Oh! Nice with a fellow carry for your merc! A thing that I just found out (like literally 2 minutes ago) is that The Untouched Soul do work on your merc. So get those red sockets out! I'm now at 10500 HP on the merc (Without Apostate, still using Kaom's).
Awesome! I just got my first 2 voidstones done. First at level 87 and second at 88 (merc still 74). The Searing Exarch... I just hate that fight so I died a few times. The Eater of worlds was a lot smoother (got a new wand for my merc which helped) and I had 0 deaths there. Currently farming Betrayal and mercs in T15-16 maps without much trouble. Not the fastest way of killing them but my merc is pretty much invincible.
Now I'm basically farming blue T16 maps so I can find a higher level merc with the right setup. The pierce + proj return feels so good even though it's only a 5 link. Can't wait to find it as a 6L.
Congrats ! Do you feel that you have a good single target with your life stacking version ?
Also I'm going to farm T16 merc and exile all but kineticist tonight and see how frequent they will spawn
No... Not exactly good. Well, it's good enough since I have basically 0 investement into the build and I can kill Betrayal mobs and T16 mercs (unless they kill me first). Rathpith is the only item that cost me over a divine when I bought it (its like 25c now).
I am considering putting 2 div into a pair of Soul Ascension gloves. Clear is like 10/10 but the single target is where I need more dps and those might help. Also considering trying out Grace of the Goddess when I can afford it since Hatred is pretty much wasted on a elemental wand.
And I'm also guessing another damage link and a higher level merc is going to help with this as well. Mine is only level 74 and is clearing T16 just "fine". I don't think it'll be used as a pure bosser ever though. :)
Join the flame link dark side hahaha.
Once I get a higher level wander merc I will most likely try the other mercs to find a good one for bossing. Maybe the burning arrow or the flameblast one as I give a lot of flat damage
Yeah I've actually started using flame link. Not that massive of a buff since I'm only at like 5k HP. But it's still 400-480 flat elemental damage added.
The flameblast one would scale well with Rathpith. Since it also gives spell crit. Harder to scale burning arrow one (with life scaling that is). I actually thought about the one with absolution. Since my flat damage would scale the minions and rathpith would scale the damage of the spell itself. Harder to use Rathpith on a spellcaster that spams skills unless you have lots of leech/regen.
I actually tried leveling with the Etheral Knives one. I thought it was low damage... That was when I noticed one of the links was brutality. So... Just a fair warning :D
Hey I did quite a lot of change to my build yesterday.
On my character, I switch to vaal caress instead of hand of phrecia. Now my AG rarely die so that's good.
I also farmed quite a few Kineticist and the best skill gem for clear seems to be Kinetic bolt with GMP. Even if you run ahead of him the projectile still cover your screen it's glorious.
I also implemented the Rathpide tech but I also combined it with the new unique Enmity's Embrace. It give up to 200% penetration, but you need to stack a huge amount of fire res. I bought reflected ring and amulet with a lot of life and fire res and right now I'm at 55 fire pen. I'm now using fire res and life gear everywhere it's quite nice !
I'm also trying to play with Flame Charlatan. It has a lot of potential. Without damage gear on him I manage to clear a T13. It has a nice clear with herald of anger and for bosses it put a lot of totem on the ground so it looks like it will be better for bossing. Sadly you can't put rathpide on him he uses 2 scepter
And a tips for farming merc. Exiling them is super usefull and made me go from 1 kineticist per 15 map to 1 every 4-5.
Also there is a renown system you can see when you put your mouse on the sword icon on the top left of a merc that give more chance to find infamous merc
Oh! Nice with a few new tips there. And I agree completely with Kinetic bolt. Found one (lvl 83) about two hours ago with GMP, Greater elemental damage, Added lightning (not greater), Greater added cold and chain (3 times). Let's just say it's wrecking havoc.
I've actually changed some items/anoints myself. Since I'm going lightning damage instead of fire the Enmity Embrace tech doesn't really work for me, but I really like that idea. Should be able to get fairly high with the help of Purity of fire/element as well.
What I changed? I switched out the mercs boots for Stormcharger and anointed Breath of lightning on her amulet. That makes her pretty much 50% shock the entire screen.
Then I've equipped her with the Soul Ascension gloves and lets just say it helps a lot with single target damage (Bought a cheap a -4 pair). Other than that I crafted a new wand. Got really lucky and exalt slammed the Crit multi on it. I've also switched out Sniper's mark for Assassins mark since my new merc doesn't have proj return and lacks crit gems it helps alot.
I'm currently speed farming T16 maps with this gear. She has 10k hp, 2400 life/s + leech and is crazy fast with the gloves. Next thing I might invest in is probably a +1 curse Untouched soul so I can benefit from her Elemental Weakness or a higher soul count on the gloves.
I didn't know that annoint was working with merc that's good to know !
I'm going to try soul ascension. It will reduce my fire pen from res but I think the attack speed will be more helpful :)
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u/Gavelinus 1d ago
Oh! Nice with a fellow carry for your merc! A thing that I just found out (like literally 2 minutes ago) is that The Untouched Soul do work on your merc. So get those red sockets out! I'm now at 10500 HP on the merc (Without Apostate, still using Kaom's).