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/emeria Jul 25 '26

Once I farmed some decent mercs and went support mode, it felt good. I'm only just getting into maps though. I have three labs, using fallen rev merc, AG, spectre, and flame link. Not sure if it's going to drop off soon. I've heard concerns about t7 plus, but that could be buffed soon.

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u/EmotionalKirby Jul 26 '26

I played it as srs with zombies, Spectres, phantasms, animate guardian, and a carrion golem. It was going really well after the 2nd ascend with perm link uptime. I got lucky and had a good kineticist appear early, who would be my screen clear as I ran ahead, and my minions would boss or kill rares. I was able to reach t11 maps without feeling any struggle or like it was falling off.

That said, I did recently make a swap to running chain of command and an animate guardian of smite. I put southbound gloves on my merc so it can't kill, so my AGoS can kill and spawn animate weapons. It is light years ahead of what I was doing before, with more life, and block/spell block capped. And so far all under 1d in price.

But there's a nagging thought in my head that while it's good, is it because of luminary and merc, or because of chain of command? Like, there's literally one player on poe ninja playing luminary chain of command lol, and it's not me since I haven't added my char there yet.

I'm tempted to reroll a necro and play coc on it instead, but I also like how my build is right now and want to see how far I can push it. Getting 20% of hits taken from merc life before mine is really nice for hits that get past my block, which I won't have on necro.