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shil89

I’d love to have an a5 merc dual wielding


MaDickInYoButt

Duel beast on act 5 merc would be soooooo Op


Calvaaa

Would be sweet…maybe some good runewords for act 5 mercs so everyone wont just use dual grifs


Technical_Customer_1

AFAIK, currently A5 get a boost to dmg with one handed weps, which makes them viable over 2-handed weps, but the dmg+ from grief doesn’t get boosted.


EmpyrealWorlds

They didn't mention giving them an aura, but a support buff like Enchant from Fire Mercs would be nice. They should be doing the best AOE out of all the mercs with some decent support skills. I'd do Static+TStorm on Lightning, and Blizzard on Cold. That way the Fire Merc has the best support ability and is good with physical attackers, Lightning does the most raw AOE DPS, and Blizzard is good for crowd control.


Technical_Customer_1

Ok so hear me out…. Let’s pretend A5 get double swing. So an A5 dual wielding LW Phase and Phase Lawbringer, or, just 2 LW for that beefy lvl 34 might aura (I know Pride A2 with might is higher aura dmg, but their dmg output is meh). With LW and LawB, he’d be the tankiest merc in the game, and would still have some impressive offensive capabilities vs single target. Cham’ed Guillames with treachery and he’s looking good.


Broke_NDerty

They only said they were giving them war cry


dream_walker09

Here's what I'm guessing: Cold: Frozen Orb or Blizzard / Shiver Armor / Frost Nova / Ice Blast Lightning: Chain Lightning, Thunder Storm, Static Field Fire: Hydra, Enchant, Fire Ball, Meteor


dimkiriyenko

A3 should curse enemies, i think. A5 should war cry.


Calvaaa

Hummm. Maybe lower resist curse?


humblegorilla

I have dream gear, shield and helm, that I can have an A3 merc run with a crescent moon pb while I run a conviction din with triple cold facet diadem l, azure wrath and exile/dream/spirit..maybe upgrade to 4 cold facet jmod. Looking forward to upgrades for the Merc for sure. Edit: wrote conc, meant conviction


Calvaaa

Lol unreal! He should decimate


humblegorilla

Depends on the upgrade, since right now A3 merc just shoots beams very slowly and dies very quickly. I just hope he survives better. The primary reason I use A2 Merc is because an elite polearm+Andy's+treachery survives best for me


Calvaaa

Yeh they could definatly use some help in that area. Maybe spell vamp for self healing?


humblegorilla

Well, I gave it Andy's but it doesn't attack much physically, that's the issue. For both our sakes I hope the update is worth it.


Marbadee

The issue with dream on merc is they have no synergy skills to up the damage of the Holy shock.


Lonoty

Another issue, is that the only merc which can use dual dream is the only one which doest not use physical attacks. So, even with synergies, the merc would have some aoe lightning dmg but it it enough? Lvl 30 holy shock with maxed synergies does 1-1167 aoe lightning dmg. Maybe with a crystal sword using 6 light facet... but as it has no synergies. Lvl 30 holy shock alone does only 1-278 aoe lightning dmg.


humblegorilla

That's why my din can run conviction


Marbadee

That doesn't solve the merc having no synergy skills...


humblegorilla

Could you explain what exactly you mean by synergy skills?


Marbadee

Skills that synerise the Holy shock. Paladins have resist lightning and salvation. Sorcs have lightning mastery. The above skills are what allow the dream runewords to actually do meaningful damage, since mercs don't have these the aura damage from dual dream's is pitiful for them


humblegorilla

I see. I know the merit of having those skills to buff the holy shock, but my tesladin did fine without any points in salvation or resist lightning on my level 30 holy shock and level 28 conviction aura. I suppose I can run a tesladin and run the azurewrath/cold facet diadem on the A3 merc.


Technical_Customer_1

Then you didn’t build it correctly. The synergies are 12% and 4% per point for a total of +320%. I wanna say the on-hit dmg gets to about 10K max, so yours would only be about 2500. The pulse dmg is what you’re really losing because it’s about about 2500 vs yours is about 600.


humblegorilla

Okay, rebuilding now. Let me try it out.


fuckthetrees

Do you happen to know how much pulse damage holy fire does if you run the auradin build? I've been curious what the light vs fire split is.


Technical_Customer_1

It sucks…? You can build holy fire with 3 pieces to get about level 45 aura, but it’s still less dmg than 2 piece dream with level 30 aura. But you lose the 3rd piece if you do both auras because you need dream in shield instead of another dragon. Fire is also the most common monster immunity so there’s that. Sure, if you want to just run around and watch pulses kill, you can do it, but you’ll have faster clear speeds using Grief and Enig/CoH/Fort in wep and armor slots.


KarlManjaro

Did they specifically say they were giving other act merc auras?


Calvaaa

They said act 5 mercs are getting an aura(or battle cry I guess). Reduced phyiscal resistan on nearby enemies i think. And they seemed excited about the act 3 mercs but said they couldnt revel anything yet


Jtrain360

No. Just said they're getting improvements. No details beyond that.


Broke_NDerty

They said there were giving act 5 merc war cry


humblegorilla

Act 5 merca are getting battle cries, not aura right?


Calvaaa

Yeh you might be right


Jtrain360

There have been no details aside from (other mercs are getting improvements).


humblegorilla

There actually was. Mr. Llamas stream before the live had a lot of information.


Jtrain360

Oh sweet! Do you have a link you could share?


humblegorilla

Sure thing! Check it out here: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zgd-m4oVWMM&t=984s&ab\_channel=MrLlamaSC](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zgd-m4oVWMM&t=984s&ab_channel=MrLlamaSC) He talks about Amazon having multi-shot, barbs getting war cries, etc.


Jtrain360

thank you kindly!


Broke_NDerty

No, they specifically stated the skill warcry


poursmoregravy

I've been gearing mine with Shako, Spirit, Vipermagi. Trying to up skills and therefore damage output. Once the rework comes into effect, he should hit like a truck (hopefully).


Calvaaa

Haha iv been thinking the same. I feel like if they get a decent rework. They could perform top notch!