Is there any way of putting ur merc on “passive”?
Playing on Hell and he just dies way to often in certain situations. I dont know how many million golds i’ve spent rezzing him.
He’s lvl 79 with insight (act 2 merc)…how about helm and body armor??
To increase survivability I recommend Treachery as armour and a helm with life steal…ideally a andy visage with a ral socketed in(andy has -30fire res) but any helm with good LL is good(Vampire Gaze, Tal Mask). You could switch from Insight(if you can deal with the lack of mana regen) to a Reaper’s Toll(ideally Eth) for a huge damage boost. I actually run for a while in solo play with a merc with normal Reaper’s, Treachery and a Kira with great success. When I transitioned to playing in +3/+5/+7 players game I felt the need for a damage boost and switched to Eth Reaper and Andy Visage and still Treachery, until I can afford a Fortitude.
I wish there was. Mine’s got Insight, Vampire helm and Treachery and that dude still faceplants all the time.
Gotta babysit your merc pretty hard in Hell.
With a reaper toll…due to the high LL and attack speed it will increase his survivability. Don’t forget to feed him a potion from time to time and reposition him with teleport.
My guess is he needs the mana regen from insight
Indeed…I forgot to mention that he can transition into reapers when he doesn’t need to rely on insight.
The only way i know to control him is to use teleport so he gets out of stupid situations. Though I’ve heard of niches like using stairs down to durance of hate when doing the council. But as others have said resistances and life steal is really important for a merc, remember that life steal gets amplified with a high damage weapon.
Got a question here, is the Decrepify a huge boost to your overall damage (both yours and mercenary)? Im wondering wheter to change insight for reaper, if i can manage mana regen.
What’s your build? Reapers toll is a strong weapon mostly used to keep your merc alive longer, not really for the damage boost although it can break some immunities and it does increase physical damage taken.
At least, that’s my experience with the weapon. Overall if you can do without Insight there are a lot of options for your merc.
For the merc I use for my blizzsorc, transitioning from Insight to Reaper toll increased the survivability of my merc. After getting and eth reaper the extra damage really is noticeable.
As and example my act 2 might merc with eth reaper, treachery and Andy is able to solo kill Lord de Seis in about 5-15seconds during a chaos run in a 7+player game on Hell(depends with what modifiers he spawns and if he runs away and I need to chase him it can take up to 20-30sec) . And we are not talking about a gg gear merc.
Got a blizz sorc, and with eth insight, andy and trachery my merc is good enough both defence and damage wise.
Rolling a javazon atm, and since i dont have griffons and infinity, im looking for some extra dmg so i wonder if Decrepify debuff on monsters is better than the luxury of not worrying about mana regen.
They have improved the movement of the merc? the merc no longer sticks to walls, behind skeletons and seeks the fight?