A little bit extra mana for teleport yea, a little longer BO, before we learned that magic damage % increases double dip I was using maras and opal. I would still use maras and opal tbh, it doesn’t matter too much and it’s much easier to get a maras and get decent resists with maras gheeds opal and mist

Do not need leech. And yea you can definitely get 125 fcr with spirit on swap too. I’ll be gearing for this next ladder starting chaos as abyss and I’m playing single player right now as this

This post was edited by ahyp on Jul 12 2026 04:42am

Can't Mist work too?

Asking because I'm retarded.

Yeah this is my intuition. Mist > all from what I'm staring at. I might be retarded tho.

Yes, it works.

I'm not saying you're not retarded, but yeah mist is the best bow to use unless you use an enchant sorc to prebuff yourself, and even then, its very close.

This post was edited by ahyp on Jul 16 2026 01:33pm

Seems a bit overkill but I usualy switch skillers after prebuff for an inventory full of mf smallcharms.

Thought about going full 7mf/mana charms and drop insight merc.

Anyone tried act 5 merc yet? With 2x last wish he would give level 34 might aura, 100% crushing blow and cast lifetap.

This way you could run your exact build with 90fcr on main / 125 fcr on switch but get great leech from lifetap + a level 34 might.

Phys dmg isn’t great on bowlock but level 34 might would still be a nice boost and lifetap makes you immortal and doesn’t have a drawback since we don’t run cursed demon anyway.

With 100cb, double might, conc aura from mist and defiler spread the damage from merc would be pretty nice. Since we don’t run any cb ourself he could be realy good into heralds. Lifetap gives the build the only thing missing: leech.

I think if we can sustain the mana that should be way better than a2 merc.

Thoughts??

I'm on HCL and can't afford enigma. So I've been using a5: Mania for Fanat and Voice of Reason for CBF.

I've just changed my bow from Buriza-do to Witchwild String. And 6ML is enough when I can leech mana, so with your setup, I think 6ML is more than enough.

I always prefer a5 over a2, especially when I do ubers.

If you expect DPS from your merc, I think you can consider Last Wish + Grief.

I only have two accounts, so Witchwild String works well for me. I think it's better than Buriza-Do or Demon Machine for killing bosses and heralds.

We don’t realy need more dps on the build but since we already have conc aura on ourself with mist build the merc would get a decent boost.

I would mainly run it for the lifetap and crushing blow. The full magic build doesn’t run leech (or has to drop some magic dmg/fcr for it). It also doesn’t have crushing blow (it sucks anyway on range atacks).

A5 merc with 2x last wish adds both of this things.

Since we want to run 2 defilers and don’t use amp demon or other curses, lifetap is a great addition and will be up a lot, adding huge sustain to ourself and the merc himself.

The crushing blow helps with bosses and t5 heralds and is a great addition since we don’t run any cb on the build.

The level 34 might aura is just icing on the cake. Even with our low phys dmg that’s a lot of ed. Together with our conc aura and defilers that’s some nice dmg buffs four ourself + merc , letting him deal decent dmg himself .

I think frenzy last wish merc is a great addition for mist lock. Adding the missing CB to to build, big, Ed% and lifetap for our free „curse-slot“.

Do you guys honestly see your health bar move? I've never used leech and never noticed not having leech, even without bo.