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Guardian Angel vs. Fortitude for merc

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Thoughts on which is better?

Guardian Angel vs. Fortitude

GA
Pros: increased resist caps
Cons: Not much else except AR to demons

Fort
Pros: 25-30% resists, +5 lightning

Cap, +300% enhanced damage (no idea how that is calculated on a body armor), +X to life
Cons: Doesn't reach that 90% resist

Cap that GA does

I have GA and I happen to have a nice

Eth 4os

Wire Fleece for Fortitude, so I'm on the fence about it.

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FerociousTerrier `11`

1 hour ago (pre-Resurrected)

Thoughts on which is better?

Guardian Angel vs. Fortitude

GA
Pros: increased resist caps
Cons: Not much else except AR to demons

Fort
Pros: 25-30% resists, +5 lightning

Cap, +300% enhanced damage (no idea how that is calculated on a body armor), +X to life
Cons: Doesn't reach that 90% resist

Cap that GA does

I have GA and I happen to have a nice

Eth 4os

Wire Fleece for Fortitude, so I'm on the fence about it.

Queegon `1003`

1 hour ago (pre-Resurrected)

Guardian Angel for

Travincal runs, that's it. Using one on my barb's barb who is just an aura-on-a-stick.

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FerociousTerrier `11`

1 hour ago (pre-Resurrected)

Queegon wrote: 1 hour ago

Guardian Angel for
Travincal runs, that's it. Using one on my barb's barb who is just an aura-on-a-stick.

What aura is your Act 5 merc carrying and from what equip?

Queegon `1003`

1 hour ago (pre-Resurrected)

FerociousTerrier wrote: 1 hour ago

Queegon wrote: 1 hour ago

Guardian Angel for
Travincal runs, that's it. Using one on my barb's barb who is just an aura-on-a-stick.
What aura is your Act 5 merc carrying and from what equip?

Double Last Wish for lvl 34 might aura. Act 2 Merc can't turn his on quickly enough and Pride with freeze goes against

Find Item.

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pyropy `83`

1 hour ago (pre-Resurrected)

If you don't need your merc's offense, GA with Vamp Gaze both

Um'd makes for an extremely tanky merc.

Queegon `1003`

1 hour ago (pre-Resurrected)

pyropy wrote: 1 hour ago
If you don't need your merc's offense, GA with Vamp Gaze both
Um'd makes for an extremely tanky merc.

Agreed.
Either

Guardian Angel +

Vampire Gaze for elemental runs or

Shaftstop +

Vampire Gaze for everything else is the go-to for survivability.

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FerociousTerrier `11`

58 minutes ago (pre-Resurrected)

Queegon wrote: 1 hour ago

FerociousTerrier wrote: 1 hour ago

Queegon wrote: 1 hour ago

Guardian Angel for
Travincal runs, that's it. Using one on my barb's barb who is just an aura-on-a-stick.
What aura is your Act 5 merc carrying and from what equip?
Double Last Wish for lvl 34 might aura. Act 2 Merc can't turn his on quickly enough and Pride with freeze goes against
Find Item.

Wow! That is... Expensive... And awesome. Just imagining my Lister on Lvl 34 steroids right now...

I am currently planning out Act 1 merc with Mist or Faith + GA/Fortitude + Kira/Vamp, but also waiting to see what happens with demons in the next patch. Since both

Concentration and

Fanaticism might be possible rolls, perhaps should think more about Might auras from merc.

FerociousTerrier `11`

49 minutes ago (pre-Resurrected)

pyropy wrote: 1 hour ago
If you don't need your merc's offense, GA with Vamp Gaze both
Um'd makes for an extremely tanky merc.

Good thinking. I currently have GA and Kira on my Act 2 merc, but he continues to cost me 50K. I will start looking for a vamp gaze and

Um.

My Act 1 merc survived all the way through Hell with only a couple of revives. I'm thinking of going back to her for a Faith or Mist runeword on a

Hydra Bow. She was using Edge on a

Spider Bow previously, and while I don't depend on her offense, she actually did well sniping mobs coming from the back end, so I'm curious what her damage output would be with a nice bow and Fortitude. But an expensive bow with auras is only good on a live merc...