Another merc question thread

[TheOgre]

So, im building a warcry barb and im having dificulties in choseing merc. My singer dosent do much damage so a a2 merc would be of great help to my killingspeed. The problem is this; im so extreamly tired of those a2 mercs. Thats why i want to try out a a5 merc, a bit of barbarian company for mye barbaric bard :grin:

so this is the question, does anyone here have any experience with thees a5 mercs? Any ideas for gear? the goal with the merc is NOT to tank for me, but to kill sum :tongue:

Thanks

[bovine]

The real problem for melee toons and mercs is keeping em alive. You can't protect them and they will die with amazing frequency. If you insist, you might want to look over the runewords, fortitude or stone, breath of the dying, among others come to mind for your case.

But I would recommend a A1 merc with a faith bow. It's the only merc that will attempt to save herself from combat (A3 will too, but they are useless). With the frenzy from faith you will do more damage too.

[xxnothing]

I've never had a problem with act2/5 mercs... give them something with damage reduction (Shaftstop, Leviathan) and as much life leech as you can...maybe some extra resists... they do okay. If you have the wealth there are some godly runewords out there you could throw on your act 5 merc.
I do think that it's easier for a caster character to keep their merc alive, especially a Sorceress who can teleport around to move the merc.

[SunnySideUp]

I love act 5 mercs i like to give hime a lastwish pb or a grief pb along with andys and a fort :)

[stfrn]

One of the few ways to increase warcry's effect, is with decripify. Equipt your act5 barb with a Lawbringer sword, and have decripify up all the time, as well as a good chunk of elemental damage.

[TheOgre]

thanks for the input guys. I especially like the idea with lawbringer. That will effectivly raise my warcry dmg with 50% right? Amp would do the same right?

[Garisdacar]

then you have to worry about delirium's ctc curses competing with lawbringer. i suppose you could make Lore out of a +3 stun/bash barb helm, that would work pretty well. or just use delirium anyway....or random other unique helm.