Does battle cry overwrite curses (eg decrepify or amp)? It does visually replace it but I'm not sure if they're still cursed if they get battle cried. I wanna replace my ww trav barb's a2 merc with an a5 bash merc bc of the new sword (dreadfang) that procs amp but I'm not sure if it will work like I want it to.

Good question, I'd assume if the visual indicator is gone, then the curse is gone. But I've never really thought about it.

Visual indicators aren't 100% accurate, you can be poisoned and chilled and only one shows up.

I have always been under the impression that any monster/character can only have 1 buff/debuff above their head. I haven’t read or seen anything to contradict this theory

a5 shitter merc replaces with its cries and you lose might

All curses (or shrines) of any kind always get overridden to the latest except for Attract. So Battle Cry will override Amplify Damage.

It does but the dread fang procs so much that it will just hit again after the random battle cry.

You can also tp away then ww into the pack while he’s farther away, still way worth running it


I’ve been running this set up on my barb im at lvl 97 now and trust me it hits enough when you need it. You can even drop a grim ward to bump up even more dmg I think that might stack with amp? Seems like it at least

This post was edited by Avenger47 on Apr 12 2026 05:11pm