eth bugged fort
eth ca 390ed obedience or eth gp 415ed ebotd
eth ral andys
Eth bugged Fortitude is a very nice armor if I could manage to get myself a Lo. In the meantime I was thinking of maybe making the runeword Duress. Um rune seems like it might be a tad bit easier to obtain.
Never thought about Obedience because as an mf sorceress I need the meditation from Insight to help with my mana regeneration since I'm teleporting so much. And BotD being a nice runeword and such...I doubt very much I'll be able to obtain the necessary runewords before Diablo 3 comes out.
Now as far as unique items go...well...I suppose an ethereal upped shaftstop isn't so bad. Ethereal Gladiator's Bane seems to have some appeal as well. Anyone have any other suggestions?
Also...it's been suggested to me that act 2 merc's are considered to be paladins. Does that mean that a merc would benefit from the +1 skills that come on Guardian Angel? Or by any other +1 pally items he may have equipped?
You could just get the Unique Duress. It's so common it's basically free, and it's the same thing
Also...it's been suggested to me that act 2 merc's are considered to be paladins. Does that mean that a merc would benefit from the +1 skills that come on Guardian Angel? Or by any other +1 pally items he may have equipped?
My frenzy barb is nearly invincible and does more than enough damage to necessitate a merc dealing damage. But his style of play is to go into a giant mob of monsters and kick butt. While my barb will be fine sometimes my merc could die, so I gave him an ber'd up'd eth shaftstop with a double ber'd CoA. So that he gets huge damage reduction. Also, he has the reapers toll thresher which has a 33% chance to cast decripify so that my barb can rip through phys immunes.
My necro's merc uses an insight so my necro has unlimited mana.
Tell me what char you are building the merc around so I can assist.
My frenzy barb is nearly invincible and does more than enough damage to necessitate a merc dealing damage. But his style of play is to go into a giant mob of monsters and kick butt. While my barb will be fine sometimes my merc could die, so I gave him an ber'd up'd eth shaftstop with a double ber'd CoA. So that he gets huge damage reduction. Also, he has the reapers toll thresher which has a 33% chance to cast decripify so that my barb can rip through phys immunes.
My necro's merc uses an insight so my necro has unlimited mana.
Tell me what char you are building the merc around so I can assist.
I have an act 2 nightmare offensive merc for my blizzard sorc. I had debated about getting a defensive or even maybe an holy freeze merc...but eventually settled on a might since I'd be relying on him to be killing the cold immunes in Hell. I'm sure that any merc would be capable of killing in hell given the right gear...but I wanted one to do it a bit faster.
Eth fortitude preferably bugged for the +50% to defense glitch.
Before I was able to get an eth bugged one made I traded for a hellforge plate or something and that seemed to work fine for my needs. If your merc dies alot teleport more to keep him by your side.
Don't laugh if you know this but if you hold shift+health potion number it goes to merc. i.e. shift+1=merc healing. lol seriously so many people I have met didn't know this simple thing.
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I have an act 2 nightmare offensive merc for my blizzard sorc. I had debated about getting a defensive or even maybe an holy freeze merc...but eventually settled on a might since I'd be relying on him to be killing the cold immunes in Hell. I'm sure that any merc would be capable of killing in hell given the right gear...but I wanted one to do it a bit faster.
1. Does your sorc have any "lower enemy cold resistance" gear. In fact tell me all your sorcs gear.
2. Are you entirely cold, or do you have any back up fire or lightning skills.
You have some good ideas, but I want to make sure your merc is truly covernig ground left open by your sorc.
1. Does your sorc have any "lower enemy cold resistance" gear. In fact tell me all your sorcs gear.
No. I'm getting gear as I find them and trade for them. Slowly but surely.
current gear: (from memory)
Shako with ptopaz
Tal's armor with ptopaz
Occulus
Spirit Monarch
2 x nagels
eth war travs 48 (have non eth 39% in stash)
Chance guards
When I do Baal runs I switch out the nagels for manal heals, swap chancies for magefists and swap war travs for silkweaves.
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2. Are you entirely cold, or do you have any back up fire or lightning skills.
Entirely cold. No backup.
Just hit 90 yesterday. Maxed out Ice bolt, Ice blast, Galactic spike, and Blizzard. Rest of points are going into cold mastery.
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You have some good ideas, but I want to make sure your merc is truly covernig ground left open by your sorc.
I finally made a fortitude yesterday for my merc. I had found an ethereal great Hauberk and got 4 sockets when using the cube recipe. That coupled with Andy's Visage and eth CV Insight keep him going fairly nice. Only have problems he had are against certain mobs that deal fire damage.
I finally made a fortitude yesterday for my merc. I had found an ethereal great Hauberk and got 4 sockets when using the cube recipe. That coupled with Andy's Visage and eth CV Insight keep him going fairly nice. Only have problems he had are against certain mobs that deal fire damage.
Socket his andy's visage and put a ral rune in it to negate the -30 to fire res that andy's has.
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The blind mind's eye replies with a sigh and a tear of contempt for those who see the world as it truly is.
No. I'm getting gear as I find them and trade for them. Slowly but surely.
current gear: (from memory)
Shako with ptopaz
Tal's armor with ptopaz
Occulus
Spirit Monarch
2 x nagels
eth war travs 48 (have non eth 39% in stash)
Chance guards
When I do Baal runs I switch out the nagels for manal heals, swap chancies for magefists and swap war travs for silkweaves.
Entirely cold. No backup.
Just hit 90 yesterday. Maxed out Ice bolt, Ice blast, Galactic spike, and Blizzard. Rest of points are going into cold mastery.
I finally made a fortitude yesterday for my merc. I had found an ethereal great Hauberk and got 4 sockets when using the cube recipe. That coupled with Andy's Visage and eth CV Insight keep him going fairly nice. Only have problems he had are against certain mobs that deal fire damage.
Hmmm. Well it seems like your sorc is built for mfing and not really a general PvM character. Are you going to just be running Meph, because if so, your merc wouldn't need to have top notch gear, just enough to manage Meph until your blizzard tears him to shreads. You have a couple of options here (I've never built a blizz sorc before so if someone could back me up it would be appreciated).
1. Wep: If mana isn't a problem I might recommend infinity, it won't break cold immunes, but it will make killing meph (or baal if your with party, because you won't be able to solo baal runs) a hell of a lot easier. However, insight is very nice because essentially you have unlimited mana.
2. Armor: Your choice really, fort is very nice.
3. Helm: Andy's Visage is very good, enemies that deal fire won't be much of a problem unless your running trav or baal by yourself, (but you really shouldn't be able to anyway.)
Good luck, this is just my opinion so make sure you get a second one before you do anything crazy
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Andariel's Visage
eth Insight Colossus Voulge
Duriel's Cuirass
Looking for a list of top 5 contenders. Runewords, Uniques etc.etc...and perhaps a brief description of why you placed them in the order that you did.
I'm finding now that if my merc can have a bit better survivability, I may be able to start doing hell Baal runs solo.
Thanks for taking the time to read this.
eth ca 390ed obedience or eth gp 415ed ebotd
eth ral andys
Eth bugged Fortitude is a very nice armor if I could manage to get myself a Lo. In the meantime I was thinking of maybe making the runeword Duress. Um rune seems like it might be a tad bit easier to obtain.
Never thought about Obedience because as an mf sorceress I need the meditation from Insight to help with my mana regeneration since I'm teleporting so much. And BotD being a nice runeword and such...I doubt very much I'll be able to obtain the necessary runewords before Diablo 3 comes out.
Now as far as unique items go...well...I suppose an ethereal upped shaftstop isn't so bad. Ethereal Gladiator's Bane seems to have some appeal as well. Anyone have any other suggestions?
Also...it's been suggested to me that act 2 merc's are considered to be paladins. Does that mean that a merc would benefit from the +1 skills that come on Guardian Angel? Or by any other +1 pally items he may have equipped?
No sir
Are you referring to Duriel's Cuirass? If so my merc is already wearing one. It's not ethereal but it's the best I have at the moment.
andy visage or guillaume's face(however u spell that)
eth fort
infinity
for my hammerdin i used the following
guillaume's face
eth fort
insight
My frenzy barb is nearly invincible and does more than enough damage to necessitate a merc dealing damage. But his style of play is to go into a giant mob of monsters and kick butt. While my barb will be fine sometimes my merc could die, so I gave him an ber'd up'd eth shaftstop with a double ber'd CoA. So that he gets huge damage reduction. Also, he has the reapers toll thresher which has a 33% chance to cast decripify so that my barb can rip through phys immunes.
My necro's merc uses an insight so my necro has unlimited mana.
Tell me what char you are building the merc around so I can assist.
Yep, that's what I was saying
ummmm that is a complete waste of a ebug fort...
I have an act 2 nightmare offensive merc for my blizzard sorc. I had debated about getting a defensive or even maybe an holy freeze merc...but eventually settled on a might since I'd be relying on him to be killing the cold immunes in Hell. I'm sure that any merc would be capable of killing in hell given the right gear...but I wanted one to do it a bit faster.
Eth fortitude preferably bugged for the +50% to defense glitch.
Before I was able to get an eth bugged one made I traded for a hellforge plate or something and that seemed to work fine for my needs. If your merc dies alot teleport more to keep him by your side.
Don't laugh if you know this but if you hold shift+health potion number it goes to merc. i.e. shift+1=merc healing. lol seriously so many people I have met didn't know this simple thing.
1. Does your sorc have any "lower enemy cold resistance" gear. In fact tell me all your sorcs gear.
2. Are you entirely cold, or do you have any back up fire or lightning skills.
You have some good ideas, but I want to make sure your merc is truly covernig ground left open by your sorc.
No. I'm getting gear as I find them and trade for them. Slowly but surely.
current gear: (from memory)
Shako with ptopaz
Tal's armor with ptopaz
Occulus
Spirit Monarch
2 x nagels
eth war travs 48 (have non eth 39% in stash)
Chance guards
When I do Baal runs I switch out the nagels for manal heals, swap chancies for magefists and swap war travs for silkweaves.
Entirely cold. No backup.
Just hit 90 yesterday. Maxed out Ice bolt, Ice blast, Galactic spike, and Blizzard. Rest of points are going into cold mastery.
I finally made a fortitude yesterday for my merc. I had found an ethereal great Hauberk and got 4 sockets when using the cube recipe. That coupled with Andy's Visage and eth CV Insight keep him going fairly nice. Only have problems he had are against certain mobs that deal fire damage.
It's Glacial Spike
how is that a waste? explain
I know...I saw someone say that once and thought it so funny I decided to use it. I find it's good for a chuckle.
Socket his andy's visage and put a ral rune in it to negate the -30 to fire res that andy's has.
Hmmm. Well it seems like your sorc is built for mfing and not really a general PvM character. Are you going to just be running Meph, because if so, your merc wouldn't need to have top notch gear, just enough to manage Meph until your blizzard tears him to shreads. You have a couple of options here (I've never built a blizz sorc before so if someone could back me up it would be appreciated).
1. Wep: If mana isn't a problem I might recommend infinity, it won't break cold immunes, but it will make killing meph (or baal if your with party, because you won't be able to solo baal runs) a hell of a lot easier. However, insight is very nice because essentially you have unlimited mana.
2. Armor: Your choice really, fort is very nice.
3. Helm: Andy's Visage is very good, enemies that deal fire won't be much of a problem unless your running trav or baal by yourself, (but you really shouldn't be able to anyway.)
Good luck, this is just my opinion so make sure you get a second one before you do anything crazy