Hero Siege Marksman BiS Guide: Best in Slot for Drone Builds (S10)

Gearing an Army Instead of a Character

Most Hero Siege BiS conversations are about sharpening your own attacks. The drone Marksman is the inversion of that project: the build’s damage is automated, which means your gear’s job is not to make you hit harder — it is to make your drones hit harder, survive longer and cover more ground. Read every slot priority below through that inversion and the whole list makes sense.

Slot Priorities for the Drone Core

1. Minion-amplification slots — the build’s engine. Whatever amplifies drone output sits at the top of every farming decision. These slots climb the rarity ladder first, from Heroic placeholders to Satanic endgame spines to peak-tier finishers.
2. Survivability for you, not the drones — the fail-safe. The automation keeps fighting while you reposition, but you are the single point of failure. Enough life and mitigation to survive mistakes keeps the army on the field.
3. Attack speed and automation tempo — the multiplier band. The build scales with how fast its automated damage acts, so tempo affixes convert directly into clear speed.
4. Personal attack stats — last on purpose. A drone Marksman’s own trigger-pulls are cleanup, not damage. Slots that only buff your own shots fill themselves with whatever drops.

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The Three Gear Routes, in Build Order

Phase 1 — drops get you to endgame

The drone build’s famous accessibility comes from its tolerance for random gear: the automated core performs on whatever the campaign and the upper ladder hand you, which lets you start endgame farming earlier than most classes. Farm wormholes and Uber content the moment your survival allows it — volume feeds the drone-scaling slots first.

Phase 2 — the market closes the gaps

Two purchases define the mid-game: the piece that makes your drone cap or tempo feel complete, and the survival piece that stops endgame content from one-shotting you. Both are market questions before they are luck questions — which makes them gold-income questions, and Season 10’s economy rewards exactly that planning.

Phase 3 — the Codex project

Once the build is stable, the Codex of Eternity is where targeted crafting finishes the drone-scaling slots. Converting farmed materials into attempts at the exact affixes your automation scales with is the same “printing” loop every endgame build runs — the drone Marksman just aims it at fewer, more defined targets.

When a Drone Marksman Slot Is Done

The automation makes “done” unusually measurable: watch your clear speed, not your gear score.

• Drone-scaling slots are done when pushing one more wormhole floor no longer needs better drones — the army clears what you can survive.
• Your survivability slots are done when endgame content’s burst no longer threatens the run — you should die to decisions, not to pack contact.
• Everything else stays whatever dropped last, until a market listing or a farming streak upgrades it for free.

Marksman BiS FAQ

Is the drone build still strong after balance patches?

It has survived every season by design — automation builds are a fixture of the class. Individual drone breakpoints move with patches, but the build’s core loop and gearing logic are structural, not numeric.

Should I mix drone scaling with personal attack stats?

Only in the transition phase, where personal damage patches over a not-yet-complete army. Past early endgame, mixed investment serves neither half of the build — commit the slots to the automation.

What is the most common Marksman gearing mistake?

Neglecting personal survivability because the drones “do the fighting.” The army keeps shooting while you reposition — but every death stops the farm, and farm volume is the whole engine of this build’s progression.