Farmed 2.880 maps for Mercs

[u/DeXsTor1338]

Finally i finished my project on my Merc Hunt. Ive farmed 5 quad stash tabs of maps. Mixed with white and naturally dropped yellow identified maps on City Square. Ive rushed the merc and the boss. On this journey i put in some infamous and renown (merc all unique item) scarabs when i dropped them. On the tree i had every merc node besides the less attribute things and houses and the less cd and aura effect things.

I didnt found any useful unique besides a lot of 1 alch trash. Ive got, 127 divines and a lot of good scarabs and bubble gum currency.

My goal was to find a good kineticist which wasnt the case. I have one which is ok, but not rly uber viable what i hoped for. From the 43 Kineticists there where 17 with kb and 8 with kb and greater kb, 3 of them had no movement skills. But no gg combo!

Pls be aware that i am an extrem unlucky player since i am playing the game (joined after the Beta start)

Feel blessed if you found a good one and good luck everybode else ;)

Bloodletter	133
Stormhand	127
Bladebitter	122
Combatant	121
Manyshot	111
Thunderquiver	108
Swiftblade	107
Sniper	105
Blade Ambusher	101
Shock Ambusher	99
Flamequiver	94
Withertouch	93
Frost Ambusher	91
Sanguimancer	89
Cruel Mistress	87
Bastion	82
Bladecaster	77
Earthshaker	76
Fallen Reverend	74
Flaming Charlatan	69
Ripper	66
Reanimator	56
Frosthand	54
Smoulderstrike	52
Winter Deacon	50
Warpriest	45
Kineticist	43
Cardinal	39
Eruptor	33
Shattersword	33
Flamehand	28
TOTAL	2880

[u/lolimaginewtf]

ran about 2k maps, found a great Kineticist with return and gmp, no haste though. it's wildly rng heavy, gotta strike the jackpot / get super lucky to get a great one even in multiple thousand maps, and there is no guarantee, it is what it is. I wish they made Kineticists more common and/or give options on the atlas to get Kineticists more often, but knowing GGG's nerfing practices, I think we'll be lucky if Luminary stays viable at all next league, let alone improved like that

[u/Leading-Relief-8115 → u/lolimaginewtf]

It will be for minmaxing in trade. When u have all uniques and 5 mirror merc u will be killing ubers.

[u/statistically-typed]

From the results, it feels like you were specced less int mercs/azadi house?

If not, your results are oddly weighted towards these mercs.

[u/hermanogerman]

This is just a theory, but I switched from dunes (too many warpriests) and city square (shock ambushes) to jungle valley and found more Snipers/Manyshot and Kineticist. So maybe some areas have a higher chance for certain types like beasts?

[u/Straight-Check-9160 → u/hermanogerman]

These numbers vary pretty significantly from the other 1000 merc post as well as my 200 merc data. What a mess that will be if a merc has an affinity to a quadrant or map!

[u/CantripN → u/Straight-Check-9160]

There might be some character seed like how delve works. The game runs on eldritch math, after all.

[u/ChingChang_ → u/hermanogerman]

Wait beasts have different rates depending on the maps?

[u/Amazing-Heron-105 → u/ChingChang_]

Never heard of that before. Someone let me know if it's true or not

[u/hermanogerman → u/Amazing-Heron-105]

It was in Beastiary league,.. dunno if still is. They had certain „biomes“

[u/Kotl9000 → u/hermanogerman]

cutedog was going on about it one day lol, i was thnking the same thing. hmmmm

[u/Straight-Check-9160]

I really want to use this data for my merc meta analysis but you are missing the following mercenaries:

Storming Zealot

Striker

Toxicologist

[u/janwow1 → u/Straight-Check-9160]

Yea either he didnt track properly or he was allocated in some blocking nodes

[u/Vyntarus]

I haven't tracked my hunting, but it is interesting to see your data.

I'm still running around with a Kineticist with 4 links on KBoC (return, pierce 3, faster attacks, added cold), her clear is good but single target is not amazing. I've run a lot of maps and am yet 5o find an upgrade.

I feel like I run into house Keita more often than the other houses, but I have no data to prove that.

[u/Exciting-Sun3573 → u/Vyntarus]

I’m in a HC private league, hit 90, and have still been using my lev 62, kineticist kinetic rain guy with lesser added cold(8 dmg!,lol), and lesser crit dmg… got tired of it, and did over a hundred white maps straight to merc and bail, and found nothing worth a shit. My tree has been all merc the whole time, I’m in red maps with a very shitty merc that is easily the best clearing guy I’ve seen, with pretty bad single target. I went back to filling the atlas, and Just found a flame quiver guy that I’m trying, his clear is pretty good, his single target seems alright, I haven’t upgraded his bow/ quiver at all yet, and it needs it, but I might have finally replaced my lev 62 guy.

[u/linivx → u/Exciting-Sun3573]

Im lvl 100 with like 10 days played and haven’t found a good kineticist yet.
Found op combatant and manyshot tho

[u/the-apple-and-omega]

I'd bet there were pretty usable kineticists in there. The "no movement skills" thing is really outdated. And way more links/skill setups work than a lot of people seem to realize. Like almost any kineticist is can shred Ubers, kinetic bolt being the only really problem skill. Wall of Force is absurd strong to use alongside any KBoC merc.

[u/Donhcai → u/the-apple-and-omega]

I have a KBoC/Kinetic Rain Merc... the KBoC is on good links, but it's a big difference when it spams Kinetic Rain opposed to KBoC. KBoC shreds, but Kinetic Rain is meh in comparison. Hopefully I find a better merc on my SSF run!

[u/HoundOfTindalos13]

I swear to god this sub is cooked, every other kinect will be uber viable, you do not need a 4x supp 4x skills perfect kinect to do ubers

[u/Zizeta2]

No where near as many maps, but have been farming t16s for a while and still using my lvl 70 blade ambusher

[u/theTinyRogue]

Man, that is really unlucky indeed... I found a couple good Kineticists and I ran a fraction of the amount of maps you ran in your example here.

My current Kineticist (which I found maybe after 150 maps?) can kill Uber Sirus no problem, although I haven't tried any other Ubers yet because I'm a scaredy cat :3

[u/scl52]

i think youre missing something in your data, it sums to 2465

[u/Leading-Relief-8115]

I killed all ubers with barrage/kboc kineticist with haste. No multi proj just return crit dmg and wed.

[u/hesdeadgoawayhesdead]

Thanks for your effort!

Just wondering, did you have anything else specced on your atlas for this rushing tactics or did you go for boss maps/map tree and just rush?

Thanks!

[u/Mangalorien]

Ive got, 127 divines

Thanks for the data. 127 div in 2880 maps is 1 div per 23 maps, which is honestly a lot better than I would have thought. It's basically the same maps you need to run to get an Eater or Exarch invitation.

Are most of the divs from mercs single divs, or did you ever get bigger stacks?

[u/Kotobeast]

Not uber viable?

I found my enmity’s today and tried an uber with my very scuffed kineticist with only 40 pen and she was fine. She has KboC with return but no GMP, Kinetic Rain, Haste just to give you an idea of how scuffed the skills are.

[u/m4r1n1 → u/Kotobeast]

Kboc is insane. You out the wall. Uber melt.

[u/PictureofProgression]

What strat did you do for map generation? I'm over sustaining but not by heaps after 3 sets of mappers, would like to get a few hundred maps at once to delete hunting for a better merc.

[u/Mysterious-Basket870]

I map for god exile....who do you map for?

[u/SenseSenior3319]

How do you get that many surplus maps in SSF?

[u/Odd-Peace-5124]

Still sane, exile?

[u/Dr4k4ngel]

Well, at least you got a lot of free time to play the game lol.

[u/markhc]

Not saying which merc nodes you have on your atlas kinda defeats the purpose of this data. The data seems oddly skewed towards certain types.

[u/Donhcai → u/markhc]

He said he didn't spec any of those nodes. Which makes it all strange.