PoE: Top 7 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 melee damage taken, 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 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 it here Impale Flicker Strike Champion.
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3. CoC Ice Spear Cyclone Inquisitor (Templar)
Ice Spear received a huge buff last season with the addition of Ice Spear of Splintering and moved up to third place.
Mapping: 9/10 Delve: 10/10 Heist: 10/10 Damage: 8/10 Safety: 9/10 Bosses: 8/10
Build Guide
The CoC Ice Spear Cyclone Inquisitor received a major buff last season with the addition of Ice Spear of Splintering making it one of the strongest heist builds in the game. Ice Spear lost its 600% critical strike chance increase which was redundant for a cast on critical strike build, greatly increased the damage of Ice Spear, and now splits into multiple projectiles that target nearby enemies. Ice Spear also has great damage against unique and rare 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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4. 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: 9/10 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 Power charges at all times which improves your physical damage reduction and increases your critical strike chance. If you are interested in trying out the Shockwave Totem Hierophant you can find a guide here Shockwave Totem Hierophant.
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5. Freezing Pulse Totem Hierophant (Templar)
The Freezing Pulse Totem Hierophant is the strongest spell totem build in the game for heist 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 strongest totem build in the game with a chilling and freezing attack which greatly improves your survival. This build also has four Endurance charges and four Power charges at all times which is extremely helpful offensively and defensively in grand heists and heists. If you are interested in trying out the Freezing Pulse Totem Hierophant in grand heists you can find a guide for the build here Freezing Pulse Totem Hierophant.
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6. Poison Summon Raging Spirits Necromancer (Witch)
This build is the strongest 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 Poison Summon Raging Spirit Necromancer also known as the Poison SRS Necromancer is the strongest minion build in the game and excels at heists and grand heists. This builds single target damage is extremely impressive while still maintaining very high damage against groups of enemies. If you are interested in trying out the Poison Summon Raging Spirit Necromancer build you can find a guide for it here Poison Summon Raging Spirit Necromancer.
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7. CoC Forbidden Rite Cyclone Occultist (Witch)
This build is extremely strong once you invest a large amount of currency into it and takes the seventh place spot.
Mapping: 9/10 Delve: 10/10 Heist: 10/10 Damage: 9/10 Safety: 8/10 Bosses: 8/10
Build Guide
This build excels at clearing normal enemies with the Profane Bloom ascendancy which makes enemies explode on death dealing a high amount of chaos damage to nearby enemies but also has middle of the road single target damage. This build is expensive to optimize but does very high damage against normal enemies once you have great equipment and a 100% critical strike chance. 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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HM. Scourge Arrow & Caustic Arrow Pathfinder (Ranger)
The best bow build for grand heist is the Scourge Arrow of Menace & Caustic Arrow of Poison Pathfinder.
Mapping: 9/10 Delve: 10/10 Heist: 10/10 Damage: 9/10 Safety: 9/10 Bosses: 7/10
Build Guide
The Scourge Arrow of Menace and Caustic Arrow of Poison Pathfinder is the best poison bow build in the game and was added last season with the release of transfigured gems. Scourge Arrow of Menace is excellent for killing groups of enemies and Caustic Arrow of Poison is great for dealing single target damage. If you are interested in trying out this new build in heists you can find a guide for it here Scourge Arrow of Menace/Caustic Arrow of Poison Pathfinder.
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That's all for the Top 7 Grand Heist Builds! For more about heists you can view the endgame guide here Endgame Guide.
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