Oh yeah, I play on a steam deck and still haven't worked out the buttons to give the merc potions, I should get on that

Best improvement to limit this setup's death is perfect gaze with col jewel for fade, mine hardly ever dies now.

So changing the topic here a little bit

I might go with:

Infinity GT
Shaft
Gaze

Seems like the main thing that kills him are hard hitting physical attacks rather than thorns aura

Right now I'm using:

Infinity GT
Andy
Fort

vgaze with col jewel as mentioned above gets you 35%DR then you can wear eth COH instead

so 28% DR (perf dr gaze + coh) with an extra 15% which is only active if it's proc'ed

or be at 50% cap as soon as you enter a tz96 p8 game

and coh does what exactly? gives him overcapped res?

edit: also no CBF with coh + gaze col jewel

This post was edited by Rares on Jul 14 2026 10:28am

It'll proc pretty quickly if you're doing typical dense TZs so you're usually at 43% DR already making shaft pretty pointless

I've gone back and forth between eth COH and Fort, don't notice too much of a difference, trading DR/LL/overcapped res for more dmg basically

edit: I actually prefer not having CBF for merc survivability

This post was edited by Ateamer on Jul 14 2026 10:31am

just seems like DR is the main thing you want (as well as some LL) so may as well hit the cap on it as 50% DR is already not a lot

I haven't tried it out though, the extra 7% might not make a difference