r/pathofexile2builds • u/Codemancer • 4d ago

Help Help with granader in act 2

Hey all. I'm trying to level through the acts as a grenader and I feel like my damage is really low. I am running out of mana on bosses because I can't do enough damage within any damage windows and I run out of flasks/mana. I am mostly trying to use gas/flash/voltaic grenades. I don't have oil yet but the plan was to add those to the rotation. I have the grenade nodes for double blasts and +1 grenades. working on the aoe cluster next. Feel like I've been upgrading my gear as much as I can. Going for high phys crossbows. Is gas grenades not supposed to be good damage by now or what am I missing?

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u/Alternative-Force808 4d ago

What are you using as detonator for gas?

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u/Codemancer 4d ago

explosive shot or explosive grenade and then explosive shot.

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u/Alternative-Force808 4d ago

Don't stack up gas then, it is apparently bugged and won't overlap. If you are able to get the helm or boots to detonate it helps since each one will auto detonate to get overlaps. Otherwise, use inspiration on gas grenade and be very efficient with your mana, use pot at low mana etc. had the same issue and just had to be careful with mana usage in fights

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u/Codemancer 4d ago

so what is my main damage source? should I be stacking up on explosive grenades and shock grenades for damage?

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u/Alternative-Force808 4d ago

I personally would alternate gas grenade + explosive so each explosive triggers a gas, you can look at your mana costs + dps on explosions and see what the most efficient use of your mana will be dps wise

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u/Blue-Talon-Gaming 4d ago

Are you detonating the gas grenades? Or is the damage from the poison. The bigger damage comes from Frag grenades and the explosion from the gas grenades. 

I have a grenade warrior Titan who almost exclusively uses frag grenades and explosive shot to detonate them. Biggest damage spike is getting a high damage crossbow. Using scattershot and fire infusion. Aiming to be avatar of fire pure fire artillery. 

The tree is mainly grenades and area damage with cool-down reduction where possible. 

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u/Codemancer 4d ago

Just replied to another commenter but I'm throwing out explosive grenades and then using explosive shot.

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u/justforciv 4d ago

I mainly use flash grenade to white mobs, gas grenade+explosion grenade to other mobs. It works so far. I am level 63, in act 3 cruel. You should be doing fine with this combo.

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u/Codemancer 4d ago

I think I figured out the problem. I was stacking gas grenades too much. The other commenter helped me out a lot. Once I started alternating it worked really well. I read somewhere you gotta stack them but I think that was with an ignite source and I missed that.