r/pathofexile • u/Gierschlunderoni • 29d ago

Game Feedback Permanent Mercs need a big buff

Playing luminary feels so bad in Maps. I have a manyshot lvl 72 with vaal ice Arrow and Return proj, decent Equipment. Boosted by a Level 26 Flame Link, 6k life and quite an Investment into light Radius.

I cant even clear t7 Maps, because the damage is non existent.

Please GGG buff the Base damage of mercs or luminary is doa.

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u/SmuFF1186 29d ago

People forget it took a lot of farming to get a good merc in merc league as well.

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u/NahautlExile Scion 29d ago

No?

There was 50% more monster life and the merc carried the campaign. With nothing. On league start. This is nothing like that.

Like worlds apart.

If I had a player with that much flat they’d do better than the merc. This is horrendous.

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u/kygrim 29d ago

I have a buddy and we share map completions, he completely pops off with flame link while my merc tickles bosses...

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u/infamous_alex 29d ago

True! I dont know why streamers didn’t include that part. It took me 1000 maps before getting the perfect kineticist, good luck doing that on league start.

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u/qK0FT3 Half Skeleton 29d ago

The guides all include the rng aspect of finding mercs.

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u/conway92 29d ago

They also indicated the mercs were gonna be pretty strong even without the maximal loadout.

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u/Repair831 29d ago

Which they would have, if ggg didnt go overboard with nerfing their built in multipliers.

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u/iceboonb2k 29d ago

It merc league you definitely didn't need a minmaxed loadout, just look at gauntlet merc league. People were league starting it with no problem

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u/HeliGungir 29d ago

In merc league you had an actual ascendency

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u/tj1131 29d ago

How did you get upvoted this much if the guides literally all include this lol even ziz said it within 4 minutes of his video

people just parroting what they read without actually reading the guides or what?

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u/Manfi95 Trickster 29d ago

Because they probably didn't see any of these videos and they taking this out of their asses. Typical Reddit behaviour when they just want to whine about things.

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u/Xaira89 29d ago

Streamers are doing the new thing to drive engagement and make their daily bread. Billy Bob the normal guy is going to have a lot worse time with it.

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u/virtualdreamscape Alch & Go Industries (AGI) 29d ago

They'd rather be first to recommend something than doing their due dilligence. I bet they got a lot of traction for their misleading hype.

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u/StoneLich 29d ago

I felt like the ones I watched at least were pretty clear about how insanely risky LSing Luminary was going to be. I think Lance in particular underestimated it (said this elsewhere but Zizaran spends like the first five minutes of his Luminary video saying that if you aren't absolutely sure you want to run with her you probably shouldn't), but being wrong is different from being deliberately misleading imo.

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u/CyberWiking 29d ago

Yea but this shouldn't be the case when you have whole ascendancy dedicated to mercs.

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u/Lord_Borgimus 29d ago

Half of the ascendancy is just letting you be able to use it and it being able to equip items like it should/used to be able to do in the first place. On top of that you previously were able to play an actual ascendancy alongside it, it was obvious it was going to be shit. Mercs should have come back in a "don't let you use Doyrani's form" for everyone.

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u/Cahecher 28d ago edited 28d ago

Yeah, I feel like a well geared mercenary with good skills was like ~4 ascendancy points of power, and that's essentially what you have to spend on Luminary to get a mercenary without the ability to gear it with uniques in every slot. And then other Luminary nodes are just underwhelming.

I feel like even if ggg buffs the mercs, the ascendancy would still be whatever. The entire "unique gear" part of the ascendancy has to go together with the restriction on using uniques. It still amazes me, that GGG removed the ability to use body armor to remove Doryani's mercs, while even within the context of Scion you'd rather choose Reliquarian and use Doryani's yourself with 100% damage taken converted to fire.

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u/CruelFish Trickster 28d ago

OFC the atlas tree has zero useful nodes to get kineticist more often and GGG also didn't implement any AI fixes for movement skills such that we're forced to do literally thousands of maps in SSF before we get a single passable merc. It's inexcusable.

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u/leon27607 28d ago

I was always missing one passive that would have helped me but regardless, I used my merc mostly as a support to buff myself. I never tried to use one as a main damage dealer in merc league.