I saw some people claiming that a Barb merc with 2x Plague swords, will be better than the act2 infinity merc for fire druid if you use a sunder charm. What do you think about it?

This post was edited by TCAvenger on Nov 9 2022 06:23am

those people would be wrong

check out this build courtesy of
notice the infinity merc


This post was edited by camopk on Nov 10 2022 12:30am

2x plague gives your merc 36% chance to cast level 12 lower resist when struck, which requires attacks to connect and -57% resists (-11% immune) to monsters in 12 radius around the attacker for 42 seconds, overwritten / mutually exclusive with other curses
infinity gives your merc a 100% chance to set in -85% resist (-17% immune) in 13.33 radius around your merc, every 2 seconsd

Not to mention infinity is a strong wep for direct damage as well ^^ Even got 40% CB

well you could do worse than plague frenzy barb but yeah its much better. But there's a whole lot less reason to care about merc damage output now that sunder gc exists, there isn't too much it can help with

Thx guys, what is the best way to get max fireres without Flickering Flame? Aldur's and my 34%fr Amulet are not enough. I need the SCs to get 75 lr. Would Coh and Flickering Flame be a good alternative instead of Fortitude and Andy on the merc? I need the SCs to get 75 lr.

This post was edited by TCAvenger on Nov 10 2022 07:50am

BTW, why didn't you use Phoenix?

Phoenix only gives -28% To Enemy Fire Resist.
Shield gives -20%efr AND +20%fire damage.

Yes, but you loose a lot of good stats of this shield.

Hard to beat that fat damage increase. Druid is not like sorc that has 300% fire damage from fire mastery.