Fully Broken Armor Detonators (High Velocity Rounds/Exploit Weakness) Need Some Love.
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I quit playing merc bc grenades are frustration, cooldown, fuse duration, constantly moving mobs not getting hit. The only viable option was gas grenade but it has only 4 time use, annoying mechanics while other classes use skills unlimited amount of time. weird design decision by dev
My_Bloody_Valentine
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I was looking to the APR+HVR gameplay too. However, while HVR is good as a "finisher", APR is just a disappointment as a standalone skill. It's an automatic BB gun, as far as I can tell. I have resorted to using Gas Grenade + Corrosion + Comorbitity + Deadly Poison as my armor stripper while I spam HVR (Scattershot rocks on it, btw).
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GGG just hates phys skills because if any of them was good we could actually have a viable life leech based build one day.
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" Yup, they hate leech so they dumpstered phys skills. |
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Merc seems very obviously based off Punisher from Marvel Heroes. He has shotgun skills, machine gun skills, grenade skills, a dodge roll, even a gas grenade that explodes when ignited and a reload skill that buffs your attacks.
Thing is, Punisher was actually fun to play. You might also notice that even though there's a lot going on on screen, it's actually really goddamn easy to tell where enemies are and spot their attack telegraphs. And that enemies actually feel balanced to be a proper challenge. These guys figured it out 7 years ago. Why can't GGG? |
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Yeah the damage increase from ""fully"" breaking armor is neglible and doesn't seem to do much anything when you're spamming split HVR
Decided to run Crossbow Warrior instead to break armor faster with the ascendancy, and then the problem is that HVR just cashes in armor breaks when you are going for armor breaks below 0 armor, and then it's just another grenadier build lol One trick Champion, borked builds and a general meme.
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You guys might need a different approach to it. My APR is doing 17 attacks per second, 70K in combat dmg. Using armour break to pop fire dmg and ignite spreads with oil grenade. I consume armour breaks with Oil grenade and HVR as a finisher. I keep Ripwire ballista up for CC. I'm lvl 90 with +3 boss level, I can complete most of my juiced maps.
Compared to the LA Ranger, though, I agree it does need some work. Reloading and switching ammo is clunky. And there are some other issues with Armour/Evasion. I was planning on making a showcase video this weekend. The Build Planner: https://maxroll.gg/poe2/planner/dmvfu0vu  Last edited by apachefx#0164 on Dec 29, 2024, 5:33:42 PM
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" What kind of Rate of fire and in combat DPS would you get swapping APR out for Rapid shot, just out of curiosity? Maybe with Rapid Shot > Martial Tempo > Fresh Clip > Fire Infusion > Elemental Focus > Primal Armament? Because of the heat mechanic, larger magazine, and greatly increased RoF, Rapid shot seems to massively out dps APR in my experience, usually by around a factor of x3 or x4. |
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