The Gear I'm Looking to Put Onto My Mercenary As a Chaos DoT Build | Path of Exile

Summary

This video dives into essential gear choices for a mercenary in a chaos build, outlining key equipment that synergize well with various attributes and playstyles. It highlights unique items like the Crown of the Tyrant, Learcast helmet, and Spore Guard for their beneficial effects, such as boosting damage, applying curses, or enabling powerful synergies. The guide covers gear for different mercenary types, including strength, dexterity, and hybrid builds, offering insight into how each item impacts gameplay. The focus is on maximizing efficiency and exploring the potential combinations to enhance mercenary performance in chaos-based setups.

Takeaways

• 😀 Mercenaries in chaos builds can equip gear that matches their attribute affinities, such as strength, dexterity, or intelligence.
• 😀 Mercenaries with hybrid attributes (e.g., dexterity and intelligence) are limited to equipping hybrid gear of the same attributes, like dexterity-intelligence combinations.
• 😀 Jewelry doesn't have attribute requirements, so it can be equipped freely without worrying about attribute matching.
• 😀 Key gear recommendations include the 'Crown of the Tyrant' for reducing enemies' resistances and the 'Learcast' helmet for increasing damage.
• 😀 The 'Y Bonds Trickery' helmet offers both a shock ground effect and random curses like Temporal Chains on enemies who hit the mercenary.
• 😀 'Garb of the Ephemeral' provides a useful bonus by preventing action speed from going below base value and prevents critical strikes from enemies nearby.
• 😀 'Abhorent Interrogation Ambush' gives the mercenary a chance to inflict 'Withered,' boosting your damage and potentially improving elemental effects.
• 😀 'Gravebind' and 'Spore Guard' can create a synergy for corpse explosions, boosting chaos damage resistance for allies and applying chaos damage to enemies.
• 😀 'The Sign of the Sin Eater' ensures that elemental ailments affect the mercenary instead of allies, which can be useful for mitigating damage in some setups.
• 😀 Jewelry and specific rings, like 'Punishment' or 'Black Flame Ring,' can be strategically used to inflict curses and ignite enemies, improving damage potential.

Q & A

What kind of gear can mercenaries equip in this build?

Mercenaries can equip gear based on their attribute affinities. A strength mercenary can wear gear that requires strength, dexterity, or intelligence. A hybrid mercenary with attributes like dexterity and intelligence can only equip gear that matches their specific attributes, such as pure dexterity or intelligence gear.

How do mercenaries interact with jewelry in this build?

Jewelry does not have attribute requirements, so mercenaries can wear any jewelry regardless of their attribute affinities.

What does the 'Crown of the Tyrant' helmet do?

The 'Crown of the Tyrant' reduces nearby enemies' resistances by 10%, which includes chaos resistance, making it useful for weakening enemies.

What is the benefit of using 'Ybonds Trickery' helmet on the mercenary?

'Ybonds Trickery' triggers a level 10 Shock Ground on hit, which increases enemies' damage taken by 15%. Additionally, enemies that hit the mercenary receive a random curse, such as Temporal Chains or Punishment, which bypasses curse limits.

How does 'Garb of the Ephemeral' benefit your mercenary and allies?

The 'Garb of the Ephemeral' provides nearby allies with unmodifiable action speed (cannot go below 100%) and prevents nearby enemies from dealing critical strikes, making it great for high-difficulty content like Delirium or T7 maps.

What is the synergy between 'Spore Guard' and 'Gravebind'?

The synergy between 'Spore Guard' and 'Gravebind' works by having 'Gravebind' activate effects from 'Spore Guard' when enemies are killed by anyone. 'Spore Guard' triggers level 10 Contaminate, creating fungal ground that boosts chaos resistance and reduces enemy resistances.

What does the 'Aspect of the Spider' do for mercenaries?

The 'Aspect of the Spider' provides multiple benefits for mercenaries, such as reducing enemy damage by 10%, lowering their resistances by 10%, and increasing the area of effect of the mercenary's spread. It also increases the enemies' damage taken by 5% per stack of the effect.

How does the 'Kingmaker' axe benefit nearby allies?

'Kingmaker' provides several benefits, including 30% increased item rarity, Calling Strike, +50% critical strike multiplier, and 10 fortification for nearby allies. It is a powerful item for improving your party's survivability and item drops.

What is the function of the 'Gratus Signate Diamond Ring'?

The 'Gratus Signate Diamond Ring' triggers the 'Unnerve' debuff on enemies when your mercenary performs a critical strike. This increases spell damage by 10% for targets affected by Unnerve, making it beneficial for spell-based builds.

What role does 'The Eternal Struggle Onyx Amulet' play in the build?

'The Eternal Struggle Onyx Amulet' grants mercenaries additional critical strike capabilities and can inflict Malignant Madness on enemies if the Eater of Worlds modifier is dominant. This reduces the enemy's action speed and damage, providing a strategic advantage.