Path of Exile Mercenaries | Elemental Perforate Slayer | Mom said it's my turn with the DPS

Ascendancy Order: Impact > Brutal Fervour > Endless Hunger > Bane of Legends Perforate is available to use immediately. Up to you on if you'd like to start using it right away to get used to stance dancing with Blood & Sand or if you want to run something else until you get further into the tree. Tree Notes: Early on work towards cutting through Golem's Blood, take Retaliation, and head up towards the left to grab Dismembering, and continue up that way for some tanky nodes. If you're planning to full time run a Strike skill instead of Perforate, take Tribal Fury and the Non-Vaal Strike Skills target 1 additional nearby Enemy node. Otherwise, take Dance of Blades and get used to finding the proper situations to stance swap in. Take Blade of Cunning and Blade Master once you have access to good enough Legendary Swords to use for long periods of time. Take Versatile Combatant when you have most of the block nodes and are nearly or already over capped on block. Take Iron Reflexes once you hit maps and have all your gear on. Weapon Craft: Get iLvL 83+ Anarchic Spiritblade Put Shaper or Elder influence on it. Roll for 1 good influence mod (Multistrike, Critical Strikes, Critital Damage, etc) Grab a Shaper or Elder influence sword (the opposite of whatever you already have) and roll it for 1 good mod as well. Awakener orb the fodder weapon onto the Spiritblade. If it rolls well, YIPPEE!! Use it. Odds are, it won't. Path from there is to either spam in harvest with either Critical, Speed, or Physical Reforges until it hits something good. OR, Fossil craft. Most optimal fossil craft is: Corroded, Metallic, Jagged, Faceted It's expensive. If you get the perfect suffixes (Level 20 Multistrike, Crit Damage, Crit Multi), you're pretty well set. Hope to get Melee Phys, Added Fire, or Ruthless in prefix slot alongside 40% more attack damage. Take whatever gives you the most damage honestly. Mercenary Specific Notes: Swap in either Determination or Purity of Elements depending on what kind of Mercenary you're running. Post Mercenary league, just run Determination Best options are either a mercenary that has Wrath (ideally a Stormhand) or an Eruptor/Earthshaker Stormhand: Give her Doryani's Prototype Scale Lightning Res super into the negative Get two Crusader influenced wands Craft them until they get the "Wrath has increased aura effect" mod Throw useful legendaries on such as Leer Cast, Kaom's binding (unless using belt to scale lightning further into the negative), etc Run Determination on yourself Eruptor/Earthshaker: Doryani's Prototype Scale Lightning Res super into the negative Get a Kingmaker Throw on other useful legendaries such as Blood Price, Surgebinders, Kaom's Binding, Legacy of Fury Run Purity of Elements or Wrath for yourself. Purity of Elements for comfort, Wrath for more damage