


These are all pretty expensive pieces though. If you use mages Infinity would be the superior choice considering Conviction lowers defense and thus chance to hit for your skeletons. You’d have fanaticism (from Beast), pride and might. Consider taking a nightmare act 2 might merc to give it to. Pride is a solid choice if you don’t use mages. Considering Oath: it’s pretty expensive to replenish charges and the rest of the weapon does nothing for you where Beast gives you a persistent aura and a meme bear you can summon once in a while.Īn act 1 merc with Faith is a nice choice but I’d look into an act 2 merc which has more solid options. How usefull is her armor reduction? Is the dps gained from Fanatism for my minions good enough to dump might & concentration/conviction?įor Fanaticism you can look into getting a Beast runeword instead of using Oath. But since I use only melee-Skeletons as minions and want to melee-attack myself with this build, wouldnt the “Pride” -Rune with concentration-Aura be more usefull for boosting melee-damage?Ģ.) “Fanatism” would help me reach max attack-speed much easier, so I wondered if an Act1-merc with “Faith” might be a usefull alternative to the Act2-merc. The only minions I will use are maxed Skeletons (NO Sekli-mages) & Clay-golem (and/or iron-golem from oath).ġ.) For a pure Army-mancer I would take an Act2-merc with might and “Infinity”-runeword. The idea of the char is a Hybrid between Armymancer, Bonemancer and Melee-fighter, using a one-handed weapon with the “Oath”-runeword (not ethereal, I want to use the Heart-of-the-Wolverine-aura).

I am trying to figure out a new build and wanted to ask some of the old D2-veterans for advice on the Merc.
