Which merc survives Andariel?

Tornado_OLO wrote: 1 hour ago

varangium wrote: 2 hours ago

Can you try seeing if the barb can beat

Andariel with no help from you AND with you not standing in range of

Andariel to draw the fire? That's what OP needs.

He's not asking his merc to handle

Andariel 1v1 but a merc who wont die.
I suppose he will also attack her with

Chain Lightning.

That build can easily tank

Andariel.

But I did the try.
With

Chilling Armor and

Enchant up, he can make her < 75% hp.
Without, < 50%
He needs to do more damage to leech effectively mainly because that's hard to get a nice Plague roll with a nice cleasing aura and a > 300ed.

Thanks for testing. I think the issue is his CL is extremely underpowered, so I was trying to test under the conditions of minimal help from the main character, on both offense, and on absorbing blows from her.

If he has level 30 CL and 30

Lightning Mastery with +skills, but no synergies and no negative res, his CL damage is averaging 1.075k per cast, reduced by her 66% lightning res = 365 per cast, it will take him 164 casts to kill

Andariel on his own. He doesn't have FCR on his

Helm or shield. Assuming he is still hitting the 78 fcr breakpoint, that is 13 frames per cast, or 88 seconds, it will take him 1.5 minutes of constant casting to take her down. So he can help some, but not a ton.