What gear for Infinity merc?

[GrimCrow]

What gear for Infinity merc?

Since I've finally got everything I want for my summonmancer I'm now testing what would be optimal gear for his mercenary. 99% of the time I'm doing one/two player Diablo or Baal runs. Atm I've three different setups that I'm testing:

Option 1
Guillaume's + Duress
Main reason for this setup is 90% CB for killing Baal quickly.

Option 2
Guillaume's + Bramble
Still good amount of CB combined with Thorns aura.

Option 3
Andy's + Bramble
Only 40% CB but 20% more IAS compared to Guillame's + life leech.

So the question goes what would you choose and why? And is there any other options that I should consider testing?

 

[Rawness]

Duress + Andys15IAS/30fire resist jewel. Andys + Rattlecage.
Treachery + Guillaumes. .. More IAS/fade/venom = Res/15%dr + poison dmg.. 45 IAS on it.

 

[GrimCrow]

Duress + Andys15IAS/30fire resist jewel. Andys + Rattlecage.
Treachery + Guillaumes. .. More IAS/fade/venom = Res/15%dr + poison dmg.. 45 IAS on it.

Thanks for the input.

Duress + Andy - Going to test this ofc since its a combination of those options I listed.

Rattlecage + Andy - It only adds 10% more CB compared to previous setup and lacks resistances that Duress has. Most damage that my merc gets is elemental so I like to have as high res as possible.

Treachery + Guillame's - My merc rarely gets hit because of skellies so Fade won't cast that often and psn damage doesn't really help that much. I'd rather use ED/IAS armor instead of Treachery.

 

[Rawness]

Giant Skull 2os 10CB, could be good too, if you have the resources, sock it with 15/15's... It does also have knockback. 25%Cb only thou, quiet bad compared to other options.
There aren't many more options: the things that matters to you are: Res/IAS/CB and possibly OW. He doesn't seem to need anymore coverage anyways. (Gladiators could weigh hard as resistance.. with perf MD/DR)
Nothing in the helm/armor way can provide static afaik.

http://web.archive.org/web/20060601051716/http://www.d2data.net/ provides any information concerning the Armor/Helm part.
The only possibly RWs are: Bramble, CoH 8ll, 2Allskills(Provides higher lvl of Aura) 65 allres, Forti. Dream - Lightningdamage, no IM to worry about at all.

Treachery can possibly be better due to the 45IAS, but Duress does also have CB, but only 15%, and OW. His FPA should get better atleast, and that could be the factor that damage bosses more. You'll have roughly 1/3 of cb.

Treachery does also have resists,

 

[spigot]

I was considering a dream helm/dragon armor combo recently. I realise it entirely sacrifices cb, however I only really use cb for baal, and thats what my 18 urdars are for right? :evil: At the moment I'm using a 4043 defense forti and eth 2 sox giant skull with 40/15s. He hasn't died recently and one hits most things.