Quote (Twigy007 @ Sep 18 2022 05:50am)
Yes, they stack in 2.4 and will in 2.5 (for now) . I have one myself actually. I tired both holy light(dream)and holy fire(Dragon/HOJ). Only using Holy fire(dragon/HOJ/ coe faceted or flickering flame) will actually do more damage in 2.5. What are your plans? PvE? PVP? Are you using this merc on a pally? In order for the stacks to be affective I would definitely recommend making your main character a Pally, you can’t beat the conviction, resistance skills for fire/light along with holy fire/holy light to make it worth while investing the runes. Skills on just holy fire pump out almost twice the damage if using only a holy fire skill pally along with zeal points if your main character is going to be a pally. Please keep in mind the new meta shift for 2.5! I’m gonna test this holy fire merc with my fire sorc :). Maybe I’ll let ya know how it does. At this time just a merc with a complete holy dream/ dragon/ HOJ set up is not worth the investment , better off with act 5 or 2, or act 1 merc, depends on that char your using, and what you plan on doing.
It will not show but they actually stack for merc, and your main characters gear.. I’ve done both dream and HOJ, and just a holy fire gear to test it out pve both on my pally and merc geared) I enjoyed holy fire the most, and kept the holy fire pally along with holy fire merc all decked out. I was crazy enough to make everything on battle.net. The cost of dream In my opinion for merc and/or yourself is just not worth it for the damage. I was really disappointed with dream/HOJ combo on just merc, but also stacking with pally and merc.
In short, in my opinion and after testing -just save yourself some money and time and take the holy fire direction for merc and yourself. In the end, it’s twice as much damage, and way cheaper.
With the new patch launching oct 6th/7th, getting your hands on a fire resistant grand charm will make this build to super broken for PVM. Make sure to grab Sur boots to help with the - fire resistance. I guess you could have one fire and one lite gc if you run dual dream and dragon/HOJ on merc and/or yourself but than your resistances will be absolutely trash . It’s good to keep in mind with new patch these additions with the resistance grand charms will not work for pvp, only pvm.
Anyways hit me up if you have any questions, and make sure your bases can be used on your mercy.
Thanks for all this but I’m running a necro
Quote (SovietGhost @ Sep 20 2022 02:50pm)
You can, but... Try a act 2 might with infinity. You will never change again. Besides corpse explosion bonus (ce is 50% fire), conviction nukes enemies def. You will love it...
I made a golem out or a infinity. The -res and -def I wasn’t worried about. I just wanted to see how much I can stack and afk. My overall idea with this is to be able to play completely one handed (I have a newborn due in a couple months). So I’m playing with different setups to see how much raw damage I can get the summons to dish out without me requiring to pay much attention.
Quote (Twigy007 @ Sep 18 2022 06:54am)
With a summoner, it all depends on what main gear your running for merc to stack auras, and what you can afford and skills. For max end game damage in this case with no budget limits, I use eth pride on act 2 might merc, eth Andy’s, you’ll need the life tap with pride. The cherry on top is a metal golem made of beast for fanaticism. I’d try out psn/corp expo nerco next. You can still have summons, and reck everything 10 times faster for AOE with act 5 merc, using eth up strikers, or if ladder 1 striker, 1 plague.
For what I’m doing making a golem out of a beast is not to beneficial for me. It’s better to stack with conc/conv with Merc and golem then run the beast myself. I actually played around with a 15/2 faith and the results I got weren’t too bad.