Merc gear.. what to socket in reaper's?

**Hypnosx** · 11-08-2008, 23:25

So I made a wind druid and traded for some gear and I was originally planning on using insight on my merc but decided reaper's would be better so that decrep could break some physical immunes and also slow act bosses...

so he's using:
reaper's toll 231ed 15ll
guillaume's face
upped shaftstop

None of them are socketed right now... I'm going to stick an Um in the shaftstop soon as I get one or another pul to cube up I think, cause it doesn't really get much better than upped shaftstop for a merc armor I dont think and I got a good roll... but I dont know what to socket in the other too

The reaper's has 15% LL already, no it seems like an Amn might be overkill, but thats obviously an option. The only other option is really shael, since even if I had a ber I wouldn't waste it like that etc.... unless people have any better ideas?

So amn or shael in reaper's and any ideas for the gface? Not going to put an um in it, isn't worth it imo

edit: oh I also have an 8ll vgaze i could use instead of the gface, but gface seemed like a better option for the CB and DS, especially since reaper's has so much LL already... any opinions on that?

**hestah** · 12-08-2008, 00:51

I'm not really sure about breakpoints for merc, but if a sheal would give him faster attack speed I would probably use one in the reaper's because it already have such high leech.

Also more leech might be nice but I'm not sure how much more effective it would be. If you dont use Holy freeze merc perhaps a rare juwel with cold damage + other good mods might be good for better crowd control.

Guilames face socket with 15% ias juwel perhaps.

**lumpor** · 12-08-2008, 10:12

For the shaftstop I would use a scintilating jewel with any suffix if you can afford one. Anyway I'd put an ed/ias jewel depending on breakpoints and if you can afford one. Otherwise shael probably

**Hypnosx** · 12-08-2008, 16:01

the german attack speed calculator says a shael will make my merc attack at 7 frames instead of 7.5.... I dont really understand the concept of half a frame, nothing else works like that except supposedly these merc attacks so I'm not even sure how accurate all that is.

**lumpor** · 13-08-2008, 09:31

Nope, I looked at barbs and they also had half frames in their attack rate.

I think in one frame you see when the merc is just about the hit the enemy and in the next frame he has just attacked the enemy, so you actually don't see when he actually hit.

**additov** · 13-08-2008, 18:51

my merc is lvl 88 with a non-eth Reapers, a duriel's shell (dope resists) and a grand crown of thieves. He has 30% Life leech, lawl. He hasn't died on me, once, ever. (unless maidened, but I don't count that)

**Hypnosx** · 14-08-2008, 14:01

Yeah I put an amn in it, and an Um in my shaftstop... left the gface unsocketed, I don't think there is much point. Maybe if I find a nice jewel. Anyways he's a beast.

**lumpor** · 14-08-2008, 14:13

a scintilating jewel can offer just what an um can offer in an armor/helm, and more. Only reason I see to put an um in your armor/helm is if you can't afford a scintilating jewel

**Hypnosx** · 14-08-2008, 19:44

just finding somebody who has a 15res jewel on ladder is pretty annoying, and then they usually want alot for it. its just alot easier to use um, since it doesn't really make a huge difference.