I finally made a fortitude yesterday for my merc.

Rest of points are going into cold mastery. Maxed out Ice bolt, Ice blast, Galactic spike, and Blizzard. When I do Baal runs I switch out the nagels for manal heals, swap chancies for magefists and swap war travs for silkweaves. Slowly but surely.Įth war travs 48 (have non eth 39% in stash) I'm getting gear as I find them and trade for them.

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. 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 have an act 2 nightmare offensive merc for my blizzard sorc. Tell me what char you are building the merc around so I can assist. My necro's merc uses an insight so my necro has unlimited mana. Also, he has the reapers toll thresher which has a 33% chance to cast decripify so that my barb can rip through phys immunes. 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. But his style of play is to go into a giant mob of monsters and kick butt. My frenzy barb is nearly invincible and does more than enough damage to necessitate a merc dealing damage. Quote from 'Bloodlust_Fox' »The best depends on your character. 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? Anyone have any other suggestions?Īlso.it's been suggested to me that act 2 merc's are considered to be paladins.

Ethereal Gladiator's Bane seems to have some appeal as well. Now as far as unique items go.well.I suppose an ethereal upped shaftstop isn't so bad. 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. 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. Um rune seems like it might be a tad bit easier to obtain. In the meantime I was thinking of maybe making the runeword Duress. Eth ca 390ed obedience or eth gp 415ed ebotdĮth bugged Fortitude is a very nice armor if I could manage to get myself a Lo.

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