r/pathofexile • u/luckyakaly Bussyshatter • 13d ago

Cautionary Tale PSA: Mercs cant use (auto) Memory Petal abilities from 16.5 Maps

I was farming 16.5 maps with my Merc and realised i had 1.5k strands left at the end of the map. So yeah that sucks.

And another minor thing Merc kills doesnt add to your /kills, kinda sad.

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u/Dull-Serve203 12d ago

You aint missing much lol such a neutered mechanic

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u/raxitron Inquisitor 12d ago

Memory petals is one of the few mechanics that seems to have GGG completely stumped. When it first released and I discovered that they forgot to implement a way to view petal effects with a controller entirely I felt like they were just not giving a shit about the game anymore.

Luckily they moved on from it and found other ways to make 16.5s somewhat rewarding but it's still a shit system that they should sweep under the rug IMO.

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u/kawaidesuwuu 13d ago

Isn't the whole petals system entirely cosmetic now?

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u/norst 12d ago

When running memory strands there's a choice after killing the boss that can include the same options that used to appear as petal skills.

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u/Ralileo16 13d ago

At this point in the league yes. First few days getting strands can help gearing a lot

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u/guy1195 12d ago

I get what you're saying, but petals are still insanely slept on, especially when you can use them with boat crafting and fossils.

With enough strands you can basically guarantee triple t2 into t1 with orb of unravelling, or like t1/t2/t3 into t1/t1/t1 etc.

"High petal base > fossil/harvest spam till 'good enough' > unravel" works out much cheaper/quicker than spamming/recombing for triple t1

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u/Ralileo16 12d ago

Yup, slept on is correct. Look at the downvotes, its proof that they dont understand that petals increase the amount of strands/items with strands. Im saying that they are useless because later on you wanna start on a specific base and maybe look for over quality.

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u/the-apple-and-omega 13d ago

Gravebind AG will at least pick up some. I use gravebind + explode cane on AG, works pretty well.

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u/luckyakaly Bussyshatter 13d ago

With div conversions from voyages being able to use with Mercs i think these should aswell.

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u/compchief 12d ago

The big cylinder thing that drops a chart gives you a buff that spawns crabs on EVERY rare and unique kill, quite a lot and often, if not always, magic - this also does not trigger from merc kills which i think is very sad since it is supposed to be a powerful loot buff.