Doom on a act2 merc?

has anyone tried this?

IMHO that's a waste for

Ohm +

Lo +

Cham. If you want

Holy Freeze for survivability just take a

Holy Freeze merc and give him an Insight polearm.

Or Breath of the Dying for a big life leech.

There's a couple builds I used to run this with.

Essentially, if you want A2 for their inherent aura (other than freeze, obv.) and you don't need them to wield a different aura stick (Insight, Infinity, ...) then Doom ends up a pretty solid choice, both for their damage and for adding on a solid defensive aura.

Kriss_De_Valnor_ wrote: 4 hours ago

Or Breath of the Dying for a big life leech.

BotD works pretty well actually. Also means you can skip that life leech on the other gear slots!

I used it along with

Defiance on a Hammerdin build for maximum safety. It worked very well! Add a Fortitude and some LL/DR

Helm and you end up with a VERY solid tank merc.

Doom can be a good alternative for all builds that don't need Infinity or Insight and opens up the option to combine

Holy Freeze with Might,

Prayer or

Defiance.

I am actually building this way also, currently looking for a good Doom base. What I have in mind is this:

This act 2 merc will supporting my

Fireball sorc. He will use

Prayer as main aura and Doom for

Holy Freeze.

atari wrote: 4 hours ago

IMHO that's a waste for

Ohm +

Lo +

Cham. If you want

Holy Freeze for survivability just take a

Holy Freeze merc and give him an Insight polearm.

The problem with native

Holy Freeze is that, it takes sometime for this aura to get activated. I often finish one run before native

Holy Freeze would get activated. But

Holy Freeze on the Doom will always be activated once I get into the game.

Prayer aura would be very benificial to my fire girl. for typically 3-5 runs, I would find myself need to drink a health potion, if she would have the

Prayer aura, I dont think she will be needing any potion at all.

For other gears,

Fireball girl will pass

Resist Fire aura to the merc, so it is safe to use

Andariel's Visage. And I have secured a near perfect ethereal

The Gladiator's Bane for the armor.

I am also thinking put one

Vex rune on the

Helm and one

Um rune on the body armor. havnt decided yet.

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The problem with native

Holy Freeze is that, it takes sometime for this aura to get activated. I often finish one run before native

Holy Freeze would get activated. But

Holy Freeze on the Doom will always be activated once I get into the game.

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yes, so i'm thinking Doom + might for my bowazon's merc.
Faith + 2 frame

Strafe +

Atma's Scarab = quick amp, so emilio does not need reaper's toll

anyway thanks for the feedback!