Yes! Thank you so much! I’ve been waiting on this because you do a few things differently than I see everyone else doing

This is the type of build I've been looking for. Awesome, man. Thanks for sharing!

Awesome guide mate! Thanks for sharing the knowledge!

outstanding build guide video! thank you!

nice! can't wait to go through this. my idea and iteration of this build is to skip going bow and scale off throwing damage and throwing speed. utilizing all of the falcons throwing damage abilities, via Feather Knives in Falconry, which is a CDR based basic attack the falcon will do constantly and anytime you consume a falcon's mark. its CDR is scaled down with your throwing atk spd. next is using Aerial Assault instead of Dive Bomb, specifcally for Projectile Training. this is i think one of the most OP skills in the entire game right now?? it states "A portion of your added, increased and more throwing damage modifiers now apply to the Wing Burst. This effect also applies to Featherstorm" it gives 30% per point, for 4 points, is 120%. that means that all of the flat, increased AND MORE throwing damage you scale, the bird for those two attacks gets 120% of it. that, i assume, is on top of the bird already getting 75% of your increased damage via Trained to Hunt, and the passive Avian Hurl has a 5 point bonus of "Your Falcon gains a portion of your added throwing damage as added melee and throwing damage." at 50% value. so, my bird will then essentially get 195% of my increased damage, 120% of my more damage, and 170% of all my flat damage for both wing burst and featherstorm. not to mention the normal dex bonuses, blah blah blah. this is all for scaling throwing damage and atk spd, which explosive trap scales off of as well so long as you don't use a bow or take Blast Rain skill. it basically doesn't affect ballistas at all either, because their scaling is purely from dex and minion mods. i should also still be able to roll with smoke bomb which gives a massive boost in throwing damage as well, if you so choose. can't wait to get it going!! this class (almost said ascendancy) is super strong and really fun to play.

I will say if you're able to get a soul gambler's fallacy, the self cast ballista setup that Palsteron is doing is SO SMOOTH. All-in-all, the fact that exploding ballista is a prime build for Falconer is fantastic, and I hope it remains a mainstay of this class. The fact that it scales so well alongside the Falcon skills is wonderful. So much fun!!

god daym... this destroys ... respect from maxroll dive falconer to this and its much better

Dropped a Talons of Valor with 2 LP while I was leveling my Marksmen, gonna start leveling a Falconer today. Thanks for the guide!

this build looks really cool i will defenitly try it when

There are so many builds i want to try😭

Hi, love this build. I'm just a little confused with the + bow cold/ + bow physical on the bow and quiver. Does ALL bow damage, regardless of type, help scale the falcon? Or Should i be hunting phys and cold specifically? (assuming I have plenty of crit, crit multi, etc)

Just a note: you put points into Smoke Blades for Smoke Bomb but because you take Blast Rain, Explosive Trap no longer scales with Throwing Damage

Thank you for this great build. Why not Frigid barrage in the final version?

Anyone know why link to the build on maxroll isn't working? Was it never added prefer to read and watch when checking out builds

which loot filter are you using?

Have you thought of using numlock trick to automate the divebomb and maybe even smokebomb so u don't even need to actually cast it while grinding monolith. Worked like a charm for me

how do i open and use the loot filter in game?

What skill on ur right click? Sorry im still newbie

why do you go for cold traps tho?

I'm very happy, I made this same build without any guide, I decided to research a falconer guide and found the same build that I put together alone. However, I will make some adjustments based on yours. BUILD TOP. Pardon my English. I am Brazilian

Can you provide the loot filter you use for this build? That’d help easily outline what stats we’re looking for. Thanks for your help!

edit: nervermind im being dumb , im new to LE. gonna leave this comment for the algorithm how do you get the clustered explosive but the minefield is level one? isnt it supposed to have 2 level in order to get the clustered explosive?

How are you generating the ward ?

Why do you scale cold damage but keep the fire explosion ? you have coldsnap mines which gives cold res pen but you're not taking frigid barrage to convert explosion damage to cold? Am I missing smth can someone explain pls.

Curious about pros and cons of Aerial Assault instead of Shift, especially with affixes from Talons of Valor. Any thoughts?

how do you cast ballista if its not on your hotbar?

Is physical damage % any good for this build?

Just picked up most of this build! Before, I breezed through content. Now, at lvl 78, dex and minion dmg build, my dive bomb does 100 dmg. Is this a bug or what??

I don’t understand - how do you install ballistae? On the panel there is a shift instead of ballistae. In skills, ballistas are upgraded, not shift. I don't understand...

Shadow falcons are bugging dive bomb, making them literally not hit. Too bad because it's bonkers in ST :(, it doesn't bug when you throw the smoke bomb but if you want to use it for AoE it's hard

How is your ballista explosion so icy larger than mine? Is it just more dex?

direct link to this planner please? tyty

Newbie question here but you spec ballista but in gameplay you don’t have it as a skill your are selecting instead I see shift why is that did I miss something in the explanation?

Will this get nerfed in next patch? Any info from devs?

where are u getting ballistas from your skill bar? you had it before but seems to be replaced by smoke bomb

Anyone have a loot filter for this?

If falconer has something like this as its aoe, what does a warlock have for aoe?

Question, I have found that if I take birds aren't real node, I lose 99% of my dive bomb damage. Does anyone else see this case? Is this a known bug?

Meanwhile im running with avalanche, critting 1-3k per hit

How are you gaining ward?

The planner seems to not be right. Incase your using ballista now instead of explosive trap?

So the video shows shift, but the builder shows ballista... Which is it?

loot filter plss

Is this nerfed?

i also don't like builds that are clunky, that require specific button presses in certain order. i hate micro-managing in games like this