[Gemling] Endgame Tank with Grenades and Hammers - oneshotting Bosses + good aoe clear + very tanky

Hey,

i have been planning my gemling build even before ea launch and it worked out very well. Haven't seen anyone play my version or any guides doing what i do.

wudijo is streaming his gemling gameplay on twitch. in my opinion this version is superior to his. so naturally i wanted to share.
Feel free to post this anywhere else.

Pros:
very tanky for a life build, 90% fire res 82% cold/lightning res, 4-5k life
oneshotting rares and most bosses
good aoe clear

Cons:
slow as most builds in poe2 are (apart from ranger)
not as tanky as ES based builds
alot of buttons

gameplay of 80 zone map with deadly evolution:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2327264093

tree and small guide:

https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/profile/5f8e43a4-fc15-48d4-909d-e218489b751c/builds/d8bd8fcf-245e-4849-8667-946c4c94dce1


i have explained most stuff
im not a content creator nor do i want to spend alot of time on guides. so this is just a short version but feel free to ask if anything comes up.


edit:
just a small update. i have finished the game, killed every boss. this build makes it look easy. especially after the last patch we are very tanky now. im at 4700 life, 90% fire, 84% lightning/cold, 75% chaos res, ~16k armour, almost lvl 94 and didnt die for the last 2 levels.
82 zones with 1-2 damage mods are not rippy and doable.

my gear is nothing special and can be acquired for a total of 10-20 div

i changed a few skills and gems. this is the final version now. ill play abit more and then reroll.

I am likely gonna try out what you're doing. Originally wanted to play ignite but wasn't sure how to go about it. But since someone's posted a tree I will follow it and see lol. Ideally would like to see a vid of just your clearing/gameplay if possible. Don't need to explain anything. I just wanna see your skill sequence etc.

added a video of a map

That's actually how I was playing until I got this +5 to gems cbow on day 3. And mana was my biggest bane. So I had to swap to using gas + explosive nade combo. I think my biggest issue right now is staying alive. Gotta get myself a new cbow if i wanna go back to doing that. Without the absurd mana costs.

Hey man I've seen your merc build and I find it super cool, I was trying to do something similar but I lack the knowledge since I'm new to POE. (I tried Poe1 but never got into it)

I was wondering if you could help me a little bit, I've started with some random stuff and I don't know if it's possible for me to still go this build without restarting.

I'm at act 2 and was mixing a bit of bow with escape shot to freeze and escape but I find the weapon swap too slow. I already have explosive grenade at lvl 3 so I don't know if it's still possible to do this build. For the rest I haven't chosen still the grenades since I was trying a shooting build, but I guess the minimum for some of them is lvl 5(?)

I also mixed in some passive for life leech and I don't know if that would do something to this build.

Also, I've seen in your video that even if you have a lot of skills you only slot 7 skills plus the block, so I don't know if you keep the other ones in the second skill tab.

There's also some mechanical stuff that I don't understand like the proc of the hammer of the gods, or when is it better to swap to melee but for now I think it's too many questions!

Love your build and I hope it's not too much of a hassle! cheers!

this is an endgame build. so leveling is just however you like.

just take all the damage nodes and use grenades. start pathing right and take all the proj damage nodes. then just follow the tree by taking all the grenade, movement speed and two handed damage nodes.

sometime later 60-70 undo the proj damage and add armour and fire damage + avatar and get a 2handed weapon for your 2nd weapon set

Hey thanks for the build. I have built this and works quite fine for me atm.

But i have a different question, i crafted a rly high dps mace for this somehow. Without leveling a new toon i was curious that how can i play a warrior build on a gemling do you have any build ideas

just a small update. i have finished the game, killed every boss. this build makes it look easy. especially after the last patch we are very tanky now. im at 4700 life, 90% fire, 84% lightning/cold, 75% chaos res, ~16k armour, almost lvl 94 and didnt die for the last 2 levels.
82 zones with 1-2 damage mods are not rippy and doable.

my gear is nothing special and can be acquired for a total of 10-20 div

i changed a few skills and gems. this is the final version now. ill play abit more and then reroll.

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Se7ends#5157 wrote:

Hey thanks for the build. I have built this and works quite fine for me atm.

But i have a different question, i crafted a rly high dps mace for this somehow. Without leveling a new toon i was curious that how can i play a warrior build on a gemling do you have any build ideas

you can play any mace build. i didnt play anything else yet.

With all the block nodes, along with Lay Siege and Spiked Shield nodes, I wonder if adding a shield to the build and going 1h mace would be an improvement.

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murph2336#4372 wrote:

With all the block nodes, along with Lay Siege and Spiked Shield nodes, I wonder if adding a shield to the build and going 1h mace would be an improvement.

We are using a shield once enough str is achieved
The shield nodes aren't that great for weapon swap points

We are barely using the mace stance though so the best shield would probably be svalinn for the gem sockets which would provide more max res in crossbow stance.

1h would be a huge singletarget dps loss