Meteorb Merc Equip

[Azoras]

I have a lvl 87 Meteorb Sorceress.
I plan to do mf runs but my merc is pretty weak and has sucky equipment. What would be good equipment for my merc. He is a Defiance Merc, so I was thinking about a Doom Runeword, but that is pretty expensive. Tell me your suggestions.

[MaxMax]

Cheap suggestion:

Insight
Duriel Shell
Blackhorn's Face

This works for my meteorb's merc

[kuafu]

Since meteor and orb both have 1-sec timer, mana shouldn't be a big problem, so I'd suggest switching the Insight to a Reaper's Toll. That should make your merc's survivability much higher. Duriel shell and blackhorn's face are good for low-budget build.

[teamjason]

i have a lvl 82 meteorb sorc and i never found the need for a merc, i can kill meph in about 30 seconds and pindle in probably shorter time, if your having trouble with mf runs invest in mf gear that can still do some damage. i use
p topaz shako
p topas tal armour
isted occy
isted lidless wall
p war travs
2 p nagles
tal belt and ammy
p chancies

i've always used that for a meteorb sorc and i found it has worked wonderfully

[CoRRuPt-OnE]

Tals Mask
Stone/Duress in eth armor
Reapers/botd warpike/bonehew/honesundane w/e you want...

Basically you want him to be less like to get hit with defiance and around 3.5K + armor

[MikeFord]

I don't ever do much of anything without a merc, unless I am with some tard baal team and run out of money, then I immediately start picking up junk to get the merc back.

I use a Holy Freeze, NM A2 Defensive merc.

Crown of thieves, Gaze, or tals depending on budget and level.
Griswalds, currently using a eth shroud def 1785 with smoke in it (cubed with 2 sockets, so I live with it).
Insight in a mediocre thresher, he does 500ish damage, and I never run out of mana with no points in it. (life leach is based off actual physical damage the merc does, more is better).

He is NOT incredibly durable as he sits, but at level 82 and no charms or tals armor yet, neither am I, and he does do a decent job of dying in my place.

My eventual plan is to give him better armor, something ethereal with a Fortitude in it, and a big nasty weapon with Infinity, but I am going to miss that insight until I get up a LOT more charms.

[jackthelad]

Me & my merc (sounds like a love song!) are currently at lvl91, Im a meteorber & he wears 'obediance' in an eth threasher & does ~1.1k min dmg (hes defiance too) & a stealskull (47mf) & atmas (20? mf). Not the best I know (considering I have an eth duriels & an eth upped 2355 def GA) but he survives no problem, meph & andy (poison) are problems, but thats wot Im there for! To help him out! I dont usually let him anywhere near andy, just FB her to death asap, static meph, drop a meteor on him then FO him to a sliver & let merc finish him. Baal isnt much of a problem, I just help him out but he is rarely in any danger of dying from him.
Id be lost without him! After having him around pretty much all game I feel so naked without him, like Im missing an arm or something! He tanks so well, & takes the heat off me so often its incredible, even with the (relatively) poor gear hes got on.

[sorceressgod]

all act 2 mercenaries of all sorceress in pvm have a common build and purpose; which is to tank, or if it's having an infinity - break resistances.

so in order to tank, ur merc need life leech, defence, and DR.

[AnimeCraze]

Since meteor and orb both have 1-sec timer, mana shouldn't be a big problem, so I'd suggest switching the Insight to a Reaper's Toll. That should make your merc's survivability much higher. Duriel shell and blackhorn's face are good for low-budget build.

Fireball does not have a timer.

My prayer merc uses:
Andy's (Ral)
eth CV Insight
Duriel's Shell

He rarely dies unless he is up against 3 unique packs, or that I do something awfully stupid.

[soonborn]

so in order to tank, ur merc need life leech, defence, and DR.

Exactly. Those are the mods you need to select. Forget about him killing things and just get his life leech DR and def up.

Weap should give good life leech. So forget about insight. Any elite socketed with 6 amns or 6 pskulls is better than that. Reapers toll, meat scraper or any other unique with life leech is the way to go. Honor is a cheap runeword with leech also. Once you get a better armor and helm that gives leech then worry about him killing stuff and at that point I would go with obedience over anything short of a godly runeword like infinity.