Taunt also forces mobs into their melee attacks, making enemy casters/archers worthless.

+1

It's still pretty useless if all an a5 merc is good for is trying to keep himself alive. Taunt is also a single taget skill 😞 His survivability would be fine with eth headstriker and Andies.

Meh.

I did not know taunt was single target, I figured it was similar to other warcries, thanks for the knowledge!

Would be nice if it had crushing blow or something

If they want to make a5 mercs more attactive. They need to make rws exclusively for barb helms that ctc skills like warcry, battle cry, and item find. That would actually make them competitive to a2 mercs but devs don't actually play the game so we're kind f*cked. 🤷‍♂️

Imagine an a5 merc helm has 10% ctc lvl 1 wc on striking, or 5% ctc lvl 5 item find on striking. Not op, but pretty appealing compared to an a2 merc.

taunt + monster flee = monster doing nothing
wont work vs uniques and bosses, but still gets -39% to dmg and AR (so this is a very defensive oriented item)

What I want to know is have llama and dbrunski made a video about it yet?

I think you already know the answer to that 🤣

they said in the stream they wanted to introduce midlevel runewords