Light sorc merc debat...with myself

Rekoc

Rekoc

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Light sorc merc debat...with myself

ok guess...Having a little bit of trouble with my merc. Just build a light sork.
and not really sure which merc i should use.

I could go with a might merc to take care of the light immunes faster.
I could go with a HF merc to freeze the monsters.
Or I could go with a defiance merc so that i dont get hit as much.

Arg I can't figure it out. All are good merc. But which would suite a untwinked light sorc and do best with his crappy gear also?
 
WingBlade

WingBlade

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Go with a BARB merc..... they have flexable muscles and grunt when they hit opponents.... where else can you use those semi-useful barb helms...
 
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Szordrin

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Probably defiance merc to be exchanged with might merc later. Your main problems will be ranged and magical atacks.
 
Rekoc

Rekoc

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Lol good thinking Wing...I do seem to like them bulging muscles and the grunts. Sounds good ill get one now!
 
STINGER

STINGER

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Personally untwinked I like barbs alot, they can live longer wiht poor weapons due to thier stunning and knockback abilities. They can also tend to use exceptional and elite things faster due to strenght rising quickly. The other nice thing about a Sword is it is normally a faster natural attack. Wiht an Act 2 guy and a slow weapon there seems to be a long delay between attacks where with a Barb he just keeps smackin consitantly IMO.

You can always later go back and get a HF guy in NM and lvl him up, or get an Act 2 Hell Defiance once you get better items.

If I have a few things I would go HF for any Light or Fire sorc and Defiance for Cold. I personally feel those skills match each other and Cold with cold seems redundant.
 
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Omikron8

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STINGER said:
Personally untwinked I like barbs alot, they can live longer wiht poor weapons due to thier stunning and knockback abilities. They can also tend to use exceptional and elite things faster due to strenght rising quickly. The other nice thing about a Sword is it is normally a faster natural attack. Wiht an Act 2 guy and a slow weapon there seems to be a long delay between attacks where with a Barb he just keeps smackin consitantly IMO.

You can always later go back and get a HF guy in NM and lvl him up, or get an Act 2 Hell Defiance once you get better items.

If I have a few things I would go HF for any Light or Fire sorc and Defiance for Cold. I personally feel those skills match each other and Cold with cold seems redundant.
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Hardly redundant as the holy freeze chill and regular chill stack, resulting in super slow enemies. Get a kelpie snare on the merc and the monsters have trouble even completing an attack. Very few monsters are immune to the chill of a holy freeze and i believe it is better than a defiance merc.
 
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xeyloderixed

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personally, i have never used a barb merk in any of my sorks, but thats just because ive never built one completely untwinked. the way i see it, the pecking order for ANY sork merk is this:

barb, hf merk, defiance merk

and it depends on how wealthy you are. barbs are good naked, i remember this from hmm, a few years back? hf is good if you have decent gear but cant tank indefinitely, and defiance is the merk of choice once you have a good balance between tanking and killing power.
 
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Edeas_Knight

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yeah barb merc's rule with not too great of gear. i remeber my friend and i were fighting dclone, and i had my lvl 90 HF merc with eth ariocs, eth shaft, and a gaze, and my friend (who was a barb) had a barb merc with a smoke armor, swordguard, and blackthorns at about lvl 86 survived the whole battle w/ out bo...and mine died like 3 times with bo...
 
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xeyloderixed

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Edeas_Knight said:
yeah barb merc's rule with not too great of gear. i remeber my friend and i were fighting dclone, and i had my lvl 90 HF merc with eth ariocs, eth shaft, and a gaze, and my friend (who was a barb) had a barb merc with a smoke armor, swordguard, and blackthorns at about lvl 86 survived the whole battle w/ out bo...and mine died like 3 times with bo...
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thats prolly just because ur merk didnt have max res while his did.
 
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Omikron8

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xeyloderixed said:
thats prolly just because ur merk didnt have max res while his did.
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It is also likely because barbarian mercs gain resistances faster than act2 mercs. They require less +res gear to have 75 res all in hell difficulty.
 
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ZounceHC

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What about for a boss running fire sork?? HF = Obviously not, MIGHT = Not Bad, but will he actually do much at all to Meffy? no. Defiance = Also not bad, but again won't do much damage. Barb Merc = Not bad, but again not much damage.

So basically i'm thinking the only purpose of a merc for a boss runner is having it as a tank. So the question is which is a better tank a Defiance merc or a Barb Merc (against meffy).

Atm i'm leaning towards the barb merc as it would be a tank against elemental attacks as well as melee whereas the defiance merc would only shine when being melee hit (also Barbs have better natural resists).

So this is the plan: Start with a Barb merc. Then later on get a Reaper's Toll (for the decrep) and grab a defiance merk from hell. (im still poor on ladder so can't do it straight away).

Is there anything else I should be taking into consideration here?
 
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