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Mercenary Leveling Build Guide FAST 1-70! Lightning Build

presentationMercenary
Creator
Starter
0.1 Early Access
Updated on Jan 7, 2025
Jan 7, 2025

Build Overview

Very fast and very fun leveling build on the merc that does not use grenades and opts for faster and more immediate options. Make sure to utalize vendors and the gambler to grab a good weapon. It is by far the most important piece of gear.

Afterwards you will want to grab movement speed boots and as much life as well as res as possible to be able to ignore 99,9% of the stuff the game throws at you to prevent frustrating deaths.

T15+ Endgame Gemling Updated Build!


Equipment

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Equipment Priority
0
Main Hand
Construct Crossbow
1
Left Ring
Amethyst Ring
2
Gloves
Advanced Doubled Gauntlets

Upgrade your weapon regularly. Early on you will get more bang for your buck through elemental dmg runes, specifically lighting dmg ones.

Around 36 you want to switch to 40% physical dmg instead of 2-40 lightning and rock a weapon with flat lightning dmg as well as high phys dmg. Aim for around 200-250 dps which costs you around 1exalt on the market.

For gear make sure to rock a amethyst ring as well as amethyst charm for chaos res.

As for your gloves, grab life on hit and lightning as well as physical dmg with attackspeed and possibly life. Its a massive boost to your dmg.

Damage on your rings is nice but not a must, prio life and resistances as well as str.
Rest of the gear should prio movementspeed, life and resistances.

Rarity is also really good as a bonus.

Grab Kitoko's Current if you can. Expensive and rare, so its the ultimate bonus.

Skill Gems

Support Gem Requirements:

Str 20

Dex 40

Int 15

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Galvanic Shards

Galvanic Shards
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2

Shockburst Rounds

Shockburst Rounds
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Voltaic Mark

Voltaic Mark
4

Plasma Blast

Plasma Blast
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Herald of Thunder

Herald of Thunder
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Wind Dancer

Wind Dancer
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Emergency Reload

Emergency Reload
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Voltaic Grenade

Voltaic Grenade
Gem Priority
+15

Use pierce early and fork once you get shockburst rounds for single target. Using fork early guts you dmg.

Passive Tree

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

Gems are super important on this build.
Look for Chance to shock + lightning dmg or projectile dmg to set you up. Later you can use reload speed and evasion to boost survivability and dmg.

DO NOT PICK UP ACROBATICS EARLY. You need better gear for it to be worth it. 25k++

How it Plays

You spam Galvanic early, switch to shockburst rounds once you shock enemies and apply shock through plasma bolts later once you get it. You basically constantly move and shoot. The drive by crossbow build. Never stop, keep your distance and remember. GOHAN, DODGE!

Precharge Plasma Blast and use it to apply shock on bosses. You can also use it when they are stunned.

Apply Voltaic Mark on bosses.

Changelog

Weapon swap speed does not influence the swapspeed between ammo. This makes the 2 point in weapon swap speed useless! Do not take them.

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