PoE 2 Best Leveling and Endgame Mercenary Builds
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This lists the best leveling and endgame builds for Mercenary in Path of Exile 2 (PoE 2)'s The Last of the Druid update. Check out our list of Mercenary league starters and endgame builds for the Witchhunter, Gemling Legionnaire, and Tactician ascendancies!
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Best Mercenary Leveling Build
0.4 Grenadier Mercenary
 Grenadier Mercenary
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 Herald of Ash While active, enemies you sufficiently Overkill with attacks will cause an explosion that ignites nearby enemies based on the Overkill damage dealt.
 Explosive Grenade Fires a bouncing Grenade that unleashes a devastating fiery blast when its fuse expires.
 Flash Grenade Fires a bouncing Grenade that unleashes a Blinding, Stunning explosion when its fuse expires. This explosion can Blind both Allies and Enemies.
 Gas Grenade Fires a bouncing Grenade that causes a burst of Poison gas when its fuse expires, damaging enemies and leaving behind a growing Poison cloud. Burning effects or Detonator skills will cause the cloud to explode in a fiery blast.
 Wind Dancer Grants a buff that gives you more Evasion per stage. Being Hit by a Melee Attack while you have this buff consumes all stages to damage and Knock Back enemies around you.
 Oil Grenade Fires a bouncing Grenade that bursts in a spray of Oil when the fuse expires or when it impacts an Enemy, dealing minimal damage but covering the ground and nearby enemies in Oil. Oil created this way can be Ignited by Detonator Skills or Ignited Ground.
 Rapid Shot Loads your Crossbow with a large clip of heavily modified that cause Heat build up on your crossbow, before unleashing a stream of flaming bolts that gain Fire damage based on your Heat. Heat also grants bonus damage to Grenades you fire, but dissipates rapidly when not building up. Using this skill again reloads the clip.
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| Focus: Leveling, AoE, Fire, Grenades, Burst Damage | |
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Summary: The Grenadier Mercenary leveling build makes full use of Explosive Grenades to deal huge burst damage while using Oil Grenade and Gas Grenade to maximize your damage output. |
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0.3 Lightning Mercenary
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 Herald of Thunder While active, killing Shocked enemies with Attack damage, will cause subsequent Attack hits to release lightning bolts which deals Attack damage to all surrounding enemies.
Wind Dancer Grants a buff that gives you more Evasion per stage. Being Hit by a Melee Attack while you have this buff consumes all stages to damage and Knock Back enemies around you.
 Voltaic Grenade Fires a bouncing Grenade that discharges an Electrocuting Lightning blasts when its fuse expires
 Emergency Reload Instantly relaods your active Crossbow Ammunition and Empowers the loaded bolts to deal more damage.
 Shockburst Rounds Loads your Crossbow with a clip of charged bolts which releases damaging pulses upon hitting an enemy affected by a lightning ailment. Using this skill again reloads the clip.
 Galvanic Shards Loads your Crossbow with a clip of charged bolts that fragment in flight, releasing Chaining Lightning beams when they Hit enemies. Using this skill again reloads the clip.
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| Focus: Leveling, AoE, Fast Clear, Lightning | |
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Summary: This Lightning Mercenary leveling build makes use of spamming Galvanic Shards to easily clear mobs and Shockburst Rounds against bosses with the help of Herald of Thunder. |
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Best Mercenary Endgame Builds
※ Search for specific builds of an ascendancy by clicking the icons below the search bar. Select the latest patch for the latest builds, but click on the earlier versions if you want to see Legacy builds!
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 Tactician |
 Witchhunter |
 Gemling Legionnaire |
Path of Exile 2 Related Guides
0.4 Endgame Builds
 Frost Wolf Oracle |
 Tanky Bear Shaman |
 Navira's Fracturing Disciple of Varashta |
0.4 Leveling Builds
 Fire Bear Druid |
Frost Wolf Druid |
Lightning Wyvern Druid |
 Cold Infusion Sorceress |
Grenadier Mercenary |
 Buckler Parry Huntress |
 Drain Contagion Witch |
 Falling Thunder Monk |
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0.3 Best Builds
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Lightning Arrow Deadeye
Dark Effigy Lich
Demon Warp Infernalist
Hollow Palm Invoker
Armour Stacking Titan
Blackflame Blood Mage
Shieldmaster Smith of Kitava
Powerwasher Acolyte of Chayula
Full Bleed Ritualist
Fissure Totem Warbringer
Airbender Amazon
Stormweaver Elementalist
Poison Pathfinder
Cold Chronomancer0.3 Leveling Builds
 Slam Fissure Warrior |
 Lightning Arrow Ranger |
Lightning Shotgun Mercenary |
| Cold Lightning Monk |
Lightning Spear Huntress |
Fireball Sorceress |
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 Huntress |
 Mercenary |
 Monk |
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 Witch |
 Sorceress |
 Warrior |
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 Ranger |
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