ignore target defense doesn't work against the most needed enemies

True.
However, it's still pretty efficient against unique packs, considering the probability to hit a minion is quite high.
Totally useless against champ packs though (and bosses obviously).
EDIT: Forget that, i was thinking from the merc's perspective for some reason, regarding auto curses.

This post was edited by xhul on Mar 24 2026 02:40pm

Azurewarth is best offhand imo. At least p1.

Try it out.

You need 136 dex for pb. With max ar charms this is enough for ~~9k ar which is like 88% for a tz 85 mob. And 80+ for a boss like dia. Its enough

For p1 you could also use a 2os visio helemt for example, if you want 11k ar.

This is all with highlords



Period, no better offhand then azuewrarth for p1. One can debate if grief or death for mainhand

This post was edited by schnoig2 on Mar 24 2026 03:08pm

Whats prbly happening is that he has grief pb, and offhand has bigger rangeadder. In these cases I think it's much higher chance the ww starts hitchecking with offhand

update for this thread, i ended up building a beastz and also using grief zerker axe in my main hand (ditched the dual grief PBs)

while my AR didn't drastically improve, it did turn my merc into a killing machine that almost never dies anymore. this is the way

thx to C4NTWO for the tip

A5 bash merc with dreadfang amp proc is gg, and throw a grim ward down

oh
you ended up with the cursed choice
edit nvm thats not last wish lol

This post was edited by nodamnclan on Apr 6 2026 02:18pm

yeah im intending to try this next, whats your helm and armor setup for the barb merc? andy's + efort?

i cheat and use sorc enchant with infinity merc, but lvl 12 conv reduces defense by 83% and I could see it being useful even without the sorc chant. Not sure how it feels without enchant, but if you already have one on another char, i'd test it with the dual pbs. Repairing fucking sucks lol.

This post was edited by athirstymonkey on Apr 6 2026 02:28pm

be a man. go 2 hand.