Gemling Grenadier Gas & Explosive Grenade Support Gem Progression
Right now I am having tons of fun with my Gemling Legionnaire using Explosive and Gas Grenades to deal amazing damage. However, the Gem Studded ascendancy opens up a lot of new Options and I haven't really seen any recent discussion of good Support Gem combinations for these two Skills.
I am entering maps right now and it would be lovely to have some recommendations from experienced Legionnaires regarding good setups and skill progression. What do you think, guys? Links to builds appreciated. <3
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Hi I'm a gemling enjoyer! I not so much a grendier based one but I did play around with it for a few days during the holiday break and I can say it was very fun in many ways. I can give some insight of my experience it if it's any use to you though.
I did not choose the gem studded one to get use copies but when I was putting on my grenade skills it would have been really nice if I could have had it for scattershot, extra aoe, and cooldown copies. I felt like I was running out of gems to use without it when I was running all grenade skills and explosive shot.
I had a nice comination with gas grenades, flash bang, and explosive grenades.
Gas grenades - used to strip armor with the one gem in poison damage, with +75% magnitude, and daze on armor break. I had a 4th slot on gas and used the +2 stack poison since I belive 2 stacks should strip armor even faster?
Flash bang - scatter shot so with the perks and bombader crossbow launch a min 5 flash bangs and +50% stun build up. I ran was running low on gem options so I threw on the 500% stun build up on every 5th use and maim but would could probably put something else to suit your needs here should you have the extra slots. The gas grenades stripping armor and dazing meant bosses I fought would get stunned very easily.
Once they were stunned I would just spam the explosive grenades while they were down. I used the extra damage with less aoe here. I really cant miss them if they arent moving anywhere and I had explosive shot if I needed to trigger my grenades early.
I did have the cluster one too with cooldown added. Only downside is you may not be able to see the ground so any traps or attacks that have the ground exploding might outright kill you. That happened to me on a ritual but in all other scenarios it was great just watching the fireworks on bosses and breaches. Regardless it was very fun to explode T12 bosses with it.
I actually like parts of grenadier so much I used my weapon set 2 with a grenadier set up just for gas and flash bangs on my projectile based build on weapon set 1. That 5 grenade flash bang has been very useful and triple gas grenades just cover so much area for me.