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PoE 2 Build

Arctic Armour Gemling - Infinite Ignite Loop

0.3 TTE

Gemling Legionnaire

Mercenary

Creator

By KallTorak

Updated on Oct 2, 2025

Oct 2, 2025

Build Overview

Hey guys, KallTorak here! I'm an Off-Meta creator with an affinity for silly goose time builds! This is my Arctic Armour Ignite Loop Gemling for leveling through the campaign & end game.

Videos
Arctic Armour Gemling Guide
POE NINJA

Streams
Leveling Stream #1
End Game Stream #1

Strengths and Weaknesses

Arctic Armour can have its damage scaled into the millions! It is one of the hardest hitting skills in the game.
Fun infinite ignite loop using Self Immolation and Cracklecreep. We are essentially an ignite aura bot.
Gemling makes scaling Arctic Armour easy with the bonus quality from Crystalline Potential and the extra skills from Advanced Thaumaturgy.

Reflect builds take damage to deal damage. There are some attacks that will one shot you even on the tankiest of characters. There is a learning curve to reflect builds! Expect to die some as you figure this style out.
Arctic Armour only works on melee strikes. There are plenty of moments you fight enemies that arctic armour doesn't work on. There is a learning curve for this build. that sucks more than most reflect builds.
Not really the best leveling build. You will a from nothing for Pain Attunement to to be able to start this leveling journey early.
Cracklecreep spread radius cant be scaled. You are stuck butt hugging most enemies to get the initial spread going.

Build Variants

Initial Leveling Setup

Full Campaign

End Game

This is how you start leveling the build as EARLY as possible. This will require a from nothing for Pain Attunement to get setup as fast as possible. To level this point I leveled as Essence Drain and Contagion. You can follow this amazing DeadRabb1t guide to level until this point.

https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/builds/chaos-dot-lich-starter-deadrabbit

Equipment

Initial Leveling Setup

Full Campaign

End Game

Set 1

Set 2

Equipment Priority

Right Ring

Cracklecreep

Body

Titanrot Cataphract

Helmet

Crown of the Victor

Off Hand

Feathered Fortress

Main Hand

Attuned Wand

Amulet

Azure Amulet

Gloves

Doedre's Tenure

Core Items

Cracklecreep

This is how we are getting our ignite to infinite loop and spread. This item is required for the build. Get one with as much fire damage as possible. You are not able to scale the radius so don't bother trying with corruption or Ingenuity.

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Leveling Items

Doedre's Tenure

An amazing amount of spell power to scale Arctic Armour damage. This is one of the best ways to get as much damage as we can during the campaign. We will eventually replace this in end game.

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From Nothing

Required during the early stages of leveling or you won't be able to reach 100% reduced ignite magnitude on yourself. At higher levels in the campaign we replace this. Only buy this if you want to start leveling as soon as possible.

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Crown of the Victor

+1 Skills to arctic armour. It's all our damage and we need this scaled during the campaign. We use this until end game when we swap to Veil of the Night.

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Titanrot Cataphract

Amazing armour item for the campaign. We are taking a decent amount of hits since its a reflect build. Not required at all but an easy grab for loads of armour.

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Rare Items

When picking your items build your resistance based off what you need to reach cap.

Rings

# to Maximum Life
% Increased Fire Damage
Evasion Rating
Strength
Chaos Resistance
Rarity Increase

Amulet

Anoint - Burnout or Endless Blizzard

+ levels to Spell Skills
% increased Maximum Life
# to Maximum Life
% Increased Armour
% Increased Spell Damage

Wand

+ Level To Cold Spell Skills
% Increased Spell Damage
Gain % of Damage as Extra Fire Damage

Body Armour

Maximum Life
# To Armour
% Increased Armour
% Of Armour Also Applies To Elemental Damage
Chaos Resistance
Strength

Gloves

Maximum Life
# To Armour
% Increased Armour
% Of Armour Also Applies To Elemental Damage
Strength
100% increased effect of socketed items

Boots

Movement Speed
% Increased Effect Of Socketed Items
Maximum Life
# To Armour
% Increased Armour
% Of Armour Also Applies To Elemental Damage

Jewels

From Nothing for Pain Attunement
Heart of the Well Gain Damage as Extra Fire damage and % increased armour from body armour / % increase armour.
Megalomaniac with either Burnout or Endless Blizzard
Prism of Belief for Arctic Armour +3.

Sockets

Estazunti's Soul Core of Convalescence in helmet
Fox Talisman in Darkness Enthroned for body armour.
Every other slot either do % increased armour or % increased maximum life.

Skill Gems

Initial Leveling Setup

Full Campaign

End Game

Support Gem Requirements:

Str 20

Dex 10

Int 25

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Arctic Armour

Resonating Shield

Frost Bomb

Gem Priority

+11

Once you get to this point and have everything setup the gameplay is pretty simple.

Stand next to enemy to get melee hit. Once that happens you have an ignite on you for 4 seconds. Run from enemy to enemy to attach your ignite onto them. Don't need to get hit again as long as you have the infinite ignite loop happening.