Questions about mercs for my Travincal WW horker

I currently have an act 2 merc w/Might aura. He's wearing a

Crown of Thieves and an ethereal and upped Angelic Guardian.

First question is about the weapon. I'm too broke to give him a Breath of the Dying. I've tried both

The Reaper's Toll and Obedience, but they both have cold damage and I shatter some corpses because of it. Which weapon should I give to him?

Second question is about the very merc. Is an act 2 merc w/Might a good choice, or should I go for a different one?

Please remember that I'm broke and I cannot afford things like Breath of the Dying or Grief.

try with uniques such as

Tomb Reaver or

Bonehew

Crescent Moon or even cheaper Insight. i dont believe either has cold damage and both are actually pretty decent for damage especially in

Eth poles

I have a lvl89 act 5 merc. He wears

Guardian Angel and almost never dies. You can use

Headstriker as a weapon if possible. Normal and upped ones work really good. Arreat's or any leech

Helm is ok.

I recommend

Eth

Arioc's Needle:
230% ED, 50% DS, 4 Skills, 30 IAS

brgljez wrote: 3 years ago

try with uniques such as

Tomb Reaver or

Bonehew

I'm gonna start my tests with

Bonehew. What should I socket it with?

Once you Grief your barb, you won't really need your merc. Especially if your goal is to hork, don't need the extra MF/GF from the merc gear and just get after those runes.

Ikarugamesh wrote: 3 years ago

brgljez wrote: 3 years ago

try with uniques such as

Tomb Reaver or

Bonehew

I'm gonna start my tests with

Bonehew. What should I socket it with?

if u have source of LL on armor or

Helm, place 2 shaels. if not

Shael + source of LL

IMO might is the best aura to support a

Whirlwind barbarian. WW and barbarian weapon masteries give a relatively low +% damage bonus compared to other endgame weapon skills, so you get a dramatic increase in physical dps from having might active.

Off-weapon +% damage sources stack additively, so big sources like might give a very large proportional gain when used with fast low-damage skills.

FanciestCrab wrote: 3 years ago

Once you Grief your barb, you won't really need your merc. Especially if your goal is to hork, don't need the extra MF/GF from the merc gear and just get after those runes.

I second this. At least if you're on p1, a merc doesn't really add anything since the runs are so short. Most of the time he won't even activate his aura before everything is dead.

kira +

Guardian Angel wont let him go down easily even without LL, enough time for you to kill everything if you got Grief, i use Insight btw

Kira's Guardian

Upped (

Eth)

Hone Sundan with mixture of

Amn/

Shael is another non-shatter option

I go

The Reaper's Toll/

Guardian Angel/

Kira's Guardian for Trav horking. Yes, you shatter a corpse sometimes, but usually in my travels (and I have done Trav a LOT), I get maybe 1-2 shattered corpses every few runs. There are 11 Council Members, I always count when I hork, and more often than not I will get all 11, or at least 10. I take this over him dying all the time any day of the week because reviving him wastes run time when it's terrorized. He only dies if one of the bosses has

Conviction, and that's only if I can't kill him quickly enough. The

Decrepify curse is just too good for helping kill quicker for me.

Just realized this is a 3 year old necro'd thread xD

@justinman114 I was about to reply and noticed the same thing.

Anyway, it might still be useful if someone finds this:

I like

Kelpie Snare as a budget option. I have one upped with a socket (

Amn rune) and it does the job decently. The merc will slow down monsters without shattering them (not in area like a

Holy Freeze merc, but still nice).