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Amon Forgedrone Minion Leveling Build

Amon

Crucible

Leveling

By italianspartacus

Updated on Oct 15, 2025

Oct 15, 2025

Build Overview

This is a minion build focusing on summoning up Forgedrones via your Forgeskill, Crucible, and Ordnance damage. By the time you get 17 points invested, you'll have a minimum of 3 different weapons floating around the battlefield, destroying things as you unleash destruction from Snowmaul!

Strengths And Weaknesses

Overwhelm the battlefield with minions
Tons of shock damage
Higher damage than most Amon builds
Lots of utility and chaos

Not as defensive as a lot of Amon builds
Your damage comes from drones, so you leave some damage on the table
Heavy focus on Incendiary/Shock so you'll need to supplement Corrosive

Build Variants

Final Build

Initial Leveling

Initial Leveling is just how you should invest your points once you hit level 18: You put one point in Tempered Ice and one point in Tempered Lightning

Follow the Final Build to get a sense of where things go AFTER you reach 18, and you can invest points however you want, but I'd get 10 points into the middle branch to unlock your capstone: Storm Surge

For anything in the Scourge line of skills, those are dealer's choice and invest in those when you think you need them or wait until the end.he parent

Skill Tree

Final Build

Initial Leveling

Points Spent 0 / 49

LMB Allocate

RMB Unallocate

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How Our Skills Work

The focus of this build is using our three Forgedrone skills to summon up minions to help us do damage, but we want to also supplement our own damage as well.
To do that, we need to make sure our Forgeskill is up as much as possible using Cast Iron. This will trigger Tempered Pyre for our first Forgedrone. Once upgraded into Twin Tempers we'll get TWO axes at once.
Destruction Engine supplements our damage by increasing Forgeskill 's damage AND the detonation caused by Crucible's throwing weapons.
Crucible will then become an engine for more minions via Tempered Lightning. What's important here is that our action skill also restores the duration of our drones, so we want to make sure we use it as much as possible.
Lastly, Ordnance Weapons (grenades or otherwise) will summon up Tempered Ice and of ALL the forgedrones, THIS one does the most damage. SO, we want to augment it with Ordnance damage skills like Cacophany.
Supplementing all of our minions is Masterwork and Escalation. I still need to test if Blast Furnace is worth it, but currently it seems like detonations are bugged in triggering their respective skills.

Augments

There are really two augments I'd consider heavily for this build, as Endless War is currently bugged

Blade Tempest gives us a ton of burst damage as the barrage of swords is a really nice spike of damage, especially considering we want as much uptime as possible on our action skill.
Axe and Stone is our other great Augment because it increases our movement speed, but it also gives us decreased action skill cooldown whenever you detonate a target - so make sure you punch or kill a target that is primed.

Capstones

There are two Capstones we can take advantage of, but I've focused on one of the two:

Storm Surge ~~is the primary one as I've decided to focus more on shock damage - this helps with shields and is also just really fun. The persistent damage of the Forgestorm is also an awesome effect.~~ After more play testing, I've decided Storm Surge is NICE, but the fact that the Forgestorm can entirely miss means that you can completely lose the benefit of the ability and thus are on a longer cooldown.
Snowmaul is the other option and it's a solid one because it has a 30s cooldown vs. Storm Surge's 35s. This is a heavy area of effect capability that can ricochet, but I haven't build much frost damage into the build. This is Now my go-to as the Snowmaul will ricochet around wildly, doing tons of damage. What's nice here is that Cryo doesn't do the same amount of damage to armor as Corrosive BUT it'll do a significant amount and is a great middle ground!

Equipment

Final Build

Initial Leveling

This build is not gear dependent! Just make sure you have a corrosive weapon for armor!

Specialization

Final Build

Initial Leveling

Added in later.

Gameplay

Essentially you'll be using your Forgeskill to summon up Tempered Pyre which will hunt targets for you - this will spawn a SECOND axe once fully upgraded.

In addition, every time you use Crucible and any Ordiance Weapon you'll also summon up Tempered Ice & Tempered Lightning . Working these in conjunction, they'll be swarming the battlefield, doing massive amounts of damage - even critical striking - while you destroy things with your Storm Surge hurricane and Blade Tempest swords!