Ailment Gunslinger Gemling Legionnaire Build

This is an Ailment Gunslinger Gemling Legionnaire starter build for Path of Exile 2 (PoE 2). Check out the Ailment Gunslinger Gemling Legionnaire starter build, including its gear, socketables, skills, and playstyle!

Gunslinger Gemling Legionnaire Build Summary

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Gunslinger Gemling Legionnaire Build

Build Setup
Gunslinger Gemling Legionnaire
Various Ailment Afflictions Excellent for Bossing Low Mobility

The Ailment Gunslinger Gemling Legionnaire starter 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.

In the early game, you can use Permafrost Bolts as a substitute until you get Glacial Bolt which is a key skill for this build that will help you take on endgame.

Gunslinger Gemling Legionnaire Gear Setup

Equipment and Modifiers

For the Ailment Gunslinger Gemling Legionnaire starter build, the most important gear would be picking up Crossbows with Adds Physical Damage to Attacks and Increased Physical Damage as this will be your best way of increasing your damage as you progress through the campaign. The rest of your equipment can vary but try to aim for Maximum Life, Attributes, and Resistances to improve your survivability.

Make sure to always upgrade your weapon with ones that are between 10 levels from your level and the monster levels to avoid any damage fall-offs.

Gunslinger Gemling Legionnaire Skills and Passive Tree

Active Skills

Skill	Support Gems
Fragmentation Rounds	Envenom Corrosion Comorbidity Deadly Poison
Glacial Bolt	Glaciation Cold Infusion Ice Bite
High Velocity Rounds	Lacerate Inevitable Critical Longshot Deep Cuts
Wind Dancer	Vitality Clarity
Herald of Plague	Precision
Attrition	Precision

Before you get Glacial Bolt, we recommend using the same setup with Permafrost Bolts as a substitute for dealing Cold damage and applying Freeze.

As for your main skill usage, Fragmentations Rounds works great with Glacial Bolt as it deals huge burst damage against Frozen enemies and whenever you break the Ice Wall, while the High Velocity Rounds will be your follow-up against tough enemies to consume Armour breaks and inflict Bleeding.

As for your Persistent skills, Herald of Plague will allow your Fragmentation Rounds to spread Poison to nearby enemies while also applying Hinder to them. Attrition is a damage boost against Rare and Unique enemies which you can get very late in the game, while Wind Dancer will boost your survivability with Evasion and Health Regeneration from Vitality and help manage your mana consumption with Clarity.

Passive Skill Tree

Ascendancy Tree
Ascendancy Group Node
Passive Nodes
1.	Ricochet, Exposed Wounds, and Hard to Kill	2.	Bloodletting and Cruel Methods
3.	Instant Reload and Stars Aligned	4.	Advanced Munitions, Bleeding Out, and Aggravation
5.	Power Shots and Deterioration	6.	Perfectly Placed Knife and Wasting

For the Gemling Legionnaire ascendancy tree, take Crystalline Potential first as this gives you a good damage boost, and then Adaptive Capability to help meet your Gem attribute requirements. If you have extra points, you can take Implanted Gems to upgrade all your skill levels and increase your overall damage.

The rest of the passive tree for the Ailment Gunslinger Gemling Legionnaire build focuses on taking nodes with Ailments, Bleeding, and Armour Break. The passive tree priority is as follows:

1. Ricochet
2. Exposed Wounds
3. Bloodletting
4. Cruel Methods
5. Advanced Munitions
6. Instant Reload
7. Hard to Kill
8. Deterioration
9. Wasting
10. Stars Aligned
11. Power Shots
12. Bleeding Out
13. Perfectly Placed Knife
14. Aggravation

Gunslinger Gemling Legionnaire Playstyle and Skill Rotation

Skill Rotation for Single-Target

The Gunslinger Gemling Legionnaire build for single-target and Bossing revolves around freezing your opponents with Glacial Bolt and dealing burst damage with Fragmentation Rounds and High Velocity Rounds. The rotation is as follows:

1. Use Glacial Bolt until they are Frozen and shoot 1-2 more bolts for extra damage.
2. Consume Frozen with Fragmentation Rounds and keep shooting until you apply Armour Break.
3. Consume Armour Break using High Velocity Rounds to trigger Bleeding.
4. Go back to Step 2 (after 10 seconds go to Step 5)
5. Every 10-15 seconds you can repeat step 1 once the diminishing effects after inflicting Frozen have reset.

Skill Rotation for AoE

The Gunslinger Gemling Legionnaire build for AoE and mobbing makes use of freezing your opponents with Glacial Bolt and finishing them off with Fragmentation Rounds and High Velocity Rounds. The rotation is as follows:

1. Use Glacial Bolt on mobs without having to freeze them, then shoot with Fragmentation Rounds to shatter and freeze. Shooting at larger enemy's feet will result in the wall shattering and freezing them.
2. Keep shooting with Fragmentation Rounds to spread poison with Herald of Plague.
3. Use High Velocity Rounds to finish off the remaining enemies if there are any.

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