Questions about act2 merc gear

[Killer_sss]

ok this is my planned gear Andy helm{10LL29 str soc with a 30fire res 15ias jewel}, eth CV Inisght{focusing on dmg and CS}, eth Stone Sacred Armor.
eventually an eth andy helm with roughly same mods

my questions are

• does this ias jewel help his attack speed like the summit calc says and bring him to 7frame attack?
• Does Critical Strike help the Merc? pretty sure this is a yes
• Does the Ar bonus on insight help the merc?
• is there nething i can improve on for gear?

This gives him the following attributes if this is all correct
45str
60fhr-8frame recovery
35ias-7 fram attack
15res
2skills
10LL
5-6critical strike-42-46%chance to do double dmg

nething i missed??
ty in advance oh yea neone got neideas what the jewel and armor on Ladder useast will cost if not no biggie ill get a price check.

[thefranklin]

The jewel may cost you, because it is kind of rare, cost as in time spent finding it, and who has it (if the person is greedy or not)

The ias will work
The stone armor is decently expensive for what it does, eth shaftstop does about the same thing, as well as other high def armors, but stone is good for the fhr.

Either way, any act 2 merc above lvl 85 or so is pretty good as long as you don't equip him with a dead fish and give him a little life leach.

[letosan]

Which type were you thinking on getting? I have used frost and def and my personal preferance is defiance. Its just awsome having a defense of 17k without breaking a sweat.

On thing that you do need to look into is the speed of a CV, they are pretty slow, so even with FHR and LL, he could have some trouble if the can't actually get his attacks off.

[chaca]

Which type were you thinking on getting? I have used frost and def and my personal preferance is defiance. Its just awsome having a defense of 17k without breaking a sweat.

For casters or non-physical damage characters I typically use a HF one. For the majority of my melee chars (physical damage) its the might merc. Just my preference though.

[Killer_sss]

well i have looked into the speed thats y i was asking he should hit 7frame attack rate if the arreat summit speed calc is correct. never really trusted it though.

main thing is does the %ar help him or not cause even if not every hit went off in time with the huge dmg i believe he will get roughly every other hit and the fhr recovery to boot he should stay alive as for what kind of merc im really not to sure holy freeze has saved me *** plenty of times now. and i dunno eventuall i might end up with a defiance merc because i might be maxing the armor on myself also.

i have used eth cv insight b4 but never had ias so i know it will be faster than when i have used it b4.

as for the shaft i can afford stone so ill prolly end up making that hopfully armor wont be extremly expensive um-pul me hopes.

[Punkonjunk]

Damn, if you were west, I could sell you that jewel cheap. I've got a 29 fire resist/15IAS jewel. *shrug*

[krischan]

Your merc needs 35% IAS for 7 frames, 56% for 6.5 frames and 92% for 6 frames, so that jewel will give him the missing 1%. However, I would use Andy's with that jewel for a regular character (e.g. a bowazon) and Andy's+Ral for the merc. Giving him Treachary (preferably in an eth cube bugged armor) will make him reach the 6 frames breakpoint. That runeword also adds a nice bonus to res, reduced curse duration and physical resistance as soon as fade has been triggered.

My calculations are from here.

Damn, if you were west, I could sell you that jewel cheap. I've got a 29 fire resist/15IAS jewel. *shrug*

Damn, if you were Europe ladder, you could sell it for cheap to me :lol:

[Killer_sss]

well i dont really care for treachery it has no ed and the def would kinda bite also im not sure about bugged items i dont like that much either bliz didnt purposely design it that way so i dont think ill be using bugged items. i dont see how you got six frames with treachery that gives you 45ias and andys helm gives you 20 more doesnt that put him at 6.5 frame rate

also as for the missing 1ias your talking about with my planned setup plz explain. i got up and entire frame from 8 to 7 with the jewel unless that calc is not accurate.