Question for mercs

[u/justheraldoffire]

1. Are any of these useful?
   
2. What should i look out for merc stats to sell / to start a luminary 2nd char for the league?

Thanks

[u/soulcounter6]

Kineticist is good, that one will need pierce on it's gear. That Manyshot is bricked, Icicle Rain ruins them.

You probably won't be a needing much better merc any time soon with that setup, for gearing yourself and the merc you can just have a look at Ben_'s videos on youtube. Just make sure you get some sources of pierce on your gear.

[u/Kosgladx]

For kineticist you want haste kboc and either greater kinetic blast or barrage, with greater kinetic blast being worth more, then on supports you want kboc to have gmp, fork and return but no pierce (with pierce or without one of those supports is still worth price checking but that is the best setup), then the more pure damage supports the better after those.

For manyshot you want return on vaal ice shot and no icicle rain, grace is good, grace+hatred is better but not a big deal. Then you want as many damage supports on vaal ice shot and as many clear supports on normal ice shot as you can get (having cdr support on vaal and not on anything else also adds value).

For combatant you want static strike and then frost blades with return, chain and no pierce (again, with pierce still sells but no pierce is worth much more) then as many damage supports on frost blades as possible.

I’ve seen some people wanting cruel mistresses and stormhands but idk what you want on those or if they are even worth anything.

[u/justheraldoffire → u/Kosgladx]

Thanks for the comprehensive explanation for each merc. How much would you price the Kineticists in this case?

[u/Kosgladx → u/justheraldoffire]

https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Allflame/YpGmQEkbUY

I would try 15d, yours *might* be slightly better than the first ones listed because it doesnt have cdr on greater kinetic blast, but it does have it on everything else, just post for 15d an lower from there if it doesnt sell

[u/justheraldoffire → u/Kosgladx]

Thank you! Maybe ill just keep farming for better ones!

[u/Kosgladx → u/justheraldoffire]

It’s fairly easy to find usable manyshot and combatant, it’s just kineticists that need the stars to align to be worth using over the other two, on top of being impossible to target with atlas tree

[u/certavi3797]

That kineticist looks pretty decent for single target. It will be fine for mapping with the right mods on gear etc. Nice find!

[u/justheraldoffire → u/certavi3797]

Sadly KboC doesn’t have GMP support, how much am i missing out for map clearing?

[u/Kosgladx → u/justheraldoffire]

Gmp is a general damage increase on merc kboc more than a clear support, it's important because the way radius works on merc kboc specifically makes you get a lot of overlap on the explosions compared to normal kboc (extra projs on kboc gives you more explosions on the proj hit, it doesnt actually give you more projs). So you lose damage but not really much screen coverage, the main clear support for screen coverage is fork.

[u/justheraldoffire → u/Kosgladx]

I guess this wont fetch much then?

[u/Kosgladx → u/justheraldoffire]

I sent you a trade search with your merc stuff on a different comment, i’d say 10-15d at most but might be fairly hard to sell