What Is This Build?
This build is a Mercenary Support. The Luminary's passive skill
Noble Blood allows you to recruit Mercenaries to permanently accompany you, and they do all the damage. You provide support auras and
Flame Link for your Mercenary, guiding them through maps and tanking for them as they blast everything into dust.
The scaling potential for this build is incredible, but it requires very specific gearing and Mercenary setups. Getting a perfect Mercenary can be very difficult and expensive.
This is not a league starter build, it is a league finisher build.
How Do You Level This Build?
Get to Act 3 and complete your first Ascendancy with
Spectral Throw/
Spectral Helix.
Recruit a Mercenary in The Sceptre of God. Let them carry you for the rest of the campaign. Support them with auras like
Haste and
Anger. Use
Rallying Cry until you unlock
Flame Link.
Which Mercenaries Are Good?
Manyshot is the best Mercenary we have found so far. Combatant is good for single-target and Kineticist is good at everything, but very rare.
Return is a powerful support gem on projectile skills, as is anything that adds extra projectiles or clear (GMP, Fork, Chain, etc.).
You can find a list of Mercenary classes here: https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/Mercenary#List_of_mercenary_classes.
How to Scale Damage
By stacking life and Light Radius on ourselves with
Golden Glory, our
Flame Link adds MASSIVE amounts of flat fire damage to our Mercenary. Because of this, percentage damage increases scale our Mercenary's damage much more effectively than flat damage.
For example, a Mercenary skill linked with a Greater Ele Damage with Attacks Support will gain ~30% damage. A Mercenary skill linked with Greater Added Lightning Damage Support may gain <1% damage.
We also increase our Mercenary's Fire Resistance Penetration by giving them
Enmity's Embrace and scaling their Fire Resistance as close to 275% as we can get. You will want Fire Resistance on every piece of armour. Using
The Untouched Soul with resistance catalysts and white sockets on every single item helps a lot!
Additionally, we want to scale Mercenary's attack speed, crit chance, and crit multi as much as possible.
Assassin's Mark can help with boss damage.
What Spectres Should You Use?
Spectres can provide powerful buffs. You can find a list here: https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/Raise_Spectre
We're using https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/Perfect_Forest_Warrior & https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/Perfect_Guardian_Turtle.
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