I'm actually running 125FCR Warlock with Enigma and Eth war pike Fortitude with nice Life and Mana leech.

I wanna know whats the best Hephasto - Merc combo for high dps.

Hephasto Holy Freeze - Cursed and Merc Might + Pride

or

Hephasto Might - Cursed with Merc Holy Freeze + Pride

Holy Freeze + Amp is bis for the demon.

Holy freeze or holy fire is best. Might sucks. You don't need more damage, but holy freeze chills everything for crowd control and instantly tags everything with amp.

Merc? Personally I use faith act 1 merc with freezing arrows, but merc really doesn't matter at all.
I've seen people using infinity Merc, insight Merc (if they're not wearing insight themselves), but the Merc is really flexible for an echolock.

This post was edited by Emiliaaa on Apr 1 2026 08:34am

I like conviction+cursed. that -def really helps with merc and demon hitting. Also helps out in a party when us brokies dont have infinity and enigma.

I should go HolyFreeze + Cursed as Hephasto

and Might, Pride as weapon for my Merc?

Got already mana leech so i dont need insight

insight on eth archon staff or elder staff has way higher min dmg and better dmg over forty or botd
also lvl 6 crit strike is 49%CS and stuck with let mastery in total u got over 80%CS wich cant be beaten by forty or botd even with HL amu
note that DS doesnt stuck with CS

with holy freeze + pride merc and hephisto with might and cruse u will get abit more dmg but sruggle with AMP CAST is same as fana hephisto he has to hit to cast AMP
might + pride merc and holy freeze + cruse haphisto is one of best combos
ofc best combo is with holy fire >> holy shock>holy freeze due to larger effect of amp dmg curse

This post was edited by al1as on Apr 1 2026 09:04am

cursed + holy freeze
might + pride

Insight is still better than fort, even if "you don't need mana".
Meditation is nice to have cuz you don't leech when you tele around.
And insight gives ~65% crit, fort only 20% (most of the dmg comes from the skill, not your weapon).

Insight is BiS
Fort would be the 4th best option, after obsession (2nd) and ondals (3rd)

Why would u want holy freeze to slow down monsters collapsing onto your es spam

Try an extra fast tz mod, you'll see that it's increasing your dps output

well i dunno what to do know ^^

Hephasto fana + Pride