CoH set up, prayer stacking

Hi all. Looking for help on best approach for Nova sorce Merc set up. I want to run the stack with Cure and Insight with Prayer. Leaves me with CoH as the life line for survivability. Is this the right approach? What suggestions for armor to make it in? Do I got Eth or a 4OS Archon Plate incase I ever need it in a char. Trying to maximize use of runes since I’m no”rush” in the game YET?

We just had a big ol' discussion about that over here.
forums/best-option-for-infinity-t1668567.html

If you're poor on runes and aren't certain about CoH on merc then I'd make it in a non- Eth Archon Plate in case you want to swap it to one of your characters instead.
If you are certain then make it in an Eth elite armor with the highest defense you can get your hands on.

No reason to be uncertain. CoH is clearly the best option in this setup. Go for the best Eth armor you can get.

Thanks guys. I don’t really see much reason to ever self wear it. Now I keep an eye out for the right armor. Appreciate it and thanks for the link to the other discussion.

Knappogue wrote: 8 months ago

We just had a big ol' discussion about that over here.
forums/best-option-for-infinity-t1668567.html

If you're poor on runes and aren't certain about CoH on merc then I'd make it in a non- Eth Archon Plate in case you want to swap it to one of your characters instead.
If you are certain then make it in an Eth elite armor with the highest defense you can get your hands on.

* Highest def with suitable strength requirements. With Cure+Insight your Merc only gets 5 str (unlike setups with eg. Andariel's gaze).

Go for a superior with enhanced defense, they have max base def +1.

Lacquered Plate, Hellforge Plate, and Archon Plate are the best choices and it depends on at which merc level you want to be able to equip the CoH.

I know that question is strict about armor, but thats link directly to weapon choosing because with that setup (Coh + Cure), there is no room for additional IAS, so it's no point going for threshers.
I've attached sheet below what it looks like for each option (reminder to all, for Infinity we can choose from spears too, so there are better alternatives than those presented)

Atchersont wrote: 8 months ago

Hi all. Looking for help on best approach for Nova sorce Merc set up. I want to run the stack with Cure and Insight with Prayer. Leaves me with CoH as the life line for survivability. Is this the right approach? What suggestions for armor to make it in? Do I got Eth or a 4OS Archon Plate incase I ever need it in a char. Trying to maximize use of runes since I’m no”rush” in the game YET?

To original purpose, if you plan to build only 1 armor, not multiple . I recommend you look into market or even make a WTB ticket.
You can get around 9-14 Ist pricing from market . My first CoH comes from that pricing.
The difference between 0 and 1 is huge but the difference between worst and best is very small.

let's say, you get a base 400 armor with pricing 5 Ist. That will make it 680.
vs
someone pay a huge price 10 Jah to build base 1000 armor, 1680.

That makes Dodge 6% difference, in practice, even if you wear it yourself ( Eth wear) . You barely feel the difference.

So , solution is quite simple, just get cheapest one from market. As long as it is light armor, non Eth.

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In my case, I can easily build 900 Eth one or 800 Eth light armor , but I still use 500+ base. It is unnecessarily to build it in Eth. even if it is for your merc.
You can just sell those Eth armor thing you get for resource.
The weapon, I agree there is difference between Eth/ non Eth. But armor, not it is not worth it. snice when you worry about little monster physical hit?
even if you face dangerous, it wont help you much. Most case, you die, Eth or not Eth armor.


I mean, Eth weapon are much important, you should thinking pay 1% more damage in weapon but not 100 Def on armor. You and merc is not get hit by physical all the time .