Hey I am trying to prepare for a walkthrough, where merc has less of an impact, now act3 merc are generally pretty bad, but they can do some crowd control and certain runewords can be a boosts,
act1 is likely better in terms of actually doing dmg, but they also very much suck, unless geared up heavy, I could be wrong on this however, as the build I want to do, is going to be very
weak and I dont want merc to do any carrying, simply support, act3 would be easy, but also very limiting, act5 would be too strong as well.


Edit: this will be untwinked ofc, so huge limit on gears.

This post was edited by haloneya on Oct 13 2023 09:25am

a1 merc is pretty gg even just with rares on it. pretty easy to get WWS and gface too. havent played a3 merc much but had a cold one on a foh i played through nm. pretty strong but had to pot a lot cuz no leech.

if you dont want your merc to carry, play without merc

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Kind of depends on your character choice, but if you are set on using a merc but don't want it to do much, I'd recommend an act 3 fire merc for their enchant. Will be a huge boost to your AR if you are a physical attacking character. The other thing I can think of is an act 1 merc with the lowest possible damage base for an insight for a caster character. Huge mana support but not much DPS.

If you just want support, use a1 or a3 merc with just aura runewords, no dps

im not sure what kind of support you want from your merc if they cant deal any dmg

emotional support is important XD, that and they can still tank off some hits, I went with act3, some crowd control is still nice, also sometimes you can get some when struck mods for them to be helpful.

I'm curious what the question is

question has been answered, no need for more thanks.