I wrote up an extensive guide for the new Crossbow Infiltrator archetype published in Battlecry! in 2025. The guide is located here:
- The Silent Quarrel: Red Griffyn's PF2e Crossbow Infiltrator Guide
The guide includes the following sections:
1.) Rating Key
2.) Crossbow Infiltrator Role
3.) Analysis Philosophy / Basis
4.) Archetype Problems to Solve
5.) Play Styles
6.) Reload Styles
7.) Ability Scores
8.) Backgrounds
9.) Ancestries
10.) Crossbow Infiltrator Archetype
11.) Class Chassis
12.) Other Archetypes
13.) DPR Results and Analysis
14.) Familiar Options
15.) Equipment / Items
16.) Spells
17.) Sample Builds
I got really entranced by this archetype because it rehabilitates a really bad weapon (crescent cross) but does so in a way that doesn't break the game. There was a few posts regarding the archetype, but little analysis or assessment of how to build or play one. I also wanted to show that 3x0 MAP strikes with a really bad weapon is not immediately broken and have provided an entire DPR analysis section that looks at evaluating the archetype within the context of its 2 turn rotation.
I would appreciate any feedback that people have so I can incorporate it and improve the overall quality of the guide.
Thank you to everyone who has the time to read this and thank you to everyone that writes guides. This was a extremely intensive process and it makes me value other guide writers even more than I already was!
