S-TIER | BUILD MERCENAIRE SPEARFIELD GEMLING LEGIONNAIRE (@Phylaris) | SAISON 5

Build Video

Build Overview

The Gemling Legionnaire Spearfield Drifter is a spear Mercenary build designed above all for fluidity. You glide through maps from pack to pack while chaining Spearfield casts: a two-button playstyle with excellent clear speed and very respectable single-target damage. The author leveled from 1 to 95 in a single day, so smooth and comfortable is the mapping experience.

The build’s strength lies in the alternative quality mechanic of spear skills. Spearfield gains 1% attack speed per point of alternative quality — the author reaches +39% attack speed this way, which acts both as a massive damage multiplier and a fluidity multiplier. No need to stack attack speed separately to « spam » Spearfield. Unlike Lightning Spear, the animation is fast, requires no precise aiming and no conditions to meet (no charges to generate).

Why a Gemling Legionnaire? Because it is one of the most mobile classes in the game thanks to the alternative qualities of Blink and Cast on Dodge. Here, Cast on Dodge is used as a « Blink 2.0″: by sacrificing 80 Spirit, you gain a significantly longer roll distance and some automatic casting, all at a much lower budget than traditional autobomber builds. Since a spear build already has a large surplus of Spirit (spear + sceptre), this synergy fits perfectly.

Strengths / Weaknesses

Skill Gem Setup by Step

This build offers 2 progression steps from leveling to the final build. Select a step to see the corresponding gem setup.

Endgame Noncrit Leveling

Endgame

13 skills • 64 gemmes

Virtuous BarrierVirtuous Barrier

BondissementPounce

Déclenchement lors de l'EsquiveCast on Dodge

Déclenchement lors de l'EsquiveCast on Dodge

Descente vertueuseRighteous Descent

Pureté du feuPurity of Fire

Frappes primitivesPrimal Strikes

Champ de lanceSpearfield

Héraut du tonnerreHerald of Thunder

BerserkBerserk

TrinitéTrinity

Étendard de guerreWar Banner

Rugissement féroceFerocious Roar

Noncrit Leveling

2 skills • 12 gemmes

Rancune fracassanteShattering Spite

BlasphèmeBlasphemy

Recommended Equipment

• Weapon: The Ordained, an affordable spear that provides a lot of lightning damage, a good crit rate and lightning life leech. Eventually, replace it with a good rare spear like an Aquoan (or an A Series Contempt in the meantime).
• Helmet: Constricting Command, to access the Surrounded nodes (damage, movement speed, roll distance) and place Defy on your skills.
• Body Armour: Morior Invictus, ideal for filling exactly what you are missing (spirit, life, resistances). Socket with a Fox Idol (5% quality) and a rune warding rune of heart if you are playing Reputation.
• Sceptre: Sacred Flame Shrine Scepter, which provides fire damage and Purity of Fire — and allows you to reserve any reservation support for free (approximately 150 spirit worth of supports provided).
• Rings: prioritize lightning damage (no fire), life, resistances, some attributes and rarity.
• Gloves: lightning damage, life, +2 to melee skills, resistances, plus a rune granting 1 rage per melee hit.
• Belt: Mage Blood if you have one, otherwise Headhunter or a rare belt — neither is required, you will already be very fast.
• Boots: Decree of Flight, for a faster roll and some guard on dodge when you are short on energy shield.
• Amulet: a rare amulet with life, spirit, +melee skills and crit is more than enough (anoint Caragon). Wealthy players can aim for a Trinity amulet to free up a gem slot.

Gameplay Tips

• Mapping rotation: enter the map, cast Ferocious Roar to generate rage, then chain dodges and Spearfield. That’s all you need most of the time.
• Before a boss: recast Ferocious Roar if rage isn’t at maximum, plant War Banner, then start unleashing Spearfield.
• Boss phase: use Pounce on the boss to apply Predator’s Mark, then keep using Spearfield. If the boss is shocked and very tanky, switch to Primal Strikes — a single rotation is usually enough.
• Permanent wolf pack: Pounce must be present on both your weapon sets. Mark then kill a target to obtain a wolf; these wolves then stay by your side permanently.
• Watch out for fire damage: with Sacred Flame and Infernal Cry, you quickly saturate fire. Look for lightning on your gear to maintain the Trinity bonus on single target.

Cast on Dodge: Mobility as a System

Most builds sacrifice 60 spirit to run Blink and gain mobility. Here, we push the logic further with Cast on Dodge, used as a « Blink 2.0″. By dedicating 80 spirit to it, its alternative quality greatly increases dodge roll distance while automatically triggering a few utility spells.

The difference from the famous autobomber builds is that we don’t expect Cast on Dodge to carry our damage: it serves purely as a movement engine. The result is exhilarating map speed for a fraction of the budget. Be warned, however: with a double Cast on Dodge setup, you sometimes roll so far that you overshoot the next pack — the author actually considers the second instance (on the amulet) optional.

The Infernal Cry Combo: 12 Empowers from a Single Warcry

This is the build’s signature trick. On the Talisman weapon set, the author uses notable Vocal Empowerment (warcry empower and extra attack) and crafts a cheap talisman granting « warcries: 2 additional attacks ». Combined with Echoing Cry, a single Ferocious Roar then generates 12 empowers.

In practice, throughout an entire boss fight, your Spearfield and your Primal Strikes benefit from Infernal Cry‘s fire damage boost. This technique is usually reserved for slower builds, but it works very well here despite the spear’s high attack speed — at the cost of a slight fire surplus that must be compensated by seeking lightning on gear.

Passive Tree and Jewels

On the tree side, we take Advanced Dexterity to unlock Motoric Implants and notable Gem Studded, then a series of Surrounded nodes (damage, area of effect, movement speed and crit). On the second weapon set’s tree, we pick up the warcry and mark nodes, which are essential to the Infernal Cry combo and to Predator’s Mark.

Jewels make a huge difference: the author uses double-crit Time Loss (around 5 divines each, up to 150 divines for triple-crit versions) and loads as many notables as possible. We round it out with A keystone Dance with Death and keystone Resonance (socketed into jewel unique From Nothing), along with a jewel unique Heart of the Well for the bonus damage. One thing to note: there’s no need to stack crit in advance, as getting a Garukan will already bring you close to the 50% cap.

Leveling: Reaching Endgame Without Crit

The build levels very well in a non-crit version. The author started with Rampart Raptor from level 1 (Black Heart Iron rings, Galvanic Shards for clearing, Fragmentation Rounds for single-target), then rune-forged his weapon around level 38 to carry through to the first maps.

At level 72, switching to A Series Contempt changes everything: this spear at around 1 divine offers more DPS than The Ordained, and its combo with Shattering Spite lets you clear even with low damage. The most important advice: do not respec into crit before level 90, unless you are very well-funded with good jewels — otherwise you risk « bricking » your character and killing nothing.

Skill Tree