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PoE 2 0.3 Mercenary Build - Ballista Banner Tactician
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This is a Ballista Banner Tactician Mercenary build for endgame in Path of Exile 2 (PoE 2)'s The Third Edict Update. Check out the Ballista Banner Tactician Mercenary build, including its gear, socketables, skills, and playstyle!
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Ballista Banner Tactician Build Summary
LazyExile's Ballista Banner Tactician Build
This Ballista Banner Tactician build is based on a build by LazyExile over at LazyExile (Youtube). The video includes details on how to gear up to get the build online. Check out LazyExile's YouTube channel for more Path of Exile 2 content and ask questions about the build!
Ballista Tactician Mercenary Build
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 Ballista Banner Tactician Build |
 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.
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 Easy to Play Excellent Totem and Spell Damage Can Clear Pinnacle Content Extra Banner Buttons |
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The Ballista Banner Tactician Mercenary build for endgame features a hybrid playstyle between the new Mortar Cannon and Sceptre spells such as Fulmination, Mana Drain, and Frost Bomb.
| Date | Changes |
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| 09/16/2025 | Made updates to Ballista Banner Tactician build for Equipment, Skills, and Passive Tree. Added LazyExile's latest and final update video. |
| 09/08/2025 | Updated build into Ballista Banner Tactician for endgame with full updates to Equipment, Skills, Passive Tree, and Playstyle. |
| 09/04/2025 | Created Magic Find Ballista Tactician Build for endgame gear and currency farming. |
Ballista Banner Tactician Equipment
| Gear | Affixes |
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 Lifesprig Attuned Wand Lifesprig Attuned Wand Stats:
Requirements: Intelligence - 43 (Weapon Set 1)  Siege Crossbow Siege Crossbow Stats:
Damage - 29-115 Critical Chance - 5% Attacks Per Second - 1.65 Reload Time - 0.75 Requirements: Level - 79 Strength - 116 Dexterity - 116 Implicit Skill: Grenade Skills fire an additional Projectile (Weapon Set 2) |
・Grants Skill: Mana Drain
・Maximum Mana ・Level of All Spell Skills ・Increased Cast Speed ・Leeches Maximum Life when you Cast a Spell ・Adds Physical Damage ・Increased Physical Damage ・Accuracy Rating ・Strength ・Increased Attack Speed ・Level of All Attack Skills Desecrate Modifiers: ・+1 to Maximum number of Summoned Ballista Totems ・Increased Grenade Damage ・Increased Grenade Durations |
 Shrine Sceptre Shrine Sceptre Stats:
Spirit - 100 Requirements: Level - 26 Strength - 20 Intelligence - 48 (Offhand Set 1) |
・Grants Skill: Purity of Fire
・Increased Spirit ・Allies in your Presence deal increased Damage ・Allies in your Presence deal added Attack Fire Damage ・Intelligence ・Strength ・Aura Skills have increased Magnitudes |
 Constricting Command Viper Cap Constricting Command Viper Cap Stats:
Evasion - 136 Requirements: Level - 38 Fixed Modifiers: ・ (80–120) to maximum Life ・ (10–15) to all Attributes ・ (8–12) Life Regeneration per second ・ Pin Enemies which are Primed for Pinning |
・Increased Maximum Life
・All Attributes ・Life Regeneration per Second ・Require 5 fewer enemies to be Surrounded |
 Dastard Armour Dastard Armour Stats:
Armor - 245 Evasion - 223 Requirements: Level - 65 Strength - 86 Dexterity - 86 Implicit : +60-80 to maximum Life |
・Armour
・Evasion Rating ・Increased Armour ・Maximum Life ・Cold Resistance ・Lightning Resistance ・Life Regeneration per Second |
 Zealot Gauntlets Zealot Gauntlets Stats:
Armor - 61 Evasion - 56 Requirements: Level - 59 Strength - 52 Dexterity - 52 |
・Increased Armour and Evasion
・Increased Attack Speed ・Strength ・Dexterity ・Lightning Resistance ・Fire Damage Converted into Lightning Damage |
 Fortress Sabatons Fortress Sabatons Stats:
Armor - 129 Evasion - 110 Requirements: Level - 75 Strength - 71 Dexterity - 71 |
・Increased Movement Speed
・Increased Armour ・Maximum Life ・Fire Resistance ・Increased Rarity of Items Found ・Reduced Attribute Requirements |
 Idol of Uldurn Crimson Amulet Idol of Uldurn Crimson Amulet Requirements:
Level - 24 Implicit:2-4 Life Regeneration per second Fixed Modifiers: ・ +60-80 to maximum Life ・ +10-20 to Dexterity ・ Skills have +1 to Limit |
Allocate: Sharpened Claw
・25% increased Attack Damage ・Life Regeneration per second ・Maximum Life ・Dexterity ・Skills have +1 to Limit |
 Doedre's Damning Lazuli Ring Doedre's Damning Lazuli Ring Requirements:
None Implicit:+20-30 to maximum Mana Fixed Modifiers: ・ +5-15% to all Elemental Resistances ・ Gain 1-10 Mana per Enemy Killed ・ You can apply an additional Curse |
・Maximum Mana
・All Elemental Resistances ・Gain Mana per Enemy Killed ・You can apply an additional Curse |
 Breach Ring Breach Ring Requirements:
Level - 40 Implicit:Maximum Quality is 40% |
・Adds Physical Damage to Attacks
・Evasion Rating ・Increased Rarity of Items Found ・Intelligence ・Fire Resistance ・Cold Resistance |
 Ultimate Life Flask Ultimate Life Flask Stats:
Flask Type - Life Recovered Life - 920 Charge Per Use - 10 Total Charges - 75 Duration - 3 sec. |
・Gain Charges per Second |
 Ultimate Mana Flask Ultimate Mana Flask Stats:
Flask Type - Mana Recovered Mana - 310 Charge Per Use - 10 Total Charges - 75 Duration - 3 sec. |
・Gain Charges per Second |
Weapons
For your spell playstyle, equip the Lifesprig unique wand to gain access to Mana Drain for sustaining your mana pool. Then, try to roll a Sceptre with the Aura Skills have increased Magnitudes from the Perfect Essence of Command to scale up your Banners and allow you to run more supportive auras such as Elemental Weakness and Temporal Chains.
Try to get a Siege Crossbow that can focus on stacking Physical Damage as usual while also getting Attack Speed and Level of All Attack Skills from your essences when crafting this weapon. Roll for the Grenade Damage and Duration desecrate modifier from the Well of Souls as this will give you a huge damage boost.
Armor and Accessories
Make sure your Constricting Command unique helmet has at least 5 Fewer enemies to be Surrounded for the consistent bonus damage, attack speed, and movement speed in your Passive tree. Then, focus on stacking armor and reaching the 75% resistance cap for all elemental resistances to counteract damage over time effects that can easily take you down.
As for your Accessories, stack Physical Damage on your Breach Ring and use Idol of Uldurn to allow you to summon up to three Mortar Cannons for extra damage. Doedre's Damning is used for applying additional Curses but can be optional if you do not plan on running Temporal Chains.
Take note that you can replace the Breach Ring with an Unset Ring to help you equip the Dread Banner persistent skill for more survivability in endgame content.
| List of Armors | List of Accessories |
Runes and Soul Cores
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As usual, your Runes should consist of Greater Iron Rune for your weapon so you can maximize your Physical Damage, and Greater Body Rune on your Helm for the additional maximum life.
Additionally, your Gloves should have The Greatwolf's Rune of Claws for the added Physical Damage to your attacks to maximize your damage output.
| List of Runes | List of Soul Cores |
Belts and Charms
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 Utility Belt Utility Belt Requirements:
Level - 55 Implicit:1-2 Charm slots;20% of Flask Recovery applied Instantly |
・Armour
・Maximum Life ・Maximum Mana ・Strength ・Cold Resistance ・Life Regeneration per Second |
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 Staunching Charm |
 Thawing Charm |
 Golden Charm |
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This Ballista Banner Tactician build does not need any Charms to take on endgame and Pinnacle content. We do have a personal recommendation for equipping Thawing Charm and Antidote Charm as various enemies in endgame content are capable of inflicting Freeze and Poison that can easily kill you when you have zero resistances. Equip a Golden Charm to further help increase Rare Item drops as you continue farming maps.
As for Belts, we recommend getting the Utility Belt to provide you with a partial instant recovery from life flasks and more maximum life for survivability.
| List of All Belts | List of All Charms |
Ballista Banner Tactician Skills
※ The Support Gems' priority are arranged in a descending order. The first one being the most important and the last being the least crucial.
All Active and Persistent Skills
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Purity of Fire Purity of Fire (Weapon Set 1) |
 Vitality II Vitality II Supports Persistent Buff Skills, causing you to gain Life Regeneration while the Skill is active.
 Clarity II Clarity II Supports Persistent Buff Skills, causing you to gain increased Mana Regeneration while the Skill is active.
 Warm Blooded Warm Blooded Supports Persistent Biff Skills, causing Freeze applied to you to last for a shorter duration while the Supported Skill is active.
 Herbalism II Herbalism II Supports Persistent Buff skills, causing you to gain increased Life recovery from Flasks while the skill is active.
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Mana Drain Mana Drain (Weapon Set 1) |
 Rapid Casting II Rapid Casting II Supports Spells, causing them to cast faster.
 Mobility Mobility Supports skills that can be used while moving, allowing you to move faster while using them.
 Slow Potency Slow Potency Supports any skill, causing inflicted slows to be more powerful
 Efficiency II Efficiency II Supports any skill, making it cost less to use. Cannot support skills which reserve Spirit.
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Blasphemy Blasphemy Turns socketed Curse skills into vile Auras, applying their effects to all nearby enemies.
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 Temporal Chains Temporal Chains Curses all enemies in an area, Slowing them and making other effects on them expire more slowly.
 Elemental Weakness Elemental Weakness Curse all targets in an area after a short delay, lowering their Elemental Resistances.
 Ritualistic Curse Ritualistic Curse Supports Curse skills, causing them to cover a larger area but take longer to curse 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.
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Frost Bomb 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.
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 Potent Exposure Potent Exposure Supports Skills which apply Exposure to Enemies, increasing the effect of applied Exposure.
Magnified Area II Magnified Area II Supports any skill with an area of effect, making it larger at the cost of damage.
 Prolonged Duration II Prolonged Duration II Supports any skill that has a duration, making that duration longer.
 Long Fuse II Long Fuse II Supports Skills which have a Detonation Time, causing those Skills to have much higher Detonation Time and detonation damage.
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Mortar Cannon Mortar Cannon Raise a cannon Ballista Totem which uses socketed Grenade Skills, with significantly improved Cooldown Recovery Rate.
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 Cluster Grenade 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.
 Payload Payload Supports skills which fire Grenades, giving fired Grenades a chance to activate again, but lengthening their cooldowns.
 Heft Heft Supports Skills which deal damage, increasing the maximum Physical Damage of their Hits.
 Nova Projectiles Nova Projectiles Supports Projectile Skills, making them fire extra Projectiles in a circle, at the cost of Damage. Does not support Skills which rain down Projectiles from above.
 Short Fuse I Short Fuse I Supports skills which Detonate after some amount of time has elapsed, shortening the time before Detonation.
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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.
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 Blind II Blind II Supports any skill that Hits enemies, causing them to Blind on Hit with increased effect.
 Pin I Pin I Supports any skill that hits enemies, allowing its Physical damage to Pin enemies but making it unable to Stun.
 Maim Maim Supports Attacks causing them to Maim enemies.
Clarity I Clarity I Supports Persistent Buff Skills, causing you to gain increased mana Regeneration while the skill is active.
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Tame Beast 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.
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 Meat Shield I Meat Shield I Supports skills which create Minions, granting them less damage taken but making them deal less damage. Cannot support skills which create undamageable Minions.
 Last Gasp Last Gasp Support skills that create Persistent Minions, causing those Minions to fight on for a short duration before dying when they are fatally wounded.
 Elemental Army Elemental Army Supports skills which create Minions, bolstering the Elemental Resistance of those Minions.
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Mirage Archer 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.
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 Explosive Grenade Explosive Grenade Fires a bouncing Grenade that unleashes a devastating fiery blast when its fuse expires.
 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.
 Elemental Armament II Elemental Armament II Supports Attacks, causing them to deal more Elemental damage.
Payload Payload Supports skills which fire Grenades, giving fired Grenades a chance to activate again, but lengthening their cooldowns.
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War Banner 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.
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 Refraction III Refraction III Supports Banner Skills, causing Enemies within their area to gain Refractive Dissolution, a Debuff which lowers Elemental Resistances.
Magnified Area II Magnified Area II Supports any skill with an area of effect, making it larger at the cost of damage.
Prolonged Duration II Prolonged Duration II Supports any skill that has a duration, making that duration longer.
Mobility Mobility Supports skills that can be used while moving, allowing you to move faster while using them.
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Defiance Banner 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.
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Prolonged Duration II Prolonged Duration II Supports any skill that has a duration, making that duration longer.
Magnified Area II Magnified Area II Supports any skill with an area of effect, making it larger at the cost of damage.
Refraction II Refraction II Supports Banner Skills, causing those affected by Auras they create to gain Refractive Plating, a Buff which causes Armour to partially apply to Elemental Hit Damage.
 Daresso's Passion Daresso's Passion Supports Banner Skills, causing them to require significantly less Glory to use.
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Dread Banner 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.
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Prolonged Duration II Prolonged Duration II Supports any skill that has a duration, making that duration longer.
Magnified Area II Magnified Area II Supports any skill with an area of effect, making it larger at the cost of damage.
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Your main skills consist of using Mortar Cannon to blanket the field with Cluster Grenades for fast clearing endgame maps. We use Mana Drain to offset the large mana consumption of summoning Mortar Cannons, while your Frost Bomb needs to be at least level 18 together with your Curses to completely benefit from the elemental exposure.
As for your Persistent skills, you will mainly be using War Banner and Defiance Banner for both offensive and defensive boosts. Wind Dancer will be your failsafe in case your get surrounded, while Blasphemy allows you to dual-cast Curses when you have the Idol of Uldurn equipped to enable better elemental exposure.
Make sure to equip at least 10 Green and 10 Red support gems since we are using the Gem Enthusiast notable passive.
Ballista Banner Tactician Passive Tree
Passive Tree Progression
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Your notable passives consist of Projectile, AoE, and Elemental Damage, as well as taking Armor and Evasion Rating nodes that can help you survive longer in high tier maps. Make sure to get Gem Enthusiast since this is an important notable passive for your Support Gem setup that gives maximum life and movement speed.
On the other hand, the Ascendancy passive nodes for this build prioritizes the use of A Solid Plan to enable more persistent skills, and Suppressing Fire to easily pin enemies in high tier maps. Lastly, your remaining Ascendancy Points can go for Right Where We Want Them so your Pinned enemies are basically stunned, and Whoever Pays Best for a more Banner-focused setup to further boost your Mortar Cannons.
Passive Skill Tree Guide and List of Passives
Jewels
 From Nothing Diamond |
・Passives in Radius of a random Keystone Passive can be Allocated without being connected to your tree. |
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 Time-Lost Sapphire |
・Upgrades Radius to Medium
・Notable Passive Skills in Radius also grant increased Area of Effect ・Increased Effect of Small Passive Skills in Radius |
Try to find a From Nothing Diamond that has the Blood Magic keystone passive so you can make use of Prism Guard for the additional Elemental Damage scaling from Armor, and Ancestral Alacrity for your Ballistas.
Since we are using the Constricting Command unique helmet, slot in a Time-Lost Sapphire with an increased Area of Effect modifier for the nearby notable passives.
Ballista Banner Tactician Playstyle
Skill Rotation
For general use, you will need to keep your Mortar Cannons and Banners active while also casting Mana Drain in case you run out of mana. The rotation is as follows:
- Summon 3 Mortar Cannons for fast mob clearing and automatically switch to your Weapon Set 2.
- Cast Frost Bomb to auto switch back to your Weapons Set 1.
- Use War Banner,Defiance Banner, and Dread Banner to enable all the buffs for you and your ballistas.
- Rinse and repeat once your Mortar Cannons stop shooting.
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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 |
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 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
| Galvanic Shards Gemling Legionnaire
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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 |
Mercenary Class and Ascendancy Guides
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Gemling Legionnaire |
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