Hi,
I have always been fine with forti, but recently I gave treachery a try, on both hammerdin and light sorc, and I came to a conclusion, that it's a total crap. My merc keeps dying like shit on things like nihlathak, chaos and is literally being oneshot by the council, even with fade on. And here is the thing: fade. 5% chance to trigger, sometimes I am very unlucky to get it early, and I dont like spending much time on trying to trigger it. If it comes up, toughness is more or less ok, council still risky so I dont do that, forti still provides merc with more survivability.
On the other side, Treachery is often used on a light sorc due to a chance of CB on infinity, thus, the more frequent attacks are, the more CBs are inflicted on target. But my merc rarely has a chance to come closer because of getting oneshot.
And here is my question: why is Treachery recommended so frequently? Imo, merc with forti is not only safer, but also probably deals more dmg (but I'm not sure of that).
Don't consider a price important factor here, assume, that you can afford everything. What would you go for?

This post was edited by tytanradzior on Jun 29 2017 04:37am

I`m fan of Duriel`s...
That cbf (can`t be frozen) is nice...

here's a small read
http://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=54233648

that's a nice article, thanks

I liked treachery a lot as it's so dirt cheap and I like budget solutions the most but it just sucks and doesn't compete succesfully vs fortitude.
I read the entire topic about the calculations and while the theory crafting is nice, as you noted if the merc dies before it can land all those very fast strikes through the high ias from treachery, he doesn't help you at all anymore. Treachery is not good for a tanking merc.