I am thinking about making a new weapon for farming the countess in hell, cause she has immunity to my two primary spells yet
I play a sorc with blaze and firewall as primary skill and frost orb for slowing down, so enemies get more hots from fire cause of slow movement and dmg against fire immune.
That said i was thinking to create a new runeword.
What do you think would better fit:
Heart of the oak with live boosting and ravens to pick her to death ?
Also has some resi as well.
Or memory which gives mana shild for protection and static field so you chop her liitle bye little till the amazon can shoot her to death.
Also bringing some live and magic dmg reduction.
Well for my build a tanking merc is not so preferable cause enemies should chasing me, running into the blaze stacked fires and die to them.
It was really funny gameplay yet.
My amazon merc has a bow with the runeword harmony doing 380-850 dmg or so.
but a little support here and there could not be harm could it ?
avtually i just found put throwing some gaspotions on the countess helpgs a lot to bring her down cause of poisening interups life replanishment.
thought i got some discussion out of the merc, can we maybe discuss a bit of which runeword could best help
despite of thois the countess dont want to drop runes higher then ral runes yet -.-
I’d make a dedicated Countess runner if I were you. A budget Charged Bolt/Frozen Orb build should do the trick.
1 point warmth/teleport, rest goes to maxing damage skills and their synergies.
Doesn’t need all the expensive stuff to be effective, merc can kill countess if she’s immune to both elements which happens sometimes.
Insight must do the job. If not, make Obedience. But if you have good base, it doesn’t matter. My merc has over 6k dmg with obedience in a decent base, kills countess in like 2 hits.
Upd. Didn’t see that you use act1 merc… id say trash her and hire Waheed. The guy knows his job
I really happy to see such experimental builds. It looks like countess is not your monster then.
HOTO will be very-very expensive to use (and, probably, slow). Also it is an expensive runeword (vex is not cheap).
Memory will not help a lot, because static field limited to 50% hp on hell and energy shield have many requirements to be effective.
You could try to buy simple +static field stave from Akara to check if it works for you first.
Once again, act 2 merc plays against my blazebuild, so i want no to change it to a act 2 merc. please give some arguments for the runewords i want to create
it is really funny to play. blazing the whole area with some fire and making some fire burned symbolds xD
despite actbosses are really fast down, like andariel chasing you and just dieing by running after you baal the groups bevore entering, just running to cerate stacked firefieldds where they would spawen and dieing instant.
However i have a stave with 2 sockets that also hast +2 staticfield on it.
Hmm the 50% cap is a bit of a drawback but otherwise maybe too strong in the first place.
So i want to give some update:
I am now lvl 77.
I bought i staff from Akara that gibes +3 lightningmastery, +2 Thunderstorm and a matching amulet with +3 lightning skills.
I also uptierted the armor of my merc to exaptional version.
Actually the countess is less a problem
Thank you for advice not thwowing away any runes so far.
Because it doesn’t matter. The merc can kill her easily. In 8 Player games you can help him with some statics.
And she is not really a good source for loot. She drops a lot lower runes.
Seems you already solved your dilemma. To be sure i never tried it, back playing since long time and never really played after 1.09 online (I know many love it, but I hated the addition of enigma to game :P) and only offline single player after. If I remember right though there is the dream runeword for helms and shields that together give a lvl 30 lightning aura and lowers lightning resistance on monsters and also a weapon runeword for sword that does same.
Now like I said I never tried it myself and others on this forum who have been playing ladder for years might well be able to tell why it would be bad and not work, but for anyone using a lightning merc from act 3 for countess runs that should work I suspect. if you do not want to go with the standard act 2 mercenary with infinity
baal the groups bevore entering, just running to cerate stacked firefieldds where they would spawen and dieing instant.
Make an Infinity Tresher.
