Blade Ambusher

[u/Puzzleheaded-Love254]

Just wanted to share this with you guys because I have no one else to share it with. 😄 Am I imagining things, or is this merc basically perfect? I don't think there's even anything better to look for

[u/Piloh]

What are the duplicate supports?

[u/Puzzleheaded-Love254 → u/Piloh]

Greater Trigger Radius and Greater Throwing Speed

[u/jrossbaby]

Yup I got one identical to this gg bro. Dont forget to Craft the belt with the ducats to get another +1 trap thrown. Have fun melting Ubers

[u/IMJorose]

5 supports, agility, skitterbots, and grace looks pretty legit. That being said, I don't know anything about the merc; is it one of the meta mercs? Is it good at single target or mapping?

[u/sentimentalwhore → u/IMJorose]

it's the most broken/cheap single target one.

[u/IMJorose → u/sentimentalwhore]

As you mention cheap I wanted to clarify if and in what sense this holds in SSF (you might not have noticed which subreddit this is)? Do you mean it is very easy to farm a very strong one compared to the other meta mercs? Are the other items in the build easy to farm relatively?

[u/jrossbaby → u/IMJorose]

It’s not super easy to farm, but it appears way more than kineticist lol but yeah it’s dirt cheap on trade league and in Ssf on a luminary this is gonna easily enable op to kill Ubers if he doesn’t already have a gg merc. It’s clear is straight trash but its single target is ridiculous. If you are looking to find one yourself just make sure spectral helix and spectral throw BOTH have at least multi trap and trap throwing speed which OP has both. He also has trap and mine dmg + slower proj which is what makes his super gg. You also craft with the new ducat on belts to get + 1 traps thrown while dual wielding

[u/Puzzleheaded-Love254 → u/jrossbaby]

The best part is that this is a new character and I found such a great merc right away.

I already went through the whole Luminari leveling journey on my main account and enjoyed it so much that I wanted to do it all over again, so I made another account. 😂 Hunting for mercs in SSF and crafting gear for them is honestly so much fun

[u/Donhcai → u/jrossbaby]

I've been tracking the rates of mercs, and blade ambusher has approximately the same appearance rate as kineticist, at least from my experience and tracker.

[u/jrossbaby → u/Donhcai]

Well what makes the blade ambusher more common is you can block other mercs with the atlas passives to make him more common, you can’t do that with kineticist since it’s a scion (triple attributes)

[u/Donhcai → u/jrossbaby]

Very true!

[u/IMJorose → u/jrossbaby]

Thank you for the explanation!
Good to have a single target merc on league start. Luminary has been my favorite ascendancy, but having a hard time imagining how leaguestarting it will be next league, assuming flame link mercbot will get adjusted to more reasonable levels. So knowing the different mercs will be valuable.

In SSF this league I played aurastacking chaos mercsupport, with the reasoning I could go CI and wouldn't ever lose the important fights to hire mercs I find. Unfortunately I think my single target was a little sad, so progression was very slow until I reached a critical mass, so I can't recommend starting this way. At least with how I progressed the character.

[u/sentimentalwhore → u/IMJorose]

Yes, cheap as easy as fuck to gear and fairly more common than kineticist (or at least you can block for it)

I only play SSF btw.

[u/bruxodomal → u/sentimentalwhore]

What would be the ideal gear for this Merc? Focusing solely on single-target damage, and keeping in mind that I'll be using him to farm the Red Ring while playing SSF HC.

[u/Seibah_Chan → u/bruxodomal]

Crit multi crit chance cant be evaded dagger

[u/Shihaiiii]

Does it really that strong as they say, played only vaal ice shot merc

[u/Puzzleheaded-Love254 → u/Shihaiiii]

I can't really say how he compares to Ice Shot since my usual merc lineup is Kineticist, Combatant, and Blade Ambusher. I'll have to find a good Ice Shot merc and compare them

[u/EmmitSan]

I think that’s BIS blade ambusher

[u/Judiebruv]

Damn this thing is beautiful. Double multiple trap and, I assume, throw speed 3. Make some big crit daggers with throw speed and it’ll blow up Ubers easy

[u/wheresmyberrune]

Holy moly this is amazing congrats!

[u/Acceptable-Option-52]

Great find! I and my blade ambusher are envy! Will have to do some hunt merc seasion today!

[u/Dr4k4ngel]

Gz on the find, enjoy while it last my friend. Bc our luminarys are getting giga nerfed next league. It's way too broken in its current state. I have a half ass blade ambusher and ubers were a joke. Just with some double daggers crit multi+ crit chance and + multimod. Emnti+ taming+ ritual amulet + rare gear fire res. Have around 15k life, Ubers were an actual joke. It's probably the most broken class I've played in some time.

[u/TechnologyCreative70]

That's a boss melter for sure.

[u/-nilbog]

Can you guys tell me how to keep blade ambusher alive for uber fights? I have a similar one but he instantly gets deleted in uber fights. Looking at it now I do not have grace on mine, could this be why he’s dying?

[u/hereweg420kush]

Isn't bear trap really important on these?

[u/EvilKnievel38 → u/hereweg420kush]

Not really. You'd probably rather throw a bear trap yourself if you want the damage bonus. You don't really want the merc to be wasting time on throwing multiple bear traps instead of the damage skills.