Bloodhunter HV, sharpshooter vs. crossbow expert

[Cobra_Bubbles]

Hi everyone. Was wondering if there’s any advice anyone could give, or perhaps point out any fact I’m missing in this conundrum.

I’m rolling a ranged bloodhunter with human variant. I’m trying to decide on damage if I should take the following:

Sharpshooter feat, and equipping a heavy crossbow

Or

Crossbow expert feat, and equipping a hand crossbow

My dex is +3. At level 2 I’ll take the archery fighting style. So that means at level 2, when crimson rite is activated, I would either:

Have 1 attack with the heavy crossbow, +2 to hit (when taking sharpshooter option), then it’s 1d10+1d4+13

Or

I take two attacks with the hand crossbow, +7 to hit, then it’s 1d6+1d4+3...twice

I then need to consider what’ll happen at 5th level with the extra attack, but I’m pretty sure the loading property negates an extra attack, so the crossbow expert feat is what I’m leaning towards.

Thanks everyone.

[stoutstien]

Just use a long bow and sharp shooter. D8 vs d10 is only one damage and the rite feature is better on one weapon and can get extremely risky if u try two.

[8wGremlin]

Hand crossbow.
2 attacks then a bonus action attack.
You’re only using the right once, but applying it to the 3 shots.