Also, Glacial bolt melts large enemies (90% of bosses). Add Double Barrel and Scattershot to it and watch damage, stun, and freeze make bosses easier than regular rare enemies.
Thx for the combo tip, I love that skill. Also for some reason it bounces off walls ( 1 out of 5 times ). Still have no clue what skill/armor/gem that triggers... But this is my main anti-group skill.❤
Big bosses specifically. All the shards generate inside the mob and break so it dose 100% of theoretical damage. For small bosses it get way less but some boss will actually get trapped by the walls and if your aoe is big enough you can just dps them safely behind the walls and if.
One thing I will add , having played only half of the classes, more than any other class mercenary feels like the one that the two weapon skill set were built to accommodate. Having one weapon with some life regen and lots of easy one button group and then have a second crossbow with a ton of single target damage for the oceans of hp pretending to be bosses.
Does anybody have any tips for why the crossbow takes a while to shoot? Its very inconsistent for mesometimes i have to press a different ammo type for it to start shootin. Im dying to the count boss because im holding down ro shoot and nothing happens
Instead of pressing the shoot button to “reload”, just press the reload button when your done with your last shot. I had same issue where after my last bolt shot, if I kept pressing the shoot button my character would be stuck on a “reload” animation everytime I press shoot. Just press reload and wait and shoot
I am a long time ARPG fan and always wondered why they do not have WASD gameplay available for ranged classes, and POE2 finally did it. This game feels SO GOOD on WASD movement and merc.
Wooow wait hold on a second Drybear, i think you cooked like crazy.. Double Crossbow.. why didn't i think of this? I do have 2 juiced up, one with +3 on all Projectile Abilities and a almost same strong Crossbow. I will definitely play around with this! Do you know if you can override the 1 support gem limit when you use 2 weapons? (i'll go Legionnaire anyways but still)
Only just started the video so not sure if it gets covered, but I'm playing a non-merc merc... i like the ascendancy and proximity to weapon switching nodes, im going for a Robin hood style reg bow/quarterstaff build and think the witch hunter extra weapon passives or double gem slotting from either ascendancy will work well for blending two weapons. Any other non-xbow mercs just here for the ascendencies?
My lightning arrow gemling legionnaire is a blast to play. Im running xbow offhand for envenom/corrosive ripwire ballista but once i have the spirit to use them ill be looking into other minions
1:45 I completely disagree. I think the reload mechanic feels SO GOOD on merc, and I like the feeling of reloading and letting my charges build up before fights. It felt like I was preparing for a fight and strategizing with my ammo, and that is exactly what is needed to make a merc feel like a merc and not just a merc themed Sorcerer like in other games.
i can actually recommend an build where you focus on the dhrapnell shotgun with some stunn buildup multpliers you can insta stun enemys and often stun bosses the damage is also good you just need to find an weapon with high flat damage i like to combo it with some nades and an ballistas
they just need to shorten the reload animation all .. together at the earlier lvls... maybe having heavier crossbows at later lvls needing longer reload ... or having light crossbows and heavy crossbows
Yeh the standing there getting mobbed swapping between bow and then roll and then reload I would die in the middle of reloading Some bosses I would waste 2 cycles of my turn damage between swapping ammo reloading then finally bursting my shots and then doing it again
But it's not just the loading of ammo, but how you need to change it, then use a different button that's an issue. Consider this basic setup... Standard class/weapon Left = main attack Right = alt/special In a standard rotation you could be like: LM, LM, LM, RM That triggers 4 abilities for 4 presses. The issue with mercenary IMO is that same sequence requires 3 buttons and looks like: LM, LM, LM, Load B, LM, Load A So that's then 6 buttons for 4 abilities. Not to mention that becomes confusing in that you are using the same left mouse click for multiple abilities. Which maybe isn't an issue for someone who has only ever played Merc with crossbow, but no other skills in PoE 2 or 1 work like that. It's extremely counter intiutiive. IMO they REALLY need an option to have it set up as standard, where you press the ability button it triggers the ability. I'd love to have 3 different kind of ammunitions, but it's just way too confusing to me (after 250 hrs in PoE 1 and 30 among different char in PoE 2).
It's definitely a new mechanic and took some getting use to. But now that I'm use to it, I quite enjoy it because it feels like playing an FPS but from a 3rd person ARPG perspective and I'm having a blast.
does anyone else think the chimera pet is on like 1.5 speed or something? its movements seem very twitchy.. he reminds me of overclocking in the old days and the game would run and Xspeed
Im strugling with single dmg on bosses...playing with galvanic and following ur guide, but need some help for single boss like on lab. Some tips pleeess
Make sure you have an up to date Bow and are using maximum Lightning Rods on the boss. Also roll Elemental Damage on your Crossbow, and update the levels on your gems
Granted I only got my mercenary up to level 4 or 5, but the whole load, reload, switch ammo thing is overly involved and unnecessarily unintuitive. Yes, I am sure that if I wanted to play in an uncomfortable and not fun manner just to “get used to it”, that would happen eventually. But I don’t really feel like grinding it out and feeling like I don’t want to play that style of control just to hope to not mind it so much when I can just play more “standard” classes instead. It’s a shame because Merc was my first choice and if all the characters had this mechanic, I wouldn’t have played much at all. Edit: I did "force myself" to play more on the merc tonight. I set reload to the right mouse button. Starting off easy with the default attack buffed by a chance to poison gem and one that makes the poison deplete armor. Grabbed the grenade skill and I off to a pretty good start.
Everyone talked about how good this character feels then I made one. It's dog shit, having to clock a skill to go into a stance of sorts then fire that way until you switch to another feels so bad.
Galvanic: ruclips.net/video/wCN42bJn1ZU/видео.html
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00:00 Introduction
00:09 PoE2 Drops
00:27 Mercenary Class
00:59 Leveling Builds
01:27 Class Fantasy
02:55 Build Diversity
04:10 The Crossbow
05:43 Crossbow Shot
06:14 Early Skills
07:23 Tips & Tricks
11:43 Dual Crossbows
Reloading with Xbox Elite controller feels so good. Using right trigger to fire and paddle buttons to switch ammo.
Also, Glacial bolt melts large enemies (90% of bosses). Add Double Barrel and Scattershot to it and watch damage, stun, and freeze make bosses easier than regular rare enemies.
You are a goddman hero sir!
What gems do you recommend for it?
Thx for the combo tip, I love that skill. Also for some reason it bounces off walls ( 1 out of 5 times ). Still have no clue what skill/armor/gem that triggers... But this is my main anti-group skill.❤
Big bosses specifically. All the shards generate inside the mob and break so it dose 100% of theoretical damage. For small bosses it get way less but some boss will actually get trapped by the walls and if your aoe is big enough you can just dps them safely behind the walls and if.
@@Phonafied I started with Double Barrel and Scatter Shot.
One thing I will add , having played only half of the classes, more than any other class mercenary feels like the one that the two weapon skill set were built to accommodate. Having one weapon with some life regen and lots of easy one button group and then have a second crossbow with a ton of single target damage for the oceans of hp pretending to be bosses.
Does anybody have any tips for why the crossbow takes a while to shoot? Its very inconsistent for mesometimes i have to press a different ammo type for it to start shootin. Im dying to the count boss because im holding down ro shoot and nothing happens
Roll timer stops ur reload then u try to shoot and it doesn’t always register
Instead of pressing the shoot button to “reload”, just press the reload button when your done with your last shot. I had same issue where after my last bolt shot, if I kept pressing the shoot button my character would be stuck on a “reload” animation everytime I press shoot. Just press reload and wait and shoot
I am a long time ARPG fan and always wondered why they do not have WASD gameplay available for ranged classes, and POE2 finally did it. This game feels SO GOOD on WASD movement and merc.
Merc feels great. What d3 coulda shoulda woulda been
Yea gives it the same smooth feeling as Minecraft Legends.
Drybear your vids are top tier 🫡
Thank you!
Your merc is too good, they nerfed railgun already 😢
Could we get a league starter ascendancy tier list?
Railgun is still good, im playing it
What about railgun was nerfed?
@@raylee7951 Think I was mistaken, they said they nerfed the mercenary 1 shot boss build, I assumed it was this
@@raylee7951 my bad it was snipe not railgun
Wooow wait hold on a second Drybear, i think you cooked like crazy..
Double Crossbow.. why didn't i think of this?
I do have 2 juiced up, one with +3 on all Projectile Abilities and a almost same strong Crossbow.
I will definitely play around with this!
Do you know if you can override the 1 support gem limit when you use 2 weapons?
(i'll go Legionnaire anyways but still)
Probably because you shouldn't have to do that to 'fix' a mechanic that isn't great.
Me, I'll stay with hammer for the armor break move.
Only just started the video so not sure if it gets covered, but I'm playing a non-merc merc... i like the ascendancy and proximity to weapon switching nodes, im going for a Robin hood style reg bow/quarterstaff build and think the witch hunter extra weapon passives or double gem slotting from either ascendancy will work well for blending two weapons.
Any other non-xbow mercs just here for the ascendencies?
My lightning arrow gemling legionnaire is a blast to play. Im running xbow offhand for envenom/corrosive ripwire ballista but once i have the spirit to use them ill be looking into other minions
1:45 I completely disagree. I think the reload mechanic feels SO GOOD on merc, and I like the feeling of reloading and letting my charges build up before fights. It felt like I was preparing for a fight and strategizing with my ammo, and that is exactly what is needed to make a merc feel like a merc and not just a merc themed Sorcerer like in other games.
The sounds are SO good, too. Even if they don't sound like a Crossbow :P
@@DrybearGamers The sound design in general is so good in this game. The abilities on all classes sound so impactful and violent
Explosive shot is very good too. Especially with gas grenades
The reload speed really annoyed me in early game but boy am I glad we can switch back and forth like that!
Im using a bow as my 2nd weapon for the backflip 😎
i can actually recommend an build where you focus on the dhrapnell shotgun with some stunn buildup multpliers you can insta stun enemys and often stun bosses the damage is also good you just need to find an weapon with high flat damage i like to combo it with some nades and an ballistas
when it came to finishing bosses of the most powerful toons i saw where necromancers sorcs and monk slowest was barb merc ranger
I feel like I just watched a Mass Effect tutorial with reload canceling and combo tricks.
This video is pure finesse.
Awesome video thanks man
You bet!
Never thought about double crossbows lol
they just need to shorten the reload animation all .. together at the earlier lvls... maybe having heavier crossbows at later lvls needing longer reload ... or having light crossbows and heavy crossbows
I’m having trouble getting the portal. I have everything else, but it doesn’t show up on my Twitch game drops under poe . Can you help me out?
Portal drops start later tonight, you're all set for now!
Yeh the standing there getting mobbed swapping between bow and then roll and then reload
I would die in the middle of reloading
Some bosses I would waste 2 cycles of my turn damage between swapping ammo reloading then finally bursting my shots and then doing it again
Very useful
But it's not just the loading of ammo, but how you need to change it, then use a different button that's an issue. Consider this basic setup...
Standard class/weapon
Left = main attack
Right = alt/special
In a standard rotation you could be like: LM, LM, LM, RM
That triggers 4 abilities for 4 presses.
The issue with mercenary IMO is that same sequence requires 3 buttons and looks like: LM, LM, LM, Load B, LM, Load A
So that's then 6 buttons for 4 abilities.
Not to mention that becomes confusing in that you are using the same left mouse click for multiple abilities. Which maybe isn't an issue for someone who has only ever played Merc with crossbow, but no other skills in PoE 2 or 1 work like that. It's extremely counter intiutiive.
IMO they REALLY need an option to have it set up as standard, where you press the ability button it triggers the ability. I'd love to have 3 different kind of ammunitions, but it's just way too confusing to me (after 250 hrs in PoE 1 and 30 among different char in PoE 2).
Having an option would be great. It took some getting used to for me
It's definitely a new mechanic and took some getting use to. But now that I'm use to it, I quite enjoy it because it feels like playing an FPS but from a 3rd person ARPG perspective and I'm having a blast.
New update broke my current mercenary, I literally do up to 20 damage against enemies 😂
I'd really like to see an ammo count somewhere for the merc.
It's displayed on the ability itself
FFS...I never noticed it until you pointed it out.
Wasn't there supposed to be crossbow attachments? What happened to that?
Cut and moved to gems
@SpottedHares damn fr? I was really looking forward to that
does anyone else think the chimera pet is on like 1.5 speed or something? its movements seem very twitchy.. he reminds me of overclocking in the old days and the game would run and Xspeed
No bows?
I’ve beat the campaign with basic bolt fyi
Im strugling with single dmg on bosses...playing with galvanic and following ur guide, but need some help for single boss like on lab. Some tips pleeess
Make sure you have an up to date Bow and are using maximum Lightning Rods on the boss. Also roll Elemental Damage on your Crossbow, and update the levels on your gems
Granted I only got my mercenary up to level 4 or 5, but the whole load, reload, switch ammo thing is overly involved and unnecessarily unintuitive. Yes, I am sure that if I wanted to play in an uncomfortable and not fun manner just to “get used to it”, that would happen eventually. But I don’t really feel like grinding it out and feeling like I don’t want to play that style of control just to hope to not mind it so much when I can just play more “standard” classes instead. It’s a shame because Merc was my first choice and if all the characters had this mechanic, I wouldn’t have played much at all.
Edit: I did "force myself" to play more on the merc tonight. I set reload to the right mouse button. Starting off easy with the default attack buffed by a chance to poison gem and one that makes the poison deplete armor. Grabbed the grenade skill and I off to a pretty good start.
It makes total sense for a merc to have more than one crossbow...im an idiot.
Wait until you realize one for bolts and one for nades, and use weapon passive skill points accordingly
My crossbow sends an extra grenade :))))
I haven't seen much monk content...
I miss the old 'he.e.e.e.y it's drybear'.... just saying
I like Merc but it makes no sense that a crossbow sounds and function like a gun… why not just make the weapon a gun in the first place.
Buddy it's a world of demons and magic who cares
Merc is mid tier as far as power goes.
To me the mercenary sucks. Unless they change the reload BS and the auto aiming on controller.
Put in a lot of hours not thinking how to utilize two xBows. Now my life is changed! Thanks
Everyone talked about how good this character feels then I made one. It's dog shit, having to clock a skill to go into a stance of sorts then fire that way until you switch to another feels so bad.
No one talkin about rapid shot huh? Good maybe It wont be nerfed for a while
I love Rapid Shot with Grenades, personally
I tried theory crafting a rapid shot build, make it like a gatling gun... but i can't think of one that works well 😭
its useless to do 2 crossbow since u can one shot everything in maps and bosses are ez to kill with lightning build
Terrible advice in my genuine opinion