The Headhunter Heavy Belt is an unusual unique belt available in Path of Exile 2 with an astonishingly low chance of falling. A carryover from the first The path of exile game, its value is not as high as it was in the first game, but it is still an S-tier item.
Finding a Headhunter can be a game changer for some builds, especially for clearing Breach content where hordes of monsters attack the player in wave after wave. Here's how to find it.
How to get the Headhunter Heavy Belt
Head-hunter
The Heavy Belt is part of a small, exclusive group of unique items in the Path of Exile 2 which can drop anywhere in the gamein the campaign, during maps or even as a result of a boss death. Consequently, the Headhunter Unique Belt's drop rate is absurdly low, only dropping on very, very rare occasions.
In total, there are three ways a player can get a Headhunter belt in PoE 2:
There is no way to affect the drop rate of the Headhunter directly; the only thing players can do to tilt the odds in their favor is to increase the '%# increased rarity of item found' stat on their gear.
How to get Headhunter with Orb of Chance
Since Headhunter is not an exclusive drop from a specific boss, like Temporalis, 
Against the darkness
and 
Hand of wisdom and action
you can use a chance ball on a white base Heavy Belt to replay it. Alongside 
Astramentis
(The Star Amulet) and 
The Arctic Circle
(Sapphire Ring), it is the most valuable item that players can obtain using a Chance Orb and one of the best uses for the currency in any format.
To play with a bullet of chance for a headhunter, you need the following two things:
-
Normal Rarity Heavy Belt (Rare or Magic Rarity Heavy Belts cannot be used).
Right click on the orb of chance and left click on the heavy belt to take the chance.
What does Headhunter do well in PoE 2
The main reason Headhunter is such a coveted belt is for one reason, and one reason only: the ability to steal special modifiers from rare monsters after they are defeated. Each rare (yellow) monster in the game has a special ability, sometimes even two or three, depending on the distribution of atlas skill points, which makes them stronger and more powerful. These modifiers are usually represented by a visual indicator such as a wall of lava around the monster, a blue circle surrounding them, and similar visual effects.
With Headhunter equipped, every time a player defeats a rare monster, they also steal their modifier on their own character for a duration of 20 seconds. The main purpose of this mechanic is to snowball the player character into a bigger and bigger threat as they rampage across the entire map in seconds.
The the steal ability of rare modifiers isn't as overpowered or game-changing PoE 2 as it was in PoE 1making the Headhunter an overall less desirable item for most builds, especially compared to 
Ingenuity
Utility Belt, the far superior option in most cases. That said, high mobility builds like Blink Autobomber, Gemling Stacker, and Flicker Strike Monk can take great advantage of Headhunter to easily wreak havoc in Tier 16+ maps, especially inside Breaches.
