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[0.3] Lazy's Ballista Banner Tactician

presentationMercenary
Verified
presentationTactician
0.3 TTE
Starter
End Game
Updated on Nov 20, 2025
Nov 20, 2025

Build Overview

Hey guys, It's Lazy Exile, and I want to share my League Starter for 0.3.

This is going to be Ballista Totem + Banner Build on Tactician.

This guide will be keep up-to-date as I progress through the league in 0.3. Final Endgame Update Done. Max Difficulty Xesht also done with this End Game update.

Day 2 Update - Early Game Setup (can refer to Day 4 Setup instead of running 0 res)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfmGTMtOrDU

Day 3 Update - Budget MF setup (150-200% rarity)

https://youtu.be/vzm9yqPgokM

Day 4 Update - End Game Totem Banner Dual Curse

https://youtu.be/gPvV3KLr7E0

Build Summary

This is a build revolve around Ballista Totem (Mortar Cannon) and Banners (War Banner, Defiance Banner) with a Dual Curse setup (Elemental Weakness, Temporal Chains). A comfy totem setup where you can drop totem and let your totem do the works.
This play a lot similar to the traditional totem setup and place totem and go.

Defensive

Pinning is also insane on Tactician, and most of the time, you can kill enemies before they get a chance to fight back. Decently tanky in Armour and Evasion setup. The main thing is you can drop your totem and run around to dodge everything.

Offensive

Mortar Cannon have 100% uptime with pinning, and they will hardly die if you position them correctly. Elemental Weakness + Frost Bomb in this setup is a lot stronger than the traditional Crossbow build because we run Sceptre in our setup.

Ultimately, going for crit in the end game will give you enough damage for pinnacle bossing.

Content this is good for?

  • Mapping
  • Ritual (Banner + Totem is good for stationary content)
  • Abyss (Banner + Totem is good for stationary content)
  • Essence (Banner + Totem is good for stationary content)
  • Bossing (A lot of strong scaling vector for endgame)

Campaign Bonuses

Valley of the Titans (Act 2)

30% Increased Charm Effect Duration & +1 Charm Slot

The Venom Crypts

30% Elemental Ailment Threshold

Hall of the Dead

+5 Strength, +5 Dexterity, +5 Intelligence

Act 5.2 - Qimah - 7 Pillars

+5 to All Attributes (if lacking attributes)

+5% to Elemental Resistances (if lacking resistances)

3% increased Movement Speed (best choice)

Strengths and Weaknesses

  • Unique Ballista/Totem Playstyle
  • Beginner Friendly
  • Strong early game
  • Should scale relatively well into late game
  • Endgame version can clear Pinnacle boss
  • Banner is extra buttons
  • Visual Clarity (might be a plus)

Build Variants

Respec to a Grenadier Setup

Equipment

item
1
Equipment Priority
+1

Equipment Guide

Check the Vendor when you go back to town, paste the regex into the search box to highlight the items.

Gear & Stats Priorities

Bombard Crossbow (Level 33 base)

  • High physical damage roll / flat elemental damage
  • Elemental Damage to Attacks
  • Attack speed / + Level to skills
  • Socket with iron runes if possible

Rough Greaves (any bases)

  • Increased movement speed
  • Increased rarity / maximum life

Iron Ring (best base)

  • Flat physical damage / flat elemental damage
  • Attack speed / Increase rarity

Torn Gloves (any bases)

  • Flat physical damage / flat elemental damage
  • Attack speed / increase rarity

Summary

  • Focus on getting a solid weapon, boots, and flat damage anywhere else.
  • Collect any gear with sockets for salvage
  • Increase rarity is very good early game (don't sleep on it!)

Skill Gems

Support Gem Requirements:

Str 25

Dex 35

Int 10

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1

Disengage

Disengage
supportunyieldingplayer
2

Herald of Ash

Herald of Ash
supportmagnifiedareaplayer
3

Explosive Shot

Explosive Shot
supportmultishotplayertwo
supportelementalarmamentplayer
supportrapidattacksplayer
4

Explosive Grenade

Explosive Grenade
supportmultishotplayertwo
supportaddedfiredamageplayer
supportelementalarmamentplayer
5

War Banner

War Banner
prolongeddurationsupportplayer
6

Oil Grenade

Oil Grenade
supportmultishotplayer
supportpotentexposureplayer
7

Wind Dancer

Wind Dancer
supportmaimplayer
supportblindplayer
supportpinplayer
Gem Priority
+13

Rotation

Single Target

  1. Drop Oil Grenade
  2. Shoot Explosive Grenade
  3. Shoot Explosive Shot to blows up the grenades

AoE Clear

  1. Mixture of Explosive Shot and Explosive Grenade

Movement Skill

  1. Disengage and cancel animation with dodge roll
  2. Or just use sprint when there's no enemy

Passive Tree

main:
123
123
set 1:
20
20
set 2:
20
20

Changelog

23/8 - Initial Draft (Pre-Detail Patch Notes and Skill Trees)

28/8 - Update Mapping Gem Prep

2/9 - Day 3 update Magic Find Setup

4/9 - Totem Banner Setup

Video Guide

Table of Contents

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