The Gemling Legionnaire is an ascendancy of the Mercenary class in Path of Exile 2 (PoE 2) that focuses on enhancing their abilities by embedding gems into their flesh. Learn more about the Gemling Legionnaire's mechanics, confirmed skills, and base class!

Gemling Legionnaire Ascendancy Skills

All Gemling Legionnaire Skills and Passive

Gemling Legionnaires enhance their stats through utility skills that enhance their use of gems. Listed below are the skills shown for the Gemling Legionnaire's ascendancy showcase:

#	Skill	Effect
1	Crystalline Potential	・+10% to Quality of all Skills.
2	Implanted Gems	・+1 to Level of all Skills.
3	Advanced Thaumaturgy	・30% less Cost of Skills ・Skill Gems have 30% more Attribute Requirements.
4	Integrated Efficiency	・Grants 3 additional Skill Slots.
5	Gem Studded	・You can use two copies of the same Support Gem in different Skills.
6	Thaumaturgical Infusion	・+1% to Maximum Cold Resistance per 4 Blue Support Gems Socketed ・+1% to Maximum Fire Resistance per 4 Red Support Gems Socketed ・+1% to Maximum Lightning Resistance per 4 Green Support Gems Socketed
7	Adaptive Capability	・Attribute Requirements of Gems can be satisfied by your highest Attribute
8	Enhanced Effectiveness	・Inherent bonuses from Intelligence, Strength, and Dexterity are doubled

Best Gemling Legionnaire Ascendancy Skills

Listed above are the best Ascendancy skills for the Gemling Legionnaire. The Adaptive Capability node can help you equip almost every Skill Gem and Support Gem as long as it meets the attribute requirement with your highest stat, giving you access to a wide variety of builds.

Enhanced Effectiveness is the bread and butter for most Gemling Legionnaire builds due to the extremely large amount of stat bonuses it gives especially when you are stacking Attribute nodes.

Lastly, the Gem Studded node is also useful as it allows you to equip two Support Gems of the same kind in different skills, giving you more options to build around.

Gemling Legionnaire Ascendancy Mechanics

Focuses on Attribute Stacking

Gemling Legionnaires greatly benefit from stacking either one or two Attributes, allowing them to have a huge amount of Life with Strength, high Accuracy Rating with Dexterity, and a large mana pool with Intelligence.

Can Equip Gems Using One Attribute

In addition to Attribute stacking, Gemling Legionnaires are also capable of equipping almost every Gem available as long as your highest Attribute meets the requirement. This gives you a wider range of builds to create due to the large variety of Skills and Support Gems you can equip.

Can Enhance Gems with Quality

Gemling Legionnaires can also increase the Quality of their Skill Gems, reaping the benefits of their bonus modifiers. This can help you maximize the effects of your Skills while also negating the need for farming too much Gemcutter's Prism.

Affects Corrupted Skill Gems

Corrupted Skill Gems can also have their Quality increased by the Gemling Legionnaire passive nodes. This works even after you have corrupted a Skill since the increase in Quality is treated as a Global Modifier.

Gains Additional Skill Slots

With Integrated Efficiency, you are granted 3 additional Skill Slots which allows you to equip even more Skills that can help benefit your build. This makes Gemling Legionnaire the only class to have a total of 12 Skill Slots instead of the standard 9 Skill Slots.

List of Gemling Legionnaire Builds

All Gemling Legionnaire Builds

Gemling Legionnaire Builds
Gunslinger Gemling Legionnaire
	Focus: Leveling, Endgame, DoT, Crowd Control, Bossing
Summary: This Gunslinger Gemling Legionnaire build focuses on applying Poison and Bleeding ailments to deal consistent damage, while also Freezing and Armour Breaking your enemies for crowd control and dealing huge burst damage.
Grenadier Gemling Legionnaire
	Focus: Leveling, Endgame, AoE, Burst Damage, Crowd Control
Summary: This Grenadier Gemling Legionnaire makes use of Grenades and triggers Gas Cloud explosions against ignited enemies to easily clear large mobs and deal huge burst damage.

List of Mercenary Builds

Gemling Legionare Base Class

Ascends from the Mercenary

Start as a Mercenary and complete an Ascension Trial to ascend into a Gemling Legionnaire. Completing an Ascension Trial will also give you the option to ascend into a Witchhunter.

Mercenary Class Overview and Ascendancies

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