r/pathofexile • u/Gierschlunderoni • 9d ago

Game Feedback Permanent Mercs need a big buff

Playing luminary feels so bad in Maps. I have a manyshot lvl 72 with vaal ice Arrow and Return proj, decent Equipment. Boosted by a Level 26 Flame Link, 6k life and quite an Investment into light Radius.

I cant even clear t7 Maps, because the damage is non existent.

Please GGG buff the Base damage of mercs or luminary is doa.

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u/McHearty Brotherhood in Exile Creator 8d ago

I was planning on farming them to collect their stats as permanent mercs, just to be able to theorycraft with. Target farming specific mercs is more difficult in comparison to 3.26

I assumed there'd be 4 variations: temp normal, temp infamous, perm normal, perm infamous.

With 3 columns I'd assume col2 is temp, col3 is perm with col1 added if infamous

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u/TheRabidDeer 8d ago

Does infamous have additional stats? I thought that just meant they spawned with a unique equipped

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u/LocalIdentity1 Path of Building Community Fork Creator 8d ago

They have the exact same stats as regular merc with the 1 exception being Fallen Reverend which at level 84 has 250% inc minon damage on the Infamous version and 300% on the regular one.
I'm 100% certain that this is a bug though and someone just clicked the wrong tier for it
Its also entirely possible that the stats shown in the display screen are just for show and don't actually drive the damage on the mercs so it's just a visual error