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ill take that as a no


does treachery have ll?

does cure/flickering flame have ll?

does infinity have ll?

do you need your merc to have a lot of on-paper dps?

is that (often ridiculed) treachery vs forti comparison thread relevant at all to op's question?
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does treachery have ll?

does cure/flickering flame have ll?

does infinity have ll?

do you need your merc to have a lot of on-paper dps?

is that (often ridiculed) treachery vs forti comparison thread relevant at all to op's question?


considering the fact he's asking for best merc setup, yeah it's relevant.

you're saying COH is best cos it has resistances?
COH - 65% resistances and 8% DR. good add is 200% dmg to demons but you're javazon killing every boss in 2-3 CS so his damage is irrelevant
TREACHERY - 60% resistances, 15%DR, Curse Duration Reduced by 80% (so amp wont kill him) + 45% ias which actually hits more than 200% dmg to demons but it's irrelevant anyway cos you're highest DPS character ingame, javazon.

so it's tradeoff of 5% all resistances vs 7%DR which is basically whole Ber rune.


there's a reason COH wasn't used on any merc since forever. cos it's inferior

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considering the fact he's asking for best merc setup, yeah it's relevant.

you're saying COH is best cos it has resistances?
COH - 65% resistances and 8% DR. good add is 200% dmg to demons but you're javazon killing every boss in 2-3 CS so his damage is irrelevant
TREACHERY - 60% resistances, 15%DR, Curse Duration Reduced by 80% (so amp wont kill him) + 45% ias which actually hits more than 200% dmg to demons but it's irrelevant anyway cos you're highest DPS character ingame, javazon.

so it's tradeoff of 5% all resistances vs 7%DR which is basically whole Ber rune.


there's a reason COH wasn't used on any merc since forever. cos it's inferior


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irrelevant. even if he manages to land a hit next to javazon, your setups provides such a slow IAS he wont be leeching shit
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irrelevant. even if he manages to land a hit next to javazon, your setups provides such a slow IAS he wont be leeching shit


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As I said, nobody has ever used coh for a reason.

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flickering flame because it gives you free max fire res and coh because it keeps your merc alive with life leech

mercs are just aura slaves in d2r with sunder charms being a thing


would you switch up ff with cure depending on the tz you're farming? I find poison to be a bigger pain than fire
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would you switch up ff with cure depending on the tz you're farming? I find poison to be a bigger pain than fire


haven't struggled much with poison so I wouldn't bother, but yeah I guess
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