would be for speed with the crit/CB from Guillaume's. Always been the case if you're on Guillaume's.



I ran that combo as well for about 500~ runs in the past few months, and I think it's by far the best GFace setup, hands down. I'd still use CoH over Fort just for the occasional corpse pop, and it overcaps resists + increases the hit % a bit.
As far as pure efficiency goes (assuming cost isn't an issue), I'm starting to think a 6Lem + Beast offhand setup is ideal.

You can also run the Beast offhand setup in a GT/GFace setup, which bumps up the hit %, and you get max attack speed (6.25/sec instead of 5/sec without Beast): https://d2.maxroll.gg/d2planner/fq0106r3#21



My best times & efficiency though have all been with this setup: https://d2.maxroll.gg/d2planner/fq0106r3#3

Beast offhand on Barb
BOTD War Pike

Circlet with Visionary Mod + Strength, socketed with:
- Cham
- 15%IAS + 40% Damage to Demons

4os Archon Plate (24FHR) with roughly these 4 Jewels:
- 40% Damage to Demons/30%ED/Lightning Resist
- 40% Damage to Demons/30%ED/Fire Resist
- 40% Damage to Demons/30%ED/7%FHR
- 15%IAS + 40% Damage to Demons

It's very much a DIY setup, but it slaps. The hit chance is absurdly good.

Maybe relevant to your interests as well, but Blessed Aim merc has been absolutely stupid good on the GFace setup.

GFace is probably the most solid among the cheap options if you have LL somewhere; I don't think it's 100% optimal, but at this point, as you said, we're just splitting hairs.
One day I need to make a full addendum to this guide. I'm just so busy with shit these days.

Thanks a ton for the report on your setup. It's in line with what some other people have told me recently.

This post was edited by Exokek on Jun 11 2022 08:07am

interesting build exokek

atm iam running beast mode off with ebotd wp/forti/lamprey
is eth ariocs/coh/lamprey combo still better ?

or go ebotd gt/coh/lamprey ?

*and i agree this frozen effect from forti is sometimes rly annoying and less corpses ofc lol*

This post was edited by Spartacus160 on Jun 12 2022 05:06am

If you're using GT eBOTD/CoH with Beast you can try Cham'd GFace; you don't need the IAS from the extra socks in the circlet if you're using Beast.

This post was edited by Exokek on Jun 12 2022 05:07am

okay gotcha but without beast eth ariocs combo still king bin ?

As far as I'm concerned, Eth Arioc/CoH/3os circlet with 45IAS/120ED from Jewels + Cham is still top tier for non-Beast, yes.
GT eBOTD + Cham'd GFace as weapon/helm options is up there as well.

And then for Beast setups there's a ton of room for preference.
The clearspeed has been best for me on the War Pike/DIY setup, but it's also extremely impractical to make due to the armor needed.

Arioc's (Lo Rune) + Beast with DIY Armor/2os Circlet: https://d2.maxroll.gg/d2planner/fq0106r3#2
Arioc's (Lo Rune) + Beast with CoH/3os Circlet: https://d2.maxroll.gg/d2planner/fq0106r3#21
eBOTD Great Poleaxe + Beast, with CoH/2os Circlet: https://d2.maxroll.gg/d2planner/fq0106r3#4
eBOTD Giant Thresher + Beast, with GFace + CoH: https://d2.maxroll.gg/d2planner/fq0106r3#18
eBOTD War Pike + Beast with DIY Armor/2os Circlet: https://d2.maxroll.gg/d2planner/fq0106r3#3

All of these setups are going to clear at lightspeed; Beast just gives your Merc so much breathing room for attack speed & increases the % the Merc connects.
Hit % is one of the reasons why I value circlets with the visionary mod if I can help it.

This post was edited by Exokek on Jun 12 2022 05:20am

Can you explain why you prefer a 6 lem'd weapon > Ali baba with 2 lems? You lose about 200 EG for 90% MF. I'm not sure how much MF you have to begin with, but the build you provided in the first post shows a mere 241 - Adding 90ish MF seems to be worthwhile, no? The only reason I can imagine is you'd get to gold cap faster so you have more chances of gambling a good item, but you're lowering the chances of finding a good unique item while horking / killing. Additionally, I sometimes get a full inventory full of gold (currently level 89) using only 2k EG, so I'd imagine having 2.4k would make that occur more often

For pure goldfinding you want Lems. It's that stupid boring.

And yes, since the 2.4 patch changes the success rate on Find Item went up so much that you frequently have a full inventory. It makes hitting 300ish MF before 2400GF more valuable.

This post was edited by Exokek on Jun 12 2022 06:10am

thx gavel master

will try both non beast setups =)

my merc's DIY armor final setup coming along nicely
just need a 40DTD/30ED/High Lightning Resist jewel now

it seems in d2planner
a jewellers diadem of the atlas + 3x diamond jewel of fervor + thresher insight has most damage in coh builds
nvm chose wrong aura

This post was edited by wilhelmw on Jun 14 2022 12:28pm