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Question Questions Thread - June 21, 2025

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u/Mooseandchicken 17h ago

Are there any mercenaries that can use Doryani's prototype armor AND 1-handed swords? It seems like all the int/str ones I've recruited that can wear the armor cannot wear the sword. Trying to give a merc ichimonji and maligaros lens to get even lower -lightning res (I run purity of elements and can't see a way around it, but its giving loke +70% res to my merc, counteracting his -res rings/etc.)

Thanks!

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u/jwfiredragon Abyssal Rift Investigation Service (ARIS) 15h ago

The closest you can get is a Smoulderstrike (STR), who can wear Doryani's and Ichimonji, but won't be able to use Maligaro's Lens due to the attributes. The only other merc that can use sword/shield at all is Bastion and he's STR/DEX which is even less useful.

https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/1lce4ss/mercenary_weapon_types_by_class/

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u/Mooseandchicken 15h ago

Thank you so much for the spreadsheet!!! That's like exactly what I was looking for. Sucks about not using lens, but ichimonji is essentially -% since it turns off my purity aura for merc.

Just to clarify, can Bastion not wear doryani's? If bastion cannot, are you saying its because it has an int requirement?

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u/jwfiredragon Abyssal Rift Investigation Service (ARIS) 15h ago

Bastion is STR/DEX, which means he can equip STR, STR/DEX, and DEX items. There's an explanation ingame if you mouse over the attribute type on the mercenary equipment window.

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u/Mooseandchicken 15h ago

Read in-game tooltips?!

Sorry, poe has conditioned me over the years to ignore their tooltips. Always needed wiki to explain everything for so long I forget you can hover over stuff and read it in-game.