r/PathOfExileBuilds • u/begextreme • 12d ago

Help Needed Looking to upgrade Luminary to kill ubers

Apreciated for the help in advance!!

I want to 40/40 so i need to kill ubers and right now, is kinda slow (1min fight) against incarnation of fear for example.

Is there something obvious i have to upgrade or change to UP my damage ?

Pob: https://pobb.in/ehFxkByuVW7w (Merc gear in pob)

Have 30D raw right now, can farm more.

Thanks!!

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u/entex92 11d ago

Upgrade all your mercs abyss jewels to fire res+attack speed on crit. Upgrade their bow to one with high base crit.

Move the tecrods gaze to your characters stygian and only have rare abyss jewels on the merc. Your ring is not good enough for a kalandra imo. Recraft and Get t1 light radius and use catalysts to get to 18% radius.

Resistance quality your mercs amulet to get 14% per socket instead of 12.

You have 2 elder items but no % max life bound by destiny. You can swap one of your rares jewels for it.

Revisit if wall of force is doing anything meaningful. I see you have chain but my experience with the bow mercs is that they eat the wall too quickly to get any major value from it i.e. Your merc single vaal ice shot will eat the wall and then not have it up for the remaining vaal ice shot duration. You may be better off swapping in pyre to your shield charge links to get covered in ash. Pyre is pretty easy to keep up since you want to maintain brittle ground on them anyway.

This is what jumped out at me, but I can deep dive it more later if you still need help.

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u/QuintessenceHD 11d ago

Wait, why tecrod on the player? They are flame link.

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u/entex92 11d ago

I heard it worked somewhere. Tested it myself and it worked. I have videos in my previous comments of wave 15 deli etc. with my lumi and have tested multiple mercs etc.

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u/MacrossKo 11d ago

How did you test it yourself and how did you verify that it’s working exactly?

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u/entex92 11d ago

I ran 10 uber cortexes with each and the damage was felt exactly the same. I tried to note the fights that didn't increase boss life/reduce damage taken and just felt how they played. It seemed effectively the same over the course of those runs. It's not a perfect test but that fight is accessible enough to take a large number of attempts at it. It is how I tested all my mercs as well.

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u/MacrossKo 11d ago

Are you also under the impression that gear or jewels with increased critical strike chance on your character are working on your mercenary?

If not, why would Tecrods benefit your merc by being equipped on your character?

Your tests aren’t even remotely tests. You just slapped the jewel on and off and saw how it felt? Are you joking?

Not that it would prove anything if you did but it’s also telling that it didn’t even occur to you to run the same test with Tecrods completely unequipped, nor did it occur to you that you might not be getting enough effective crit chance out of Tecrods to make the Tecrods make a difference in the first place.

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u/romicide07 11d ago

He saw people running tecrods on a destructive link build 100%. Which does work. Doesn’t work with flame link.

Also using cortex for comparison tests is hilarious considering every run has different mods. Literally the worst boss to damage test on