crimsonkraken678: Cant wait to deck my merc into mirror gear while im wearing 10c items

Gid-J: 5 minutes in , "I'll just get right to it"

ravlikfure4580: I WILL NOT GET BAITED BY A CONNER BUILD I WILL NOT GET BAITED BY A CONNER BUILD I WILL NOT GET BAITED BY A CONNER BUILD

davidbauer9502: finally we ,no friend players, can have aurabots and cursebots by our side, should be nice.

TenaciousDealer: Nope I'm going to be the aura bot for my daddy merc :3

Ryan_but_the_name_was_taken: champion giving fortify to allies could be solid for this.

Lukkar-j9m: I think a minion player doesn’t even know how hard 6k delve is. Not that i ever tried getting that far either though.

melpan5072: Conner trying his absolute hardest to drive down the price of Kingmaker. It wont work but I apreciate the effort o7

oskarkrzyzanowski8499: Endurcance charge Ralakesh boots will be the most expensive of the 3 just because of the merceneries and some slayer Andies

felipepenedo1494: Kingmaker defiance of destiny should live and make Merc immortal, by the way

Dalmathus: You are 100% wrong on the endurance boots being 10c lmao. You can quote me on that one.

henrikswanstrom9218: Already thought about this and as you mentioned, the viability of the Mercenaries depend on how their base defenses are and whether they scale more similar to Players or more smiliar to Minions.

If the Merc defenses scale more similar to players, meaning they'll have like 5k life in full gear... the mechanic will be dead on arrival. If you've ever played a minion build where the minion has 83% max res, 5k life and block cap you know it's an unplayable build Non player units simply need very high HP pools to survive. AGs for example can be block capped with 120k hp and 83% max res capped out. And they're still unviable in Ghosted Rogue Exile maps. They literally have 5 million eHP but it's not enough. The correct combination of mods (Like Multi proj) and some unfortunate shotgun scenario and the AG is oneshot.

Same thing will apply to the Mercenaries. For this reason, I do think the Mercs will have defenses scale much more similar to minions, in particular AG scaling. For this mechanic to actually be useful, how AG survives and plays in the endgame should be the blueprint for the defenses of the Merc. Meaning, for the merc to be viable he should have really high HP scaling. Maybe they won't reach HP numbers like the AG upwards of 100k health.

But I definitely think they'll need to get upwards ~50k minimum with some life investment on items.

If this is shown to be true. I think one of the best defensive setups we will be able to run on the Merc is Mask of the Stitched Demon and it'll be what I probably will build around.

For now I think my primary defensive package will be Mask of the Stiched Demon The Burden of Truth. The Burden of Truth gives 10% of life as extra ES. If we assume that the merc has 50k life that would translate into 5k ES and this 10% hp reg per second from the mask of the stitched demon. The more HP the Mercs have the more powerful this item combo would be. For example a 100k hp merc would have 20% life regen per second here.

If Mercs have much less HP, say in the 5-15k range this item combination would be very weak.

The question would be how the hell you're supposed to scale HP on the mercs. If they're like minions, then flat HP vaues are useless. Only %inc HP modifiers matter for minions since their base HP already is so high.

Hopefully GGG have thought this through.

Lukkar-j9m: On another note, if you could get doryanis prototype in addition to perquils toe to work on Mercenary’s that would be insane

futurefear7699: With Doppelgänger Guise there still is the fact your merc has to be hit to benefit from the regen so dots might kill it (no hits)? -> Gruthkul's Pelt which is often used for minion players AG's has 10% regen per sec. which does cover dots, with the downside it disabled spells. So probably only for melee or attack/bow mercs. Another alternative might be a crafted hunter chest with 15% life regen every 4 seconds; maybe even multi mod with redeemer for nearby enemies are blinded; this together with mask of the stitched demon with a high ES chest (and other gear) for more regen.

HOWEVER since mercs count as 1/2 player for loot & HP increase.... will they be affected by "player" mods on maps such as no regen..?? (we don't know, AG is but that's a minion and not 1/2 player...)

Of course the shield is recover on block with 5% is quite decent; but is it enough to keep the merc alive in for dots and in case mercs do get affected by "player mods" on maps..?

BrandonsUsername: Brother we have no idea how tanky a merc will be. for all we know they scale like minions and have 900k HP

huntersyava: Now you are oneminionleft)

TheSteinum: Honey wake up the endurance charge ralakesh are new bitcoins. Also they technically x3 more rare than T1 unique cause mod splits. On the other hand AGs don't lose theirs anymore, so demand should won't be as high. Eventually.

Sadbringer: Aurumvorax is a good 1h that had a buttload of res. And it's very common being t5 rarity unique!

luismiguelcostaperestrelo1164: How can you yap for 5 whole minutes and basically say nothing wtf

Aziz_k-alrashead: you already had him ware a helmet, what was it ?

manowartank8784: i just wonder why the most unpredictable item of all - Glimpse of Chaos - is not shown before the video ... hope you are not sneaking something on us ;)

HelmBreaker594: TheGAM3Report1 got to delve depth 4k with his minion build using zombies, golems and AG and he very likely got and finished paths with those mods.

My own maxed out AG setup has like 3m elemental max hit and 700k max phys with very high life regen which would also very likely survive that since there are a lot other minions to tank some damage.

If you add in block chance on top of that well....

I think you lost your character xddd

carlostrevisan1980: Delve players are so out of this world. its nice to see a delve player video "you know all this content struggle to do in the game, i just left them 1000 floors behind, you would die in frames of a second" nice content. thanks sir. thanks youtube for bring me here

SadPanda94: As a minion player, I am impressed.

shadowbreaker6027: If they are all squishy they'll increase their tankiness

Jun 12 2025

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