You are right u hit 5.5, since you didnt list gear and i had to watch a video i missed the belt.

Also, I'm not american, I am Polish, living in Canada. Wtf is up with the hate comment against Americans anyways man? I used the word literally once. god forbid. Punish me for all my sins. fuck off.




This post was edited by Euxinus on Jul 14 2018 11:22am

Will be making one of these this weekend.
Much appreciated

That one went Slow as well... He got much higher res then my did, i was close to die vs meph a couple of time, but went way faster. He seems to miss a ias break as well as not triggering static and amp at the same time. And it took a while even after crushing blow "stopped working". He might not be using forti?

there is a build like this on youttube already except it only uses 1 lawbringer to proc decrep.

Mephisto is lightning immune, so Static is useless in that situation. Almost dying a few times against Mephisto doesn't sound too smart on hardcore, keep that in consideration.

Static only works down to 50% on hell, so having it in combination with crushing blow is pointless, especially at only 15% chance to cast. Static is good for general pvm, with Amp from another item or Decrepify from the merc. The radial damage works well on mobs considering kicks only target one enemy, the half hp means Death Sentry is more likely to kill on the 1st or 2nd explosion.

His build shows both an Amplify Damage and Life Tap setup with a few swap items, as a demonstration. It looks like he has a Lawbringer Phase Blade and possibly Atma's amulet in the stash too. It's best to use Amp 100% of the time imo, especially with how much life leech he had, his life at no point dropped lol.

I don't think his character was finished either, considering he hadn't socketed his helms or sorted his merc with Pride, Infinity or Reaper's.

Yours didn't go 'way faster', it's not mathematically possible, we're talking about fine margins, there's no need for hyperbole like I already said to Euxinus. There's no pride involved in this, nobody owns these builds we've talked about in this thread. They been made thousands of times before.

This post was edited by Marieusz on Jul 14 2018 02:29pm

MDR and PDR factor in before resistances (including physical resistance).
Not that it would change the world...





Leap attack allows you to jump further than Leap. It can be used here and there, in river / chaos sanctuary for example. And it adds a free attack after your leap, for a single point.

Battle cry is a free skill to use before your mercenary lands a succesful Decrepify hit. I usually use it on Diablo, waves and Ubers, with good results.
It's also a nice skill to share with a team (when no necromancer is at work).



Perfect Ettin Death shows (245-495) damage, 370 average, 100% deadly strike (740 base).
Perfect Grief phase blade is 437.5 average, ~91% double damage(deadly strike and critical strike combined) : 836 base.
That's 13% more damage (and leech).

In 8 players game, I would second Grief/Death setup. In less populated games, I strongly recommand 2 Griefs.

I agree that in a team with other mercenaries (and maybe some hammerdin), an act 2 merc is probably wasted for a frenzy barbarian.
But same can be true for an act1 faith merc, as soon as a bowazon joins your party (or other fanatism build). Why not trying to help with an uncommon mercenary in this case ? (something like defiance/holy freeze merc)

My idea is that such barbarian can handle areas alone while the other 7 people gather at Baal.
Having Decrepify on monsters that usually have 50%DR let your 50%CB with Grief have the same effect than your 100%CB with Death, and more than double regular damage and leech...

That's why I said it's not powerful

Order of application
1. PvP Penalty
2. Bone Armor and Cyclone Armor
3. Energy Shield
4. MDR / PDR
5. Resistances
6. % Absorb
7. Direct Absorb
8. MDR overflow

If a monster does 100 damage and you have 75 res, you lose 25 hp
With 15 MDR the monster will do 85, after 75 resistance you lose 21.25 hp

Therefore 15 MDR only reduces damage taken by about 3-4 as I said before. Even less so if you have more resistance. I often see people thinking SoE is good on Guardian Angel Smite builds when Verdungo's or something else would be far superior.

If MDR applied after resistance it would be extremely useful, like absorb.


Battle cry isn't worth casting at all, when you play this build you learn very quickly it has no use and doesn't impact anything.

This post was edited by Marieusz on Jul 14 2018 09:03pm

MDR is fine. There are a lot of situations (eg. Pit Lords in Chaos Sanctuary) where they are pumping out a lot of instances of small damage where MDR becomes more effective than resistances. If MDR and PDR applied after resistances, they would be broken and nobody would ever take damage again

Thanks for the credits.

Hit level 74 this morning.

Got: 2x death eth Ettins
Duress in gr. Hauberk
Gulli no sockets yet
String o ears
Laying on hands
Gores
Raven
Shitty life lees ring with some poison res
Highlords
Shit torch
Resist small charms

Act2 merc with might and obedience, tal mask, eth duress

Can solo hell with ease in player 1 games

Might have to sell my poisonmancer to get rest of gear, maybe first I level the baba a bit more - fun build so far thx mate

I can see how OP it will get with all gear and more levels//dam