Weapon suggestion [Hand-Crossbow]

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Since the release of POE2, Crossbow's skills felt like Shotguns, Rifles and a fking Plasma Blast, with the cherry on top: Grenades

Hear me out.
1 handed crossbow, so a Hand Crossbow.

Oppening some weapon/skill combination:

Could be equipped as:

_ Main weapon + Shields, Bucklers, Focus, Scepters
_ Off-hand weapon + Mace, Axe, Sword, Spear, Flail, Claw , Dagger
_ Dual-wield

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How I see it:

Like the One-handed Mace and it's Two-handed version,
The One-handed is faster, deals less damage, but if dual-wielded it will surpass the Two-handed weapon DPS.


Mixing melee + ranged is like the Spear Skills but with more choices.
The argument that you can juste equip a Xbow in the 2nd slot and switch to a melee weapon is fair and sound BUT...

-Maybe you want to break the armour at distance (Armour Piercing Rounds), parry for the debuff and switch to the BIG HAMMER for a Supercharged Slam!

-You could play Warbringer, Chernobog's Pillar (Gain 1% of damage as Fire damage per 1% Chance to Block) with Incendiary Shot, Shotgunning in melee while always blocking.

MAYBE, it can open to weird minions built in the futur.
It'll depend on futur uniques / skill tree.



For Dual wielding HandCrossbow:

-20% less reload speed (more to reload)
-100% increase bolts loaded (2 clips)

Crossbow gems:

-While Dual Wielding, fires twice as many Projectiles with 15% less attack speed
-While Dual Wielding, fire both weapons in sequence with 20% less attack speed
-While Dual Wielding, both weapons hit with 25% less damage
-While Dual Wielding, 40% more attack speed
-While Dual Wielding, 30% less detonation time



Let your creativity speak, give more choice, create more fun.