PoE 1 | Internet Men Hate Support Build: How My Mercenary Proved Them Wrong - Luminary Aurabot Day 2 — Transcript

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1. 0:00Reddit has been dooming about
2. 0:01mercenaries and Luminary being complete
3. 0:04garbage and unplayable and I'm here to
4. 0:06tell you that they are wrong. Mostly.
5. 0:09We'll get into that in a second here.
6. 0:11So, my mercenary at the end of day two
7. 0:13has permanent soul eater and it clears
8. 0:15whole screen so quickly that I can just
9. 0:17spam shield charge through whole map and
10. 0:20practically everything behind me will
11. 0:21get perfectly killed. I've been having a
12. 0:23blast playing this the past day and I
13. 0:26got to say this is feeling just as good
14. 0:27as the mercenary build felt back when
15. 0:29mercenaries were a thing and I'm super
16. 0:32excited keep pushing this build further
17. 0:33as it's literally everything I've ever
18. 0:35wanted in it. I'm happy sitting here
19. 0:36playing Orbot. I feel really tanky. I'm
20. 0:39extremely fast and the sky is the limit
21. 0:41when it comes to pushing this build.
22. 0:43Now, before we get going and talk about
23. 0:45all the changes that we made today, I do
24. 0:47want to address a problem with
25. 0:49mercenaries that I really hope GG fixes
26. 0:51because
27. 0:52uh,
28. 0:53why? Just why? Mercenaries in the
29. 0:56campaign were amazing. Mercenaries in
30. 0:58yellow and red maps are scaling
31. 0:59wonderfully and they're one of the most
32. 1:01fun feeling builds I've played in this
33. 1:03game. But, mercenaries as you approach
34. 1:05tier one maps at the start of tier one
35. 1:07maps just suck. What GG has to do is
36. 1:11buff them. They just need to be
37. 1:12inherently stronger at those levels to
38. 1:14allow you to walk into tier one and tier
39. 1:16two maps with a reasonable enough
40. 1:18looking mercenary with some reasonable
41. 1:20skills and supports on them and then for
42. 1:22that to be good enough for you to start
43. 1:24making progress through white and yellow
44. 1:25maps until you get to the point where
45. 1:27you can find yourself an actually useful
46. 1:29merc in white / yellows. The other
47. 1:32problem with this is that every single
48. 1:34merc still sucks. The meta for mercs has
49. 1:36basically not changed. I'm sure we might
50. 1:38have some new discoveries at the super
51. 1:40high end, but at around tier one maps
52. 1:42every single mercenary that isn't a
53. 1:44kineticist or a mini shot is an actual
54. 1:46waste of space and you basically can't
55. 1:48play with them. What I've ended up
56. 1:49having to do and what the guide has been
57. 1:51updated for is to tell you to go farm
58. 1:54the hidden underbelly in act eight over
59. 1:56and over and over again, resining it
60. 1:58constantly until you happen to come
61. 2:00across a kinetisis or many shots that
62. 2:02has some useful supports and skills on
63. 2:04it, allowing you to actually start
64. 2:05making some progression through early
65. 2:07maps. And if you can get through all
66. 2:08that and give yourself a mercenary and
67. 2:10get your foot in the door with white
68. 2:11maps, I promise you you're going to have
69. 2:13a lot of fun. I personally got into 16
70. 2:15maps today and I got to say my
71. 2:17progression through all this was butter
72. 2:18smooth. The biggest thing that we
73. 2:20discovered is the fact that we can give
74. 2:22our mercenary permanent soul eater by
75. 2:24just equipping two funny little belts.
76. 2:26First, we are going to be equipping a
77. 2:27senter benevolence on our own character,
78. 2:29which will make it so our flask now
79. 2:31apply to whatever we have linked.
80. 2:32Importantly, this still makes you
81. 2:34benefit from the flask, so we can still
82. 2:35use all defensive flasks and be quite
83. 2:37tanky. With that, what we can then do is
84. 2:40give our mercenary soul thirst, which
85. 2:42causes them to gain soul eater during
86. 2:44any flask effects, which they count as
87. 2:46being under a flask effect while our
88. 2:48flasks are active and they're linked,
89. 2:50which is always going to be the case.
90. 2:51The thing about soul thirst is you would
91. 2:53lose your souls when he use a flask, but
92. 2:55the you refers to whoever has the belt
93. 2:57on and not
94. 2:59senter, meaning I can spam my flask as
95. 3:02much as I want to and my mercenary keeps
96. 3:03her soul eater going permanently,
97. 3:05assuming there is something for them to
98. 3:06hit to keep the stacks from decaying.
99. 3:08This on its own is a pretty big deal and
100. 3:10the fact that this belt and soul thirst
101. 3:11are currently one chaos each is kind of
102. 3:14criminal given this is
103. 3:17by far and beyond the single strongest
104. 3:19buff you can give to your mercenary
105. 3:21until you get them a head hunter. With
106. 3:22that taken care of, we started looking
107. 3:24into what further upgrades for the build
108. 3:26are going to look like as we push into
109. 3:28tier 16. And the first thing that we
110. 3:29discovered that we could do was a very
111. 3:31simple upgrade that gave you upwards of
112. 3:33100% more damage against bosses, which
113. 3:35is simply to add in an alpha's howl for
114. 3:37the mana reservation efficiency offers
115. 3:39you, which then gives you enough mana to
116. 3:41add in a storm blast mine, which you
117. 3:43want to leave a level one, otherwise the
118. 3:45reservation goes up and nothing really
119. 3:46changes about it. With each of these
120. 3:47mines that you place down causing an
121. 3:50aura around them, making enemies take
122. 3:52more damage, which does get affected by
123. 3:54aura effect. So, the point is is if you
124. 3:56have 20 of these down with minefield,
125. 3:58whatever boss you're fighting is now
126. 3:59just taking 100% more damage from a
127. 4:02mercenary, making this an extremely
128. 4:04powerful addition to the build. After
129. 4:05doing that, we started to think a little
130. 4:07bit more about the future of the build
131. 4:08and where exactly we wanted to push it.
132. 4:10And what we decided to do was to spend a
133. 4:12little bit time looking at path of
134. 4:13building and figure out what we want our
135. 4:14path of tree to look like as we un-jank
136. 4:16it and fix it from the half RF set that
137. 4:18we had before. And this is what we ended
138. 4:20up settling with in the end. The main
139. 4:22thing that you're going to be focusing
140. 4:23on here to begin with is to come over to
141. 4:25the right side of the science starting
142. 4:26area to pick up both leadership and
143. 4:28charisma through an intuitive leap,
144. 4:30given this is really cheap and it saves
145. 4:31you two passive points. And with this,
146. 4:33you're now going to have enough
147. 4:34reservation efficiency to go down a very
148. 4:37interesting chain of upgrades that is
149. 4:39going to end with us doing roughly twice
150. 4:41the damage you're doing before. Now, the
151. 4:43whole goal with all of this is going to
152. 4:44be to drop golden glory completely and
153. 4:47basically move away from light radius
154. 4:49stacking in favor of stacking fire
155. 4:51resistance with Amminadab's Embrace
156. 4:53instead. With this ring, our mercenary
157. 4:55is going to gain a lot of fire
158. 4:57penetration based on the overcapped fire
159. 4:59res it has up to a maximum of 200%. Our
160. 5:01goal here is going to be to go and
161. 5:03replace every single item that the
162. 5:05mercenary has with gear that has as much
163. 5:07fire resistance on as possible to
164. 5:09maximize its effect as much as we can.
165. 5:11We're also going to want to grab
166. 5:12ourselves white sockets on every single
167. 5:14item, which only got better this season
168. 5:16given that everything has white sockets,
169. 5:18to then abuse the untouched soul amulet
170. 5:20that gives you 12% all elemental res for
171. 5:23empty white socket on whatever items we
172. 5:26have equipped. And given we have no
173. 5:27reason to put gems inside of any of our
174. 5:29items on our mercenary, this is a lot of
175. 5:31fire resistance for free. This is then
176. 5:33going to be paired up with you adding in
177. 5:35a purity of fire into your own setup as
178. 5:38this plus purity of elements plus
179. 5:39everything that our mercenary is going
180. 5:40to have is going to give us a pretty
181. 5:42large majority of the total cap of
182. 5:44Amminadab's Embrace. Currently for my
183. 5:46mercenary, I'm getting 180% on the
184. 5:48shield, but this is a little bit higher
185. 5:50as this isn't counting for my auras. And
186. 5:51currently, I want to say I'm at about
187. 5:53220% total fire res out of the 275 I've
188. 5:56been getting total, given 75 of it is
189. 5:58not overcapped. This whole setup is
190. 6:01going to be relatively cheap. All the
191. 6:03fire res gear for the mercenary is
192. 6:04actually be extremely cheap because it's
193. 6:06very garbage gear. We don't even care
194. 6:08about getting life on them. We just want
195. 6:09to get a few useful stats here and there
196. 6:11on each piece and mostly just care about
197. 6:13fire res and a little bit of chaos res.
198. 6:15And the only expensive part is going to
199. 6:16be the Ambulette's Touch itself, which I
200. 6:18would recommend for you to not
201. 6:19specifically go and purchase the lowest
202. 6:21reduced fire resistance roll possible
203. 6:23and to instead try get a little bit
204. 6:24better one as in higher than 75% as
205. 6:27that's just going to make it even easier
206. 6:28for you to hit the cap, but don't go
207. 6:30spend too much money on this as this is
208. 6:32going to crash fairly quickly in price
209. 6:34so we can go grab ourselves a max roll
210. 6:35or near max roll for cheaper in an extra
211. 6:38day or two. Putting all this together
212. 6:39shouldn't take you too long to do so and
213. 6:42you can roughly expect to get all this
214. 6:43done in the middle of red maps or so,
215. 6:46especially if you're doing something
216. 6:47along the side that's making you a
217. 6:48decent amount of money such as doing
218. 6:49harvest or strongboxes or whatever you
219. 6:51might like. And once all of it is done,
220. 6:53we are then going to go and replace all
221. 6:55of the light radius gear on our gear,
222. 6:57given that we now completely drop Golden
223. 6:58Glory and opt to pick up the unique
224. 7:00amulets and ring nodes having two
225. 7:02legendary arms. In place of all this,
226. 7:04we're now going to try and find
227. 7:05ourselves a weapon that has plus two
228. 7:07spells on it. This is going to give you
229. 7:08an extra max fire res which is going to
230. 7:09feel quite nice. And we're going to
231. 7:10finally replace our Lori's rings with
232. 7:12Vermillion rings which are going to give
233. 7:13you a lot of life making up for some of
234. 7:15the link effect that you lost from the
235. 7:17light radius stacking as more health
236. 7:18means your fire link is better in the
237. 7:20first place. So, in total, once all of
238. 7:22this is taken care of, you can expect to
239. 7:23basically double the damage of your merc
240. 7:25if not a little bit more. And the whole
241. 7:27point is is that this is just the
242. 7:29beginning of it and I am so excited to
243. 7:30just keep pushing it further as we have
244. 7:32so many more upgrades to go to make
245. 7:33these mercenaries just as stupidly
246. 7:35strong as possible. Anyways, that's all
247. 7:36I have for you today and the day two
248. 7:38update. If you have any questions, feel
249. 7:39free to leave a comment in the comments
250. 7:40below or feel free to come by my Twitch
251. 7:42as I stream every single day and just
252. 7:43ask them to me directly, or feel free to
253. 7:45join our Discord as we have a wonderful
254. 7:46and amazing community there and you're
255. 7:47more than free to hang out with them at
256. 7:48any point. With that said, kitties, I
257. 7:50hope you enjoy the build. I hope you're
258. 7:51having fun, and I'll see you all in the
259. 7:52next video.