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[0.5] Supporting Fire Only Tact - One Button King

presentationMercenary
presentationTactician
End Game
0.5 RotA
Verified
By KallTorak
Updated on Jun 9, 2026
Jun 9, 2026

Build Overview

Hey guys, KallTorak here! I'm an Off-Meta creator with an affinity for silly goose time builds! This is my Supporting Fire Tact build for speed leveling & end game.




What is Supporting Fire?

Supporting Fire is a Tactician only ability where you rain down a massive amount of arrows. Seriously, I mean massive. It is a Minion Command skill with a very short cooldown. You are constantly able to run around and bombard your enemies with hundreds of arrows rain that cover the entire screen! It being a minion skill means we are able to scale it with minion scaling tricks such as Muster!

The extra cool thing about Supporting Fire is it scales off Strength and Dexterity making stat stacking amazing for this skill. Strength increases its damage while Dexterity increases its area of effect. When leveling with uniques such as Titanrot Cataphract and Astramentis you have one of the safest and most fun leveling experiences in the game!


Is this a minion build?

No! Well kind of but not in the traditional sense. Yes we have a lot of minions following us around but in late game they aren't really contributing to our damage in the grand scheme. They are used for Muster which scales our DPS of Supporting Fire greatly. So while yes we stack a lot of random minions, we only get 1 of them and we mainly use them for debuffs. Supporting Fire is the star of this show! it doesn't feel like you are playing a minion build at all!

Videos
Main Guide
POE NINJA
Old Guide


Patch 0.5 Streams
Campaign Practice #1



Patch 0.4 Streams
Leveling Stream #1
End Game Stream #1
End Game Stream #2
End Game Stream #3

Strengths and Weaknesses

  • Supporting Fire Screen clears from level 20 and the damage scales really well off your strength.
  • One button ftw!!
  • Stat Stacker version doesnt depend on minion damage to do bossing in late game. We do all of our killing with Supporting Fire.
  • Very tanky since we are strength stacking with the new armour stacking changes and deflection buff.
  • Supporting Fire like all ascendancy skills scale with your level. You will not get your final support gem slot until level 90. You unlock the support gem slots at level 40, 65, and 90.
  • Using expensive lineage support gems to clear t3 bosses Uul-Netol's Embrace & Dialla's Desire. These aren't required but it speed up the kill for sure.

Build Variants

You do not get Supporting Fire until you unlock your ascendancy. You will need to level as something else until you get there.


My preferred leveling style. This is the fastest you can get through act 2 to your ascendancy. Grenades are OP but not everyones favorite. If you don't like grenades checkout the minion tab. It's slower but better than ED/Con start.

Equipment

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Equipment Priority
+9

Valuable Leveling Uniques

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Meginord's Girdle - You can use this deep into end game. You can get a seriously high amount of strength from this item. There are some versions of this build where you never take it off.
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Titanrot Cataphract - Also a fantastic leveling unique. Since our damage scales off strength you can use this item deep into end game.
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Astramentis - Fantastic unique for this build especially if playing on a 2nd or 3rd character. You can use this until deep end game.
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Black Sun Crest - Okay leveling helmet but gets replaced when you get a +2 minion skills helmet.
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Trenchtimbre - Pairs well with a sceptre to maximize our minion levels during the campaign. In late game this item is bis because you can slot Greater Rune of Leadership into it. Warning do not slot this into your weapon when leveling. It requires level 65 to use this rune.

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Rare Stat Priority

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Throughout the campaign your number 1 priority is making sure you get a Rattling Sceptre with + minion skills and bonus spirit. Rattling Sceptre is the only way to get Skeletal Warrior and minion skills and spirit great scale our damage.

Your second priority is a helmet with +1 or +2 to minion skills. Also look for minion skills on neck. From there prio these stats:

  • Strength
  • Max Life
  • Armour
  • Armour Applies To Elemental
  • Elemental Res
  • Chaos Res
  • Dexterity

Skill Gems

Support Gem Requirements:

Str 5

Dex 10

Int 0

1

Explosive Grenade

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2

Contagion

3

Frost Bomb

4

Flash Grenade

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5

Wind Dancer

Gem Priority
+3

You will start with Explosive Grenade initially take it with your skill gem from Renly. Put Multishot I and Fire Attunement in it.

Passive Tree

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set 1:
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set 2:
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Quest Rewards

Check which quests you’ve completed on your character
Clearfell — Beira of the Rotten Pack
+10% to Cold Resistance
Freythorn — The King in the Mists
+30 to Spirit
Ogham Manor — Candlemass, the Living Rite
+20 to maximum Life
Valley of the Titans — Medallion
30% increased Charm Effect Duration
+1 Charm Slot
The Spires of Deshar — Sisters of Garukhan
+10% to Lightning Resistance
The Venom Crypts — Venom Draught
25% increased Stun Threshold
Jiquani's Machinarium — Blackjaw, the Remnant
+10% to Fire Resistance
The Azak Bog — Ignagduk, the Bog Witch
+30 to Spirit
Eye of Hinekora — Navali's Rest
5% increased Maximum Mana
Halls of the Dead — Tawhoa's Test
+5 to Dexterity
Abandoned Prison — Goddess of Justice
30% increased Mana Recovery from Flasks
Halls of the Dead — Tasalio's Test
+5 to Intelligence
Halls of the Dead — Ngamahu's Test
+5 to Strength
The Khari Crossing — Molten Shrine
5% increased Maximum Life
Qimah — Tabana's Pillar
3% increased Movement Speed
Kriar Village — Lythara, the Wayward Spear
+40 to Spirit

How it Plays

Supporting Fire throws a flare on the ground. After a very short delay the area is covered in your minions arrows. You are running around throwing these flares on the ground and then watching the carnage. It is very simple and very smooth.

How it Works

Supporting Fire is a skill that scales off Minion tags, Strength, and Dexterity. Getting as high a strength as possible is most important as well as scaling the gem level of the skill. You get to a high gem level my scaling with minion levels on Trenchtimbre and a Rattling Sceptre. Amulet can also get you +3 minion skills. Helmets can get up to +5 skills if you get a vertex with an enchant, but most people will use +3 skills. Add on Dialla's Desire which also increases the damage of Supporting Fire and you can get the dps well over 1,000,000. This does require investment.

Strength stacking is your next best potion for scaling damage. I currently have over 1,000 strength but you should try and get even higher. For dex it isnt near as important to scale. The base AoE of the skill is already screen wide. There is also a cap on how high you can scale its AoE. You really don't need much dex to get the AoE big though.

You are able to scale the damage very high by minion stacking with Muster. Despite us using many minions they are basically paperweights to buff Supporting Fire. 99% of our damage is coming from Supporting Fire.

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Table of Contents

1. Build Overview Hey guys, KallTorak here! I'm an Off-Meta creator with an affinity for silly goose time builds! This is my Supporting Fire Tact build for speed leveling & end game. What is Supporting Fire? Is this a minion build? VideosMain GuidePOE NINJAOld Guide2. Strengths and Weaknesses3. Build Variants4. Equipment5. Skill Gems6. Passive Tree7. Quest Rewards8. How it Plays9. How it Works

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