Mercenary skills

[Zenogs]

So not sure why devs even developed any skills for this class other then grenades and basic attack everything else is absolute trash. Would have been better if they made sword branch instead if this is best they managed XD Seriously Mashine guns skills deals 0 dmg, High end skills are all about falling from the sky randomly or need detonation. Why? For who? These kind of stupid ideas what ruined diablo all the dumb ass mechanics that nobody fcking asked for.

[RubyCante]

upcoming patch said they are buffing mercenary/crossbow skills, yes they are underpowered/underwhelming

Edit: Glacial bolt/ice rain thing+Fragmentation shot is good, gas grenade focusing on slowing/striping armor is good, explosive shot+explosive grenade is good, galvanic shard is good when shooting at multiple enemies as it's main damage from the arc/chain lightning so it wont arc if theres only 1

[5ean5ean]

Originally posted by Zenogs:

So not sure why devs even developed any skills for this class other then grenades and basic attack everything else is absolute trash. Would have been better if they made sword branch instead if this is best they managed XD Seriously Mashine guns skills deals 0 dmg, High end skills are all about falling from the sky randomly or need detonation. Why? For who? These kind of stupid ideas what ruined diablo all the dumb ass mechanics that nobody ♥♥♥♥♥♥ asked for.

Galvanic Shards wants to have discussion with you.

[Zenogs]

Originally posted by 5ean5ean:

Originally posted by Zenogs:

So not sure why devs even developed any skills for this class other then grenades and basic attack everything else is absolute trash. Would have been better if they made sword branch instead if this is best they managed XD Seriously Mashine guns skills deals 0 dmg, High end skills are all about falling from the sky randomly or need detonation. Why? For who? These kind of stupid ideas what ruined diablo all the dumb ass mechanics that nobody ♥♥♥♥♥♥ asked for.

Galvanic Shards wants to have discussion with you.

my normal shot is 3k dmg galvanic shard 300 XD it ain't much of discution XD

[Zenogs]

Originally posted by RubyCante:

upcoming patch said they are buffing mercenary/crossbow skills, yes they are underpowered/underwhelming

Thats good news

[thestile]

Yeah, the fast attacks seem bad for single target and groups. I might be using it wrong but some of the attacks don't seem good for anything.
The explosive rounds and grenades are fun but I don't like most of the shots other than for how cool they look.

[Hormesis]

been using gas grenades with amour breaking and high velocity rounds since lvl 3? lvl 81 and it hits for 1300% on enemies with broken armour, which i break in less than 1 second and it's a HUGE aoe. kinda good i guess

[5ean5ean]

Originally posted by Zenogs:

Originally posted by 5ean5ean:

Galvanic Shards wants to have discussion with you.

my normal shot is 3k dmg galvanic shard 300 XD it ain't much of discution XD

Go ahead a clear a breach in Tier 15 with a normal shot and see how that works for you. Just say you don't have a clue what your talking about.

https://youtu.be/H0vul6HOTeo?si=B5xH28qa5zI7Lx3K

[ZTempest]

I must be playing the class entirely wrong LOL. Rapid Shot is my primary, with explosive shot and the turret that pins opponents being my second and third go-to skills. I am doing fairly well (I think). I still die occasionally, but bosses seem to go down quick, especially after I invested in the passive skill tree skills that increases damage to uniques and rare opponents. Maybe I need to relook my build...but it seems to do okay.

[Carian Champion]

It is a mechanical class, you need to find synergies between skills. I felt like sh1jt too until lv32, suffered for long and it finally paid off.

But yes it needs somework, my Monk while dealt maybe 20x the damage at the same level, had a melee problem, I just created a new character to play ranged.

[5ean5ean]

I think people are missing how powerful decimating strike and culling strike is with fast firing skills. You want to hit as fast as possible.

Even if Galavanic shards did 1 point of damage thats up to 30% from decimateming strike health gone and up to 30% from culling health gone before damage is even calculated. Combine that with Zealous Inquisition and it makes Galvanic arrow witch hunter a clear speed monster.

[ZTempest]

SeanSean makes an excellent point. I am not using Galvanic, but I think Rapid Shots is similar in that I believe it does benefit from any skill that calculates an effect based on the number of times it hits, and Rapid Shots specializes in delivering tons of shots in very short bursts of time. My Rapid Shots magazine is 67, and with the modifiers and weapon I have in place (a rare with a damage rating of 30-121 or so), my DPS ranges from 2500 to probably close to 4000, depending on the situation and the skills involved (i.e., emergency reload/clip, that gives me a 25% boost to damage, etc., as well as other fire-related modifiers)

Bottom line is that SeanSean makes a good point -- Merc needs to be structured to deliver damage and fires as rapidly as possible, and several of the skills in the Merc tree do exacly that, including later on the lightning-related one called I think Shockburst or something like that.

[5ean5ean]

Originally posted by ZTempest:

SeanSean makes an excellent point. I am not using Galvanic, but I think Rapid Shots is similar in that I believe it does benefit from any skill that calculates an effect based on the number of times it hits, and Rapid Shots specializes in delivering tons of shots in very short bursts of time. My Rapid Shots magazine is 67, and with the modifiers and weapon I have in place (a rare with a damage rating of 30-121 or so), my DPS ranges from 2500 to probably close to 4000, depending on the situation and the skills involved (i.e., emergency reload/clip, that gives me a 25% boost to damage, etc., as well as other fire-related modifiers)

Bottom line is that SeanSean makes a good point -- Merc needs to be structured to deliver damage and fires as rapidly as possible, and several of the skills in the Merc tree do exacly that, including later on the lightning-related one called I think Shockburst or something like that.

3 skills:

Glavanic Shards for clear
Shock burst Rounds for bosses
Plasma blast for thick packs and satisfying AOE explosions.

Ammo is seriously slept on and Im glad they are buffing it. This is going to be my 2nd character.

[Sloop]

Originally posted by 5ean5ean:

Originally posted by Zenogs:

my normal shot is 3k dmg galvanic shard 300 XD it ain't much of discution XD

Go ahead a clear a breach in Tier 15 with a normal shot and see how that works for you. Just say you don't have a clue what your talking about.

https://youtu.be/H0vul6HOTeo?si=B5xH28qa5zI7Lx3K

He's still lvl 17 in campagin probably

Galvanic shards are amazing

[ZTempest]

I don't have plasma blast yet but it is definitely on my radar! I can see how this would work though, and it sounds interesting. I will have to try it out. Thanks!

[Antpile]

Originally posted by Zenogs:

Originally posted by 5ean5ean:

Galvanic Shards wants to have discussion with you.

my normal shot is 3k dmg galvanic shard 300 XD it ain't much of discution XD

Sometimes you have to look past the math and actually try the thing. Galvanic shards looks like crazy low dps in the tooltips, but it's actually nutty dps. The thing is, the tool tip is doing the math based on hitting a single target with a single shard from each shot. But it's basically a lightning shotgun, so the closer something is, the more of those shards they are going to eat.

Just, trust me. Go use it. You'll see. Always try every skill in your main tree at least once, no matter what the tool tip might say; Or else you miss out on things like this, where a skill is MUCH better in practice than it is on paper.