if you howl and 1-2 shot the seal bosses, you would save something like 35 seconds over the mere frames you would save 1shotting everytime with the pride. Who likes chugging mana pots on a barb?

e: im not even sure pride boosts the magic dmg like hammerdin (i thought that was a bug)

This post was edited by dude_927 on Feb 6 2020 11:16am

i lold at insight barb mERC

Sanctuary aura is key on a barb bois, so u can tele lord de seis without getting deleted.

Why? Hmm?

My seal popping CS barbs always use insight merc. It makes for more efficient runs over time and saves you from mana burn which is the biggest risk and annoyance. I’ve tried reapers toll, pride, and a3 and a5 lawbringer mercs over the years. Insight is the most helpful overall.

Lawbringer comes in second because it’s sanctuary aura is obviously a cool safety feature but it’s a bit unnecessary due to Howl. And decrepify does nothing for zerk

Reapers toll and pride both have cold damage which results in shattered corpses which means way less corpse popping. For me that rules them out automatically.

when someone says "i lol @ your answer" you can pretty much end it there. Non arguments require no rebuttals.

Everything after the “why? Hmm?” Was mostly intended for the original poster

Just ignore every post made in this thread

From a guy who have made thousands of cs runs with cs barb/other chars https://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=76956337&f=161

answer is:

Forty (highest def base merc can wear)
gulimans (ias/ed for BP)
eth lawbringer legendsword (never tried if PB is actually better)

Reason why no treache: Merc will die time to time because no fade triggered and shit resist. With the setup above merc will basically never die.

Pb is better, but u said something about hitting ''too fast'' a while back I think. Griefing your howl or something I think.

This post was edited by Dorislol on Feb 6 2020 01:25pm

curious for a better explination on griefing the howl ?

my singer who is now a zerker cs barb has a2 might merc w/ reapers and treach. works fine, but at some point i will switch to lawbringer merc.
altho hes way far on the back burner and hardly played.

Proccing decrep too fast is all I can think of, but idk if that matters. I have never farmed CS as a barb so I can't tell. I think darra talked about it in a thread a very long time ago xD