PoE: Top 10 Grand Heist Builds
1. Shockwave Cyclone Slayer (Duelist)
The Shockwave Cyclone Slayer is very strong in heists both offensively and defensively with 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 it really starts to shine in grand heists and heists once you have an excellent staff. You will have Fortification to reduce your damage taken from hits, high block with a staff, and you can also kill enemies at 20% of their life remaining with your ascendancies. If you're interested in trying out the Shockwave Cyclone Slayer build you can find a guide for it in the menu at the top of this website.
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2. Impale Flicker Strike Champion (Duelist)
The Impale Flicker Strike Champion excels at heists and grand heists and it's 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 while attacking which makes it great at speed farming. The Impale Flicker Strike Champion is recommended because it has better defenses than the Cold Flicker Strike Deadeye and the Oro's Fire Flicker Strike Deadeye while still dishing out high damage with a high damage physical weapon. If you would like to try out the Impale Flicker Strike Champion build you can find a guide for it at the top of this website.
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3. Righteous Fire & CwS Detonate Dead Chieftain (Marauder)
Righteous Fire Chieftains are improved by their maximum life which makes them 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 top grand heist builds. The Chieftain ascendancy makes your maximum cold and lightning resistance equal to your maximum fire resistance which makes it easier to get 90% maximum fire, cold, and lightning resistances. You should stack life with this build which improves your survivability and Righteous Fire has increased damage based on your maximum life. If you're interested in trying out this Righteous Fire Chieftain you can find a guide for it in the menu at the top of this webpage.
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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 in 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 a strong build for heists. Ice Spear lost its 600% critical strike chance increase which was redundant for a CoC build, had its damage increased, and now splits into up to seven projectiles that attack nearby enemies. If you're interested in trying out the CoC Ice Spear Inquisitor you can find a guide for it in the menu at the top of this webpage.
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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 very important because they repeatedly trigger the secondary damage explosions of Earthshatter which creates multiple large area of effect explosions. 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 for heists a guide for it can be found in the menu.
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6. Shockwave Totem Hierophant (Templar)
The Shockwave Totem Hierophant is the strongest totem build in the game for heist and it 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 totem builds in the game for bosses and also does well at maps, delve, and heists while still maintaining 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're interested in trying out this Shockwave Totem build you can find a guide for it in the menu at the top of this webpage.
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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 with a chilling and freezing attack which also improves your survivability in grand heists and heists. The build has four Power charges and four Endurance charges at all times which gives improved damage and survivability. If you're interested in trying out the Freezing Pulse Totem Hierophant build in heists you can find a guide for the build in the menu at the top of this webpage.
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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 considered one of the strongest minion builds and it excels at heists and grand heists. The single target damage of the build is extremely impressive while still maintaining very high damage against large groups of enemies. If you're interested in trying out the Poison Summon Raging Spirit Necromancer build in heists you can find a guide for it in the menu at the top of this page.
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9. CoC Forbidden Rite Cyclone Occultist (Witch)
This build is very strong once you invest an extremely high amount of currency into it and it comes in at ninth place.
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 it also has somewhat middle of the road single target damage. Forbidden Rite Cyclone 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're interested in trying out the CoC Forbidden Rite Cyclone Occultist in grand heists and/or heists you can find a guide for it in the menu.
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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 very powerful build.
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 significantly buffed in 3.25 and 3.27 which greatly improved its damage in heists and grand heists. Kinetic Blast of Fragmentation projectiles can shotgun, split with Sniper's Mark, and then return with the Returning Projectiles Support gem. If you're interested in trying out the Kinetic Bolt of Fragmentation Deadeye build in heists you can find a guide for the build in the menu at the top of this webpage.
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That's all for this PoE guide! You can view more Path of Exile guides in the menu at the top of this page. Best of luck!​