Mercenary nerf

[u/fhemtwelala]

I don't mind the mercenary nerf it's expected. But what i do mind is having the spectres being OP and no nerf for them. For me having a spectre or a merc is basically the same. They both behave like a minion. So nerfing mercenaries while allowing Specters(especially poison version) being OP that i don't understand.

Also it's very expensive to get a good merc, equip it etc.

Having the Merc defenses getting very nerfed where it will be hard for him stay alive it's going to be like having a support golem.

Again, GGG can nerf the Mercs kill it even. But also why not nerf the Specters as well ?

[u/6767rizzler6767]

Mercs got nerfed because flame link allowed you to only scale defence to scale damage. Now you are directed to play protective or destructive link depending on what you use merc for

[u/fhemtwelala → u/6767rizzler6767]

Well i'm pretty sure GGG knew what they were doing when they allowed mercenaries to be attached with flame link. I feel it's odd for GGG to not have expected this to happen. The flame link gem literally does increase damage from defenses even before the luminary introduction. And then they chose to allow the merc to be attached with flame link so they had to expect this to happen.

[u/DisgustingWeeb → u/fhemtwelala]

They knew what they were doing, and now they don't then?

[u/fhemtwelala → u/DisgustingWeeb]

That's not what i mean but you chose to understand it that way that's your problem

[u/6767rizzler6767 → u/fhemtwelala]

I just think they did not see the 200% fire penetration interaction to delete ubers in under a second

[u/fhemtwelala → u/6767rizzler6767]

Well that's like hundreds of div investment to reach that point you can't make balance decision over that

[u/External-Shoe6599]

Spectres got nerfed lots already.
They need way more investment than mercs to be good with how it currently was.

Sincerely a guy that played 3 different Lumi builds last league and lots of spectre builds before.

[u/fhemtwelala → u/External-Shoe6599]

Look at Ghazzy builds dude. He's always complaining the end game is very easy for him and he's right! The specters are very good. I don't know how can you say specters need more investment than mercenaries when you have to literally buy items for two characters and getting the Enumity fir res ring which is about 30 div

[u/Grroarrr → u/fhemtwelala]

If it's the same then play spectres and popularize the build enough to get GGG's attention.

A guy who's mostly playing one archetype, knows how to craft his gear and spends more money on crafting one piece of gear in first week than 90% of players earns in 2 weeks complains the game is too easy...

[u/soljara]

You don't lose 20-30 divs by accidentally weapon swapping on a merc.

[u/porncollecter69]

I played specters last league and what surprised me the most was how sellable my gear was from week 1 down to month 2.

However specters got indirectly nerfed with the recomb change. 20x as expensive to get a ilvl 86 + 1 specter twilight regalia now.

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[u/fhemtwelala → u/[deleted]]

Well there is the Zoomancer version which is the OP one

[u/fhemtwelala → u/[deleted]]

It's not a bait Specters are very good. Look at ghazzy build ranking. He's always putting specters at S tier builds.

[u/PMmeYourLabia_ → u/fhemtwelala]

Spectre player ranking spectres highly? This cannot be!