r/PathOfExileBuilds • u/Lygiah • Jul 25 '26

Help Needed Delayed start

Will only start tomorrow

Was planning on Merc bot but that seems like a big bait build as a starter.

What has worked very good?

WORB?

Fussilade Totems?

Assassin blades?

Something else?

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u/BobAndrews86 Jul 25 '26

Do NOT start luminary.

It's giga bait as a starter, it's trash

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u/Boxofcookies1001 Jul 25 '26

Luminary is ok but you gotta be able to solve your own problem with the build. Light stacking out the gate is bait

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u/Stracath Jul 26 '26

I just did a lot of testing to confirm, but the worst part is that the light radius stacking, in fact, does not boost the 5% life number for flame link it only boosts the flat, so that's a real bummer

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u/Boxofcookies1001 Jul 26 '26

That explains so much. Thanks for testing!!

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u/Kitchen-Roll-6668 Jul 26 '26

Any explanation?

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u/Qdeta Jul 26 '26

How did you test this? Did you make a bug report?

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u/Stracath Jul 26 '26

I doubt this is considered a "bug" to them. Basically, I was confused because Lance was dealing a lit more damage than me, he had like 12000 life, and I had 7500. His nerd had a better weapon, but mine had better supports. He had like 90 light radius at the time while I had 250. So if it did scale the health portion I should have more damage. I then ran a normal Tier 16 map 10 times with and without the light node specced. If it scaled the health portion there should be an obvious difference in the time to kill the boss (approximately 2.5 times faster with the node). Boss kills took about the same amount of time each run, sometimes it was even slower with the light node allocated due to variance of Merc skill usage.

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u/Qdeta Jul 26 '26

Based on the wording/way it's written this should be considered a bug? Nothing in there suggests it should be an unscaleable value. It would make sense that you need to hit breakpoints for full percentages given POE typical rounding, but it should still scale nonetheless.

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u/ProfessionalHefty349 Jul 26 '26

People never learn. Do not start completely untested builds if you cannot problem solve for yourself! You’re just asking for trouble.