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Surely for a Necro summoner you'd want a light merc? Also if I can ask: if I hold beast, does this mean my infinity g face might merc should use treachery instead of coh? I will have ias from beast...I will check thresher/ cryptic axe infinity breakpoints again...

* I mean might. Not light... It's hard typing on iPhone

Ive just checked out the weapon speed calculator. Wow, I think the best combination is g face, treachery and infinity in a giant thresher. It hits the max act2 merc jab skill breakpoint, so boss killing/getting that first body for summoning is better. Unfortunately it won't have life leech... Hmm I must find a way to fix this... Back to the drawing board...

Andy's IAS'd + treachery also hits the 75% bp.

I'm sad to see you don't recommend act V mercs for any pvm chars

My ww barb absolutely loves having my merc tank around. Since ww cannot proc life tap, having an eth last wish cb + fort + guiluames on my merc is my only real option to keep it up consistently. Often times vs bosses I simply stand there and watch my merc with 100% cb destroy them

I'd take a might r-toll merc for a ww barb over an a5 merc.

Nice idea in principle MatedeVita, but If I use andys, I will lose the cb Although I will give your suggestion a try...

Although I suspect that if I did attempt to use andys face with this setup:

Andys face (+ ias jewel) + Treachery + Infinity

It would lose to:

G face + CoH + Infinity.

I say "suspect". I'm not sure at this moment. So I will test it and see what happens...the great thing about this game is...what looks good and expensive on paper, when tested; isn't necessarily what I expect.

I will test the treachery v coh idea further and see how this goes.

I mean in principle; take the example above with the act 5 merc. His attack speed, is less than the act 2 merc jab skill. So...lets ask John.L...

How long does it take your merc to kill baal in an 8 player game? He may have 100% cb (lw/fort/g face) v. bosses, but how often/quickly does he connect with his attacks? I assume you use the battle cry (if yes, what level?) to lower enemy defence here.

I'm wondering how 100% cb on an act 5 merc compares to 75% cb on an act 2 jab skill might merc...with infinity in a giant thresher, plus g face (socketed with an ias jewel) and treachery (45% ias + 20% fhr). This meets the maximum attack speed breakpoint IF I use beast.

If I had a ww barb, I may also lean towards MatedeVitas suggestion of an act 2 merc with reapers toll...

If you have wealth to spare, I wonder how this compares, to a brand bow runeword wielding act 1 rogue merc? I should imagine you would have no problems in having amp dmg to cast, but I wonder if you can keep your rogue merc alive long enough to benefit without enigma to teleport her to safety - probably not I guess.

When I saw your post I immediately thought of an act 2 might merc with pride to boost your ww damage...however its very hard to suggest these things because we don't know what your barb uses...(?)

Before we continue to suggest stuff, what IS your barb gear?

This post was edited by megaduels on Nov 28 2010 02:35pm