Fortitude is a solid choice when you have Fanaticism, actually.
However, I also disagree with the Insight CV. Give him the Obedience so he at least has some CB.

"Treachery is simply better than Fortitude. In ~80% of all cases when raw damage is applied, and better in ALL cases in which CB is applied."

Mercs also do 50% less in normal, 65% less in nightmare and 75% less damage against bosses in hell.

Having big numbers does nothing good for you, I guess maybe against monsters such as fallens, where you don't really need the merc anyway.

Quick attacks with jab from a fast attacking polearm with CB and lower damage > Slow attacks with jab from a slow polearm with higher damage.

I don't understand why people still argue with this, it's not even close.

I'd give him the obedience thresher for higher damage and crushing blow and faster attack speed, do you have problems with mana?

ok i gave him now the obedience, for attack speed, higher max dmg, cb and now he got also full fire res.
but i dont need him vs bosses like baal or diablo, because i smite them down easily.
the only thing that could threaten me, is being overrun by several boss or champion packs at once, therefore i need a merc that does a lot of dmg.
i just read that the 75% less dmg is only vs act bosses and just a few more, like griswold and bloodraven.
as long as he hits with full power on champions and normal bosses, its just fine for me.
i got a second gulli, should i try that on him, or leave him the andy face?

This, and only ever, this.




Putting the Guille on him would be helpful for the mods it gives, but really will only benefit you if he has some life steal from somewhere else, and only on a way faster weapon than a CV. He desperately needs the IAS from the Andy, and would benefit way more with the IAS from Treachery. Even with him using the obedience, it's a CA and only has a base weapon speed of 10 faster than a CV. People who know the game only use a CA/CV because they are easily found. The best bases for merc weapons are undeniably a great thresher or thresher. IMO, any other base should only be viewed as a temp until either of this are found.

Short: he needs life leech, so unless you find an Eth Reaper's Toll or such, he will need the Andy. I almost wish you'd have used that Lo for anything else but that merc Fort. It's just bad all around.
At any rate, I still enjoy your walk! Keep plugging away for HRs and upgrades!

mhhh, i used ias calculator and with CV andy and fana, he hits 5 frames, with dresher obedience 4,5 and if i used dresher obedience with trechery he would hit 4 frames. does that make that much difference? if i wasnt a pally, having fana, i could imagine that trechery would be better, but this way i think he is fast enough. and the lvl 9 crit strike from insight gives him a 54% chance of doing double dmg.
and fortys chilling armor helps the merc vs his biggest enemy: missiles

dual essence



nice, eth, could up it for fun^^



third terror key
now i just need 2 more hate keys

one more



cute



meh, i want better charms

3x3 complete



here they are, and my few runes



i will try ut later, now its time to do sport.

This post was edited by ixwichs1 on Aug 10 2013 05:52am

so i went to collect the organs:



so izual is first



seems like i forgot to take screeny of the organ, anyway, lilith, the fight i fear most, was next