I think Mercs loot was nerfed too much.
" The evil shadow nerfs, we all know them lol But at the same time you see the entire opposite of what people say. " No it's not total rng, what you're saying is just totally wrong. They do give a pretty consistent amounts of good rewards if you actually engage with the league mechanic. And like you've said in other topics, you hard skip met a after you pursaged your challenges, and you die a lot to them. In this case sorry but everyone wo's actually playing the game knows better and takes your statements with a grain of salt. Maybe just maybe it's time to play the game to get a clue of what's going on instead of sharing false information left and right lol Flames and madness. I'm so glad I didn't miss the fun. Last edited by Pashid#4643 on Jul 5, 2025, 3:01:57 AM
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" Of course a league mechanic isn’t rewarding when you either skip it, get farmed by pixel, or just refuse to engage with it. Prioritizing paying others to speedrun your challenges while you stick with a ZHP build that’s desperate for decent gear to not get wrecked by 3 out of 4 encounters... it’s hard to enjoy ‘too hard’ content when you’re not even trying, right? But hey, it’s the same empty complaint we hear every league from the same person, nothing new at this point. They can’t even give us a real sample size or reasoning for why the loot’s apparently ‘bad’ since they don’t even engage with it. Meanwhile, everyone else actually playing and interacting with the mechanic is proving them wrong instantly. But yeah, sure, it’s just luck for everyone else and pure misfortune for them, right? Lmao Windows 11, 9950X3D, RTX 4090, 96GB DDR5, 14,100 MB/s SSD, 15,360x2160p @240Hz Ultra 4K Gaming & Workspace Powerhouse
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" This is gaslighting at its finest. I've never had a divine in my merc. Best were some scarabs or regal. Now i'm making a new character and i see, clear as day that mercs offer several tiers worse currency than they did in first few days. Right now getting an alch orb is beyond lucky. Only once did i find chaos orb in their satchels/bags. Merc loot was nerfed and it's visible as heck. Also people, stop making passive aggressive comments. It's lame. Last edited by deothor#4810 on Jul 5, 2025, 3:36:09 AM
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" Except it's the truth in regard to the player lol " I mean of course they ain't gonna offer you divine orbs, multiple chaos orbs or expensive scarabs non stop in the campaign or low tier maps.That's a rare case, pretty much working as intended I'd say. But good rewards do show up pretty consistent in the real endgame, something you haven't reached yet it seems tbf. " Case of Source Trust me bro? The evil shadow nerfs? " I think making topics about non existing shadow nerfs without any proper backup is lame. Cause once again everyone who's actually playing the game sees different results. lol Flames and madness. I'm so glad I didn't miss the fun.
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" Yep exactly, one person who gets it lol The best thing I got out of them was a single scarab of containment, and that was on an Infamous merc who just have buffed loot compared to normal ones anyway. The rest was just garbage currencies. Its pretty hilarious that transmutes and augments can even spawn on a merc in a t16. Imagine sentinels during sentinel league dropping that from monsters that had a currency reward icon, or legion chests only dropping that in t16s. Or affliction monsters buffed by wisps dropping all these low-tier bubblegum currencies. That's what mercenaries is right now, and just because a few people got super lucky doesn't mean anything. The average loot is non-existent and I know it is because I literally clicked them all while at max renown over like 500+ maps+campaign. They were better in campaign at least there they gave lots of stacked decks and even a Tabula in act 6, then for some unknown reason they mysteriously stop giving so many stacked decks in maps lmfao Doesn't matter how much people try to gaslight,I always killed mercs and stayed at max renown on this glass cannon build. Its simple to hide behind a wall and abuse the terrain of the game itself to let the mercs fight my totems instead of me. I'm sure minion players do the same. The occasional oneshot happens, and then I just kill the very next merc in the following map and I'm instantly at max renown again. I don't think people understand that I literally kill them in 1-2 seconds with my 200 mil dps Ice Spear totems. My build is designed to bypass this game's mechanics and insta-phase and delete any boss. Me and many other players' voices are living proof that this league's loot is trash, so you can all stop trying to collectively gaslight us with your one-off lucky stories of getting divines on mercs or mirrors from them in the campaign. Or trying to say "stop dying so much" when I literally barely ever die to them and farm them at max renown all day lol. That's the exception, not the rule. Its just RNG, ofc some people will get lucky. I got a mirror and 3x Doctor cards from Ritual in a single league, does that mean Ritual is the most rewarding best league mechanic ever? No lmao it just means I lucked out hard. |
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" It quite literally is gaslighting, because I never even got to 100 deaths on my character this league lmao You people just assume someone dies to mercs a lot just because they don't have some meta build with suppression or whatever. No, I literally just hide behind a wall and afk until the merc dies. Shadow nerfs and secret changes are absolutely real, I've seen multiple instances of this happening. If you don't believe that then you're ignoring them by choice. Or them secretly adding new archnem mods to the game, secretly buffing the rate at which 4-mod rares appear again in campaign,secretly buffing all chill on monsters in campaign/nerfing player's ailment threshold. Suuuuddenly in campaign everything started freezing me and doing 20-30% chills one patch when before that point it had never happened. That's 100% some changes they just chose not to tell the players. The proof of loot being nerfed is people literally playing the game and seeing that the loot is worse. You don't need proof for everything, and we don't need to prove anything to anyone. Its a fact that loot on mercs was bad and is now worse. Transmutes and Augments even appearing in a t16 map is unacceptable, its just sad. Those are just the facts. |
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" In this case you shouldn't complain that mercs are too overtuned or any other content is overtuned. Oh well I mean sure you don't get high deaths if you just sit down in a cozy carry taxi and let people take care of the content your build struggles with. " Tell us more about those imaginary shadow nerfs, cause right now you're just telling us a story about how you're already getting farmed by rare enemies during the campaign. Amusing but sad at the same time. Not a surprise tho " And like I've said anyone playing and engaging with the mechanic can prove you wrong. So tell us something new that is actually true. While Transmutes and Augments are part of the loot it's not the only things you get from them as they do shower you with a fuck tons of currency. But hey you wouldn't know as you don't even engage with the mechanic as you've already told us in a different topic lol " So your usual way of saying Source: Turst me bro without any proper backup whatsoever. As mentioned before people who know you and the way you play do take your "feedback" with a grain of salt. Flames and madness. I'm so glad I didn't miss the fun. Last edited by Pashid#4643 on Jul 5, 2025, 4:21:39 AM
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" When did I say I buy carries for mercs lmao I do them myself, and I kill them in 1 second. That's what a 200 mil dps build does. Hiding behind a wall or corner while they fight my totems is genius tech I know. No matter how much you try you can never gaslight me, the loot is bad. This is an objective fact. And I literally clicked every merc in every map I ever did while grinding 36 challenges. I've done like 30k map quant of maps, I fully completed my atlas on like day 3. I was speedrunning it all. This isn't the "builds" section of the forum, nobody asked for build help so can you please stop discussing people's characters and builds? Its pretty toxic behavior. Build doesn't matter, all feedback is valid. And there are many people right now who feel that mercenaries loot is bad. So its bad. Its that simple. The proof is that I clicked a lot of em and didn't get any loot lmao, some people just lucked out and got divines but I never saw a single one in all my maps while at max renown. You wanna know the only carries I bought this league? 4x uber bosses and 30x t17 map completions, because I was too lazy. I could have farmed the gear to do all of that on my build, but I simply wanted to do 36/40 in the fastest way possible. And paying someone a few divs was faster than doing it all myself lol I've literally done 6/7 ubers on this build, because it can melt them. |
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Aside from 2 div on an act 7 merc that kickstarted my league starter i didn't found anything worthwhile on these mercs.
Occasional div that happens once per 100 of them? Meh, I drop 1-2 divs per map (abyss hoard T17 with risk scarabs). Sometimes it's a scarab worth 50-200c too, also extremely rare. Jackpot odds are propably one in a million which means i am never seeing mageblood or hh or kalandra ring. This is way worse than for example heist running and helical / focused / simplex. These are rare but on the order of 1:1000, not 1:1000000. And worth more than even a mageblood lol (simplex routinely reaching 300 div base price in a league) I don't even bother with renown anymore cos I run 12-mod T17 maps and those mercs are rippy as hell. Just a quick peek to their inventory and leave them alone if theres no div or good unique. |
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