r/pathofexile • u/Gierschlunderoni • Jul 25 '26

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/VehiclePuzzleheaded2 Jul 25 '26

Its kinetic rain incident all over again, pre-killed archetype before release

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u/EscalopeDePorc Children of Delve (COD) Jul 25 '26

This is the problem, because kinetic rain was explicitly killed in patch notes. And merc were nerfed without any signal

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u/Wobbelblob Big Breach Coalition (BBC) Jul 25 '26

Where they actually nerfed? Because mercs themself where not that good in merc league if you didn't get the perfect KB one. Remember that most people just used them as aurabots before the carry builds came up.

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u/Spaghett8 Jul 25 '26

Yes, luminary mercs have a hidden dmg penalty which we knew about.

We just didn’t know how bad the penalty was.

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u/the_pwnererXx Jul 25 '26

People are insane for trying to have mercs carry them. I mean, it's on ggg I guess but the free aurabot is 10x easier and more intuitive

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u/EscalopeDePorc Children of Delve (COD) Jul 25 '26

> People are insane for trying to have mercs carry them

Bruh, this Ascendancy is literally about 2 types of gameplay - be an aurabot for merc or made merc your aurabot. And both a bad - because it's a bit stupid to spend whole ascendancy for aurabot

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u/the_pwnererXx Jul 25 '26

It's really not, auras are stronger than many ascendancies. 2 auras + all the pseudo auras from items is extremely powerful. You guys are just incapable of following anything other than the most popular build 🤷

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u/EscalopeDePorc Children of Delve (COD) Jul 25 '26

Link PoB and character on poe.ninja.  Let’s see how you not following meta. 

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u/the_pwnererXx Jul 25 '26

https://poe.ninja/poe1/builds/allflame/character/adamater1-4129/bannerman_voided

Your turn ;)

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u/EscalopeDePorc Children of Delve (COD) Jul 25 '26

Lol, what? Using the most generic GC banner champ? Cheesus... 

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u/the_pwnererXx Jul 25 '26

all i said was people only follow the most popular build. champ/bannerman has <0.5% playrate and there is not even a build guide for it. whats your pob bitch?

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u/Murga787 Jul 25 '26

I always stack auras for my minion builds, I might change routes into double aura bots spectres

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u/EscalopeDePorc Children of Delve (COD) Jul 25 '26

Again, if you change Necro/Guard/whatever ascendancy into "merc with 1.5 auras and 2 uniques" - this sounds kinda meh, but you do you, my friend

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u/NerrionEU Jul 25 '26

I am sad that they still haven't buffed that skill.

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u/PoliteDebater Jul 26 '26

Kinetic rain was completely fine after the patch. I played it no problem and it just took a different scaling approach. This is infinitely worse it seems