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PoE 2 Build

Supporting Fire Only Tact - One Button King

0.4 TLotD

Tactician

Mercenary

Verified

End Game

By KallTorak

Updated on Jan 18, 2026

Jan 18, 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 cheap 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 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
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Streams
Leveling Stream #1
End Game Stream #1
End Game Stream #2
End Game Stream #3

Shoutout to WinterizedGWA his reddit thread inspired this build. LINK

Shoutout to Storx for the adorned setup motivation push

Shoutout to the legend Drasch for getting me to swap to this setup. Check out his PoB here!

Strengths and Weaknesses

Supporting Fire got buffs and its amazing! Screen with 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. We do all of our killing with Supporting Fire.
Very tanky since we are strength stacking with Black Scythe Training we have so much ES. During the campaign I had over 4000 life at one point.

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.
Stat stacker variant so its gear dependent. Probably not SSF friendly.

Build Variants

Level 1

Level 20 Supporting Fire Start

Level 40

Level 65

End Game

Armour/ES Simu Farm

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

Equipment

Level 1

Level 20 Supporting Fire Start

Level 40

Level 65

End Game

Armour/ES Simu Farm

Set 1

Set 2

Equipment Priority

Meginord's Girdle - You will 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.

Rampart Raptor - Cheap leveling crossbow. When combined with Fragmentation Rounds you will delete every boss until we swap to Supporting Fire.

Iron Ring - Great for increasing your damage. This will carry you until act 2.

Skill Gems

Level 1

Level 20 Supporting Fire Start

Level 40

Level 65

End Game

Armour/ES Simu Farm

Support Gem Requirements:

Str 5

Dex 25

Int 5

Expand all

Fragmentation Rounds

Explosive Grenade

Flash Grenade

Contagion

Gem Priority

Fragmentation Rounds for bossing. Rampart Raptor will delete anything early game. When you reload you get unlimited ammo for a short duration. Almost every single boss in the game will melt to you with this setup. Very cheap as well.

Explosive Grenade & Flash Grenade for clear. Multishot is all you need to make these skills scale well.

Use Contagion early on but dropped by level 10.

Passive Tree

Level 1

Level 20 Supporting Fire Start

Level 40

Level 65

End Game

Armour/ES Simu Farm

main:

123

set 1:

set 2:

We are very quickly gaining large amounts of strength and stats from Titanrot Cataphract and Astramentis. Pathing towards Polymathy is your #1 prio.

You get Unleash Hell! with your first tactician ascendancy points. You should be rushing for your ascendancy as fast as possible. I did it at level 18.

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.