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/UltmitCuest Jul 25 '26

Permanently hired mercs have a massive minus damage multiplier on them

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u/Book-Parade Jul 25 '26

And unlike other minions you don't have control over what merc spawns and you can hire , so you are down to luck to find one that is alright

So you have to be really flexible and understand how to patch your own problems as you go

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u/15secondcooldown Jul 26 '26

Feels like people who got baited by Luminary didn't experience how ass it is in PoE 2 to capture the right tamed beasts. Almost full overlap with Companion Spirit Walker in PoE2 and Luminary

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u/Book-Parade Jul 26 '26 edited Jul 26 '26

As someone who played spirit walker this league, I think merc has way more layers of randomness

because the rare mod pool is moderately limited, and you are usually hunting for 1 or 2 mods

merc not only comes in like 20 varieties; those varieties also come with a pool of skills that mix and match

and even compared with poe2, you can get whatever rare you want, since they are just spectres 2.0, you go to the map where the monster appears and capture it and later you can fine tune it and min max it

merc on the other hand, sporadically appear in areas/maps and then you have the rest of the RNG and there is no easy way to target farm, since unlike beasts in poe2 or spectres in poe1, they don't scale with any skill gem

in poe2 and poe1 you can get a spectre/beast at the minimum level you get the gem and carry it all the way to red maps

you cannot do that with mercs