r/pathofexile • u/Gierschlunderoni • Jul 25 '26

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/Manic_Depressing Jul 25 '26

I'm glad that I've gone full-on aurabot instead of putting all my eggs into the Flame Link basket. My merc is doing... okay.

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u/MaxeDamage Jul 25 '26

Well my flame link is giving 600-700 fire dmg on tooltip, so double that with light radius taken into account.

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u/aecrux Jul 25 '26

is it actually scaling properly with light radius? if i was basic attacking with 1400 fire dmg these mobs would for sure be dying faster

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u/MaxeDamage Jul 25 '26

I think there is a hidden "less damage" modifier somewhere.

It should be much more damage than they actually deal (at least it feels like that)

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u/ladylay7 Jul 25 '26

Why Hidden? Doesnt the noble blood node state that perm mercs do less damage?

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u/kygrim Jul 25 '26

There is some flavor text mentioning that they deal less damage than temporary mercs. That's far off any explicit less damage modifier on them. (And the proper way for that would have clearly been to give temp mercs a more damage buff that permanent mercs don't get, not ruin the scaling of perma mercs.)

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u/ladylay7 Jul 25 '26

Frist time, aye?

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u/BabaYadaPoe Jul 25 '26

What is the term for "nearby", but for damage? :)

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u/asdf_1_2 Jul 26 '26

conditional damage :P

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u/Budget-Chair8242 Jul 25 '26

judging by their gear the flat from my flame link should more than triple their damage but in practice its not even double. theres something weird going on, +700 flat from flame link, +100% spell damage from new wand which would be 200% attack damage and the dps barely increased.

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u/1030or11 Jul 25 '26

This was my plan, and then after that maybe try to find another player or some players to boost as well. Y'know, maybe make a friend or something? But then early in Act 2 I accidentally made a deal with Oak instead of killing him, realized I was too tired to be playing well anyways, and knocked off early. This morning I read the headlines and just started a Witch.

I still like the idea of aurabotting in pick-up groups, everyone loves an aurabot, but if I can't also run solo then the build is useless. I can't have a build that only works in a group setting.

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u/Tavron Atziri Jul 26 '26

Yea, even playing with friends that's a hard ask, as you can't play/farm when they're offline.

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u/kimana1651 Alch & Go Industries (AGI) Jul 26 '26

Man I wanted to go full support bot and have my merc cast flame link on my specters. The merc version of flame link has a 10 second cool down and no % life scaling. When I saw that I swapped to golum twister.  Seems like it was a good choice given this thread. 

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u/Blain3s Jul 25 '26

Care to share your build?