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[0.5] Supporting Fire Only Tact - One Button King

Mercenary

Tactician

End Game

0.5 RotA

Verified

By KallTorak

Updated on Jun 17, 2026

Jun 17, 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

Act 1 Crossbow

Act 1 Minions

Act 2 - Supporting Fire Start

Act 3 - Maps

End Game

Deep Late Game

Live Snapshot

Equipment

Act 1 Crossbow

Act 1 Minions

Act 2 - Supporting Fire Start

Act 3 - Maps

End Game

Deep Late Game

Live Snapshot

Set 1

Set 2

Jewels

Equipment Priority

+11

Trenchtimbre or a Shield?

Trenchtimbre is an awesome low level item that you can use the entire game. I am still using one with +2 minion skills!. It also gets greatly boosted when you stack Greater Rune of Leadership in it!

However, you might be quite okay with your damage and want to improve your survivability instead. You could then use a shield. Get a high armour shield focus with armour applies to elemental damage on it. You will lose some damage yes but you will gain block and a lot of defenses this way.

Skill Gems

Act 1 Crossbow

Act 1 Minions

Act 2 - Supporting Fire Start

Act 3 - Maps

End Game

Deep Late Game

Live Snapshot

Support Gem Requirements:

Str 25

Dex 45

Int 80

Supporting Fire

Skeletal Sniper

Skeletal Warrior

Skeletal Cleric

Skeletal Arsonist

Pounce

Blasphemy

Skeletal Reaver

Gem Priority

+31

Pounce - For minion surround debuff and Voltaic Mark for shock.

Passive Tree

Act 1 Crossbow

Act 1 Minions

Act 2 - Supporting Fire Start

Act 3 - Maps

End Game

Deep Late Game

Live Snapshot

main:

123

set 1:

set 2:

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

Hunting Grounds — The Crowbell

Grants Two Weapon Set Passive Skill Points

Ogham Farmlands — Una's Hut

Grants Two Weapon Set Passive Skill Points

Valley of the Titans — Medallion

30% increased Charm Effect Duration

+1 Charm Slot

The Spires of Deshar — Sisters of Garukhan

+10% to Lightning Resistance

Keth — Kabala, Constrictor Queen

Grants Two Weapon Set Passive Skill Points

Deshar — Final Letter

Grants Two Weapon Set Passive Skill Points

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

Jungle Ruins — Mighty Silverfist

Grants Two Weapon Set Passive Skill Points

Aggorat — Blood Sacrifice

Grants Two Weapon Set Passive Skill Points

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

Journey's End — Captain Hartlin

Two Weapon Set Passive Skill Points

Skill Gem(Lv 13)

Delirium Drop

Halls of the Dead — Yama The White

Grants Two Weapon Set Passive Skill Points

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

Wolvenhold — Oswin, the Dread Warden

Grants Two Weapon Set Passive Skill Points

The Khari Crossing — Akthi and Anundr

Two Weapon Set Passive Skill Points

Howling Caves — The Abominable Yeti

Grants Two Weapon Set Passive Skill Points

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.