S-TIER | BUILD CHASSERESSE STORMBLAST MORTAR AMAZONE (@Glitched) | SAISON 5

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Build Overview

This is Glitched’s Stormblast Money Maker, a budget Huntress build with excellent value for money, designed to tackle the endgame without breaking the bank while generating massive amounts of currency. Its strength comes from a deceptively simple idea: with a crossbow costing just 1 Chaos Orb and three basic essences, you’re already dealing absurd boss damage thanks to the Stormblast Bolts + Mortar Cannon combo. Glitched clears high-level Trials of the Sekhemas in seconds — letting you farm the Trials of the Sekhemas on repeat for a minimal investment.

For mapping, the build is a one-button experience: you run with Galvanic Shards and everything melts as you pass through. The real complexity is reserved for bossing, where you execute a tight rotation. You pre-stack around thirty Stormblast Bolts on the ground, apply Elemental Weakness then Frost Bomb to shred resistances, stack Shock via Stormcaller Arrow, then fire the Mortar Cannon which detonates all the stacked bolts at once. The result: an elemental nuke that instantly deletes most bosses.

Everything revolves around a clever weapon swap — a crossbow in your main hand for the Stormblast combo, and a simple bow as your secondary weapon solely to apply Shock via Shock via Stormcaller Arrow. That’s what makes the build so accessible: no chase items required — any player can dive into the endgame and farm currency with a minimal investment.

Strengths / Weaknesses

Skill Gem Setup by Step

This build offers 3 endgame progression variants, from the entry-level setup through to the optimized build. Select a step to view the corresponding gem setup.

Read the notes – Non Crit Crit Tree Only If Crit On Weapon Crit Tree – No Rage Nodes

Read the notes – Non Crit

8 skills • 36 gemmes

Carreaux à déflagration orageuseStormblast Bolts

Canon mortier

Éclats galvaniquesGalvanic Shards

Bombe de givreFrost Bomb

Sensibilité aux élémentsElemental Weakness

Rage éternelleEternal Rage

Héraut du tonnerreHerald of Thunder

Flèche mande-orageStormcaller Arrow

Crit Tree Only If Crit On Weapon

8 skills • 36 gemmes

Carreaux à déflagration orageuseStormblast Bolts

Canon mortier

Éclats galvaniquesGalvanic Shards

Bombe de givreFrost Bomb

Sensibilité aux élémentsElemental Weakness

Rage éternelleEternal Rage

Héraut du tonnerreHerald of Thunder

Flèche mande-orageStormcaller Arrow

Crit Tree – No Rage Nodes

8 skills • 36 gemmes

Carreaux à déflagration orageuseStormblast Bolts

Canon mortier

Éclats galvaniquesGalvanic Shards

Bombe de givreFrost Bomb

Sensibilité aux élémentsElemental Weakness

Rage éternelleEternal Rage

Héraut du tonnerreHerald of Thunder

Flèche mande-orageStormcaller Arrow

Recommended Equipment

The biggest strength of this build is that it doesn’t require any expensive items to get started. Here are the pieces that make the real difference:

• Crossbow (main hand): a simple 1 Chaos Orb crossbow crafted with three basic essences is all you need for the Stormblast combo. This is the core of the money maker setup.
• Bow (off-hand): a basic bow rolled with as much Shock magnitude as possible. Its only job is to apply Shock via Stormcaller Arrow before the nuke — it doesn’t need to be powerful.
• Gloves — Leopolds Applause (optional): these gloves let you penetrate up to -50 resistance, a massive damage multiplier. They were very cheap at the start of 0.4 (≈10 Exalted Orb). Without them, simply replace with rare gloves and invest a few passive points into pen instead.
• Stat to prioritize: accuracy. On Amazon, accuracy equals crit, which opens the door to a full crit setup down the line.

Gameplay Tips

• Mapping: keep it simple. Run with Galvanic Shards and let the build sweep everything clean — no need to pull out the boss combo on regular packs.
• Boss rotation: switch to your Stormblast Bolts, pre-place about thirty of them during the boss spawn, cast Elemental Weakness then Frost Bomb, apply Shock with Stormcaller Arrow, and finish with the Mortar Cannon to detonate everything.
• Resistance reduction: opening with Elemental Weakness + Frost Bomb saves a huge number of pen points on the passive tree. With Leopolds Applause on top of that, you hit -50 pen.
• Detonator of choice: Glitched prefers Mortar Cannon (paired with Explosive Grenade) since it continuously relaunches grenades, but Explosive Shot also works to detonate the Stormblast Bolts.
• Alternative clear: since you’re carrying a bow in your secondary weapon set, you can clear with a bow skill (Lightning Arrow for example) if you find a decent one.

The Stormblast + Mortar Cannon Combo Explained

The entire power of the build relies on a detonation mechanic. Stormblast Bolts do almost nothing on their own until triggered: you stack around thirty of them in the boss area before the fight even begins. These bolts sit on the ground, waiting to explode.

It’s the Mortar Cannon, socketed with Explosive Grenade, that acts as the detonator. By continuously lobbing grenades, it sets off the entire stockpile of Stormblast Bolts at once. Since each bolt releases a lightning detonation, the sum of dozens of simultaneous explosions produces a massive damage spike — enough to delete most bosses instantly. As the streamer put it perfectly: « there wasn’t even a sound, the boss just died. »

Why Two Weapons: Crossbow and Bow

The build intentionally uses two weapon sets. The crossbow, in the main hand, carries the entire Stormblast combo and handles farming. The bow, on the other hand, serves a single purpose: applying Shock via Stormcaller Arrow.

Why not do everything with the crossbow? Because Shock sources on the crossbow side are poor. Glitched works around this by equipping a basic bow loaded with Shock magnitude. Since Shock is a damage multiplier, you apply it just before the big nuke to maximize your damage. An unexpected bonus: since you’re already carrying a bow, you can also use it to clear with a bow skill like Lightning Arrow if you find a decent one.

Ascendancy Choice: Amazon and Its Alternatives

Glitched plays Amazon, but makes it clear: nothing forces you to follow that choice. Amazon is picked for its accuracy-based crafting options on a budget (accuracy bases are easy to find), and because accuracy equals crit for this build, which opens up a future crit setup.

The other ascendancies are just as viable:

• Deadeye: an extra projectile to stack Stormblast bolts faster, and the Mirage Deadeye clone that fires Explosive Shot on its own — to the point where you can drop the Mortar entirely.
• Infernalist: « free » spirit to run Herald of Thunder + Eternal Rage very early, plus the flexibility to pivot later into a Reap or Crit Stack build.
• Witchhunter: Sorc Ward carries your survivability in the early game.
• Gemling Legionnaire: with the quality rework (two bonuses per skill), the potential could be huge — to be confirmed once the 0.5 values are known.
• Tactician: early spirit and solid elemental resistance coverage via Inspiring Ally, but more reliant on Pin and additional button presses.

Farming the Trials of the Sekhemas on a Budget

The primary goal of this build is clear: make money fast. Its disproportionate boss damage relative to its cost makes it a non-stop farming machine for the Trials of the Sekhemas, where other builds need to invest far more just to get through them. An absurdly cost-efficient currency farm.

And even if Sekhemas isn’t your cup of tea, the 0.5 league/patch adds a whole new batch of pinnacle bosses. Being able to face them with such a low-cost build is an excellent value-for-money way to take on the endgame.

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