Do New Mercenaries In Path Of Exile 3.26 Are Much Stronger Than Players?
Recently, Path Of Exile 3.26 added the mercenaries. Many players find they are much more powerful and even more powerful than themselves. What is the specific situation? Let's take a look!
With the upgrade of mercenaries in Path Of Exile 3.26, many players have discovered that these mercenaries are far more powerful than they imagined.
The Emergence Of Powerful Mercenaries
New mercenaries have appeared in Path Of Exile 3.26. Compared to the mercenaries in Diablo IV, the mercenaries in PoE 3.26 are essentially NPC allies of the player, using all the same gear and items as the player. Under certain conditions and at a sufficient level, they are more powerful than the player: they are the warriors who tirelessly fight on the front lines to obtain more POE Divine Orbs, and also fight for the final victory.
This particular situation was deeply experienced by PoE streamer Pohx Kappa at the beginning of the new league. Although he used an AOE-based strategy, aiming to rush through all enemies and leave their smoking corpses, his mercenaries defeated all the monsters he could encounter before he even touched the enemy.
Pohx said that he couldn't hit anything during the game. He watched his mercenaries tirelessly destroying enemies on the screen with energy arrows, and lamented that he couldn't even blow up monsters. He felt that when he played PoE, he was just walking a chess simulation, without the opportunity to defeat the enemy by himself. The player is like an NPC in the game, lacking many scenes of his own battle.
The developers may have made the mercenaries in the game too powerful. A very specific example is that a streamer was accidentally one-tapped by a mercenary in hardcore. Before accepting a duel, you can browse their equipment, but some skill combinations may have the effect of excessive damage.
The Benefits Of Having Powerful Mercenaries
But if you have powerful mercenaries, the benefit is that you can not only greatly increase your chances of survival in a duel, but also explore the map more fearlessly with their company, thereby obtaining more rewards and more powerful equipment. Most experienced PoE players will enrich their Divine Orb and Chaos Orb reserves to equip their mercenaries with some auxiliary items, such as a weapon that can prevent elemental ailments from affecting your allies.
How To Deal With This Unfair Situation?
However, since it is still the early stage of the league, many players have had such experiences. Maybe players will find more and more bad ways to match mercenaries in the future.
Pohx's bad experience obviously came from bringing mercenaries with him during the upgrade of a new character. As long as the player and his mercenary level do not exceed level 20, the player can always bring them with him. This is also why some players keep some mercenaries with them for quick upgrades later.
How the developers will balance the abilities of players and their mercenaries in the future is indeed a topic worth looking forward to. Of course, this ensures that they will not suddenly create new players to weaken them, so that you cannot randomly match with a stronger player than you, thus losing the challenge and fun of the game.
After all, no player wants a version where you are the auxiliary and your mercenary is the protagonist to complete all the tasks and battles.
