Fortitude of Chains of Honor

I am contemplating just getting every little bit of damage or survivability from items, so I was wondering what your opinion is about

Eth Fortitude vs.

Eth Chains of Honor for an Act 2 mercenary using an etheral Reaper's Toll and an etheral

Vampire Gaze.

Fortitude, by far. it provides all res also. In late game will be enough to marc achieve 75 all res. You already have two physical damage reductions sources.

Vampire Gaze and when procs decripify.

Fortitude
The most common set up for Act 2 mercenary is: Fortitude +

Andariel's Visage + Infinity

The

Chilling Armor trigger increase his defense a lot too.

fredkid wrote: 7 months ago

Fortitude
The most common set up for Act 2 mercenary is: Fortitude +

Andariel's Visage + Infinity

The

Chilling Armor trigger increase his defense a lot too.

I guess I should have been a bit more specific. I am playing a tesladin with my own

Conviction.

Dnasty225 wrote: 7 months ago

fredkid wrote: 7 months ago

Fortitude
The most common set up for Act 2 mercenary is: Fortitude +

Andariel's Visage + Infinity

The

Chilling Armor trigger increase his defense a lot too.

I guess I should have been a bit more specific. I am playing a tesladin with my own

Conviction.

In this case the merc gear doesn't make much difference. A dreamer paladin destroys everything. Still, a Fortitude is, by far the best armor for mercs.

Fortitude +

Andariel's Visage +

The Reaper's Toll
(in the cases of where

Decrepify is better than

Conviction

another common setup is
Fortitude + Cure + Insight (and Merc using

Prayer aura), for triple Healing (

Prayer +

Meditation and

Cleansing synergies)

Dnasty225 wrote: 7 months ago

fredkid wrote: 7 months ago

Fortitude
The most common set up for Act 2 mercenary is: Fortitude +

Andariel's Visage + Infinity

The

Chilling Armor trigger increase his defense a lot too.

I guess I should have been a bit more specific. I am playing a tesladin with my own

Conviction.

fredkid wrote: 7 months ago

Fortitude +

Andariel's Visage +

The Reaper's Toll
(in the cases of where

Decrepify is better than

Conviction

another common setup is
Fortitude + Cure + Insight (and Merc using

Prayer aura), for triple Healing (

Prayer +

Meditation and

Cleansing synergies)

Dnasty225 wrote: 7 months ago

fredkid wrote: 7 months ago

Fortitude
The most common set up for Act 2 mercenary is: Fortitude +

Andariel's Visage + Infinity

The

Chilling Armor trigger increase his defense a lot too.

I guess I should have been a bit more specific. I am playing a tesladin with my own

Conviction.

Yeah, Cure is so expensive on Non ladder, but I may try and give that a go with my smiter for the

Lilith fights, especially.

Treachery is as strong as Fortitude but way less expensive.

Will grant merc IAS +

Fade.
More IAS = more damage = more survavibility.
And

Fade increase survavibility a lot.

CoH is mainly used for Ubers. For char and for mercenary.

It sucks to deal with single-digit percentage procs though. I have Treachery on all three of my level 98 Act 2 mercs, but trying to get

Fade to proc is ridiculous sometimes. I was soloing

Chaos Sanctuary yesterday before the TZ hour, and I intentionally left Emilio to his own devices so he could get hit to proc

Fade. It never did for two runs in a row and instead he died 3-4 times to p1 trash in the

River of Flame and

Chaos Sanctuary because I was too slow to feed him a full rejuv. It's even worse in

Travincal against the council.

For my next character, I'm making an ethereal Fortitude for that Act 2 merc because having that merc stay alive is more critical to the build than it was to the three characters I've already built.

Snakecharmed wrote: 7 months ago

It sucks to deal with single-digit percentage procs though. I have Treachery on all three of my level 98 Act 2 mercs, but trying to get

Fade to proc is ridiculous sometimes. I was soloing

Chaos Sanctuary yesterday before the TZ hour, and I intentionally left Emilio to his own devices so he could get hit to proc

Fade. It never did for two runs in a row and instead he died 3-4 times to p1 trash in the

River of Flame and

Chaos Sanctuary because I was too slow to feed him a full rejuv. It's even worse in

Travincal against the council.

For my next character, I'm making an ethereal Fortitude for that Act 2 merc because having that merc stay alive is more critical to the build than it was to the three characters I've already built.

What kind of base are you looking for in Fortitude?

Dnasty225 wrote: 7 months ago

Snakecharmed wrote: 7 months ago

It sucks to deal with single-digit percentage procs though. I have Treachery on all three of my level 98 Act 2 mercs, but trying to get

Fade to proc is ridiculous sometimes. I was soloing

Chaos Sanctuary yesterday before the TZ hour, and I intentionally left Emilio to his own devices so he could get hit to proc

Fade. It never did for two runs in a row and instead he died 3-4 times to p1 trash in the

River of Flame and

Chaos Sanctuary because I was too slow to feed him a full rejuv. It's even worse in

Travincal against the council.

For my next character, I'm making an ethereal Fortitude for that Act 2 merc because having that merc stay alive is more critical to the build than it was to the three characters I've already built.

What kind of base are you looking for in Fortitude? and I agree with about the Treachery once the

Fade procs then its ok but until then he might as well not have any armor on

Chains of Honor is mostly used on a merc if you need a source of life leech on the chest, or you need to overcap res

This is Grief tesladin? If so, then you mostly just want your merc to stay alive and proc

Decrepify. If he also kills something, that's great, but that's not his main job in my opinion

Fort is nice for survival because it has res and damage (=more life leech). But even Treachery is good enough and might proc

Decrepify a bit more on average. But the

Fade is not reliable, especially if you do short runs

Dnasty225 wrote: 7 months ago

What kind of base are you looking for in Fortitude?

It's probably going into what I have on hand right now, which is either an 880 def ethereal 12% ED superior

Kraken Shell (working out to 2467 def) or 887 def ethereal 6% ED superior

Shadow Plate (2576 def, but its higher strength requirement significantly delays when I can give it to the merc, and it's also heavyweight armor).

I could trade for something better, but since I'm not going to re-roll this Fortitude like I did for my own to get 1.5 HP/level and minimum 27@, I don't care that much when the only thing of value being spent here will be a single

Lo. Otherwise, I'd need to spend multiple

Jah and this idiot merc isn't worth that to me.

On the other hand, both Fortitude armors that I've made for my own use have gone into a 15% ED superior

Archon Plate.

Snakecharmed wrote: 7 months ago

Dnasty225 wrote: 7 months ago

What kind of base are you looking for in Fortitude?

It's probably going into what I have on hand right now, which is either an 880 def ethereal 12% ED superior

Kraken Shell (working out to 2467 def) or 887 def ethereal 6% ED superior

Shadow Plate (2576 def, but its higher strength requirement significantly delays when I can give it to the merc, and it's also heavyweight armor).

I could trade for something better, but since I'm not going to re-roll this Fortitude like I did for my own to get 1.5 HP/level and minimum 27@, I don't care that much when the only thing of value being spent here will be a single

Lo. Otherwise, I'd need to spend multiple

Jah and this idiot merc isn't worth that to me.

On the other hand, both Fortitude armors that I've made for my own use have gone into a 15% ED superior

Archon Plate.

I have an archon fort with 29 res 26 res and a 13%ed

Boneweave 27 res if you are interested in any we can work something out