Flameblast Oil Grenade Leaguestarter - Gemling Legionnaire - 0.5.5 POE2

Leveling regex for vendor: "y: r|\d+% i.+mov|^\+.*all sp.*ls$|^\+.*re sp.*ls$|s: (st|cr)" level 1-14 Pick up explosive grenade from Renly and frost bomb. 1. Support gem = Multishot on explosive grenades 2. Support gem = Elemental armament I 3. Support gem = Multishot on rapid shots, later put it onto gas grenade Grab one intelligence attribute note and add pounce with a talisman in offhand for mobility Level 14 add Gas grenade with multishot and elemental armament For clearing use flash grenade against squishy enemies and explosive grenade against tanky enemies. For bossing combo is: Frost bomb -> Gas grenade -> Explosive grenade -> Gas grenade -> Explosive grenade Upgrade Explosive grenades > Gas grenade > all other If you do not have enough intelligence for frost bomb, you can use oil grenade for exposure. Upgrading weapon: Look for Tense Crossbow level 5 and Sturdy Crossbow Level 10 at vendor, if you do not drop one. Flat damage is king. Recommend upgrading at level 16 to varnished crossbow and level 33 to bombard crossbow Make sure to check the vendor for fire staves and craft on any good firestaves starting from lvl 36. Save GOLD for respec later. Keep using grenades until 52, where you swap to Flameblast with Oil grenade. Make sure you have at least 25k Gold before respecing. Flameblast swap IMPORTANT DO NOT GET ADDED FIRE DAMAGE ANYWHERE! If you have any added fire damage to attacks or extra fire damage your Oil Grenade will ignite the enemy and overwrite your flameblast ignite. You will notice it, when your ignites do not deal any damage all of a sudden. Check tooltip of oil grenade. SET weapon sets for skills. Select weapon set I for crossbow/oil grenade and Flameblast for weapon set II. YOU CAN CAST FLAMEBLAST WITH CROSSBOW IN WEAPON SET 1, negating all your dps. Advanced Thaumaturgy (ascendancy) is mandatory before swap. GEM quality is really important on flameblast. Get it to 20% as soon as possible. Against flying units cast tornado. Before respecing make sure you have: -At least 30k gold -Uncut skill gem level 13 -Lesser or greater jewellers orb -At least 2 gemcutter, preferably 4 for flameblast -Decent fire staff (+3/+4 to all fire spells) Level of skill gems and order of quality upgrades Flameblast, 10% quality is must Oil Grenade, gives larger AOE. You want to level your oil grenade, because you can get more area of effect on specific levels: 10, 13, 16, 19, 22, 25 Frostbomb and elemental weakness: if they are not high enough, they cannot apply to enemies. Make sure to level them! Blasphemy, temporal chains last Level 90+ Split Personality Swap Split personality can be obtained from The Raven Trickster (delirium). This allows allocating nodes from the starting location of the sorcerer. I recommend swapping once you have good energy shield based gear. 900+ energy shield chest is needed. The swap will allow you to get tankier and obtain Chaos Inoculation, becoming immune against chaos damage. The jewel is going to be very expensive on leaguestart. Ascendancy Order Essence of Virtue Advanced Thaumaturgy Neurological Implants Studded, MAKE SURE you have the same amount of support gems in every color. This guide has the balanced out gems in 70+ flameblast. Gearing and Stats These stats will give this amount of damage: +1 level of skills/fire skills = 16% more ignite dps 10% damage as extra fire = 8% more ignite dps 10% increased damage/spell damage/fire damage/elemental damage = 2% more ignite dps In general spell/fire skill level > as extra fire > spell damage/fire damage Armour pieces and rings should be resistance and life. Amulet +skills is best. Boots movespeed. Jewels: Increased magnitude of ailments you inflict, ingite magnitude and damaging ailments inflict damage faster are the same at max roll ~ 4.5% more damage Spell damage/fire damage at max roll is okay ~ 3% more damage Mapping Ignited ground is fine Maps to avoid Sun temple Lofty summit These maps have bosses with 90% fire res. If you cannot apply elemental weakness and exposure on them, avoid those. Uniques: If you run Fireflower unique amulet, you need recover LIFE on kill on a jewel! If you want, you can snapshot the ignite with oil grenade with the amulet and swap it off afterwards. You can also run a Kaoms for higher max hit/tankiness before going full ES What to farm: Any stationary content like expedition and ritual is good, but the build should be able to do all content. Lootfilter includes leveling and highlights crossbows and staves: https://www.filterblade.xyz/?profile=ll566847&saveState=ZXZX0SY02BVTD9&isPreset=false&game=Poe2 For mapping use neversink filterblade and adjust strictness yourself.