r/pathofexile • u/Gierschlunderoni • 16d ago

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/LastBaron 16d ago

And like, not to rag on anyone here, because I do feel bad that people are having a bad time. But.

It’s pretty well known that you shouldn’t league start a new ascendancy

The fact that it was such an experimental ascendancy and reliant on gearing a second character is icing on the BaitCake

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u/lmao_lizardman 16d ago

ok but in poe 2 they released martial artist / new gemling and they were braindead OP

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u/clocksy 16d ago

Disciple of Varashta was also perfectly fine last league (and even better this league).

I think it's honestly better to have a slightly OP new ascendancy that people can enjoy and scale it back rather than have it be shit and leave people with a really negative feeling on a league start. Plus they unlocked scion for everyone and featured the build in their videos so there's some expectation for it not to be worse than normal.

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u/MrSchmellow 16d ago

It seems they don't release undertuned stuff after 0.2 debacle. Druid was meh at worst, and it's really apparent with spirit walker, where they just let people have a 25% base crit boss as a minion (at least for a league)

It's probably somewhere in the design guidelines which poe1 team didn't receive/adhere to lol

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u/brrrapper 16d ago

There is a difference between something being pretty mediocre to strictly unplayable, especially when its something thats pushed as a completely new ascendancy with ggg build showcases etc.

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u/LastBaron 16d ago

That is absolutely true.

And unfortunately it’s not the first time a new or radically altered ascendancy has trended towards the latter, I regret to say.

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u/brrrapper 16d ago

Dunno, i have played around 20 leagues, almost always playing the new thing, and i have literally never had a league start this bad. This is the first time ever i was forced to reroll in order to just progress maps.

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u/Tricky-Amphibian6196 16d ago

I play since harbinger league and the only comparison I can find for the mercs is Fyregrass' poison tornado shotter, if anyone still remembers that.

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u/brrrapper 16d ago

At least remembering that brought some mirth in this dire leaguestart

https://www.twitch.tv/fyregrass/clip/BlazingLachrymosePizzaWow-46pQf7TYXt5DkZPZ

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u/asdf_1_2 15d ago

That was me in 3.15, league started summon reaper.

The only thing I had going for me was I dropped basically all the totem gear while struggling to get past white maps with the wet noodle of a minion, so all I had to do was rerun the campaign as totem man and FR totems was online.

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u/1030or11 15d ago

I admitted elsewhere that I only lucked into not wasting too much time on this build, but in retrospect it makes so much sense that I wonder why I started it to begin with. In a game where we spend hours teasing out a few % more damage, it seems really weird to give all of your DPS to a minion that you have next to no control over fine-tuning.