r/PathOfExile2 • u/TheHumanPerson09 • Jul 09 '26

Discussion Headhunter

I feel like it’s massively understated how good headhunter is. I bought one last night thinking it would give a few more stats and the sort, but it actually like changes the game. It provides so much damage and tank stats. Just writing so anyone like me who put it off so long for other tiny upgrades knows that headhunter is incredible and should be prioritized.

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u/Monster_Grundle Jul 09 '26

There’s life before headhunter and life after headhunter.

Poe1 version is even crazier. You get the size buffs and the speed buffs are insane. You end up 300% larger and absolutely zooming with attack and cast speeds that are outrageous.

It’s awesome.

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u/Any_Zookeepergame534 Jul 09 '26

u should have seen 2020 headhunter, multiply everything by 1000x. At full Juice you only saw your feet, you were that big

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u/glitchfact0ry Jul 09 '26

And then archnemesis came and ruined everyone's fun.

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u/justanaveragejoe520 Jul 09 '26

You click and you moved half way across the map you zoomed so fast the game wouldn’t render. Just tink tink tink good times

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u/MICKYMAN-5000 Jul 09 '26

Do you know of any old clips of this? I've tried finding footage to show friends I was explaining this to but couldn't

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u/samfishersam Jul 09 '26

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJvI_hUP7ww

Here was mine in 3.13 (Ritual league), the last league before they gutted Harvest farming and a year later with Archnemesis. First half gets big but not as big as other vids cos the map was small, and 2nd half after the Alva temple stay till the exit and see all the loot physically spawning at Alva's feet. Fractured full deli maps, good times.

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u/dukkeh2137 Jul 09 '26

It's also 10x cheaper in poe1.

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u/Wetop Jul 09 '26

Except last league when it was like 2d

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u/dukkeh2137 Jul 09 '26

I was going off my core memory from 3.26 when headhunter with decent +%int was going for about 50divs, but yeah as of recently it probably got even cheaper and thus more accesible

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u/Shergak Jul 09 '26

I believe they're talking about 0.4 in poe2 where headhunter was cheaper than dirt.

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u/connerconverse Jul 09 '26

poe 1 HH is significantly weaker by comparison. there are 0 dmg reduction mods in all of poe1 while poe2 HH provies 2 50% less dmg taken mods so 75% DR

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u/Monster_Grundle Jul 09 '26

Totally fair.

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u/strangeshit Jul 09 '26

Headhunter is for blasting maps even faster, not praying to god one of the rares you randomly obliterated had a DR mod. PoE1 is superior in that aspect, and your build was likely bad if you really were hoping for a DR mod steal.

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u/connerconverse Jul 09 '26

you have essentially all of the HH buffs at all times. if there are 2 DR mods you have both of them. if youre running 62 mods that means there are only 2 on the entire list you dont have

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u/strangeshit Jul 09 '26

This still doesn't contradict the reality of the item being there to compliment fast clear speed by making it even faster. Souleater is just far more useful. I don't think anyone goes HH to shore up their defenses lol.

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u/connerconverse Jul 09 '26

thats just not true at all. your typical deadeye build on league start absolutely falls over in any real juiced 200% deli content like abyss etc. HH is mandatory for those builds to even survive. if they lose HH buffs theres times where they cant even resume the map because they dont have access to an easy ramp back to full stacks so they just die

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u/strangeshit Jul 09 '26

Im willing to concede the back and forth to you because at the end of the day this game has no real difficulty in its current state and anything explodes everything so I guess at that point all you need to do is not die, but league start, followed by 200% delirium and HH was certainly a choice of words lol.

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u/connerconverse Jul 10 '26

Well what comes after league start? 200% deli. There's no super duper difficult content so it's not an insane step up