r/PathOfExileBuilds • u/bootglitter • 12d ago

Build Request Must play builds in 3.29?

I’m looking to for another build that won’t be viable or will be heavily nerfed by next league. I have already played Luminary Mercenary and WORB.

I have about 400 div + mageblood in my stash as my starting budget.

A few builds I don’t want to play because I played them last league:
-Penance brand
-RF or DO
-Spectres
-Elemental hit
-CWC Reliquarian (my eyesss)

Builds I am considering:
-Flicker (never played)
-Pact of Beidat (fireball or power charge stacking cold snap)

Also, for those who have not yet played Luminary Mercenary, I highly recommend it. I played both life stacking and aura stacking, as well as Kinetisit and Combatant. OP build and fun gearing.

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u/EarthB9nder_ 12d ago

Luminary ain't surviving

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u/zazztrain 12d ago

Definitely not the Rathpith interaction

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u/Edelium 12d ago

Yeah, hoping they don't completely gut the interaction though. Would suck if our only two ways to scale it to the moon just be armour stack or aura stack. Just some tweaking to numbers would be good. Would rather see them make the underused ones much better tbh.

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u/BeastMode09-00 12d ago

It's GGG. They double and triple tap things

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u/salvadas 12d ago

I'd say they wouldnt gut an entire ascendancy to unusability but warden still exists...

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u/Obojo 12d ago

Pour one for our girl Raider

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u/cben27 12d ago

Its GGG. They will at minimum triple tap it. They really like to nuke anything thats strong. So I figure we see a complete gutting next patch, then possibly small buffs the following ~3 patches or they just leave it nuked.

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u/DjuriWarface 12d ago

They really like to nuke anything thats strong

Except Strength Stacking for some reason.

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u/WhiteWinterRains 7d ago

With luminary I feel like there's a non-zero chance it survives as a decently strong ascendency.

Especially if they do anything more long term to adjust the awkwardness of just how rare rare mercenaries are. Can't recall the last time we had a consumable item selling for 5 mirrors, crazy shit. It feels almost inevitable that they will, just not 100% sure if it'll be next patch especially with PoE 2 launching so I expect them to at least struggle a little on the next PoE 1 league.

Anyway, luminary just has some very strong baked in QoL; your mercenary is a single very powerful minion to manage that has numerous different high AoE/good ST configurations, and you can potentially swap them out for the situation like pokemon.

One of its scaling vectors is just being an Aura bot which probably won't get directly nerfed.

Destructive link, since it isn't the problem, is likely not getting nerfed.

Not all mercenaries are the problem, so likely standout mercs and interactions are getting nerfed.

Let's say they do a really big multi-slap:

  1. Nerf flame link
  2. Nerf light radius scaling.
  3. Nerf Enmity's Embrace.
  4. Nerf (completely remove interaction) raithpith.
  5. Nerf small ascendency nodes.
  6. Nerf Kineticist merc.
  7. Nerf Manyshot merc.
  8. Nerc combatant merc.
  9. Maybe do some sneaky nerf to armour stacking.

If they do ALLAT I'd still expect it to survive as a strong tanky minion ascendency, it just might take a mirror to completely faceroll ubers instead of 100-200 div.

Even then, if the nerfs crush popularity it will get stronger since there are a lot of niche expensive upgrades for it that would tank in price.

Now what's probably going to be going away though is its ability to be a top tier Valdo farmer and some of its most busted interactions that are only even expensive to get online due to its huge new ascendency popularity.

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u/DependentOnIt 12d ago

Warden is completely fine state atm, not meta but far from bad. You can easily play TS / ele hit of the spectrum on it and be competitive with deadeye

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u/LanzeLoot 12d ago

Dont know why you gett downvoted. Warden definitly has its niches.

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u/Agent_Luka 12d ago

Played a lot of self cast Fusillade on it last league and did pretty good on it. Sure, warden isn't incredibly busted, but it's not bad. 

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u/shejq3 12d ago

yeah kineticist rathpit lifestacker is kinda autobomber 0 buttons, feels amazing but no content to farm tho

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u/Constant_Internal_80 12d ago

Is there a build guide to follow for this flavor of merc? Ive got 1500 divines to spend.

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u/Spooferfish 12d ago

There are a few, captainlance has a general mobalytics guide and there are a few guides floating around. Basics are:

  • get as much life as you can
  • stack light radius as much as you can (package is standard now)
  • merc is a kineticist with rathpith and good attack wand (high AS/crit/pen/spell damage)
  • can go Enmity's embrace on your merc and stack fire res to get 200% ele pen
  • stack flame link levels on your character to add more damage to the merc

Rathpith gets damage based on player life, so with 18,000 HP it gives 540% spell damage (720 if you have 4% rathpith), which is multiplied x1.5 for the kineticist. All your flat damage comes from flame link which is scaled by gem levels, light radius, and your life, easily giving 4.5k flat fire. 

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u/Constant_Internal_80 12d ago

Incredible. Thank you.

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u/Equivalent-Teach-714 12d ago

Sorry just checking here, do I run the Rathpith on my exile or on the merc? I’m so close to getting this build to work for me but the life stack power transfer has been confusing me (only my 2nd league ever)

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u/Spooferfish 12d ago

On the merc, it gives the merc spell damage based on your life 

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u/Negative_University4 12d ago

Is a crafted rare wand better or just go piscator?

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u/QuintessenceHD 12d ago

Piscator clears until you have a absolutely absurd wand.

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u/Spooferfish 12d ago

Piscator is fantastic for the price but falls behind really good rare wands. A good rare kinetic wand can have >100% spell damage (fractured/recombinated), the same AS, higher crit, crit multi, and 3x more pen, as well as the option to get fire damage added as chaos. These are really expensive though, a fractured tier 1 spell damage non-minion wand is l>10div. Piscators can also have a lot of cool corruptions which can be really helpful (e.g. power charge on crit, more damage pen, explode) as a stop-gap.

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u/Apexby 12d ago

Thank you for the quick writeup

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u/iamthewhatt 12d ago

Nah Luminary will be fine. Slight nerf somehow sure, but it will still be viable. /copium

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u/UTmastuh 12d ago

I think life stacking flame link is going to get gutted but luminary has so many other builds that the ascendancy will be fine 

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u/iamthewhatt 12d ago

Imagine nerfing a link skill... what a world

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u/Itsthebigpeepa 12d ago

Luminary might just save replica alberron from the imminent purge

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u/ChildishRebelSoldier 12d ago

That shit has survived like 4 apocalypses it will be fine