Patch Notes for 3.26.0c

GGG just released the 3.26.0c Patch Notes for PoE Mercenaries of Trarthus. This significantly reduces the damage of enemy Mercenaries, makes allied Mercenaries less durable, reduces Boss HP of the new pinnacle bosses and fixes plenty of bugs.

Key Takeaways

• Enemy Mercenary damage nerfed
• Allied Mercenary durability nerfed.
• The Cardinal of Fear, The Neglected Flame, and The Deceitful God have had their life reduced by 20%
• Bug fixed: Incarnation of Dread boss fight could not be completable in certain cases during the collect roses phase
• Various other fixes

3.26.0c Patch Notes

This patch contains balance changes to Mercenaries, notably adjusting the tankiness of allied Mercenaries, reducing the damage of their skills when fighting them in encounters, as well as a number of other improvements and bug fixes.

Mercenaries League

• Adjusted the inherent Damage Reduction on allied Mercenaries, so they take less damage at lower levels and more damage at higher levels. Enemy Mercenaries do not have hidden Damage Reduction with the exception of the Damage Reduction fall-off applied to unique monsters.
• Mitigation Ignore Support (and greater and lesser variants) can no longer appear on Mercenaries. Those on existing Mercenaries will be retained.
• Fixed Rain of Arrows of Saturation on Mercenaries firing far fewer arrows than intended.
• The following changes only apply to Enemy Mercenaries:
  
  • Critical Strike Multiplier Modifiers on Mercenary Equipment now apply at 50% of their value.
  • Power/Endurance/Frenzy charges on Mercenaries now use player values instead of monster values. (E.g. 50% increased Critical Strike Chance per Power Charge instead of 200%)
  • Reduced the damage of the following skills for Enemy Mercenaries: Absolution, Arc, Ball Lightning of Static, Bane, Blast Rain of Trarthus, Blight, Corrupted Blade Vortex of the Scythe, Creeping Frost Trap, Essence Drain of Wickedness, Exsanguinate, Flame Dash, Greater Flame Dash, Greater Shock Nova, Greater Soulrend, Greater Stormcall, Greater Vortex Trap, Holy Mortar, Molten Well, Reap, Shield Charge, Sigil of Power, Storm Call of Trarthus, Stormcall, Toxic Rain, Vaal Caustic Arrow, Vaal Flameblast, Vaal Molten Strike, Vaal Reap, Viper Strike, Vortex, Wrath.

Other Improvements and Fixes

• The Cardinal of Fear, The Neglected Flame, and The Deceitful God have had their life reduced by 20%.
• Raulf's reroll with high quality recruits button now costs 20,000 gold (from 24,000), to ensure it is more gold efficient for finding rank 5 workers.
• The Map Device Rucksack is now also shown on the map device used for accessing The Maven's Invitations and Memory Lines.
• Repeating the same map in a Memory Thread now penalises Item Quantity more, and cannot have Eldritch Influence.
• Disabled the following monsters as spectres as they are currently visually broken: Despair Remnant, Pain Remnant, Twisted Recollection, Eternal Regret, Feral Memory, Screaming Loneliness, Vicious Memory.
• Moved Johan in the Karui Shores to be next to Faustus near the waypoint and updated the quest description. This should make the Exploring Kingsmarch quest harder to accidentally miss.
• Unique items added to the core game in 3.26.0 (including those returning from Settlers of Kalguur) can now be selected for Voidborn Reliquary and Valdo's Puzzle Box submissions.
• Fixed a bug where the Incarnation of Dread boss fight could not be completable in certain cases during the collect roses phase.
• Fixed a bug where Incarnation of Dread's large beam could deal damage to players from behind the boss.
• Fixed a bug there the "Amount Offered" and "Total in Inventory" labels were not showing on currency item popups when holding Alt.
• Fixed the Kalandra's Touch Unique Ring not removing buffs granted by reflected modifiers when removing your other ring.
• Fixed the Refiner's Bargain Atlas Keystone not correctly applying the chance to convert items to Thaumaturgic Dust per item.
• Fixed the damage bonus from the Focused Channelling Support not applying correctly to the Storm Burst, Stormbind, and Winter Orb Skills.
• Fixed a bug where offerings from Queen's Hunger would persist after unequipping.
• Fixed bug where Toxic Tidings could not be put into the Divination Card Stash Tab.
• Fixed bug where Unset Rings could appear as a generated item for the Guff Crafting Spree.
• Fixed bug where Unique Talismans and Tinctures could appear as a generated items for the Leo Crafting Spree.
• Fixed a bug where Lost Shipments could give identical rewards.
• Fixed the Caster Mastery, for opening chests when you Cast a Spell, causing chests from Lost Shipments to be empty.
• Fixed a bug where Blight Ravaged maps were counting twice for Unreal Undertakings.
• Fixed a bug where Itemised Temples dropped when using Incursion Scarab of Timelines did not match the level of your current temple.
• Fixed a bug that could prevent players using Controllers from exiting a Heist.
• Fixed various cases where audio could play when the game was muted.
• Fixed an issue where players could be disconnected while their client is recovering from a GPU device crash.
• Fixed 3 client crashes.
• Fixed 4 instance crashes.

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The 3.26.0c Patch Notes for PoE Mercenaries of Trarthus significantly reduce the damage of enemy Mercenaries, fixes fringe abuse cases and various bugs. Looking for more news on Path of Exile 2 Patches or Hotfixes? Then head over to our Discord and select the Path of Exile 2 role in #roles to stay up to date with our content development. Stay sane, Exile!

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