The most important option for mercenaries on their helms is life steal. It would be even better if you can find one with stats and resists as well. Usually, Runeword items are preferred, and if you find an ethereal unique armor, you might want to consider upgrading it to elite. The best body armor for your mercenary is the Runeword item Fortitude , no questions asked. More damage means more life steal, so it can help your mercenary survive by a big margin.
Additionally, the Chilling Armor effect can grant even more defense, and it also has all resist. It may not seem enough, but the Fade effect is quite useful. The preseason for League of Legends esports has already begun, even ahead of its official start on Nov.
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Provides a solid boost to your defensive statistics for both you, your mercenary and any summoned minions that improves survivability. In brief defence reduces the chance of your character being hit from physical attacks, does not impact the damage you take, has diminishing effectiveness and is severely reduced when running.
This combination of mechanics means that low defence characters like the Necromancer or Sorceress benefit little as they are likely to rarely be hit by physical attacks while characters with high defence values like the Paladin who fight in melee range already have sufficient defence that it is not a significant change in percentage chance to be hit especially when factoring the loss of a better aura option.
While fun to experiment with on a summon Necromancer build as you watch demons hurt themselves on your skeletons and golem of choice this aura has the least uses of all your options and best avoided unless you are looking to experiment for fun or variety and not recommended for use in this Diablo 2 mercenary guide. While choosing the correct mercenary is important equipping them with appropriate gear should never be overlooked and in fact required if you expect your Act 2 mercenary to survive for longer than a few minutes.
The below equipment guide to your mercenary is focused solely on the Act 2 mercenary although some parts will be applicable to other mercenary types you might be experimenting with. At the core you are looking to achieve the following from the limited equipment slots weapon, helmet and armour that your mercenary can equip:.
Sam has been playing the Diablo franchise for over two decades and has beaten Diablo 2 with all characters over that time both alone or with friends. His favourite character in Diablo 2 is the Sorceress for her strong cold area of effect abilities and teleport.
Joan T Kessler September 26, , am. Brahian September 27, , am. Games Finder Admin September 27, , pm. Last Updated on October 17, by Samuel Franklin Diablo 2 Best Mercenary — D2 Merc Guide Choosing the best Diablo 2 mercenary or merc for your character is a vital consideration in your ease of progression and often overlooked by the new D2 player for just how powerful they can be, particularly for the solo playthrough. Diablo 2 Mercenaries — Different In Each Act Each act in Diablo 2 offers different themed mercenaries that can be hired to fight for the player and come with their own strengths.
The Diablo 2 mercenaries from each act can be summarised as follows: Act 1 Rogues : Rogues hired from the first game act are restricted to using general bows and come with either cold or fire arrow and inner sight for their abilities. Players earn one for free after defeating Blood Raven which is generally your first experience with mercenaries.
Act 2 Desert Warriors : Melee fighters that can equip the various two handed spears, javelins and polearms and use the Jab skill. They also come with an aura that varies based on the difficulty and their specialisation that makes them the best D2 merc for the vast majority of situations.
Act 3 Iron Wolves : Offering a spell caster option to Diablo 2 mercenaries the iron wolves specialise in fire inferno and fireball , cold glacial spike, ice blast and frozen armour and lightning charged bolt and lightning bolt.
They can use shields and swords although rarely melee attack. Hm true. And it's not like I am going to be right in the face of anything really unless I port into them.. You could just opt for the merc with Might aura, so he can deal with those random monsters that are immune to both cold and fire for you quicker.
A5 mercs can dish out some serious damage and that's what I would suggest in your situation if you really don't care for meditation aura from insight. I'd consider other mercenaries for fighters for the Fanaticism aura, for example you can give Faith to an a1 merc instead of having it on your character. For armor, I use Stone cheaper than infinity but also works well or you can try using Treachery runeword — keeps merc alive very well.
As for weapon, mine got Insight for infinite mana pretty much. Very cheap and effective set up. What about a A2 norm def for defiance aura? The holy freeze aura provides more aggro to your merc though, while defiance makes him more tanky.
And everything besides A2 will not wear an Insight. A1 is not quite useful in PvM, the only use for her I got is giving her Harmony for a lvl10 vigor. Thank you. I think you answered my questions perfectly. I started last Friday and am already lvl 65ish.
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