Just curious if you followed through with this? I had a similar idea of experimenting with a lamprey circ with cham + 2x DtD/ias jewels for my Ebotd WP / Fort merc. Does CBF make a meaningful difference over the +skill/str of Andys?

cool dtd jewel ?

If I could edit the guide, I'd probably replace the endgame Andy option with 3os of Lamprey, with the caveat that you need some pretty sick jewels/Cham to make them better. It's more flexible for IAS breakpoints, etc.
I think Cham is 10/10 lovely. You can already try it in Andy's with CoH since you get super high Resists.

Can we please stop bumping this guide now? We've all seen it. It was me who first started suggesting using gavel of pain on swtich many years ago anyway, it's nothing new.

bump

Yea I ended up making this little guy, favorite current merc setup for me






I prefer this one to fort/ebotd war pike/eth andy with 40/15 I used to start

The only piece of gear that could be interesting that I haven't tried is a cham'ed Gface + x, but my current setup never dies so

good job buddy this is how it goes

cool guide

have you considered running frenzy with beast and lacerator to both proc amp reliably and give merc fanat?

I mean you can; issue is that you're not using GF/MF weapons, and the trigger isn't as reliable as Gavel either way.
If I wanted to make a DPS build I'd just go for a Zerker build with Grief/Beast, and have the Merc tag along.

At that point you either juice up the Merc so it can help you kill (unlikely to be worth much if you're the one smashing), or you give them Infinity so you don't need AR and you clear sub-35s anyway.