S10 Marksman - Gunner Drone

Season 10Marksman

A build guide by GamingGuruGabe

01 Overview #

Welcome to my Gunner Drone guide for season 10! The gunner drone build offers a chill and relaxing playstyle while having decent clear speed and decent bossing capabilities. I recommend this build for anyone that might have hand or wrist problems seeing as its a very low apm build.

The Good

  • Good Damage
  • Easy Playstyle
  • Levels quite easily

The Bad

  • Arcane gear is usually expensive
  • The class has no built in defenses

02 Season Changes #

Gunner drone as of the writing of this guide has not received any changes from season 9.

03 Loot Filters #

Here's my starting filter for Gunner Drone for season 10. Note once you change to Nightmare your going to want to take off Most D,C,B  tier items.

04 Leveling 1–100 #

Max the skills in this order Gunner Drone, Master Mechanic Frag Grenade Turret Mastery, dump reaming points into homing missile.

For your attributes your going to want to do a split between Int and Vit. While your playing frag grenade you might have to put some points into energy if you don't find any gear or charms with mana on kill. Also keep a eye out for charms with Int/Vit/Life/Mana on kill/Life on kill these will make progressing the leveling process faster.

Frag grenade's mana cost ramps fast, keep an eye out for mana on kill charms and on gear.

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05 Level 100+ Skill Trees #

Gameplay is simple at 100, you active your Master Mechanic buff then activate your Gunner Drone's and just move around either walking or utilizing vault. If a certain pack of monsters is especially tanky use cannon turret or frag grenade on them.

For Bossing your rotation is as follows, Master Mechanic >>> Beacon >>> Gunner Drone >>> Cannon Turret >>> Frag Grenade
Most bosses won't require this whole rotation usually a Master Mechanic >>> Gunner Drone >>> Cannon Turret are enough.

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06 Incarnation Tree #

Things to look for on the incarnation tree are Arcane damage, Magic Damage, Sentry Damage, Intelligence, Spell Crit.

Path towards the sentry cluster first, then to the crit cluster, then make your way to the arcane cluster and manahunger big node

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07 Stats, Sockets & Stars #

Attributes

400 spent 0 / 400 left
  • Strength 0
  • Dexterity 0
  • Intelligence 400
  • Energy 0
  • Armor 0
  • Vitality 0
  • Magic DamageScales your damage
  • IntelliegenceScales your damage
  • Arcane skill damageScales your damage
  • Arcane skill damage IncreasedScales your damage
  • Arcane Skills
  • All Skills
  • Increased Sentry Damage
  • All Attributes
  • % Increased Intelligence
  • % of Intelligence is Added as Magic Skill Damage

Star levels

When you start getting multiples of your S-tier Satanics, it might be time to attempt some star leveling. Star leveling S-tier Satanics requires Destiny Shards — used at the crafting bench, each shard has a chance to:
62%Upgrade by 1 star
26%Downgrade
12%Corrupt — all stars removed
Each star increases the stats of an item, including orange-text abilities and bonuses. It can also increase +Skill rolls that are NOT +All Skills — so +Elemental or +Physical skills can be scaled this way.

This can be done to SS-tier items too, but it requires higher-tier materials — not suggested until you have established yourself.

08 Gear #

Look for items with:
Intelligence
Magic Damage
Arcane Skills
All Skills
X to Arcane Skill Damage
Arcane Skill Damage Increased by %
% of Intelligence is added as Magic Skill Damage
% Increased Intelligence
% Increased Sentry Damage
- to Arcane Resistance
- to all enemy Reistances

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Alternatives

  • WeaponLone Mystic, Dragon Knight's Flail, The Iris, Champion's Flag Lance, Unholy God's Flail
  • Off-handWall of the Legion, Gem Encrusted Tower, SUOMI FINLAND SUATANA, The Templar, Crystal Infused Shield
  • HelmHarlequinn's Crest, Uabel's Helmet, Crown of Midnight, Witches Brimmed Hat
  • Body ArmorHeaven's Might, Uabel's Chest, Grandwizard's Robe, Leather Muscle Breastplate
  • GlovesShadow's Grasp, Conjurer Mitts
  • BootsHermes Boots, Mana-Woven Walkers, Whisper Walker's Feiyue, Grand Wizard's Silk Shoes
  • BeltLich Sash, Commander's Sash, Engineer's Toolbelt, Knight's Girdle
  • AmuletAll Seeing Eye, High Demon's Necklace, Shining Pearl, Damien's Soulstone, Arcana Eye
  • Ring ISatanic Eye, Iron Ring of Prometheus, Ring of Tallus Rings with +arcane skills or lots of Int

09 Mercenary #

For your Mercenary your going to want to make him tanky along with having decent magic find.

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