Disambiguation:#1 - Crushing Blow:These shots inflict a percentage of the opponent's life, and are especially effective against bosses and ubers.
#2 - Open Wounds:This damage works over time, and prevent the ubers from recovering life points.
#3 - Deadly Strike:These shots deal twice as much damage as usual, and are especially useful in
pvp.
Mercenary:#Option 1:Tomb Reaver socketed with 3 * Ber Rune.
Guillaume's face socketed with 40/15 jewel.
Eth Fortitude 3-4k defense.
This equipment allows the mercenary to inflict 95% of crushing blow, which is particularly effective against Baal.
It's probably the best weapon to kill Baal.
This weapon gives extra damage to
Undead, and it will be even more effective at act 4, because there are more undeads there.
https://diablo.gamepedia.com/Monster_Types_(Diablo_II)#Undead#Option 2:Infinity
Guillaume's face socketed with 40/15 jewel.
Eth Fortitude 3-4k defense.
Infinity is a very good weapon, because
Conviction aura reduces both the defense and the resistances of the enemies.
Conviction level 12 applies -85% resistance & -83% defense to the enemies.
Corpse Explosion does 50% Physical damage and 50% Fire damage.
Infinity is probably the best weapon to quickly eliminate the waves.
https://diablo.gamepedia.com/Conviction_(Diablo_II)http://diablo.wikia.com/wiki/Corpse_Explosion#Option 3:Rare spear / polearm socketed with 2 * Lo Rune.
Guillaume's face socketed with 40/15 jewel.
160 60 100 armor (160 enhanced damage, 60 increased attack speed, 100 life)
This equipment is probably the best for
pvp.
Note that your mercenary does not have life leech, but his high defense & high resistance should keep him alive.
This post was edited by Chevaucheur on Feb 12 2018 02:08pm