Mercs feel very overtuned

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bennisen#4006 wrote:

Me too, getting one shots very often. The fight starts and im dead.

Yeah some of them simply oneshot me.

They're totally OP. Im getting one-shoted very often too. Thought its about me, skill issue, bad build, but Im glad Im not only ona heave this problem :D anyway, I read merc will be nerfed in next patches. I mean their damage to players.

I assume they are getting all bonuses from map mods, and yeah they hit like trucks. I avoid them now which makes playing the league feel like playing standard. Not great.

When I had reached the stage where I could comfortably do T10s, I was also getting one-shotted by mercs in T10s. Now that I can run T16s smoothly, I can easily kill a T10 merc, but I still get one-shotted by some of the T16 mercs.

In my opinion, recruited mercs are extremely strong, so it's only fair that you need to be very well equipped for your level to stand a chance of beating them.

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plz#2115 wrote:

I assume they are getting all bonuses from map mods, and yeah they hit like trucks. I avoid them now which makes playing the league feel like playing standard. Not great.

i tested with no dmg mods maps and still same 1shot...

Mercs seems not bothering calculating player defences at all. So they just ignore them.

And it looks like oneshots.

Although I'm low level but some mercs feel very inconsistent. By that I mean usually I kinda have an OK fight with a merc, but at times it feels like a one shot o_0

WTF, are some of them bugged, are their skills bugged, are there some terrible interactions?

Already in campaign I experience some sort of shenanigans, can't even imagine what the hell is happening in higher tier content.

Some skills and especially DOTs feel extremely overwhelming. I've only gotten a single Sanguimancer because every other one has main skill Exsanguinate and it one taps me through 70% PDR and 4.6k ES. A Zealot charging up Divine Ire is almost impossible to see and by the time you do you've already been railgunned back to hideout.

It's really unfortunate that the best mercs with the best setup of skills (only Exsanguinate instead of spamming Storm Call of Do Nothing) are so strong that you're unlikely to ever recruit them.

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y3lw0rC#4020 wrote:

Although I'm low level but some mercs feel very inconsistent. By that I mean usually I kinda have an OK fight with a merc, but at times it feels like a one shot o_0

WTF, are some of them bugged, are their skills bugged, are there some terrible interactions?

Already in campaign I experience some sort of shenanigans, can't even imagine what the hell is happening in higher tier content.

I enjoyed mercs in the campaign. They broke up the monotony of it because there was one in every zone and it was either free stuff or an upgrade to my existing hire. I didn't have any issues with them being OP in campaign, but once I hit maps they're just unstoppable 1-shot machines to me so I have to ignore them.

I also appreciate that there's finally a league mechanic you can have in both heist and delve, but I don't see my existing guy living long in either. The gold cost to revive them is way too high for the amount I'm picking up in early endgame content as well.