FoH Smiter merc options

Traditionally, I've always gone to the

Prayer+Insight+Cure merc (The Battery merc I've heard some call it). For most parts of the game (certainly TZs which are ideal for FoH paladins) it does well.

Lately, however, I've been having second thoughts. I have an

Eth BoTD GPA and a Reaper's Toll sitting in my shared that I've periodically substituted in certain situations, and both of those seem to greatly increase merc survivability again P7-P8 mobs in areas like CS, WSK, and against many

Herald packs. I have to substitute a row of Mana pots on the

Belt and drink a shit ton, but most of the time you're tripping over mana & health pots when clearing mobs anyway. Max damage on his non-

Eth Insight

Giant Thresher is ~2900 vs ~6K with

Eth BotD GPA, and the attack speed on the latter blows the former out of the water. Reaper's toll only displays I think ~3.5K but the survivability on Reaper's against tanky mobs is through the roof compared to Insight. Plus it also pairs great the

Renewed Bone Break I just picked up recently. Reaper's with it's decrep proc also allows my FoH smiter to cut TZ

Baal down much faster (some may be aware of the decrep glitch that affects him).

Anyways, just kinda curious as to what some people's thoughts might be. Currently debating possibly switching to a Might Aura merc and maybe swapping in one of the abovementioned weapons as the new go-to.

I run an Act1 cold merc with Insight, plays well together with my

Conviction aura to handle non-demons and non-undeads. LL

Helm instead of Cure, and I have one point in

Cleansing that I can switch to if too annoyingly cursed. I run mostly FoH though and

Smite only occasionally.

Btw, my understanding is that your

Renewed Bone Break won't help your merc (but maybe you meant that it improves your own smiting together with

Decrepify - that I guess it will!).