Mercenary for a tesladin

[redsteven]

Mercenary for a tesladin

I started a Tesladin a few days ago (holy shock + zeal). He's only lvl 34 right now, but chance to hit seems to be a problem. I was originally going to use a holy freeze mercenary, but I'm thinking that I might be better off with a blessed aim merc.

If I go for max block and I'm using a Spirit pally shield (which i plan on getting eventually), even with holy shield I'll still need 160+ dexterity at higher levels. Would that give me a high enough AR that I'd be better off with holy freeze?

 

[zarirazz]

Re: Mercenary for a tesladin

another option is the act1 mercs. imo their inner sight is just as good as blessed aim.

 

[Spinns]

Re: Mercenary for a tesladin

Act 2 holy freeze merce with infinity could also help since conviction lowers res and def lower res = more lighting damage lower def = more hits yay

 

[AxlStrife]

Re: Mercenary for a tesladin

I am playing a tesladin on SP as well as making one on my USWest account. I can definitely vouch for a Blessed Aim merc. He takes the heat off of you and can dish out some good damage. I hit 15k AR on my SP guy with max block on Exile Sacred Targe and lvl 4+ Holy Shield, which is plenty for anything.

If you have good enough tanking ability act 1 cold merc works wonders as well since she can attack faster and help you out if you can score a non-zon faith (which is tough as hell).

 

[redsteven]

Re: Mercenary for a tesladin

well conviction is certainly the best option but i don't have that kind of money (i'm on ladder too, btw).

Anyone else have an opinion on act 1 merc vs. act 2 blessed aim (keeping in mind I won't have faith or infinity - i'm still working on getting an enigma for my necro)

 

[lumpor]

Re: Mercenary for a tesladin

Oh, you use holy shock yourself, instead of from dreams?

 

[redsteven]

Re: Mercenary for a tesladin

yes, holy shock is my own aura. The endgame weapon I plan on using as of now is a Heaven's Light unique Mighty Scepter. I have it in my stash and it has -33% target defense on it. Will that also apply to bosses and super uniques? I know that ITD won't work on them, but would this?

 

[AxlStrife]

Re: Mercenary for a tesladin

yes, holy shock is my own aura. The endgame weapon I plan on using as of now is a Heaven's Light unique Mighty Scepter. I have it in my stash and it has -33% target defense on it. Will that also apply to bosses and super uniques? I know that ITD won't work on them, but would this?

Awesome weapon for endgame. Crescent Moon PB is good as well if you can find the base and get the Um. I'm quite sure -target defense does work on super uniques and bosses.

Without a really good bow like WF, Faith, or some other good RW, act 2 BA's the way to go. Hone Sundan, Kelpie Snare, or upped Woestave are all sick on them and not that expensive to pick up (NM Meph drops them at a decent rate)

@lumpor: Auradins are friggin expensive (Jah's don't grow on trees sadly and dupes skew the economy), and I've had decent killing speed with my Doom-Tesladin (yeah Doom is expensive as hell as well but that's on SP where LK runs take about 20 seconds on a good map and I don't play with RWM.)

 

[lumpor]

Re: Mercenary for a tesladin

Don't pick an item because of the -defense. Leave that to conviction. Conviction solves all ar problems. That is if you can afford 2 bers

 

[redsteven]

Re: Mercenary for a tesladin

Don't pick an item because of the -defense. Leave that to conviction. Conviction solves all ar problems. That is if you can afford 2 bers

I'm not picking it because of the -33%. I'm picking it because it's an unique elite scepter with the some great mods on it and high damage. I probably won't be investing in a better weapon anytime soon for the same reason that I won't be getting a conviction merc.

I initially tried a holy freeze merc. He was alright but attack rating remained a big problem for me. I switched to a blessed aim merc and he currently improves my chance to hit by about 17%, which is huge. I'll probably stick with him for at least a while.

If, towards the end of this characters build, i put some more points into zeal or something and AR becomes less of a problem I might switch back to a holy freeze merc or something. I'm really glad that they changed merc levels so that we can test stuff like this...

 

[redsteven]

Re: Mercenary for a tesladin

Well, I'm currently in my 70's and I've maxed zeal, but blessed aim is still a big help.... until I get a conviction merc in the far, far future