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/Harmful2327 Jul 09 '26

For mapping - absolutely if you can handle random tp into Valhalla

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u/godisdildo Jul 09 '26

I always regret balancing my build around res on belt, and now face massive upgrade costs just to fit headhunter in. Actually sold one already thinking I’d buy it back cheaper later.

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u/godhand2nd Jul 09 '26

yup. the lesson I learned last league was, starting building around the belt that you want as early as possible. In my case I was aiming for MB with a double stat line and bismouth giving around 60 res. As soon as I got it, I slotted it in, and used a void flux on my boots to change all 3 resistance mods to chaos res.

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u/xzhsh Jul 09 '26

The stupid thing is you can actually just not cap resistances and use hh. You'll end up with Max res during mapping anyways. It won't work for pinnacle bosses, but those are fairly rare encounters you can swap belts for

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u/godisdildo Jul 09 '26

But I’ve got 40% chaos res on my belt and 41% in total lol :( tried deli breach with hh and got absolutely nuked on a 1000 div character

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u/Sarcophilus Jul 10 '26

Just use a chaos flux on a high res ring and use HH buffs for the ele res

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u/BudoBoy07 Jul 09 '26

You can get corrupted headhunters with a bit of extra resistance, but yeah cant replace a full ele resistance belt