Travincal - What am I doing wrong ?

tatarjj wrote: 2 years ago

Actually, I would like a tip about

Travincal- what do you do you Trav barbs do to keep your Merc alive? Right now, I'm still going the budget route- I gave him a

Guardian Angel,

Crown of Thieves, and 3 OS

Tomb Reaver (socketed with 3

Amn runes for 21% life leech). He still seems to die sometimes, even with 33% life leech! Quite an achievement.

I was thinking about trading for an

Eth 3OS

Tomb Reaver (could be expensive!) trading for an

Eth

Guardian Angel and socketing it with a

Vex rune (+5% max fire res), and giving him an Andy's Visage socketed with a

Ral... but I donno... that's a lot to invest and I'm not sure it would work. What have you guys found effective?

basicdad wrote: 2 years ago

tatarjj wrote: 2 years ago

Actually, I would like a tip about

Travincal- what do you do you Trav barbs do to keep your Merc alive? Right now, I'm still going the budget route- I gave him a

Guardian Angel,

Crown of Thieves, and 3 OS

Tomb Reaver (socketed with 3

Amn runes for 21% life leech). He still seems to die sometimes, even with 33% life leech! Quite an achievement.

I was thinking about trading for an

Eth 3OS

Tomb Reaver (could be expensive!) trading for an

Eth

Guardian Angel and socketing it with a

Vex rune (+5% max fire res), and giving him an Andy's Visage socketed with a

Ral... but I donno... that's a lot to invest and I'm not sure it would work. What have you guys found effective?

You don't have to use Ethereal items for Trav survival because the majority of damage is Fire and Lightning. I currently have mine with

Guardian Angel,

Kira's Guardian and

The Reaper's Toll. My merc rarely dies unless he gets ganged up on from Fanatasism or

Conviction Aura's.

All of those items are not expensive to trade right now.

tatarjj wrote: 2 years ago

basicdad wrote: 2 years ago

tatarjj wrote: 2 years ago

Actually, I would like a tip about

Travincal- what do you do you Trav barbs do to keep your Merc alive? Right now, I'm still going the budget route- I gave him a

Guardian Angel,

Crown of Thieves, and 3 OS

Tomb Reaver (socketed with 3

Amn runes for 21% life leech). He still seems to die sometimes, even with 33% life leech! Quite an achievement.

I was thinking about trading for an

Eth 3OS

Tomb Reaver (could be expensive!) trading for an

Eth

Guardian Angel and socketing it with a

Vex rune (+5% max fire res), and giving him an Andy's Visage socketed with a

Ral... but I donno... that's a lot to invest and I'm not sure it would work. What have you guys found effective?

You don't have to use Ethereal items for Trav survival because the majority of damage is Fire and Lightning. I currently have mine with

Guardian Angel,

Kira's Guardian and

The Reaper's Toll. My merc rarely dies unless he gets ganged up on from Fanatasism or

Conviction Aura's.

All of those items are not expensive to trade right now.

I was using those three items, but I got rid of Reaper's Toll because the mercenary was shattering enemies with the cold damage and not allowing me to hork them. My merc does live MOST of the time.

Tomb Reaver has a lot of all res so Kira's isn't needed (hence the switch to

Crown of Thieves), but the

Decrepify proc on

The Reaper's Toll is sorely missed.

basicdad wrote: 2 years ago

Ah, frozen didn’t matter for my Hammerdin. Kira’s is still good for the “cannot be frozen” though.

Tomb Reaver makes more sense for you. Throw a couple

Amn runes for life steal and maybe a good ED% jewel.

klmklm27 wrote: 2 years ago

you're lucky indeed (or me unlucky)
more than 100 runs for me since last

Sur and ... nothing up a

Hel
(including the last 2 hours)