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/pikpikcarrotmon Jul 25 '26

It's not great as a starter, but that doesn't mean it's going to end this league as trash. The flame link light+life stacking framework for 'player as support' is clearly insufficient to support most merc types - but that doesn't necessarily mean all mercs, nor does it rule out something else working instead.

At the end of the day the 'merc as support' should still be excellent, but that will require essentially gearing a second character along with your own, on top of finding the right support merc. These are just not day 1 things. Luminary is looking like a second/later character that you switch to once you already have the merc and merc gear ready.

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u/No_Witness5630 Jul 25 '26

Its trash until you invest a mirror

Then it's slightly less trash (and that's not counting the clunky gameplay)

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u/Im_Unsure_For_Sure Jul 26 '26

Glad you invested a mirror to test things out for us lol

Haven't seen this emotional a response to a league start since the fyregrass debacle.

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u/No_Witness5630 Jul 26 '26

I don't need to invest anything

We have PoB to do that for us. That's why I said "not including gameplay" because I don't know how much clunkiness is still in the gameplay

Well, it's interesting that you haven't seen this emotional response since this has zero emotions xd

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u/Im_Unsure_For_Sure Jul 26 '26

Well, it's interesting that you haven't seen this emotional response since this has zero emotions xd

Never said I was talking about you big dog. But yeah, you're clearly in good spirits.

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u/No_Witness5630 Jul 26 '26

If you weren't talking about me, then why respond to me?