Set up you’re looking for is

Might merc with pride weapon (conc) and a hf / hs demon

Technically you can run a a5 frenzy merc with lastwish (might) and mania (Fanta) to get the combo but mania only lvl 1 fanta with small range

This post was edited by ManWithOutaName on Feb 18 2026 09:49am

I'm quite sure you only get 1 aura enchanted affix, I haven't seen 2x auras under their feet. I'm not sure if you can get double effect from extra strong / extra fast / spectral hit already being on mobs, but most likely they are redundant affixes too
I tested and my cursed spearwoman with a weak aura (conviction) was able to solo both hell diablo p8 and hell baal p8, reasonably fast vs diablo, baal is still a grind without spells

I'm not sure what the best one would be, I'm still thinking spearwoman. She gets 3 attacks when she jabs, but I think she's only using it about 1/3 of the time, and I can't tell when she uses normal attack vs power strike
Datamine isn't helpful, its parameters [70,90,6,60,10,30,20], but those are used by the spearwoman ai script. Tried testing by having her attack a barricade tower on her own in p8 but holy shit even without amp damage and vs a 193k hp 75% dr tower she's killing it too fast to count a large pool of attacks
So far I'd say its your choice of;

Ismail is the easiest curse+aura to farm and can get running in a minute or two
Spearwoman hits like a monster truck with a howitzer but A5 guest monsters are a hard roll and you need a curse mob and then roll aura, same with opening matron's den. They are also FAST
Vile mothers make a ton of free meat shields and otherwise don't dick around and keep autoattacking reliably like any other melee mob
Sirens will cast amplify damage in addition to their amp+aura, but they might as well not be attacking at all (useless missile function)
Urdars have stun + crushing blow, which ironically isn't that great vs bosses when the actual direct damage is already so astronomically high that CB is tiny by comparison

yeah i was running that a2 merc combo but wanted to try and add fanat cuz its a lot of extra damage but without hs/hf cant get amp procs

also I should note, even a non-cursed mob in pvp should be able to do ludicrously high damage with deathmark. Hell, I don't even know if deathmark is adding base damage or what
but say you just bind a fallen in blood moor and give it +1428 damage +850% ed +99% extra strong that's already 15.6k damage before any other auras, and you can just deathmark a player to make it telestomp them

Fant only provides a portion of the damage to others. Most of its benefit is the ias (only matters to you if cleave build) and ar if it’s not you providing it. Conc is substantially more % dam to you when getting it from merc / bind

agreed was just min/maxing a bit

this

oh yeah I was forgetting the bit where fanat is also nerfed on monsters anyway;
>Fanaticism only applies allied +% Damage to Unique, not user +% Damage. [7]

Also any auras on a monster apply its synergy to skills used by that monster, but demons don't have charge so you can't get the extra damage of a might-enchanted claw viper / undead charger

anyway just to visualize that
you can see the merc's pathetic damage even with eth thresher infinity coa since mercs deal 25% to bosses, summons deal 100%. I'd be better served by a might merc + holy freeze spearwoman but I'm not going through those hoops just for testing



maybe I'd get more with max death mark too but this is just leftover points on a blood boil who already has max hex siphon too
Its hard to tell how often the spearwoman is using jab because diablo has 50% chance to block so you could be seeing 0-1 hits per normal attack, 0-3 per jab


I do think a blood boil build could use demon to kill bosses and not really care about losing some demon HP on them without needing to use all 19 casts before blood boil stops letting you cast

Just to sum that up from the assumption on how the base damage works
worldstone 1 spearwoman has 124-249 damage, uses level 10 jab with +12% damage. Just +660% ed since 1 point mastery and +99% on extra strong, +1428 base damage, so (186.5+1428)*(1+0.12+6.6+0.99)*1.05
should be about 15k damage per hit before amp. Could get another +190% ed on max mastery, +230% from might aura on merc, +118% if demon had fanat, and +345% if merc had pride but then he'd override amp against trash mobs and also be shitty on his own
which would bring it up to 30k per hit

This post was edited by Goomshill on Feb 18 2026 10:36am

Alright, can confirm put a Dream helm on merc for holy shock, it does work to proc hephisto amp dmg

Added another 15k to my dmg on top of might/concentration

ggtymen

This post was edited by Silenkiller on Feb 18 2026 10:53am