PoE: Top 10 Grand Heist Builds
1. Shockwave Cyclone Slayer (Duelist)
The Shockwave Cyclone Slayer is strong in heists both offensively and defensively and has great mobility.
Mapping: 10/10 Delve: 10/10 Heist: 10/10 Damage: 9/10 Safety: 9/10 Bosses: 9/10
Build Guide
The Shockwave Cyclone Slayer is one of the strongest melee build in the game and really starts to shine in grand heists and heists once you have a strong staff. You will have Fortification to reduce your damage taken from hits, high block with a staff, and kill enemies at 20% of their life remaining from your ascendancies. If you are interested in trying out the Shockwave Cyclone Slayer build for heist you can find a guide for it here Shockwave Cyclone Slayer Guide.
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2. Impale Flicker Strike Champion (Duelist)
The Impale Flicker Strike Champion excels at heists and grand heists and is the best melee build for speed farming.
Mapping: 10/10 Delve: 10/10 Heist: 10/10 Damage: 9/10 Safety: 9/10 Bosses: 9/10
Build Guide
Flicker Strike teleports from pack to pack making it excellent at speed farming. The Impale Flicker Strike Champion is recommended because it has better defenses than the Cold Flicker Strike Raider and the Oro's Fire Flicker Strike Raider while still dishing out some very high damage with a physical weapon. If you would like to try out the Impale Flicker Strike Champion build you can find a guide for the build here Impale Flicker Strike Champion Guide.
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3. Righteous Fire & CwS Detonate Dead Chieftain (Marauder)
The Righteous Fire Chieftain is greatly improved by their life which makes it one of the tankiest builds in the game.
Mapping: 10/10 Delve: 10/10 Heist: 10/10 Damage: 9/10 Safety: 10/10 Bosses: 9/10​​
Build Guide
With the changes to the Chieftain ascendancy in 3.25 this build is now one of the best grand heist and heist builds. The Chieftain ascendancy makes your maximum cold and lightning resistance equal to your maximum fire resistance which makes it very easy to get 90% maximum fire, cold, and lightning resistances. You will stack life with this build which greatly improves your survivability because Righteous Fire has increased damage based on your maximum life. If you're interested in trying out this build in heists you can find a guide for it here Righteous Fire & CwS DD Chieftain Guide.
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4. CoC Ice Spear Cyclone Inquisitor (Templar)
Ice Spear received a buff in a previous season with the addition of Ice Spear of Splitting and is now fourth place.
Mapping: 9/10 Delve: 7/10 Heist: 10/10 Damage: 8/10 Safety: 7/10 Bosses: 7/10
Build Guide
The CoC Ice Spear Cyclone Inquisitor received a buff in a previous season with the addition of Ice Spear of Splitting which made it very strong in heists. Ice Spear lost its 600% critical strike chance increase which was redundant for a CoC build, gained greatly increased damage, and now splits into multiple projectiles that target nearby enemies. If you are interested in trying out this build in heist you can find a guide for it here CoC Ice Spear Cyclone Inquisitor Guide.
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5. Earthshatter Berserker (Marauder)
The Earthshatter Berserker has become the new melee slam meta and does very well with multiple warcries.
Mapping: 9/10 Delve: 10/10 Heist: 10/10 Damage: 9/10 Safety: 10/10 Bosses: 8/10​​
Build Guide​
When using Earthshatter, warcries are important because they repeatedly trigger the secondary damage explosions of Earthshatter which creates large area of effect explosions in heists. This means you can use Autoexertion gems to cast your warcries automatically and Overexertion Support to increase your damage for each recent warcry. If you would like to try out the Earthshatter Berserker slam build in heists a guide for it can be found here Earthshatter Berserker Guide.
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6. Shockwave Totem Hierophant (Templar)
The Shockwave Totem Hierophant is the strongest totem build in the game for heist and has excellent defensive layers.
Mapping: 10/10 Delve: 7/10 Heist: 10/10 Damage: 9/10 Safety: 9/10 Bosses: 10/10
Build Guide
The Shockwave Totem Hierophant is one of the strongest builds in the game for bosses and also does well at maps, delve, and heists while still having great defensive layers and mobility. You will also have four Endurance and four Power charges at all times which reduce your damage taken and increase your critical strike chance. If you are interested in trying out the Shockwave Totem Hierophant build you can find a guide for it here Shockwave Totem Hierophant Guide.
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7. Freezing Pulse Totem Hierophant (Templar)
The Freezing Pulse Totem Hierophant is the strongest spell totem build in the game for heists with a freezing attack.
Mapping: 10/10 Delve: 10/10 Heist: 10/10 Damage: 9/10 Safety: 10/10 Bosses: 8/10​
Build Guide
The Freezing Pulse Hierophant is the best spell totem build in the game with a chilling and freezing attack which improves your survivability in heists and grand heists. This build also has four Power charges and four Endurance charges at all times which improves both the offenses and defenses of the build. If you are interested in trying out the Freezing Pulse Totem Hierophant build in heists you can find a guide for the build here Freezing Pulse Totem Hierophant.
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8. Poison Summon Raging Spirits Necromancer (Witch)
This build is considered the best minion build in the game and can cast up to twenty Raging Spirits that seek out enemies.
Mapping: 10/10 Delve: 10/10 Heist: 10/10 Damage: 10/10 Safety: 10/10 Bosses: 10/10
Build Guide
The Summon Raging Spirit Necromancer also known as the Poison SRS Necromancer is one of the strongest minion builds in the game and it excels at heists and grand heists. This build's single target damage is extremely impressive while still maintaining very high damage against groups of enemies. If you are interested in trying out the Summon Raging Spirit Necromancer build in heists you can find a guide for it here Summon Raging Spirit Necromancer Guide.
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9. CoC Forbidden Rite Cyclone Occultist (Witch)
This build is extremely strong once you invest a very high amount of currency into it and takes the ninth place spot.
Mapping: 9/10 Delve: 10/10 Heist: 10/10 Damage: 9/10 Safety: 8/10 Bosses: 7/10​
Build Guide
This build excels at clearing normal enemies with the Profane Bloom ascendancy which makes enemies explode on death dealing high chaos damage to nearby enemies but also has somewhat middle of the road single target damage. This build deals very high damage once you have excellent equipment, a 100% critical strike chance, hits can't be evaded, and high increased spell damage. If you are interested in trying out the CoC Forbidden Rite Cyclone Occultist in grand heists and heists you can find a guide for the build here CoC Forbidden Rite Cyclone Occultist Guide.
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10. Int Stack Kinetic Bolt of Fragmentation Deadeye (Ranger)
The Intelligence Stack Kinetic Bolt Deadeye was strongly buffed this season and is a powerful build in 3.27.
Mapping: 10/10 Delve: 10/10 Heist: 10/10 Damage: 10/10 Safety: 8/10 Bosses: 10/10​​​
Build Guide
The Kinetic Blast of Fragmentation build was greatly buffed in 3.25 and 3.27 which greatly increased its damage in heists and grand heists. Kinetic Blast of Fragmentation projectiles can shotgun, split with Sniper's Mark, and then return when using Returning Projectiles Support. If you are interested in trying out the Kinetic Bolt of Fragmentation Deadeye build you can find a guide for the build here Intelligence Stacking Kinetic Bolt of Fragmentation Deadeye Guide.
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That's all for the Top 10 Grand Heist Builds! For more on Heists you can view the endgame guide here Endgame Guide.
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