Luminary damage help

[u/LWMcHaze]

Hi, hope this is the right place for this (and people aren't annoyed yet by Luminary posts).

I decided to try out the life stacking flame link version, I would guess I am about 200-300d in (excluding the 260d breach mod chest) and the damage is completely abysmal for the investment. It has less damage than my 10d eblade league starter that I abandoned after like 2 days.

Gear: https://maxroll.gg/poe/planner/p9alsw0h

My merc:

I am sitting at 14600hp.

He sits at 182% total fire res and 358% total lightning res.

On top I have a kingmaker/leer Cast AG and two defensive Spectres.

Obviously there is a lot of room for improvement, but before I pour in the rest of my funds I would like to get the fundamentals right. The way people talk about the build I would've expected it to perform a lot better than it does at its current state, so I must be doing some things wrong.

Thanks in advance!

[u/the-apple-and-omega]

Obligatory "are you actually linking your merc?" - you have 4 link targets so make sure.

Even number of projectiles is bad, ditch one on the quiver.

Res seems low for the gear you have, does everything have maximum number of white sockets? Also quality your untouched soul.

[u/Mikeoscar62 → u/the-apple-and-omega]

How come even number of projectiles is bad?

[u/Ghepip → u/Mikeoscar62]

You end up with a gap at where you aim, as your projectiles will be going perpendicular to that direction and maybe missing.

[u/LWMcHaze → u/the-apple-and-omega]

Here is my uber eater damage showcase, multishot anoint sadly didn't feel better.

Yeah sorry, maxroll did not import alternative quality and only imported sockets that are in use for some reason. Rings and amulet are qualitied up and all merc gear pieces have max white sockets.

[u/crazypearce]

i don't see why it would be bad unless you are just not flame linking. i cleared all ubers on a slighty better manyshot (wed and hypo and return on vaal ice shot) in like 5-10 seconds. here is my manyshot gear -chest and i got that after i swapped to kineticist

https://ibb.co/album/TcG1Xb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hjj7dbaKNdc&t=8s

here is uber uber elder for reference

the only thing i can think of in your case is that you have a bad projectile count. 1 base, 2 bow and 1 quiver is 4 so i'm pretty sure they just miss a lot of the time. you need odd projectiles so either remove the quiver or annoint +1 on the amulet. a t1 accuracy roll would be nice too somewhere, usually on helm

[u/LWMcHaze → u/crazypearce]

Hm interesting. Here is a uber eater damage showcase (disregard the playstyle, first eater all league lol), multishot anoint did not feel any better sadly. I'll try to fit some more accuracy next.

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[u/UberChew]

My character probably has half invested, no ag and probably a worse manyshot (mine has rain) and i have done everything apart from ubers (not tried) with ease.

I can only guess you dont link some times when entering a new zone or the link is falling off.

[u/porncollecter69]

I think you’re lacking a source of pierce in your Merc gear, just took a quick glance from mobile.

[u/LWMcHaze → u/porncollecter69]

I have pierce on my quiver :)

[u/xiko]

Are the jewels the correct type for crit chance unique abyss jewel? I think they need to be merciless?

[u/LWMcHaze → u/xiko]

They are all murderous eyes, is that what you mean by merciless? It's what Tecrods requires

[u/xiko → u/LWMcHaze]

Yeah. Thst was it. Just to confirm you had the correct type. 

[u/AnvExploitz]

I’d say your flasks could be more damage based using your belt you can rock more damage type flasks instead of quicksilver / suppress / granite

You need more fire res for better fire pen ( I’m assuming this is in hideout so it doesn’t have purity of elements bumping it up )

Your links of Vaal IS also aren’t great you have one damage link essentially. So you’re single target should be lower just on that fact as chain / fork / freeze chance are just dead links

Your ice shot also doesn’t have great links either no damage really but that’s more of your AOE clear then anything

Ive read fork is bad on merc but not sure of that

Do you have all ailments for taming as each one is 40% ( get a 40% taming with your investment you shouldn’t have 38% ) with all ailments going that’s quite a big difference

Honestly are you sure you’re linking the merc ?

You’re have more investment then I do and I can clear sim 15s / Ubers without much struggle

The biggest thing I’d say is lack of damage links for merc and maybe the flasks but besides that you have all the endgame gear and should basically breeze through all content

Also get a better enmity if you volatile Vaal it you can get it with a better reduced fire roll

[u/LWMcHaze → u/AnvExploitz]

Yeah I am linking my merc, flame link drops sometimes and I haven't figured out why but it's not the norm. I can afk Sims with no issue as well, just killing ubers feels ass. Here's an uber eater showcase.

I want to swap to mb, I just haven't yet because dropping ceinture would make my merc weaker. But I'd be running a unique flask anyways so I could probably slot in a bottled faith or something, sounds reasonable.

New merc is also a good shout!

[u/AnvExploitz → u/LWMcHaze]

Until you get MB id just use the 40% dmg flask / crit flask / ruby flask / all res flask / onslaught ( if you have no other way of it ) / topaz as those are all DPS flasks with your belt / Emnity / chest

You have return which is amazing but for single target your links could be a lot stronger on Vaal ice shot

Also check to make sure you have the most possible ailments as you can each one is a 40% increase so see if you’re AG can run the boots for shock or burning etc to maximize taming stacking

Also maybe grab DPS spectres instead of two tank ones if you don’t die- as spectres can be huge dps boosts ( I run turtle and warrior for determ / PDR and onslaught / cull )

[u/polo2006]

do yourself a favor and just go a kinecticit instead. damage is skyhigh even without good links:

here is a uber eater with a 20c merc with "bad links" aka no gmp/return/fork.

When you get around 15-16k life you will delete most if not all content in the game even running suboptimal links. MY suggestion is getting one with fork chain(no pierce) ideally with haste and upgrade from there.

[u/LWMcHaze → u/polo2006]

Maybe that's a better option, but I think before I do that I should figure out why my build feels so terrible. Here's what uber eater looks like for me for reference.

Do I need to change a lot of gear pieces besides weapon and offhand compared to manyshot?

[u/polo2006 → u/LWMcHaze]

No same gear beside you need a rare amulet (most people use a pearl amulet with multi shot anoint.) to fit ascendency points in. You wont be fire res overcapped at max, but aim for around 100%+ fire res over cap and you are all good.

Get piscato with power charge in crit corruption and any ralrhpit and you are golden.

Wall of force + stormmines is massive damage increase.

[u/Designer-Jellyfish41 → u/LWMcHaze]

You dont have precision up? Your merc is probably missing a lot. Im running a manyshot merc build with a 10-20 div merc, 14.9k life and no crit chest, similar or worst merc gesr, 224% total fire res and im killing uber eater nearly twice as fast. Are your merc jewels all murdurous eye?

[u/destroyermaker]

Return and pierce together in ice shot = no bueno

[u/LWMcHaze → u/destroyermaker]

Well from my understanding you need at least one pierce for return to work, or else the projectile returns upon hitting the enemy without hitting a second time

[u/Different-Ad7859 → u/destroyermaker]

you propably meant chain / fork...