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PoE 2 0.3 Mercenary Build - Galvanic Shards Gemling Legionnaire
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This is a Galvanic Shards Gemling Legionnaire Mercenary build for endgame in Path of Exile 2 (PoE 2)'s The Third Edict Update. Check out the Galvanic Shards Gemling Legionnaire Mercenary build, including its gear, socketables, skills, and playstyle!
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Galvanic Shards Gemling Legionnaire Build Summary
NickZiri's Lucky Galvanic Shards Gemling Legionnaire Build
This Lucky Galvanic Shards Gemling Legionnaire build is based on a build by NickZiri over at NickZiri (Youtube). The video includes details on how to gear up to get the build online. Check out NickZiri's YouTube and Twitch channel for more Path of Exile 2 content and ask questions about the build!
Galvanic Shards Gemling Legionnaire Mercenary Build
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 Galvanic Shards Gemling Legionnaire Build |
 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.
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 High Lightning Burst Damage Attribute Scaling Crit and Ailment Immunity Requires Positioning Expensive to Start |
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The Galvanic Shards Gemling Legionnaire build for endgame features a one-button playstyle by spamming Galvanic Shards to easily clear mobs and take on high tier endgame content. This build also focuses on stacking Attributes to further boost their damage, attack speed, and survivability.
| Date | Changes |
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| 09-15-2025 | Updated build with new Support Gems, Equipment modifiers, and Passive Tree changes. |
| 09-09-2025 | Galvanic Shards Gemling Legionnaire endgame build was created. |
Galvanic Shards Gemling Legionnaire Equipment
| Gear | Affixes |
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 Gemini Crossbow Gemini Crossbow Stats:
Damage - 28-112 Critical Chance - 5% Attacks Per Second - 1.60 Reload Time - 1.10 Requirements: Level - 78 Strength - 116 Dexterity - 116 Implicit Skill: Loads an additional bolt (Weapon Set 1)  Cavalry Bow Cavalry Bow Stats:
Damage - 49-82 Critical Chance - 5% Attacks Per Second - 1.20 Requirements: Level - 72 Dexterity - 193 (Weapon Set 2) |
・Adds Fire Damage
・Adds Lightning Damage ・Gain Damage as Extra Lightning Damage ・Level of All Attack Skills ・Loads 2 Additional Bolts ・Gain Onslaught on Killing Hits ・Increased Physical Damage ・Adds Physical Damage ・Adds Lightning Damage ・Accuracy Rating ・Increased Attack Speed ・Level of All Projectile Skills ・Gain Mana per Enemy Killed |
 Primed Quiver Primed Quiver Requirements:
Level - 51 (Weapon Set 2) |
・Adds Fire Damage
・Adds Lightning Damage ・Increased Attack Speed ・Increased Projectile Speed ・Increased Critical Damage Bonus ・Dexterity |
 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 ・Required 5 Fewer Enemies to be Surrounded |
 Corsair Coat Corsair Coat Stats:
Evasion - 406 Requirements: Level - 80 Dexterity - 121 |
・Evasion Rating
・Increased Evasion Rating ・Maximum Life ・Cold Resistance ・Lightning Resistance ・Gain % Deflection Rating Equal to Evasion Rating |
 Hand of Wisdom and Action Spiral Wraps Hand of Wisdom and Action Spiral Wraps Stats:
Evasion - 33 Energy Shield - 14 Requirements: Level - 33 Dexterity - 30 Intelligence - 30 Fixed Modifiers: ・ +15-25 to Dexterity ・ +15-25 to Intelligence ・ 1% increased Attack Speed per 20 Dexterity ・ Adds 1 to 10 Lightning Damage to Attacks per 20 Intelligence |
・Dexterity
・Intelligence ・Increased Attack Speed per 20 Dexterity ・Adds Lightning Damage per 20 Intelligence |
 Daggerfoot Shoes Daggerfoot Shoes Stats:
Evasion - 119 Energy Shield - 45 Requirements: Level - 80 Dexterity - 59 Intelligence - 59 |
・Increased Movement Speed
・Evasion Rating ・Maximum Energy Shield ・Maximum Life ・Dexterity ・Cold Resistance ・Lightning Resistance |
 Astramentis Stellar Amulet Astramentis Stellar Amulet Requirements:
Level - 24 Implicit:+5-7 to all Attributes Fixed Modifiers: ・ +80-100 to all Attributes ・ -4 Physical Damage taken from Attack Hits |
Allocates: Pure Power
・Increased Lightning damage per 10 Intelligence ・All Attributes ・- Physical Damage Taken from Hits |
 Kalandra's Touch Ring Kalandra's Touch Ring Requirements:
None Implicit:Reflects your other Ring Fixed Modifiers: ・ Mirrored |
・Reflects Opposite Ring |
 Ruby Ring Ruby Ring Requirements:
Level - 8 Implicit:+20-30% to Fire Resistance |
・Adds Physical Damage to Attacks
・Adds Cold Damage to Attacks ・Maximum Life ・Dexterity ・Intelligence ・All Elemental Resistancese |
 Ultimate Life Flask Ultimate Life Flask Stats:
Flask Type - Life Recovered Life - 920 Charge Per Use - 10 Total Charges - 75 Duration - 3 sec. |
・More Recovery if used on Low Life
・Increased Charges Gained |
 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
・More Recovery if used on Low Mana |
Weapons
Focus on getting a Gemini Crossbow since this allows you to load an additional Bolt for your Galvanic Shards. The rest of your modifiers should be stacking more Physical and Lightning damage, as well as getting higher tiers to Levels of All Projectile Skills and further scale up your main skill.
Armor and Accessories
The most important uniques to use here would be the Constricting Command and Hand of Wisdom and Action as this gives benefit to your Surrounded passive tree nodes and scale your damage and attack speed respectively. Lastly, make sure to equip the Astramentis unique amulet since this provides a huge Attribute boost which most of your damage scales off from.
| List of Armors | List of Accessories |
Runes and Soul Cores
| Equipment | Sockets |
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Your runes should make use of the Thane Leld's Rune of Spring to add more flat Lightning damage on your weapon. Slot in a Greater Desert Rune on your Gloves and Boots, and put a Greater Storm Rune and Greater Glacial Rune on your Helm and Gloves respectively to help you reach the 75% Resistance cap.
Try to equip three Greater Iron Runes on your Body Armor so you can benefit from the increased Evasion rating.
| List of Runes | List of Soul Cores |
Belts and Charms
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 Ingenuity Utility Belt Ingenuity Utility Belt Requirements:
Level - 55 Implicit:1-2 Charm slots;20% of Flask Recovery applied Instantly Fixed Modifiers: ・ 40-80% increased bonuses gained from Equipped Rings |
・Increased Charm Charges Gained
・Reduced Charm Charges Used ・Increased Bonuses from Left Equipped Ring ・Increased Bonuses from Right Equipped Ring |
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| Charm Options | |||||
 Thawing Charm |
 Sanguis Heroum Staunching Charm |
 Antidote Charm |
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The Ingenuity unique belt fits perfectly for this build due to the bonus stats it provides for both of your rings. Otherwise, you can use a regular belt or the Headhunter unique belt as this gives great stat bonuses and rare monster modifiers.
As for your Charms, we recommend equipping the Thawing Charm and Antidote Charm for dealing with Freeze and Poison ailments that can potentially kill you. Slot in the Sanguis Heroum unique charm to enable Consecrated Ground for better survivability throughout high tier maps.
| List of All Belts | List of All Charms |
Galvanic Shards Gemling Legionnaire 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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Crossbow Shot Crossbow Shot |
 Ambrosia Ambrosia Supports Skills you can use yourself which Damage enemies with Hits. Supported Skills consume a percentage of your maximum Mana Flash charges, Gaining a percentage of Damage as extra Lightning Damage per Mana Flask charge consumed.
 Inevitable Critical Inevitable Critical Supports any skill you use yourself that Hits enemies, causing it to accumulate Critical hit chance over time.
 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.
 Ice Bite Ice Bite Supports attacks you use yourself. Freezing an enemy with supported skills infuses all of your attacks with Cold damage for a short time.
 Cold Attunement Cold Attunement Supports attacks, causing them to gain Cold Damage but deal less Fire and Lightning Damage.
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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.
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 Arjun's Medal Arjun's Medal Supports Crossbow Skills, granting a chance to load a bolt into all Crossbow Ammunition on kill with Supported Skill.
 Ricochet III Ricochet III Supports any Skill which creates Projectiles, causing those Projectiles to Chain when impacting terrain, at the cost of any additional Projectiles, as well as causing them to always Pierce.
 Elemental Armament II Elemental Armament II Supports Attacks, causing them to deal more Elemental damage.
 Defy II Defy II Supports Attack Skills you use yourself. Hit Damage from Supported Skills is Lucky and Insufficient Mana doesn't prevent Supported Skills from being used if you are Surrounded.
 Rapid Attacks II Rapid Attacks II Supports Attacks, causing them to Attack faster.
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Shockburst Rounds 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.
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 Elemental Focus Elemental Focus Supports any skill that hits enemies, causing it to deal more Elemental Damage but be unable to inflict Elemental Ailments.
Elemental Armament III Elemental Armament III Supports Attacks, causing them to deal more Damage for each Elemental Ailment on Enemies they Hit. Supported Skills cannot themselves inflict Elemental Ailments.
Defy II Defy II Supports Attack Skills you use yourself. Hit Damage from Supported Skills is Lucky and Insufficient Mana doesn't prevent Supported Skills from being used if you are Surrounded.
 Lightning Attunement Lightning Attunement Supports attacks, causing them to gain Lightning Damage but deal less Cold and Fire Damage.
 Rakiata's Flow Rakiata's Flow Supports Skills that can cause Damaging Hits, causing those Hits to treat Enemy Elemental Resistances as inverted.
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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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 Voltaic Grenade Voltaic Grenade Fires a bouncing Grenade that discharges an Electrocuting Lightning blasts when its fuse expires
 Urgent Totems III Urgent Totems III Supports Skills which create Totems, causing those Skills to place Totems much more quickly. Totems created by Supported Skills have increased Attack and Cast Speed.
 Short Fuse II Short Fuse II Supports Skills which Detonate after some amount of time has elapsed, massively shortening the time before Detonation at the cost of Damage.
 Lifetap Lifetap Supports any skill, turning a portion of its Mana cost into a Life cost. Does not support skills which reserve spirit.
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Stormcaller Arrow 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.
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 Lightning Exposure Lightning Exposure Supports any skill that hits enemies, causing it to deal less damage but inflict Lightning Exposure when it shocks and enemy.
 Shock Shock Supports any skill that hits enemies, making it more likely to Shock.
Defy II Defy II Supports Attack Skills you use yourself. Hit Damage from Supported Skills is Lucky and Insufficient Mana doesn't prevent Supported Skills from being used if you are Surrounded.
 Potent Exposure Potent Exposure Supports Skills which apply Exposure to Enemies, increasing the effect of applied Exposure.
 Overcharge Overcharge Supports any skill that hits enemies, making its Shocks more effective but last for a shorter duration.
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Voltaic Mark 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.
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 Prolonged Duration II Prolonged Duration II Supports any skill that has a duration, making that duration longer.
Lifetap Lifetap Supports any skill, turning a portion of its Mana cost into a Life cost. Does not support skills which reserve spirit.
 Lightning Mastery Lightning Mastery Supports Lightning skills, granting them an additional level.
Overcharge Overcharge Supports any skill that hits enemies, making its Shocks more effective but last for a shorter duration.
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Emergency Reload Emergency Reload Instantly relaods your active Crossbow Ammunition and Empowers the loaded bolts to deal more damage.
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 Cooldown Recovery II Cooldown Recovery II Supports skills with Cooldowns, increasing the rate at which those Cooldowns Recover. Cannot modify the skills of minions.
Lifetap Lifetap Supports any skill, turning a portion of its Mana cost into a Life cost. Does not support skills which reserve spirit.
Prolonged Duration II Prolonged Duration II Supports any skill that has a duration, making that duration longer.
 Efficiency II Efficiency II Supports any skill, making it cost less to use. Cannot support skills which reserve Spirit.
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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.
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Elemental Focus Elemental Focus Supports any skill that hits enemies, causing it to deal more Elemental Damage but be unable to inflict Elemental Ailments.
Lightning Attunement Lightning Attunement Supports attacks, causing them to gain Lightning Damage but deal less Cold and Fire Damage.
Elemental Armament II Elemental Armament II Supports Attacks, causing them to deal more Elemental damage.
 Precision II Precision II Supports Persistent Buff Skills, causing you to gain increased Accuracy while the skill is active.
 Deadly Herald Deadly Herald Supports Herald Skills, making their triggered effectsn deal more damage at the expense of higher spirit cost.
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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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 Magnified Area I Magnified Area I Supports any skill with an area of effect, making it larger.
 Blind II Blind II Supports any skill that Hits enemies, causing them to Blind on Hit with increased effect.
 Maim Maim Supports Attacks causing them to Maim enemies.
 Close Combat II Close Combat II Supports Attacks, causing them to deal more damage to enemies based on how close they are to you.
 Knockback Knockback Supports any skill that Hits enemies, causing it to Knock Back enemies.
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Your main skill would be spamming Galvanic Shards for clearing maps since this deal huge burst damage that can cover a wide range. Shockburst Rounds will be used for dealing with Bosses since this provides high single-target damage, especially against Shocked enemies. Furthermore, you will have to use Voltaic Mark with Stormcaller Arrow for consistent Shock procs, and Mortar Cannon to build up Electrocute and stun your enemies for huge openings.
As for your Persistent skills, prioritize getting Herald of Thunder so you can proc Lightning Bolts for more lightning damage. Wind Dancer will be your failsafe to help increase your evasion and apply a knockback in tight situations.
Do note that your Crossbow Shot is mainly used for balancing your support gems between Strength, Dexterity, and Intelligence and is not required to be used in your skill rotation.
Galvanic Shards Gemling Legionnaire Passive Tree
Passive Tree Progression
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Your Ascendancy passive nodes as a Gemling Legionnaire should prioritize taking the Motoric Implants as early as you can since you will be stacking a lot of Attributes that can completely benefit from this ascendancy node. Once you have all your Red support gems equipped, Integrated Efficiency should give you a huge damage boost with an additional 20% Damage per socketed Red support gem.
Since we are using the Constricting Command unique helm, we will be making use of the Surrounding passive nodes such as Thrill of Battle and Frantic Fighter to consistently give you damage, survivability, and movement speed. Make sure to take the Walker of the Wilds keystone passive to enable mana leech with all your skills. The rest of your notable passive nodes should focus on gaining damage, attack speed, and evasion as you progress through the passive tree.
Passive Skill Tree Guide and List of Passives
Jewels
 Time-Lost Emerald |
・Increased Effect of Small Passive Skills in Radius
・Small Passive Skills in Radius also grant increased Lightning Damage ・Small Passive Skills in Radius also grant increased Evasion Rating ・Notable Passive Skills in Radius also grant increased Attack Speed |
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 Heart of the Well Diamond |
・Gain Damage as Extra Lightning Damage
・Recover Maximum Life on Kill ・Increased Chance to Inflict Ailments ・Increased Energy Shield from Equipped Body Armour |
 Controlled Metamorphosis Diamond |
・Only Affects Passives in Medium Ring
・Passives in Radius can be Allocated without being connected to your Tree ・- All Elemental Resistances ・- Chaos Resistance |
 Megalomaniac Diamond |
Allocates: The Great Boar
・Life per Dexterity ・Stun Threshold per Dexterity ・Strength Allocates: Immortal Infamy ・Increased Energy Shield Recharge Rate ・Recover Maximum Life on Kill ・Intelligence |
 Heroic Tragedy Timeless Jewel |
・Remembrancing Songworty deeds by the Line of Olroth
・Passives in Radius are Conquered by the Kalguur ・Historic |
For your first jewel slot, put in the Time-Lost Emerald to gain more Lightning damage, attack speed, and evasion rating based on the nearby small and notable passives. On the far left side of your Passive Tree, slot in the Heart of the Well unique jewel for that extra Lightning damage and survivability with recover max life on kill.
Make sure your Controlled Metamorphosis has a Medium Ring modifier and place it on the jewel slot near Flash Storm so you can allocate Run and Gun, Spray and Pray and the Cunning Fox notable passives without spending too much points to reach it. Next, the jewel slot above the Falcon Dive notable passive can be either a Megalomaniac Diamond or Emerald jewel with Lightning damage depending on your currencies and preference.
Lastly, slot in the Heroic Tragedy unique jewel right next to the Walker of the Wilds keystone passive so you can allocate Stupefy to maximize your damage output.
Galvanic Shards Gemling Legionnaire Playstyle
Mobbing Rotation
For mobbing and clearing maps, all you need to do is spam your Galvanic Shards to wipe out packs and fast clear high tier maps. The rotation is as follows:
- Spam Galvanic Shards for clearing mobs and dealing burst damage.
- Rinse and repeat.
Bossing Rotation
Against difficult Bosses, your focus will be procing Shock with Stormcaller Arrow and spamming Shockburst Rounds for high single-target DPS. The rotation is as follows:
- Use Voltaic Mark to increase your Shock chances.
- Summon Mortar Cannons to start building up Electrocute.
- Shoot Stormcaller Arrows until they get inflicted with Shock.
- Spam Shockburst Rounds for huge single-target damage until their Shock duration expires.
- Activate Emergency Reload before Shockburst Rounds runs out for the damage boost and instant reload.
- 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 |
| Fire Grenade Witchhunter
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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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