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I started Hell with my Fury Druid few days ago (currently at Act3 Great Marsh, L77 - started Hell at L71, have an Obedience Great Poleaxe)
Since the beginning of Hell, I replaced my Act2 Merc (Might) for the Act5 Merc ( Frenzy - Lawbringer + Frostwind).
After two acts, my impression is that the Merc very rarely procs Decrepify...
In practice, I endup killing the physical immunes myself (have some elemental damage) or skipping them (when the fight staring getting longer...)
I'm starting to think that would be better to get back to the Act 2 Merc and put Lawbringer on my off-hand for "emergencies"...
(currently I'm just using two spirits for summon/buff).
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I started Hell with my Fury Druid few days ago (currently at Act3 Great Marsh, L77 - started Hell at L71, have an Obedience Great Poleaxe)
Since the beginning of Hell, I replaced my Act2 Merc (Might) for the Act5 Merc ( Frenzy - Lawbringer + Frostwind).
After two acts, my impression is that the Merc very rarely procs Decrepify...
In practice, I endup killing the physical immunes myself (have some elemental damage) or skipping them (when the fight staring getting longer...)
I'm starting to think that would be better to get back to the Act 2 Merc and put Lawbringer on my off-hand for "emergencies"...
(currently I'm just using two spirits for summon/buff).
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I started Hell with my Fury Druid few days ago (currently at Act3 Great Marsh, L77 - started Hell at L71, have an Obedience Great Poleaxe)
Since the beginning of Hell, I replaced my Act2 Merc (Might) for the Act5 Merc ( Frenzy - Lawbringer + Frostwind).
After two acts, my impression is that the Merc very rarely procs Decrepify...
In practice, I endup killing the physical immunes myself (have some elemental damage) or skipping them (when the fight staring getting longer...)
I'm starting to think that would be better to get back to the Act 2 Merc and put Lawbringer on my off-hand for "emergencies"...
(currently I'm just using two spirits for summon/buff).
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Can you get a sunder charm?
I have both, a reapers on Merc and a Bone Break (because the Merc's Pathfinding suuuuuuuucks) . -20% (worst case) sure isn't optimal but it's nowhere near as bad as the elemental stuff.
I run this without any extra Phys resist simply because most physical attacks are still hit calculated. So defense and block (where it's applicable) go into that calculation as well.
If you want to offset the loss, grab a String of Ears or verdungos and you should be good.
For the the question itself:
Never tried barbs but my Merc with reapers is working as expected
If you still need a mean of killing Phys immune enemies, use Passion runeword in swap (for Berserk)
I have both, a reapers on Merc and a Bone Break (because the Merc's Pathfinding suuuuuuuucks) . -20% (worst case) sure isn't optimal but it's nowhere near as bad as the elemental stuff.
I run this without any extra Phys resist simply because most physical attacks are still hit calculated. So defense and block (where it's applicable) go into that calculation as well.
If you want to offset the loss, grab a String of Ears or verdungos and you should be good.
For the the question itself:
Never tried barbs but my Merc with reapers is working as expected
If you still need a mean of killing Phys immune enemies, use Passion runeword in swap (for Berserk)
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Still don't have Bone Break or The Reaper's Toll
(But It's my end goal )
But I think that Act2 Merc with The Reaper's Toll will be much much better then Act5 Merc with Lawbringer...
(Act 2 has Might and seems way smarter then Act5... , not to mention that Taunt removes the Decrepify and the Sanctuary 's Knockback can be annoying sometimes - especially with the Ghosts in Arcane Sanctuary...)
(But It's my end goal )
But I think that Act2 Merc with The Reaper's Toll will be much much better then Act5 Merc with Lawbringer...
(Act 2 has Might and seems way smarter then Act5... , not to mention that Taunt removes the Decrepify and the Sanctuary 's Knockback can be annoying sometimes - especially with the Ghosts in Arcane Sanctuary...)
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I run CS with my act5 baba banna.
With the full Sazabi wasabi set + Lawbringer..well..he lays down the law so to speak.
Got a reaper's toll somewhere if u wanna buy it (NL)
With the full Sazabi wasabi set + Lawbringer..well..he lays down the law so to speak.
Got a reaper's toll somewhere if u wanna buy it (NL)
Offer if price is not stated
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I also prefer to use Act 5 Mercs although on my own Fury Wolfy I think I use Reaper's Toll on Act 2 Merc. And if I don't have it setup like that then definitely get elemental dmg weapons combo for your Act 5 Frenzy Barb so he can deal easy-ishly with physical immune, something like Djinn Slayer + Frostwind.
Alternative to this to build yourself another Lawbringer and put it on the Merc as well and let him just be your Decrepify proc supporter.
Alternative to this to build yourself another Lawbringer and put it on the Merc as well and let him just be your Decrepify proc supporter.
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After finishing Hell,
half with Act5 merc with Lawbringer + Frostwind, and half with Ac2 Merc with The Reaper's Toll,
seem to me that unfortunately none of them proc Decrepify enough to realiable deal with physical immunes...
On the other hand Bone Break worked very well for me
Even if no other source of "-physical resistance", I was able deal with them with no much trouble (mercs very very very rarelly proced Decrepify on them before I killed them myself...)
(only played "players 1")
half with Act5 merc with Lawbringer + Frostwind, and half with Ac2 Merc with The Reaper's Toll,
seem to me that unfortunately none of them proc Decrepify enough to realiable deal with physical immunes...
On the other hand Bone Break worked very well for me
Even if no other source of "-physical resistance", I was able deal with them with no much trouble (mercs very very very rarelly proced Decrepify on them before I killed them myself...)
(only played "players 1")
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Are you using some sort of Teleport to better position your merc or is he leisurely jogging after you?fredkid wrote: 11 months ago After finishing Hell,
half with Act5 merc with Lawbringer + Frostwind, and half with Ac2 Merc with The Reaper's Toll,
seem to me that unfortunately none of them proc Decrepify enough to realiable deal with physical immunes...
On the other hand Bone Break worked very well for me
Even if no other source of "-physical resistance", I was able deal with them with no much trouble (mercs very very very rarelly proced Decrepify on them before I killed them myself...)
(only played "players 1")
In the second case, yeah, both kinda tend to suck. In the first (where you save that "merc still running so obv. not proccing anything" window) I for one have never had a problem with reaper's toll as it procs all the time so long as the merc actually attacks.
Though yeah, for P1, Bone Break is typically also perfectly sufficient by itself.
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I get your pointSchnorki wrote: 11 months agoAre you using some sort of Teleport to better position your merc or is he leisurely jogging after you?fredkid wrote: 11 months ago After finishing Hell,
half with Act5 merc with Lawbringer + Frostwind, and half with Ac2 Merc with The Reaper's Toll,
seem to me that unfortunately none of them proc Decrepify enough to realiable deal with physical immunes...
On the other hand Bone Break worked very well for me
Even if no other source of "-physical resistance", I was able deal with them with no much trouble (mercs very very very rarelly proced Decrepify on them before I killed them myself...)
(only played "players 1")
In the second case, yeah, both kinda tend to suck. In the first (where you save that "merc still running so obv. not proccing anything" window) I for one have never had a problem with reaper's toll as it procs all the time so long as the merc actually attacks.
Though yeah, for P1, Bone Break is typically also perfectly sufficient by itself.
Unfortunately I'm on the second case... (he is leisurely jogging after me...)
because using Teleport with Werewolf Druid is a pain... I would need to revert to Human all the time...
(Hopefully they change this in a future patch... )
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