Mercs feel very overtuned

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DarkJen#6961 wrote:

Mercs seems not bothering calculating player defences at all. So they just ignore them.

And it looks like oneshots.

100% tru

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TreeOfDead#4438 wrote:

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DarkJen#6961 wrote:

Mercs seems not bothering calculating player defences at all. So they just ignore them.

And it looks like oneshots.

100% tru

There's a rumor there might be some bug around movement skills (for ex flame dash and frost blink) which are doing ridiculous amount of damage when used by mercs. Might they are actually ignoring resistances or something, I don't know.
But overall yeah they deal crazy damage.

It's always the same with GGG, almost everytime something new comes out it has to be either overtuned in difficulty or undertuned in terms or rewards, usually both.
The meta is to basically ignore the league mechanic completely until you have a strong enough character lvl 90+ and other people have already figured out wether it's worth doing.

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bennisen#4006 wrote:

Me too, getting one shots very often. The fight starts and im dead.

posted on this today as well

Not logging in and just reading about those things on the forum proved to be the best way to interact with poe, for truly wise players:) What a shocker, GGG released drastically overturned content again, and ofc the exp penalty remains resolutely locked in place. Soulslike difficulty, my eye.

Got got by Veth Kaldri the Cruel Mistress with no gear during campaign: https://streamable.com/bpajbc

I'm guessing it's the Soulrend of Reaping that's still overtuned?

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RAMENhameha#1055 wrote:

Got got by Veth Kaldri the Cruel Mistress with no gear during campaign: https://streamable.com/bpajbc

I'm guessing it's the Soulrend of Reaping that's still overtuned?

Envy, Zealotry, inc crits gem, crit chance + multi on gear, full chaos spell... that's ROUGH, and definitely not something I'd try facetanking without considerable chaos res.

Unless you had 40-50% c res, this falls into the "player mistake" category rather than merc being overtuned. This merc would most likely kill ~99.9% of campaign characters in the same situation, but it's not "overtuned" per se because you can see the layered bullshit it has and expect an insane chaos spike damage. You just have to be able to read it right.

I'm trying to do the achievements in level 78 maps and they still one shot without damage mods.

And I'm decently geared for alch/go t16's.

And there is no discernable pattern as to what makes them hit so hard. I've seen a merc with 2 six link skills be a push over and others with no more than a 4 link 1 tap you. Extremely frustrating.

Can they just remove Tempest Shield? It is stupid AF and punishes builds which don't rely on one massive spell hit. Why does it even exist on enemies?

I suspect it to be some issue with PvP scaling or so. The player is probably downscaled, and the merc not. Or there is some weird shotgun error with them hitting you instantly for all the theoretical attacks while they were paused...

On the mercs there is no possibility of knowing any damage amount, since there are no numbers shown, probably something like 10000% dmg effectiveness. Otherwise it is unexplainable, and actually unforgivable, why a merc in a T11 map, with absolutely no build effective equipment on, can oneshot a player, that doesn't even get scratched by 10 rares simultaniously.

Even a music creating AI would have not made those obvious miscalculations, maybe they should ask for help.