Permafrost Grenade Mercenary Build

This is a Permafrost Grenade Mercenary starter build for Path of Exile 2 (PoE 2). Check out the Permafrost Grenade Mercenary starter build, including its gear, socketables, skills, and playstyle!

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This is a build pieced together for the early stages of the campaign. We'll be updating the build as we progress further in the game.

Permafrost Grenade Mercenary Build Summary

Permafrost Grenade Mercenary Starter Build

Build Setup
Permafrost Grenade Mercenary
High AoE Damage Excellent Crowd Control Low Mobility

This is a Permafrost Grenade Mercenary build that aims to utilize the early game capabilities of Permafrost Bolts and Explosive Grenade and allow you to clear large mobs at ease. We can maximize the damage of Explosive Grenade using the Scattershot support skill.

When you reach Act 2, you can start equipping Flash Grenade and Gas Grenade for even more damage and better ways to deal with large mobs. Keep in mind to manage your mana as using these combos multiple times can deplete your mana quickly.

Permafrost Grenade Mercenary Gear Setup

Equipment and Modifiers

These are your preferred stat modifiers for gear that will allow you to speed through the first two Acts of the game. We want to stack up Physical damage as this affects all of your skills since Grenades convert them to elemental damage.

Since this build has almost no mana management, you can get Mana Leech on any of your equipment as this will provide you with more uses of your Grenade combos.

Make sure to get Movement Speed on your boots for faster clearing, but the rest of the stats will be boosting your survivability since the Mercenary has no mobility skills.

Socketables

As for your socketables, the Stone Charm will be your failsafe so you can keep moving without any problem of being stunned. Keep in mind that charms have charges so try to refill this whenever you go back to encampments.

As for your Weapon Runes, the Mind Rune will help you manage your mana even better by providing you with the Leeches Physical Damage to Mana stat which applies to your Flash Grenades, while the Iron Rune will boost your Physical Damage which can affect all your skills.

Your Armor Runes will mostly consist of the Body Rune for more maximum life, the Mind Rune for more maximum mana that allows you to fire more grenades, and the Desert Rune, Storm Rune, and Glacial Rune are all for boosting your elemental resistance as you progress further.

Permafrost Grenade Mercenary Skills and Passive Tree

Active Skills

Skill	Support Gems
Permafrost Bolts	Frost Nexus Double Barrel
Explosive Grenade	Scattershot Second Wind
Flash Grenade	Ruthless Overpower
Gas Grenade	Magnified Effect Corrosion

Persistent Skills

Persistent Skills for the Permafrost Grenade build are toggleable skills that allow the Mercenary to maximize his damage. Below is the list of the best Persistent skills to use for the build:

Skill	Support Gems
Herald of Ash	No Support Gems needed

The Herald of Ash will work wonders for this build as Explosive Grenade and the explosion of Gas Grenade deals huge amounts of damage which can trigger the Overkill effect frequently.

Passive Skill Tree

Passive Nodes
1. Starting Group Nodes
2. Second Group Nodes
3. Third Group Nodes
3. Fourth Group Nodes

A short skill tree path that focuses on increasing your damage and area of effect radius. We want to increase our raw damage output as much as possible with Projectile Damage, and buff all our grenades with increased Area of Effect, more Cooldown Use, and fire additional Projectiles.

Your most important nodes would be Volatile Catalyst for increase the radius and lower cooldown of your grenades, Colossal Weapon to increase your Strength with even more AoE, Cluster Bombs to add one more grenade projectile, and Volatile Grenades to make your grenades explode faster.

Keep in mind to take at least 2 Intelligence Attribute nodes so you have the stats to equip all your skills.

Permafrost Grenade Mercenary Playstyle and Skill Rotation

Skill Rotation

The Permafrost Grenade Mercenary build revolves around freezing your opponents with Permafrost Bolt and finishing them off with all your Grenade Skills. The rotation is as follows:

1. Fire Permafrost Bolt until they freeze.
2. Use Flash Grenade to increase Stun Buildup and stun your opponents.
3. Fire Gas Grenade then Explosive Grenade on top to trigger the gas explosion for more damage.
4. Reposition and repeat the process.

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