Gears for Act2 HF Merc working for Meteor Orb Sorc

[xubeiyuan]

Gears for Act2 HF Merc working for Meteor Orb Sorc

Experts out there... what is your preference for the two gears setup below?

1) vamp gaze, eth bugged chain of honors AP, eth infinity polearm

2) vamp gaze, eth bugged fortitude AP, eth infinity polearm

please note that the difference is between the armors, please advise which is better. thank you!

 

[Soulburner]

Re: Gears for Act2 HF Merc working for Meteor Orb Sorc

Between those two, Chains of Honor.

 

[xubeiyuan]

Re: Gears for Act2 HF Merc working for Meteor Orb Sorc

why do you pick COH even though its defense is 2k, much lower than fort's 3.5k?

 

[Soulburner]

Re: Gears for Act2 HF Merc working for Meteor Orb Sorc

The CoH will have him dealing 2-3x extra damage to Demons and Undead, give him more life leech, more resist (though either has enough to max him out), and 8% damage reduction. Not as much as Shaftstop which would keep him alive better, but the CoH would have him dealing a lot more damage to most things.

 

[Dwhitney]

Re: Gears for Act2 HF Merc working for Meteor Orb Sorc

CoH over Fort hands down...resist would suck way bad without it.

 

[LongingForDeath]

Re: Gears for Act2 HF Merc working for Meteor Orb Sorc

I'd choose Fortitude. More defense, more damage and therefore more leech, enough resists for an Act2 merc to have maxed resists in hell. Also a +5% to max lightning resist.

 

[Ilumm]

Re: Gears for Act2 HF Merc working for Meteor Orb Sorc

If you can't max out resists with Fortitude then COH. If your merc has all 75 with fortitude than this might be better(especially if he is using a runeword in an etc CV)