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Scalewinged
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Make a Yul runeword staff. 6-8 skills and 40-60% enemy resist pierce is good
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Yeah yul is fantastic.
I'd strongly recommend switching to cold/fire or cold/lightning.
Poison is great for when you need to do fauzt, but you're not there yet.

Cold elementals are fantastic meathsield and give you 25% DR.

Also, this:
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Level 100

0-5 Jewels
+On
Sorceress Body Armors
+2 to Sorceress Skill Levels
-(31 to 50)% to All Enemy Resistances
+(251 to 300)% Enhanced Defense
5% Chance to Avoid Damage
Total Character Defense Plus 5%
Miasma Effect Duration: +2 seconds
Slows Attacker by 10%
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On the contrary poison/cold is very good for leveling and midgame. Miasma is like chronofield that does damage.
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Trying to get the most out of my merc. Using a barb, as they seem to be a decent compromise between suvivability and damage output. Trying to figure out what affixes do and don't work. % TCD, %/flat dex, %/flat str, % EWD and, surprisingly, %IAS all work. Partial set bonuses also appear. But what about:


  • MF
  • +to all Skills
  • % Uninterruptable
  • % reflect
  • % life leech

Other questions:


  • How does reflect work in this game? Does it work on ranged/magic?
  • Provided leech works, do mercs suffer the same leech penalty in nm/hell?

And that aside, are there any items that work really well on mercs? I'm just stacking defense and damage however I can currently.

Bleh, should have made this a thread. Thanks in advance
Edited by Daimoth 9 years.
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those all work, but damage reflected is generally useless
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MF on mercs works as addition to your MF. So for example your MF is 100 and merc have equip with 50. So his MF will count as 150.

+skils works for merc as usual. He just have +to his skils

Not sure about uninterruptable, but AFAIK mercs immune to prevent their attack/cast.

Reflect working as usual. It works only for melee weapon damage AFAIK.

PS: and try to use bloodmage merc guide from old forum. He's very tanky and have good damage potential
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Excellent, thanks. What about life leech? Do mercs suffer the same leech penalty in nm/hell?
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Ye. I think so.
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Daimoth
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Thanks, forum people. I'll look into the bloodmage as well.

Edit: one more. Will %DR work on mercs?
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/e I really need to start going to the last page before replying...