLT" after you die.
why is there not just the last clip i used preloaded?
Bump!
Despite that sometimes the Weapon doesn't fire when hovering mouse over objects, the big problem is the nonexistent of skills variety. There are almost 2 builds abd these can't face bosses as other weapon skills do.

First Devs need to change the DMG type of most skills to DPS. If the skill is slow then death comes in most times. I want to see Fragmentation of rounds to fire with DPS style.

Second some skills like Galvanic shards should have new gems that allow firing three bolts more powerful and not in width angle. Exactly like bows do.

Third if Devs don't intend to abolish reload time, it's fair not punishing extra with movement penalty when weapon fires. Enough with all of these punishment to a weapon that invest ton of things in passive tree. Crossbow needs at least double passives in comparison to other weapons.
Dear Devs read those comments those are true problems of crossbow users
+1. Devs need to do a lot of rework during summer. 3/3 failure until now made people realise that Crossbow is a weak weapon with lot of investments and punishments.

Doesn't worth even as a secondary weapon. Passive tree is mess and gives almost nothing to damage and other elements without spending ton of passive points or having a top class Crossbow wich drops one in million.

If patch 0.3.0 brings the same results in statistic analysis then it will be over for this weapon play style.
Movement penalty is too punishing while passives doesn't seem to help a lot. Some gems also add more movement penalty and make the situation way to bad in Crossbow use.

Also bugs related with most Extra damage gems should be fixed in all skills.

The passive tree need a big rework of the site of Warrior's space couse some passives can't be used by Merc class when passing over them.
Its very difficult to find a good Crossbow in bosses drops. Even if it has +5,6 to all skills , the damage is probably between 250-350. Top high class Crossbows didn't drop even in breach boss T4.

So if the skills are bad then the low damage of crossbow made them garbage. Every common Xbow should start with minimum 400 damage while high top Xbows should reach 1500 max damage.

Devs need to see videos of a party fight in bosses to realise that other weapons even in low levels chars, hit with insane damage and kill bosses in 2sec. Almost all players that using Crossbows suffer from unexpected deaths or exhausted fights that probably have low survibility.
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2)crossbow not having a quiver is a big downside ,bow quiver opens alo of build options crossbow should definitely have a Bolt sack or something similar to quiver


+1, though... too diablolike, no?
HC SSF. What else? Ruthless when?
Last edited by vestolevs#5239 on Jun 18, 2025, 9:07:49 AM
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2)crossbow not having a quiver is a big downside ,bow quiver opens alo of build options crossbow should definitely have a Bolt sack or something similar to quiver


+1, though... too diablolike, no?

not really , it only make sense its this weapon fires bolt so where do u keep the bolts ?xD

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