Fun with dual reapers toll barb + a2 merc
so ive been in search of a barb and merc that survive and do decent damage at Hell Travencal. ive discovered that if my berserker barb weilds reapers toll and SO DOES my merc, decryptify curse is almost CONSTANTLY going. so the minions are moving 1 mile per hour and believe it or not , the 500 dmg from raepers on both myself and merc is not bad 0 keep in mind decryptify gives +50 % dmg which is massive besides slow down enemy considering i tallied up my grief pb damage from before and it was only double that at 1k. yes provided the weapon itself is regular attack speed vs very fast but for me, slow mob is worth it! having SO much fun

i actually wanna try this on a zeal pally. seems like it could work and be fun also!

This post was edited by themime on May 25 2025 05:13am

I like this. Man it would be cool to zee zeal pally with fana swinging that huge thresher with speed xD You must put a video of that ^^

But yes ... reaper's toll is a great weapon, probably the best in the game for many build options. I remember back in teh day, after taking some good long timeout.. i came back into it, and the first shenkrun i did in hell, he himself dropped a 99% perf ethereal reaper's toll. It was so cool.

But yes... only one tiny teeny little drawback in traviruns with the reaper's toll, is to crush corpses with ice effect. But, seriously, when runs are 1) Increased speed with 50%, and also if hardcore 2) Safety increased by 200% .... who's to complain over a few sweated icy corpses? Lose a little bit of horck but ... to me it's like, that's worth it. To use that cool weapon too. And just walk throught them like a pair with two huge lawnmowers in front ^^ It's cool.

I get the idea. It's cool. Maybe it would work on a zon too ....... like a tankzon with that one .... this season i am planning to test new ground, tankzon is one of my top contemplations, man if i find reaper's, it's going to be that + critical strike, lots of passive skills, zon would be immortal. The grim reaper as a female, now that's something cool right there.

But yes - i really want to see that pally zon swing stuff ^^ Zo cool ^^

thanks for reply

Thanks for making the post! I am really looking for inspiration for the leader reset, and really getting it. So that's very inspiring.

So, less damage vs faster damage because the single mob you are both attacking is slowed down at the same speed of Decrepify triggered by either your barb or your merc? Or are you saying that the Decrep stacks and they are slowed down more? You talking about mobs of monsters and not attacking a single monster with Berserk? Doesn't compute.

Hey if you are having fun with it, then great.

EDIT: did you calculate the Added Damage of Grief x by Berserk converting it into Magical damage? I am guessing you may have.

This post was edited by izParagonzi on May 25 2025 11:58am

zerk is magic dmg. your barb wont benefit from decrep

ive changed my gear over to my zeal pally.
stuck a doom berserker axe on him, and now
me and my merc both do a max of around 4500 dmg EACH.[before decrypt] ( his raw physiucal,. my zeal.)and cuz oh his reapers decryp, and the holy freeze coming from me,
the monsters are CONSTANTLY slowed down. its still really fun and does much better than my op barb. plus i have an unnecessary phoenix monarch on my pally
as a luxary added mana and life as the monstesr drop. no potting for me. and yes i can either sit there and watch my merc kil or i can help.
sometimes i do sometimes i dont. lol

im running 6 auras at the same time right now.
bramble plate on pally, thorns, holy freeze doom, meditation my monarch, might , my merc's passive aura, my player fanatacism, my merc's fire resist from his flickering flame helm

why bramble? its a decent amt of extra damage, as the coucil does do a lot of dmg we must all admit, it gets sent right back to them,
and also ive tried the +2 from enigma and honestly that only added like 200 extra damage cuz of + to my fanat so not rly worth it there.
neiether does my inv have + skils just gold find res and some life

This post was edited by themime on May 26 2025 06:42am

This reminds of the 1.09 day before new Season (Ladder) came out and they introduced 1.10 runewords to play with.

Well if Pheonix shouldn't be used with a Zealer, but all good, the other shield you should try is Exile... if your Zeal activates Life tap, even more golden, and you can also just have 1 base point to Redemption just to switch auras (Fana) to clear up corpses, good against those monsters that Revive fallen or Corpse explosion from Nihlathok. Or the basic Spirit pally shield for more res etc.

What is your helm? Dream to add lightning damage to your Zeal?... could try Dragon Shield for the fire aura... well I don't know anything about flickering flame helm. Have fun

Lol with freezing aura + decrypt ... would be so fun to see them xD I say they're slowed to about 90%. What about the bosses? xD Very fun thought ^^

Does "0 Chill Effect" still apply to Gloams, Souls and Dolls in D2;R? ... even though they are not immune to cold, they could not be frozen or slowed. I forgot if this still applied to Holy Freeze as well... if so, then only Decrepify speed would slow those monster types down. But again, I am thinking of LoD, maybe different in D2:R