maxhax367: Issues aside I think it's interesting that GGG managed to make 3rd scion ascendancy that is based on "borrowed power" that somehow makes sense.

Ascendant borrows power from other ascendancies.

Reliquarian borrows it from unique items

Luminary borrows it from mercenaries

f.jideament: The state of the meta; every day, we sit on a chair for 16 hours, staring at a screen filled with dazzling explosions.

SuPeRHeRoDuDe3124: We need to talk about Warden

FluffyFractalshard: please please don't nerf emelemntalist, she's perfect! <3

occultist same, close second

Tibasu: I love that Luminary finally gave us a reason to care about light radius, and I love that it has both a learning curve, and plays completely differently than other ascendancies. My knuckles are very thankful I get to enjoy an autobomber buidl other than RF. I also love how in SSF you get a similar feeling with mercs to build defining uniques. I found a really good chaos DOT merc and it got me thinking about how I could be a support for her, similar to finding good uniques and thinking about build options that opened up for you.

I'm very worried about the nerfs next league.

Killswitch_KEM: Thumbs down on any nerfs GGG does to any Ascendency. Buff the weaker ones instead to bring them up to level.

Nimroc: You highlighted Mystical Infusion for Assassin, but it is also worth noting that the reworked Deathmarked notable have also gone from 3% pick rate in Mirage to 46%.

AtlasGcx: If we believe the difficulty of balancing merc is mostly the high variance, would it work if they allow us to customize mercs with gems (much less rng reliant), then lower the ceiling accordingly?

wisemonkey8485: GGG: Elementalist is overpowered since 3 leagues now lets nerf trickster and deadeye!!!

reeeyou: Hear me out, remove Luminary class. Create Mercenary Boss, Bloodline Ascendancy to hire and equip mercenary for all characters .

luma345: Occultist is really hanging on to that 1 Power Charge node for deal life.

nllg1273: Its fascinating how Elementalist became so dominant after "Golem package" was compressed from 4-to-2 passives. Primordial bond stacking has been doable for years, and despite being nerfed several times in recent history, its still absurd. And sure, theres other reasons like how the baseline Golem buffs were overhauled to be better, or how Herald stacking got a new package.

Herewego26: Why do you have the elder screaming noise in the background of all your videos?

minhocho5487: I think Luminary is too op unfortunately. IDK how you would every nerf luminary without making her useless

fwannmacher: The problem with the inquisitor node is that is it located behind battlemage and it only makes sense to use battlemage with Energy Blade which has a bad crit chance

Talon_PoE: After I saw the luminary reveal I instantly thought its the most broken character in the game.

GGG and even players really thought that losing an ascendancy just to play mercs is a big downside. It's such a small price to pay. Mercs as a concept is not balanced by default, you are using 2 characters instead of 1.

To be honest, people play luminary as a bot for the merc which is way more potent, but my initial idea was to use the merc as my support. This still works and it's still insanely broken lol.

tweedledee8952: Mercs will be PoEs "set items" : either so good, that everybody feels inclined to use them, or so bad that nobody cares. Imho they should have made them a bloodline ascendancy accessible to every class, coming with proper opportunity costs, like "less reservation efficiency" and "your curse limit cannot exceed 2, you can apply one fewer curse" or sth like that.

Mojo1800: I really hope Luminary gets absolutely and completely gutted next league, honestly I hope they remove it entirely and never look back but I doubt they'd go that nuclear. Being the tankiest character in the entire game while being an auto bomber and having ridiculous damage is balanced and fair. I also hope to see Witch not be overwhelmingly dominant next league, it feels like after the Trickster ES suppression mine nerfs that Shadow has been in a pretty bad spot, I hope that gets adjusted, but we'll see.

HeavilyForkedBardsWar: I really do not like the approach of mercs.... I was hoping it would be similar to the first time... just balanced

divvysan6730: most boring league ever...new crafting stuff is pretty cool though.

marie-claudesavoie6302: Remember when liege of the primordial was nerfed by 50% and everyone was like ''yeah elementalist is dead''.

Gotta give more credit to GGG's balancing team man, they really know what they're doing.

Shadowquacker: Very few people “enjoy” solving mana problems, so a simple solution is very appealing.

burakahmettr8193: first , love your work, thanks for everything

firechaoscara: Armour stacker is insane this league, go luminary, link to merc for free 40% aura effect from gloves and give him perquill's toe, anathema and 3 curses on hit for insane extra damage, also Bastion's prismplate and physical aegis are insane for damage mitigation

Rank 1 luminary is Misha's armour stacker character, in case anyone wants to check it

jerds9293: Exaggerated take. Golems (not gollums) don't solve problems, they provide flexibility. Problems are things like chaos res, elemental ailment immunities, etc.

mjb903: This league was a let down for a boat league.

mediocrity25years68: They buffed it twice now you think it's going to be nerfed? If you have no life and farm the hard to get the unique "clam". You are overpowered if everything lines up. The class is a new toy in a very old game so of course people are going to play it. It's just a shame no lifers are probably going to get the lumanary gutted. Enjoy it while you can boys.

Aug 24 2026

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