Is this the new meta?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rf-N9wlsYfo&ab_channel=SmalpsGaming

Would love to hear your thoughts.

clickbait as discussed here:
https://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=102995669&f=87

Well the author's comment says it all:



Which translates roughly to: Mang's build is dogshit.

Most monsters at Hell difficulty will start with around 50 LR, so your DPS advantage is only slight. Whereas where it matters (broken light immune), self-wield Infinity has a DPS advantage.

Moreover, the massive -55% LR stack from Infy is effective from the first nova/static cast, whereas when your merc is carrying Infinity, you need to wait for the aura proc for the extra DPS oomph.

Lastly, Insight / Cure / Prayer combo on merc gives you massive survivability from 300 mana and 50 life regen per sec. The best I saw with Mang is 150 mana/sec. When you spam Nova at lvl 45, it burns 176 mana/sec, so you're quickly in the negative. RIP.

Good thoughts, I personally thought it would be more of a difference between them against 100 LR monsters, cause in every other resistance mangs got higher dps as I understood it. Now I dont know about the monsters light res in general, and as u meantion it if they start on 50 and many of them got more mb the difference is narrow dps advantage for mangs but then u loose the insight/cure/prayer merc combo + infinity triggers later.

About mana = You will get more points into warmth since u max ES earlier and u will have +5 skills in it, so as Ive understand it its more or less same regen as if u have insight merc but u will loose the life proc for sure.

Ty for this, going to read the thread!

No, the best case mana regen with Mang is 150., so half of what you get with Insight merc. And., you also miss out on life regen.