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Tranny Chaser
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You're a pinnacle boss, Harry.
If I was looking to shave some power off of this ascendancy for next league I'd definitely throw that in the bin.
ronne
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The wrath aura the combatant merc has is a level 40 wrath aura, so the base is utterly insane. Getting 100% and higher effect is not that difficult with the luminary node, eldritch implicits, corruptions etc.
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Oh, that's dumb. I thought merc level was supposed to scale some generic buff stats and gate gear they could equip. Gem levels makes incremental upgrades more important and explains why the 83 combatant was trashing my control blocks combatant.
This system is too powerful and only "balanced" by the clunk turning off players.
This system is too powerful and only "balanced" by the clunk turning off players.
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I picture Deathwing hard at work in a lab min maxxing PoE relentlessly, kinda looking like this:
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If something is going to be a little too good having it be the thing you have to double gear while specifically crafting items that no one would otherwise equip isn't the worst thing in the world. At the start of the league I was pretty sure they were OP but after diving in I'm now convinced they're so OP that crazy shit is going to keep coming up regularly even as nerfs start coming in. For GGG there's a lot of levers to pull and dials to turn in regards to balance. I don't expect a ton of nerfs next league, just some general power shaving but they're going to look entirely different next league start compared to this league start. Going in blind versus going in with a proper step by step guide in hand written by a turbo autist is completely different.
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ronne
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I'm not even doing anything that insane here. My wild strike setup is something like 25m dps but it's with a very unreasonable 950 ele dps sword etc. It's an interesting way to scale though having a dedicated aurabot to work with.
I do think the merc that can use inspiring cry is secretly beyond busted though. It's not difficult at all to get him to 100% warcry buff uptime with a lot of extra warcry effect which amounts to an absurd amount of flat phys added to the player.
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How much flat would you estimate that wrath is adding? 50-2000?
Rallying Cry mercs were a thing during 3.26. The ones I remember were going for maximum clunk and combined them with retaliation skills :|
ronne
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I've got exactly 140% aura/wrath effect on him, so he should be worth right around 100-1600 flat lightning. He's also good for 8 max cold res from purity of ice which is a nice melding of the flesh enabler.
Lucky damage from the toe makes volatility something like a 50% more damage support.
He intimidates, does ele weakness on hit, taunts and tanks everything for me, does exposure, and so on and so on.
It's really a neat setup and way more interesting to me than just flame linking an ice show merc and going afk.
This is my latest import with configs to add the merc stats as best as I can. I think it's pretty close/honest?
Fair warning I've spent an absurd amount of money on this, and I suspect I could have done much better if I went for some sort of attribute stacker rather than just a raw tri-ele weapon and crit scaling.
For doing ubers I just take off the jade flast and use a tincture and get to ~45m dps for burst phases.
The spectres are a turtle and thunderbird for grace+determination, but I didn't include them cause they die during ubers or simulacrums etc. They've never died in a map though and I had gem sockets to spare.
pobb.in
Lucky damage from the toe makes volatility something like a 50% more damage support.
He intimidates, does ele weakness on hit, taunts and tanks everything for me, does exposure, and so on and so on.
It's really a neat setup and way more interesting to me than just flame linking an ice show merc and going afk.
This is my latest import with configs to add the merc stats as best as I can. I think it's pretty close/honest?
Fair warning I've spent an absurd amount of money on this, and I suspect I could have done much better if I went for some sort of attribute stacker rather than just a raw tri-ele weapon and crit scaling.
For doing ubers I just take off the jade flast and use a tincture and get to ~45m dps for burst phases.
The spectres are a turtle and thunderbird for grace+determination, but I didn't include them cause they die during ubers or simulacrums etc. They've never died in a map though and I had gem sockets to spare.
Level 97 Crit Wild Strike Luminary [3.29]
➤ Life: 4,061 [102%]ㆍES: 941ㆍMana: 159ㆍeHP: 59,604 ➤ Resistances: 90%/90%/90%/73%ㆍEvade: 85%ㆍEvasion: 44,189 ➤ DPS: 30,786,954ㆍSpeed: 8.38ㆍHit Chance: 100%ㆍCrit Chance: 100.00%ㆍCrit Multi: 451% ➤ Config: 40% Shock, 20% Scorch, 4% Brittle, 10% Sap, Frenzy, Power
pobb.in
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Haven't had time to play with this in PoB. I was thinking the energy blade smite shell would adapt to this pretty well.
Perhaps more interesting: a high end flame link build add more flat to the merc, min and max, than your merc adds max flat to you. But getting and defeating a non gay merc with your gay merc is gay. Maybe this is the starter luminary build.
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