Mercenary Aura choice

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When playing on Nightmare, am I forced to use either Thorns, Might or Freezing Aura from the Act 2 Mercs? I’d like to use a Defiance Merc for Nghtmare but when I go back and hire one from Normal, his Aura changes to Thorns when I switch back to Nightmare. Any way to avoid this and have a Defiance Merc for Nightmare?

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Its the tooltip in merc character sheet that is bugged, not the aura itself. Im using defiance on all difficulties.

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Just keep the defiance one you got from normal, the aura should be fine. afaik the merc menu is bugged and shows the wrong aura.

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Wow thanks guys. So this bug has been there forever and they just didn’t bother fixing it?!?

I guess it’s a time to ask the question…what’s the best Merc for a Blizz Sorc and a Wind Drood?

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Nah, bug is introduced in d2r. It’s not a big deal though. Just take your merc out and have him fight some monsters, you’ll see he activates defiance as he should.

edit: for a sorc I’d go for prayer, since you can teleport and take him to safety and don’t really need the defence.
Wind druid, I’d try defiance if you don’t use enigma, but that’s just my preference. holy freeze would work as well

edit2: if you don’t really need the aura you can consider taking an act 5 barb. they’re pretty tanky

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Wind druid I would say might for sure if have some points put into summons as meat shields and he himself already adds cold. Sorceress, depends how often you still get ambushed I would say.

Another question from me though, has anyone tried a third act merc with Dream runeword on helm and shield and crescent on weapon. Does that work or is fact he uses magic attack, means he does not hit so crescent is useless on him?

Could see that being fun if does work both on a trap sin or as a lightning damage dealer for a build that has no lightning damage itself.

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yes, he is a caster and you should put caster gear on act 3 mercs. Spirit, shako, that stuff.

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Thanks I already suspected as much. just the temptation of lessening lightning resistance with a level30 shock aura on him made me greedy and hope. :stuck_out_tongue:

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