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Path of Exile 2 (PoE 2)
PoE 2 0.2 Mercenary Build - Fire Grenade Witchhunter
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This is a Fire Grenade Witchhunter Mercenary build for Path of Exile 2 (PoE 2)'s Dawn of the Hunt Update. Check out the Fire Grenade Witchhunter Mercenary build, including its gear, socketables, skills, and playstyle!
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Fire Grenade Witchhunter Build Summary
Fire Grenade Witchhunter Mercenary Build
Mapping
Cruel
| Build Setup | |
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 Fire Grenade Witchhunter |  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.  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.  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.  Blasphemy Turns socketed Curse skills into vile Auras, applying their effects to all nearby enemies.  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.  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. |
 Great Mob Clearing High DoT Cheap Unique Requirement Low Mobility Squishy | |
| Build Setup | |
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| Fire Grenade Witchhunter | 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.  Plague Bearer Stores all Poison Damage you deal. Using the Plague Nova skill unleashes the stored Poison. 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. 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.  Incendiary Shot Loads your Crossbow with flaming bolts that fragment in flight, damaging and igniting enemies on hit and in a small cone behind their final target. Blasphemy Turns socketed Curse skills into vile Auras, applying their effects to all nearby enemies. 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.  Explosive Shot Loads your Crossbow with flaming bolts that explode on impact. The explosion will cause any Grenades in its area of effect to also explode. |
| Great Mob Clearing High DoT Low Mobility Squishy | |
The Fire Grenade Witchhunter Mercenary build makes use of igniting your enemies with Oil Grenade + Radiant Grief and clear large packs of mobs easily with Galvanic Shards and Gas Grenade explosions.
When starting out, you can keep using Incendiary Shot to ignite Oil Ground until you either reach Act 2 for Explosive Shot or obtain the Radiant Grief unique helm.
| Date | Changes |
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| 04-14-2025 | Updated build for 0.2 patch. |
| 01-08-2025 | Added Radiant Grief unique helm to equipment. Added Herald of Thunder persistent skill and replaced Explosive Shot with Galvanic Shards. Passive Tree and Support Gems were updated. |
Fire Grenade Witchhunter Equipment
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 Cannonade Crossbow Stats: Damage - 23-90 Critical Chance - 5% Attacks Per Second - 1.65 Reload Time - 0.75 Requirements: Level - 59 Strength - 74 Dexterity - 74 Implicit: ・Grenades Skills Fire an Additional Projectile Modifiers: ・Added Physical Damage ・Added Fire Damage ・+% Increase Elemental Damage with Attacks ・Level of All Projectile Skills ・Strength ・Dexterity Weapon |
 Radiant Grief Lace Hood Stats: Evasion - 67 Requirements: Level - 16 Dexterity - 30 Modifiers: ・+% Increased Evasion Rating ・Fire Resistance ・+% Increased Light Radius ・Enemies in your Presence are Ignited Helmet |
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 Sleek Jacket Stats: Evasion - 268 Energy Shield - 101 Requirements: Level - 65 Dexterity - 86 Intelligence - 86 Modifiers: ・Spirit ・Evasion Rating ・Maximum Shield ・+% Increased Evasion and Energy Shield ・Dexterity ・Lightning Resistance ・Life Regeneration per Second Body Armour |
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 Spined Bracers Stats: Evasion - 60 Requirements: Level - 33 Dexterity - 53 Modifiers: ・+% Increased Evasion Rating ・Evasion Rating ・Dexterity ・FIre Resistance ・Lightning Resistance Gloves |
 Utility Belt Requirements: Level - 55 Implicit: ・% of Flask Recovery applied Instantly Modifiers: ・Armour ・Maximum Life ・Maximum Mana ・Fire Resistance ・Lightning Resistance Belt |
 Lizardscale Boots Stats: Evasion - 90 Requirements: Level - 33 Dexterity - 57 Modifiers: ・ Increased Movement Speed ・+% Increased Evasion Rating ・Evasion Rating ・Maximum Mana ・Fire Resistance ・Lightning Resistance Boots |
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 Ultimate Life Flask Stats: Flask Type - Life Recovered Life - 920 Charge Per Use - 10 Total Charges - 75 Duration - 3 sec. Modifiers: ・+% increased Amount Recovered ・+% increased Recovery Rate ・+% increased Charges Health Flask |
 Prismatic Ring Requirements: Level - 35 Implicit: ・+% to All Elemental Resistance Modifiers: ・+% Increased Fire Damage ・Added Fire Damage ・Maximum Mana ・Dexterity ・Cold Resistance ・Mana Regeneration Rate Ring 1 |
 Solar Amulet Requirements: Level - 30 Implicit: ・Spirit Modifiers: ・Mana Regeneration Rate ・Accuracy Rating ・Maximum Energy Shield ・All Elemental Resistances ・Fire Resistance Amulet |
 Amethyst Ring Requirements: Level - 20 Implicit: ・Chaos Resistance Modifiers: ・+% Increased Fire Damage ・Added Fire Damage ・Evasion Rating ・Dexterity ・Life per Enemy Killed Ring 2 |
 Ultimate Mana Flask Stats: Flask Type - Mana Recovered Mana - 310 Charge Per Use - 10 Total Charges - 75 Duration - 3 sec. Modifiers: ・+% increased Amount Recovered ・+% increased Recovery Rate ・+% increased Charges Mana Flask |
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Weapons
Bombard Crossbow is the best crossbow for Grenade builds as it provides you with an additional Grenade projectile. Make sure you have this equipped with damage modifiers for Fire and Elemental Damage to maximize your damage output.
Armor
Your most important equipment to aim for endgame would be the Radiant Grief unique helm as this is capable of passively igniting your Oil Grenade and gives you a good amount of Evasion Rating and Fire Resistance.
Accessories
Most of the accessories for the Fire Grenade Witchhunter focuses on taking Elemental Resistances to help against Spells since they cannot be evaded and Fire Damage for maximizing your damage output. Maximum Life is a good secondary priority as well to keep yourself from getting one-shotted.
Keep in mind that the goal is to have at least 100 Spirit so you can equip all your Persistent skills for maximum effect.
Jewels
Note: The modifiers listed are arranged according to priority.
 Emerald |
・+% Increased Elemental Damage
・+% Increased Attack Damage ・+% Increased Projectile Damage ・+% Increased Damage with Crossbows ・+% Increased Duration of Ignite, Shock and Chill on Enemies |
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 Ruby |
・+% Increased Fire Damage
・+% Increased Attack Damage ・+% Increased Chance to Ignite ・+% Increased Area of Effect |
For your jewels, focus on getting Emeralds and Rubies that boost your Ignite effects as this will help you spam explosions longer. You can opt to go for defensive stats such as Armor, Life, or Evasion in case you are having trouble surviving but it is highly recommended to focus more on damage.
Runes and Soul Cores
| Equipment | Sockets |
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The best slot-in for the Weapons is the Iron Rune for more Fire Damage, and Soul Core of Zalatl to help recover Mana better. As for Armor, the Soul Core of Citaqualotl or Any Elemental Resistance Rune can help you reach the Elemental Resistance cap for all elements so try to equip as much of these as you can.
| All Runes and Soul Cores | |
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| List of Runes | List of Soul Cores |
Charms
 Thawing Charm |
・Increased Duration
・Increased Charges ・Gain Charges Per Second |
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 Antidote Charm |
・Increased Duration
・Increased Charges ・Gain Charges Per Second |
 Beira's Anguish Dousing Charm(Endgame) |
・23% Chance to gain a Charge when you kill an enemy
・Ignite enemies in presence as though dealing Fire damage equal to 25% of your Maximum Life when used |
We recommend equipping Thawing Charm or Antidote Charm depending on your current Act as many of their Bosses have specific elements that can help with your survivability. As for endgame, try to pick up or trade Beira's Anguish Dousing Charm as this works great with the Fire Grenade Witchhunter build due to the high Maximum Life it has.
Fire Grenade Witchhunter Skills
Mapping
Cruel
| Skill | Support Gems |
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| Gas Grenade 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. |  Bursting Plague Bursting Plague Supports skills that can Poison enemies, causing poisoned enemies to gain Plague over time and explode in a Plague Burst on death. Cannot support the skills of minions.  Escalating Poison Escalating Poison Supports any skill that hits enemies, allowing it to inflict an extra poison on enemies but shortening the duration of those poisons.  Corrosion Corrosion Supports any skill that hits enemies, causing Poison it applies to also break any armour. Cannot support skills that consume Fully Broken Armour.  Armour Explosion Armour Explosion Supports attacks, causing them to trigger a Fiery explosion when they Fully Break an enemy's Armour. |
| Galvanic Shards 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. |  Innervate Innervate Supports attacks you use yourself. Killing a Shocked enemy with supported skills infuses all of your attacks with Lightning damage for a short time.  Soul Drain Soul Drain Supports any skill that Hits enemies, causing you to recover Mana when it Culls an enemy.  Lightning Penetration Lightning Penetration Supports any skill that hits enemies, making those hits penetrate enemy Lightning Resistance.  Nimble Reload Nimble Reload Supports Crossbow Ammunition skills, causing them to Reload bolts significantly faster. |
| Oil Grenade 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. |  Multishot II Multishot II Supports Projectile skills, making them fire extra Projectiles. Also lowers Attack and Cast speed of supported skills, as well as lessening their damage.  Efficiency II Efficiency II Supports any skill, making it cost less to use. Cannot support skills which reserve Spirit.  Despoiler Despoiler Supports skills that create Ground Surfaces, causing those surfaces to last longer. |
| Herald of Ash 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. |  Clarity II Clarity II Supports Persistent Buff Skills, causing you to gain increased Mana Regeneration while the Skill is active.  Precision II Precision II Supports Persistent Buff Skills, causing you to gain increased Accuracy while the skill is active. |
| Blasphemy Blasphemy Turns socketed Curse skills into vile Auras, applying their effects to all nearby enemies. |  Magnified Area II Magnified Area II Supports any skill with an area of effect, making it larger at the cost of damage.  Heightened Curse Heightened Curse Supports curse skills, magnifying their power.  Flammability Flammability Curses all targets in an area after a short delay, lowering their Fire Resistance. |
| Wind Dancer 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. |  Unbreakable Unbreakable Supports any skill that you can use, making you harder to Stun while using it.  Blind II Blind II Supports any skill that Hits enemies, causing them to Blind on Hit with increased effect. |
| Herald of Thunder 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. |  Concentrated Area Concentrated Area Supports any skill with an area of effect, causing that area to be smaller but any area damage it deals to be higher. |
| Skill | Support Gems |
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| Incendiary Shot Incendiary Shot Loads your Crossbow with flaming bolts that fragment in flight, damaging and igniting enemies on hit and in a small cone behind their final target. |  Ignite I Ignite I Supports any skills that Hits enemies, making it more likely to Ignite.  Fire Attunement Fire Attunement Supports Attacks, causing them to Gain Fire Damage but deal less Cold and Lightning Damage. |
| Gas Grenade 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. | Bursting Plague Bursting Plague Supports skills that can Poison enemies, causing poisoned enemies to gain Plague over time and explode in a Plague Burst on death. Cannot support the skills of minions. Escalating Poison Escalating Poison Supports any skill that hits enemies, allowing it to inflict an extra poison on enemies but shortening the duration of those poisons. Corrosion Corrosion Supports any skill that hits enemies, causing Poison it applies to also break any armour. Cannot support skills that consume Fully Broken Armour. |
| Explosive Shot Explosive Shot Loads your Crossbow with flaming bolts that explode on impact. The explosion will cause any Grenades in its area of effect to also explode. |  Elemental Armament II Elemental Armament II Supports Attacks, causing them to deal more Elemental damage. Fire Attunement Fire Attunement Supports Attacks, causing them to Gain Fire Damage but deal less Cold and Lightning Damage.  Elemental Focus Elemental Focus Supports any skill that hits enemies, causing it to deal more Elemental Damage but be unable to inflict Elemental Ailments. |
| Oil Grenade 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. | Multishot I Multishot I Supports Projectile skills, making them fire extra Projectiles. Also lowers Attack and Cast speed of supported skills, as well as lessening their damage. Efficiency I Efficiency I Supports any skill, making it cost less to use. Cannot support skills which reserve Spirit. Despoiler Despoiler Supports skills that create Ground Surfaces, causing those surfaces to last longer. |
| Herald of Ash 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. | Clarity I Clarity I Supports Persistent Buff Skills, causing you to gain increased mana Regeneration while the skill is active. |
| Blasphemy Blasphemy Turns socketed Curse skills into vile Auras, applying their effects to all nearby enemies. | Magnified Area I Magnified Area I Supports any skill with an area of effect, making it larger. Heightened Curse Heightened Curse Supports curse skills, magnifying their power. Flammability Flammability Curses all targets in an area after a short delay, lowering their Fire Resistance. |
| Plague Bearer Plague Bearer Stores all Poison Damage you deal. Using the Plague Nova skill unleashes the stored Poison. | Precision I Precision I Supports Persistent Buff Skills, causing you to gain increased Accuracy while the skill is active.  Vitality I Vitality I Supports Persistent Buff Skills, causing you to gain Life Regeneration while the skill is active.  Expanse Expanse Supports any skill that you use yourself, granting it significantly higher Area of Effect but causing it to gain a long cooldown. Cannot support skills which already have a cooldown. |
The skills for Cruel difficulty as a Fire Grenade Witchhunter are practically the same as the endgame version with a few minor tweaks. In the beginning, keep using Incendiary Shot until you acquire Explosive Shot, which will become your main skill for Detonating and procing Ignite. Once you obtain the Radiant Grief unique helm, you can swap out your Explosive Shot for Galvanic Shards since this clears mobs much easier and your helmet will be your main way for procing Ignite.
As for your Persistent skills, Herald of Ash is great for spreading Ignite on kill, while the Herald of Thunder works in tandem with your Galvanic Shards. Make sure to take Blasphemy with Flammability as well to reduce the Fire Resistance of your enemies for more damage.
Fire Grenade Witchhunter Passive Tree
Passive Tree Progression
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The passive skill tree for Fire Grenade Witchhunter focuses on taking nodes that can boost your Fire Damage and Ignite damage, and provide chances to consistently apply damage over time. Make sure to get the required attributes for your skills and invest the rest on Intelligence to help manage your mana and increase your energy shields.
As for your Ascendancy tree, Zealous Inquisition will give you a chance of exploding your enemies on kill which helps you greatly for mobbing, and Pitiless Killer to deal with Rare and Unique enemies. If you have extra points you can aim to get Judge, Jury, and Executioner as this will give you a chance of procing Decimating Strike to help deal with high HP enemies.
Passive Skill Tree Guide and List of Passives
Fire Grenade Witchhunter Playstyle
Skill Rotation
| Type | Skill Rotation |
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| Cruel | 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.
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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.
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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.
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Explosive Shot Loads your Crossbow with flaming bolts that explode on impact. The explosion will cause any Grenades in its area of effect to also explode.
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| Mapping | 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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Cruel
The skill rotation for the Fire Grenade Witchhunter build revolves around igniting your enemies with huge AoE skills that can spread ailments in a wide area. The rotation is as follows:
- Fire Oil Grenade then Gas Grenade on top.
- Ignite the Oil Ground with Explosive Shot or the Radiant Grief passive, causing your enemies to be Burned and trigger the Gas Cloud explosion.
- Rinse and Repeat.
Mapping
The skill rotation for the Fire Grenade Witchhunter build revolves around clearing mobs using huge DoT from your grenades with the help of Galvanic Shards. The rotation is as follows:
- Fire Oil Grenade then Gas Grenade on top to stack DoT.
- Let Radiant Grief ignite the Oil Ground.
- Spam Galvanic Shards to clear waves faster.
- Rinse and Repeat.
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| 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.
Focus: AoE, Fast Clear, Lightning |
Mercenary Endgame Builds
| Bleed Bow Witchhunter
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 Barrage Ready a volley of arrows or spears, Empowering your next Bow or Projectile Spear Attack to repeat multiple times. Consumes your Frenzy Charges on use to add additional repeats.
 Snipe Channel to charge up your bow before releasing a powerful shot. Releasing the moment you fully charge causes the arrow to explode on impact for a guaranteed Critical Hit.
 Sniper's Mark Marks a target. The next Critical Hit the target receives consumes the Mark to deal extra damage and grant you a Frenzy Charge.
 Rain of Arrows Fire arrows into the air, causing them to rain from above. Consumes your Frenzy Charges to fire more arrows.
 Spiral Volley Loads your Bow with a volley of enchanted arrows and fires them in a circle as you spin forward, firing directly at targets if possible. Consumes Frenzy Charges to cause the arrows to deal more damage and Chain to other targets. Each target can only be Hit once.
 Combat Frenzy While active, grants you a Frenzy Charge when you Freeze, Electrocute, or Pin an enemy. This can only occur once every few seconds.
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.
Focus: DoT, Burst Damage, Bossing, Mobbing |
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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.
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.
Incendiary Shot Loads your Crossbow with flaming bolts that fragment in flight, damaging and igniting enemies on hit and in a small cone behind their final target.
Blasphemy Turns socketed Curse skills into vile Auras, applying their effects to all nearby enemies.
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.
Explosive Shot Loads your Crossbow with flaming bolts that explode on impact. The explosion will cause any Grenades in its area of effect to also explode.
Focus: DoT, AoE, Mobbing |
 Gunslinger Gemling Legionnaire
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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.
 Fragmentation Rounds Loads your Crossbow with Piercing bolts that fragment in flight. Bolts that hit a frozen enemy consume the Freeze and cause an explosion of Shrapnel. Bolts that hit an Ice Crystal cause it to explode.
 High Velocity Rounds Loads your Crossbow with Piercing bolts that can consume Fully Broken Armour on enemies to deal extra damage.
 Herald of Plague While active, killing a Poisoned enemy spreads its Poison to other nearby enemies, and has a chance to also Hinder them.
 Attrition While active, causes you to deal more Hit damage to Rare and Unique enemies the longer you've been fighting them, and gain Culling Strike against them once you've been fighting them for long enough.
 Cast on Freeze While active, gains Energy when you Freeze enemies and triggers socketed spells on reaching maximum Energy.
Emergency Reload Instantly relaods your active Crossbow Ammunition and Empowers the loaded bolts to deal more damage.
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.
 Withering Presence While active, periodically Withers enemies in your Presence.
 Blink Replaces your dodge roll with a short-cooldown Spell that allows you to tunnel through space, instantly reappearing a medium distance away.
Focus: DoT, Crowd Control, Bossing |
| Grenadier Gemling Legionnaire
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 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.
Attrition While active, causes you to deal more Hit damage to Rare and Unique enemies the longer you've been fighting them, and gain Culling Strike against them once you've been fighting them for long enough.
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.
 Cluster Grenade Fires a bouncing Grenade That explodes when it's fuse expires, throwing out a nova of mini Grenades that explode when they come to a stop.
Focus: AoE, Burst Damage, Crowd Control |
 Ballista Tactician
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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.
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.
 Armour Piercing Rounds Load your Crossbow with a clip of bolts that can be fired rapidly and Break enemy Armour. Using this skill again reloads the clip.
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.
 Ripwire Ballista Deploys a Balista Totem that fires Pinning bolts which Maim enemies.
 Artillery Ballista Deploys a Ballista Totem that fires bolts skyward, to explode a short time after landing.
 Siege Cascade Loads your Crossbow with enemy-seeking payloads which are fired into the air, dropping a bolt near every enemy in the target area. These bolts lodge in the ground and explode after a short delay .
Focus: Totem, Physical, Fire, Mobbing, Bossing |
| Ballista Banner Tactician
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 Frost Bomb Creates a pulsing Orb of Frost. Each pulse inflicts Cold Exposure on nearby Enemies. When the Orb's duration ends, it explodes, dealing Cold damage to 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.
Blasphemy Turns socketed Curse skills into vile Auras, applying their effects to all nearby enemies.
 War Banner While active, killing enemies with attacks or standing near a Unique enemy generates Valour. using this skill consumes Valour to place an inspiring Banner with an Aura that grants you and nearby allies Attack damage and accuracy while Banner lasts. The Banner cannot gain Valour while placed, and you cannot place a Banner while you already have a Banner placed.
 Defiance Banner While active, killing enemies with attacks or standing near a Unique enemy generates valour. Using this skill consumes its Valour to place an inspiring Banner with an Aura that grants you and your nearby allies Armour, Evasion, and Movement speed while the banner lasts. The Banner cannot gain Valour while placed, and you cannot place a Banner while you already have a Banner placed.
 Dread Banner While active, killing enemies with Attacks or standing near a Unique enemy generates Valour. using this skill consumes its Valour to place an Inspiring Banner with an Aura that grants you and nearby allies Stun Threshold, Elemental Ailment Threshold, and Flask charges while the Banner lasts. The Banner cannot gain Valour while placed, and you cannot place a Banner while you already have a banner placed.
 Tame Beast Conjure Azmeri wisps to engulf a Rare Beast for a duration, Hindering them. If you defeat the Beast while it is engulfed in wisps, it will be captured by this gem, transforming the gem to instead allow you to summon the Beast as a Reviving Companion.
 Mirage Archer While active, dodge rolling will create a Mirage that uses socketed ranged Attacks for a short duration, then vanish. You cannot create another Mirage while one exists, or for a short time after one vanishes. Dodge rolling while you are unable to create a new Mirage will restart this timer.
 Mortar Cannon Raise a cannon Ballista Totem which uses socketed Grenade Skills, with significantly improved Cooldown Recovery Rate.
Focus: Totem, Burst, Lightning, Mapping, Bossing |
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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.
 Stormcaller Arrow Fires an arrow that embeds where it lands for a short duration. At the end of the duration, a Lightning bolt strikes the arrow, disintegrating it and damaging enemies with a high chance to Shock.
 Voltaic Mark Marks a target, making them more susceptible to being Shocked. When the Marked target dies, a Lightning nova erupts from their corpse. This nova does not use your Weapon Damage, and instead uses its own base Attack Damage.
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.
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.
Mortar Cannon Raise a cannon Ballista Totem which uses socketed Grenade Skills, with significantly improved Cooldown Recovery Rate.
Focus: Lightning, Burst, Attribute Stacking, Mobbing, Bossing |
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 Tactician |
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