Another reason to max CE is that you can kill those IM-casters in Chaos Sanctuary and Worldstone Keep much faster (even when they are often running away from you, the CE radius gets them off-screen).
The most I've ever gotten my skellies to do is about 600 damage (though I haven't had the most top-end gear), but even if you got it to like 1k it's pretty well useless in hell. I mean, I've had about +10 skills plus might on my merc to get 600 damage and it's hard to find much more +skills (not to mention you'll have to sacrifice things like res, fcr, and fhr). Ultimately CE is the way to go. By the time you had decent gear you almost get off-screen damage when it's maxed, and it can clear most areas in a few casts. It's going to be much more helpful (especially if your merc dies; there goes half your damage if you have might).
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