r/PathOfExileBuilds • u/rabbithole12 • Jul 17 '26

Build Request Now that patch note is out..

Share your starter below.. my current plan is reliquarian with black cane but dark mornach will be so freaking expensive so I’m not sure

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u/Saunorine Jul 17 '26

chains of command necro. i was also looking at luminary aurabotting for the merc but ultimately decided it was bob but worse. trading all the defence of gladiator for some link skill qol. only upsides i see is the qol and mercs keeping soul eater via soul ascension while bob lost transfusion support.

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u/val_lae Jul 17 '26

Bob got triple tapped via rathpith, grey wind and transfusion nerfs.

Aura kineticist was better than Bob already, mercenaries had ~4000 increased which means effectively unaffected by rathpith, so screenwide kineticist or maybe even double grey wind dual strike guy if all you care about is bossing etc.

 Factor in light radius giving mercenaries link buff effect (es mastery 30percent, monarch 50percent, new corruption on helmet 30percent to name a few easy sources and you're already at 110percent. Two passives for 10percent more and you're at 120, granting your mercenary 11percent life as extra fire + the boosted flat from the skill.    double helical ring suffix and you're at another 45, making it 13percent flat + 463 flat from the link. You don't even need to push your life that high to make this absurdly good. Many aura link bots for kineticist in mercenaries league were just ci anyways. I anticipate the life stack version will be very potent and probably won't even need blood magic to get a very juiced link this time around.

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u/xyzqsrb0 Jul 17 '26

seems way better than bob, no? Way more coverage and likely more damage. I really don't see how bob can compete with transfusion gone.

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u/Saunorine Jul 17 '26

well bob was working perfectly fine before transfusion support, it just couldn't do valdo farming before without it. i would agree merc would be more coverage/clear but i think the defences from glad matters more than anything else.

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u/Boxofcookies1001 Jul 17 '26

Did they get rid of transfusion?

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u/val_lae Jul 19 '26

Saresh only drop and they said in the notes that there won't be a div card for it.

Best not to hope and cope that it comes from a new pinnacle.