Endame Witchhunter Deepest Tower and Autoreload (T16 delirium + t3 pinnacle easy)

Hey Exiles, what’s up!

This is a guide for the Witchunt build using Deepest Tower and Autoreload.
Clear skill: Explosive Shot.
Bossing skill: High Velocity Rounds (HVR).

The build is super straightforward, but comes in two versions — the regular one and a crit-based version. The regular one is great for comfortably clearing maps up to T15. The crit version is tuned for T16+Delirium content and serious bossing.

💥 Core Mechanics
The build revolves around the combo:
Shattering Blow + Armor Explosion + Autoreload + Scavenged Plating.
You’ll also want to grab 2 nodes for increasing breakable armor and a few nodes for stun buildup.

As a result, anything that moves on your screen is going to get wiped without even needing to reload.
Now, unfortunately, for some reason Shattering Blow doesn’t break boss armor (GGG has left this broken since early access release), so we switch to HVR for bosses — and those rounds slap hard too.

🏹 Weapon Setup
For mapping, your crossbow must have extra bolts (ideally two). That means you're aiming for a Gemini (Twin) base. Downside? Long reload time. But in this build — it literally doesn't matter.

For bossing, any base works. You can use the same crossbow for both mapping and bossing, but the build is optimized for switching Weapon Sets.

🛡️ Defenses
Defense here comes from Sorcery Ward and armor. Yeah, armor kinda sucks in PoE2 right now, but Scavenged Plating helps a ton — getting over 80% mitigation is easy. Combined with Sorcery Ward, this makes you pretty tanky. You’ll only get one-shot by T4 Pinnacle bosses or that damn T4 Monkey.

🧬 Ascendancy Picks
Your ascendancy choices depend on your gear.
If you somehow hit 2500+ HP, go for No Mercy and Decimation — that’ll give you fat DPS for bosses and very fast clears.
But if you're like me and enjoy tanking half of Xesht's skillset with your face, go for Sorcery Ward and Decimation instead.

🏰 About Deepest Tower
This is the most expensive piece of gear in the build.
To unlock its full power, you’ll need some aura presence nodes, a couple of support gems, and an Ox charm in your boots.

⚔️ Final Thoughts
The build is designed for level 91, with a budget of around 10-15 Divine Orbs, and it comfortably clears any map with Delirium, plus at least T3 Pinnacles. T4 is totally doable, but you’ll need to actually hit your buttons and maybe even on time =)

The best part? It’s actually fun to play.
Maybe this is what GGG had in mind when designing PoE2.
Maybe it’s because content scaling feels balanced between gear and player skill.

In high-end gear, you’ll clear maps half-asleep with one button while face-tanking like a beast — and it’s still more engaging than Spark or attribute stackers from last league.
But even in budget gear — you’ll still get the job done, just with some sweat: dodging, swapping to HVR for rares, even tossing grenades sometimes.
Either way — you’re clearing content.

Thanks for reading — and GLHF out there, Exile!
Youtube:
Map https://youtu.be/Ixv5nmTqD78
Boss https://youtu.be/54sa9YV95UE

Maxroll:
https://maxroll.gg/poe2/planner/ns28201y

Cool. At what lvl can I switch? I don;t think i can handle the grenade playstyle till 91.

In the non-crit version you can go from the beginning of the acts with any gear. For the version through crit you need 85+ level and currency\ items.