Current State of Doryani's Prototype and Lightning Mercenaries

Doryani's Prototype is a build-enabling item that typically requires investment and construction to mitigate its drawbacks.

This usually involves a mixture of Armour and Max Resistance shenanigans: Divine Flesh, Mahuxotl's Machination, Eyes of the Greatwolf, Watcher's Eye, etc.

Even then, you still can be vulnerable to lightning damage, and you quickly learn what lightning dots are in the game.

Right now, Mercenaries can wear this item without any other investment, and they are near-immortal. A Doryani Prototype wearing Mercenary can facetank Shaper Beam, which would be instant death for most players, especially when wearing Doryani's Prototype. It seems to be an active challenge to kill them without having to invest in max res or anything else. They don't seem to be affected by any minus res.

By putting Doryani's Prototype and Perquil's Toe on a merc, a Lightning Build can realistically do 600% more damage than every other damage type in the game, with barely any investment.

Why would people play anything else?

The question is: Does this align with GGG's intentions? It has been speculated about since the league was announced, and has been confirmed for a few days now. Many popular content creators have been joking about the interaction. Are we going to make this a lightning league, or is this something they'll patch?

It's not on their "Known Issues" list, and I haven't seen it mentioned by anybody official.

(Side note it's kinda funny that Perquil's Toe is worth more than 1 alch for the first time ever.)

Do we really feel like it is problematic? This seems way overblown and overdramatic.

Looks like they addressed this in the patch notes but I appreciate the response.