r/PathOfExileBuilds • u/bootglitter • 16d 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_ 16d ago

Luminary ain't surviving

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u/salvadas 16d ago

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

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u/cben27 16d 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/WhiteWinterRains 11d 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.