Welcome to the Ice-Fire Fusion Gemma Leveling Guide. Gemma's Ice-Fire Fusion Trait specializes in combining damage types from multiple elements, Frostfire Strength applies Fire damage bonuses to Cold damage and vice versa. This makes her an excellent choice for mixing and matching Elemental Skills of almost any type because you apply all your damage bonuses to any of them.
| The leveling guide is intended to take your character to Level 80. This is the last level with unlimited free respec points. Be sure to check the final section of the guide for recommendations on how to transition into the Endgame! |
- Very safe playstyle
- Massive Range & AoE
- Scales very well with gear
- Low Mobility
- Few defensive layers
- Fire spellcasting isn't well supported
Check out the Complete Story Walkthrough for tips on how to complete the Campaign.
Treasure Troves
Treasure Troves are a way to super-charge your leveling experience. They give vastly more experience than regular zones and yield exclusive Legendary items. You need to complete each of them once for a Talent Point. For an easier leveling experience, you repeat the Treasure Trove until you're 8-10 levels above the zone, then rush through the next few areas. Follow your side quest to find the Treasure Trove locations.
Keep an eye out for the following Legendary items as you clear Treasure Troves.
- New Ear Hills (L7): Look out for Pentagram Astrolabe, Lonesome and Glorious Journey.
- Nectar Valley (L16): Look out for Omniscient Prototype.
- Dawn Avenue (L27): Look out for Omniscient Prototype.
- Sanctuary of Solitude (L35): Look out for Lonesome and Pentagram Astrolabe.
- Silver Sands' End (L44): Look out for Howling Wind, Surging Inspiration - Prototype and Marksman Bracers.
- Hall of Grandiosity (L54): Here you should farm to level 60 to reach your next Hero Trait before completing the campaign. Look for, Surging Inspiration - Prototype and Feline Gloves.
Leveling Tips and Tricks
- Your first active skill slot (top left in the Skills menu) is your "Main Skill," this matters because many items and Hero Traits have effects that only apply to the Main Skill.
- If you're ever in doubt of where to go, click the campaign quest on the left of your screen and a golden path shows you the way.
- This guide assumes you get most of your levels through Treasure Troves and rush to the objectives in other zones for maximum efficiency.
- When allocating Pact Points, prioritize Life first, then select Damage nodes until you fill the section. If you have leftover points, put them into Drop nodes as you begin farming the Netherrealm.
- Complete all 10 Levels of the Hero Forge to unlock all of your Hero Trait abilities and gain 6 additional Talent Points.
- All support gems become available from the Skill Shop at level 55. At this stage cross reference with the embeds to make sure you're set up for the Netherrealm.
- In Chapter 3 gear you find comes with varying amounts of Energy, after changing your gear, be sure to go to the Energy Menu under Skills to reassign missing Energy.
Equipment & Stat Priorities
Look for these Offensive stats on weapons:
- Fire damage added to Spells
- Cast Speed
- % Elemental Damage
- % Spell Damage
- % Projectile Damage
- % Projectile Speed
Look for these Defensive stats on armor:
- Maximum Life
- Armor Bases (while leveling)
- Life Regeneration
- Elemental Resistance
- Erosion Resistance
- -% additional physical damage taken
Core Skill
- Build stacks of Fusion Energy by using skills tagged with Fire or Cold to use Frostfire Rampage; Gemma's signature ability that causes you to deal significantly more Elemental damage.
- Split Firebolt is a projectile skill that splits and explodes upon hitting an enemy, it also gains massive power from Spell Burst. Use it when you are waiting for your Terra Charges to recharge.
- Flame Jet is a Terra skill meaning it has 0 cast time. Use it when you have 3 Terra Charges to efficiently kill packs of enemies whilst on the move.
- Mana Boil is an empower skill that provides a passive bonus granting additional Spell Damage by draining 5% of your mana per second. With enough levels in Magical Source you should have almost permanent up time on this buff.
- Spiral Strike is the fastest mobility choice.
Leveling Progression
WARNING: The following levels are a guideline, you might complete the quest/unlock the Skill a few levels early, or a few levels later!
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Move to slider at the bottom to interact with the Tool
Use the Embed to the left to follow along with Support Skill progression!
- Level 1: Support Split Firebolt with Multiple Projectiles.
Equip the following as you obtain them:
- Level 3: Support Compound Potion with Residues
- Use Daggers as your weapon of choice to enable Spiral Strike. Until you acquire them, use Blink.
- Level 7-11: Support Split Firebolt with Wind Projectiles.
- Level 12-16: Equip Flame Jet
- Level 20: You unlock access to all of your Active Skills.
- Equip Mana Boil
- If you find that you have enough damage without Flame Jet. Substitute it for Scorch.
- Level 22: Support Split Firebolt with Added Fire Damage
- Level 26-54: Continue filling out supports on your utility skills. Now, the goal is to slowly add on Supports and Auras as you gain Energy and levels.
Level 55: At this point you have access to every skill in the game, continue to follow the embed shown as you gain more Energy.
To learn more check out the Skills and Passives Guide.
Talents
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Goddess of Knowledge
Goddess of Knowledge grants large amounts of Cast Speed, Spell Damage and +1 Level to Spell Skills. It also provides Spell Burst with the Major Talent; Beacon.
Elementalist
This tree provides Elemental Damage bonuses as well as an important minor node that grants Cold Damage to spells. This enables aspects of your Hero Traits.
Marksman
Marksman increases Projectile Damage, Projectile Speed and grants large amounts of Critical Strike Rating. It also provides Jump from Medium Talent and 2 additional projectiles from the Major Talent; Three Birds with One Stone. This massively increases your clear speed.
There are tons of different Talent Trees to explore, if you want to learn more about this robust system check out our Talent Tree Guide.
Traits, Relics and Memories
Hero Traits
Level 45: Ice-Fire Embrace Grants 2 additional max fusion energy and increases its effect whilst at maximum energy, amounting to massively increased damage.
Level75: Glacial Flames adds another 3 to max fusion energy and causes you to deal additional Fire Damage for every point of Fusion Energy.
Level 90: Extreme Fusion is a massive damage increase as it prevents Fusion Energy from being lost during Frostfire Rampage.
Relics and Memories
Look for any combination of the following stats on your Hero Relics and Memories;
| Hero Relic | Hero Memories |
| + Maximum Fusion Energy | Frostfire Rampage Duration |
| Fusion Energy effect for every engraved Hero Memory | Fire and Cold Damage added to Spells |
| Increased Cold Damage | Additional Damage for every 0.3s Frostfire Rampage has been active |
| Frostfire Rampage Duration | % Non-Elemental Damage taken as Elemental Damage |
To learn more, check out our Hero Relic and Hero Memory Guide.
Pacts
To learn more, check out our Pacts and Pets Guide.
The Netherrealm
Racing through your Netherrealm quests as quickly as possible results in you becoming under leveled for the required zones to progress further, stay within 3 levels of the zones you're completing to avoid a harsh experience penalty. Check out our How to Progress the Netherrealm if you're unsure of anything.
Here's a list of things to do while progressing the early stages of the Netherrealm;
- Level 60, The Trade House is unlocked. Be sure to read and understand our Trade House for Beginners Guide before making any big purchases.
- Higher item levels of gear come with higher quantities of Energy. Look to improve your current gear with items that have increased energy so that you can use more Support Skills.
- Utilize Prototype Crafting and Enchanting to greatly increase the power of non-legendary gear you come across. It costs very low amounts of Flame Dust and Flame Sand to lock 1 good affix in place and reroll up to 4 new modifiers.
Transitioning to Endgame
Weapon
Focus on acquiring either 2 Wands or a Staff with the "Additional damage for Skills cast by Spell Burst " mod;
- Search Beacons or the Trade House for items with any of the following modifiers on Staffs or Wands.
- Additional Levels to Fire or Spell Skills
- Additional damage for Skills cast by Spell Burst.
- Fire Damage
- Critical Strike Damage
- Gear Critical Strike Rating
- Elemental Penetration
- Cast Speed
- Craft the items using prototype crafting until you have Spell Burst modifier as well as multiple modifiers listed above.
- Enchant the item with a 5th modifier.
Legendary Items
Leveling
- Spring Resurrection is a great early game weapon for any caster build.
- Chain of Resistance grants additional damage against Single Targets and Area of Effect whilst clearing groups of monsters.
- Surging Inspiration - Prototype can be farmed in the later treasure troves and is a large boost to damage. It allows the use of Psychic Burst as almost all your casts are spellburst.
- Look for a Howling Ring with an additional Jump.
- Grace Boots provide Focus Blessing generation as well as additional movement speed, Life and Energy Shield.
- Elemental Whisper Belt adds flat Elemental damage to spells, but quickly gets outclassed by a well crafted belt.
- Pentagram Astrolabe provides 5 random elemental modifiers.
- Boots of Sinned Fire grant up to 60% additional damage to ignited enemies.
Set Items
As you complete the Netherrealm you encounter Chaos Cards that provide a Set Item. These items are very powerful at a base, and provide powerful set bonuses. Be sure to farm the following Voyager's Commemorative Set Items;
- Voyager's Commemorative Boots
- Voyager's Commemorative Brooch
- Voyager's Commemorative Cape
- Voyager's Commemorative Cufflinks
- Voyager's Commemorative Goggles
- Voyager's Commemorative Pinky Ring
- Voyager's Commemorative Strap
Continue the Journey
Congratulations on completing the Ice-Fire Fusion Gemma leveling guide! To continue your Endgame journey check our Build Database!
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Written by: milkybk_
Reviewed by: Xtra37