Got lucky selling a very high anni early on in the ladder and nabbed about 15 hrs for it, they've been steadily diminishing ever since! My merc has maxed res in hell, meph's conviction aura is the only thing I can see him having a problem with, and to be honest it doesn't really matter too much if he dies, once the urdars are telestacked next to him, I reckon he'll go down pretty quickly (18 Urdars should be enough!). I can definitely see the point in swapping out the polearm as mephs conviction is going to override the merc's anyhoo, and obedience sounds like a good idea, I think I might swap out the Fort for a CoH as well, I have a really nice bugged armor I found the other day to make it in, its probably actually more useful than the fort overall anyways, I just like the style factor of using a 4041 defense fort (9 from absolute perfection). Actually to make things easier it might be worth me swapping out the gskull (which is worn to provide the strength for the fort + the cb and dr from the bers) for a kiras, anyone know how much a perfect res one goes for? I guess I should probly check the trade values.
Thanks for the advice tactically as well, that was going to pretty much gonna be my strategy, but I wasn't going to bother terroring away minions, I was going to tele on top of one and start a CE chain for increased damage.