Sazabi's Grand Tribute set for A5 Merc, what would you put into sockets for each items?

I guess something else than IAS since it's already plenty fast?

On mine, what I did:

Cham in

Helm for cbf
Ias+ED in armor (got 31ed for not too much)
ED+minD or MaxD in sword (minD is less expensive and good with the possible low rolls on

Cryptic Sword)

Off hand is Plague in

Eth mythique sword.

assuming

Frenzy merc-

Eth in the weapon, Hustle in the 2nd weapon
[both for mercs ar problems]

Cham in the

Helm seconded.
FHR in the armor (so..

Shael)
and a ED jwl in the weapon.

Skaijuice wrote: 1 year ago

Cham in the

Helm seconded.
FHR in the armor (so..

Shael)
and a ED jwl in the weapon.

This seems uninformed, unless I am the uninformed one.
Barbarian mercs did not have a hit recovery animation in pre-resurrected, and I highly doubt they do now. Thus

Shael in armor is redundant.
Hopefully this is helpful.

Adveloq wrote: 7 months ago

Skaijuice wrote: 1 year ago

Cham in the

Helm seconded.
FHR in the armor (so..

Shael)
and a ED jwl in the weapon.

This seems uninformed, unless I am the uninformed one.
Barbarian mercs did not have a hit recovery animation in pre-resurrected, and I highly doubt they do now. Thus

Shael in armor is redundant.
Hopefully this is helpful.

Skaijuice wrote: 7 months ago

Adveloq wrote: 7 months ago

Skaijuice wrote: 1 year ago

Cham in the

Helm seconded.
FHR in the armor (so..

Shael)
and a ED jwl in the weapon.

This seems uninformed, unless I am the uninformed one.
Barbarian mercs did not have a hit recovery animation in pre-resurrected, and I highly doubt they do now. Thus

Shael in armor is redundant.
Hopefully this is helpful.

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I won't argue against that data existing in a database, the issue is that without an animation, those numbers are moot.
The barbarian merc (pre resurrected) could not be interrupted in any form. It could not be knockbacked nor could it be interrupted by

Stun. So the question becomes, did they fix this when they introduced the new act 5 merc, or not.
I will have to check, but even if they fixed it for the new Fury merc, surely the old one wasn't addressed.

@Skaijuice
I did the testing.

Blunderbores, and their variants, have no effect at all on the act 5 merc.

Mind Blast from assassin can

Stun, but not knock back, and not interrupt.
Barbarian

Stun can

Stun, as can warcry, but they can't interrupt an attack.

Bash can't knock back, does only damage.
Recovery before/after

Stun duration is 0 frames. The animation is simply not there. No staggering at all. And obviously no blocking.

In conclusion, FHR is pointless for act 5 mercenary. You should pick something else than

Shael.

Adveloq wrote: 7 months ago

@Skaijuice
I did the testing.

Blunderbores, and their variants, have no effect at all on the act 5 merc.

Mind Blast from assassin can

Stun, but not knock back, and not interrupt.
Barbarian

Stun can

Stun, as can warcry, but they can't interrupt an attack.

Bash can't knock back, does only damage.
Recovery after

Stun duration is 0 frames.

In conclusion, FHR is pointless for act 5 mercenary. You should pick something else than

Shael.

NICE ! let me review on these feedback!

Skaijuice wrote: 7 months ago

Adveloq wrote: 7 months ago

@Skaijuice
I did the testing.

Blunderbores, and their variants, have no effect at all on the act 5 merc.

Mind Blast from assassin can

Stun, but not knock back, and not interrupt.
Barbarian

Stun can

Stun, as can warcry, but they can't interrupt an attack.

Bash can't knock back, does only damage.
Recovery after

Stun duration is 0 frames.

In conclusion, FHR is pointless for act 5 mercenary. You should pick something else than

Shael.

NICE ! let me review on these feedback!

This is also why the act 5 barbarian is (was back in 1.10 at least) popular in PvP. Even if an assassin is namelocking you with

Mind Blast, you can

Teleport ontop of them and the hireling is guaranteed to get a few hits in. Same with fire traps, hammers, blizzard, and other such setups that are hard to deal with due to instant staggering.

i put

Ruby jewels in each piece (35-40 ed)
Hustle in an

Eth

Mythical Sword 2nd hand
a niche merc, but fun esp. when bos kicks in...