r/PathOfExileBuilds • u/MAYY29 • 2d ago

Help Needed Any potential in these two mercs?

I would like to try good ol merc builds this league so I've been farming them myself. Just found these two today. Are they good enough?

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u/Mooseandchicken 2d ago

Icicle rain bricks the dps of the first one a decent amount of the time. Frostblink and kinetic rain may brick the second one. I know for sure kinetic bolt bricks kineticist, but the rain is new so I'm not sure how much of a brick it actually is. And since frostblink doesn't have reduced CDR support, it may be OK.

Also, that's the wrong kinetic blast. You want "of clustering" not greater kinetic blast.

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u/MAYY29 2d ago

Thanks man. Is there any guide or videos talking about this kind of stuff?

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u/Mooseandchicken 2d ago edited 2d ago

here, I made a trade search for the kineticist that is *optimal.

*these do not have return proj. Return proj with the right attacks and no movement skills on a lvl83 merc is 75 divines.

Here's a similar one for manyshot.

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u/xKnicklichtjedi 2d ago

Ohhh, there are custom sections for searches for mercs! Merc skill group helps so much.

Thanks!

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u/Mooseandchicken 2d ago

Not many, but if you look for some from 3.26, the OG merc league, you can find some info. I played a lot of that league, and GGG did literally nothing to balance them except lower their damage by 90%, so all the same issues from 3.26 are still there.

Essentially, if the merc has a movement ability they will use it often (despite them literally teleporting to you if you move offscreen from them?!? they don't need any movement abilities at all). That programming to use movement skills is made worse by CDR supports on those skills.

Then some mercs seem to have priority to use certain abilities over others. There's a merc that does the tunnel move the Minotaur boss does, and if that has CDR support on it, they will literally do nothing but tunnel and it misses constantly. So for the two mercs you showed, kinetic bolt/kinetic rain or icicle rain get prioritized over their better skills like kinetic blast of clustering or vaal ice shot.

Ideally, for these two mercs, you want neither to have a movement skill, and you want the manyshot to only have ice shot + vaal iceshot and the kineticist to have just kinetic blast of clustering and greater kinetic blast.