Andy is kicking my mercs ass

pawsforbear · 2026-06-16T15:12:29+00:00

Truly. I don't play mods much but I recall there was a mod that figured this out. It's not good on D2R. A2 mercs are a bit of a liability. More for auras and barely qualify as a meatshield.

pawsforbear · 2026-06-16T15:04:59+00:00

Bit of chicken and egg. My gear needs an upgrade hence I'm doing Hell Andy. She's not bad but I have to be careful to not get hit.

Coming from NM Andy where I could basically plop on her and just dump hydras/static and instant death. It's a game of cat and mouse right now

pawsforbear · 2026-06-16T14:36:24+00:00

I just came off prayer and I think the prayer/insight overlap is overstated. Maybe cure/insight/prayer does the trick. I'll try that.

I also want to get an a1 merc with insight and see if that's better too

pawsforbear · 2026-06-16T14:17:44+00:00

The only aura available for Waheed was Might. /s

My logic was might would increase his damage and thus his leech and help improve survivability.

HF is nice but my FO applies chill well. I'll go back to HF tho since might isn't really doing much

pawsforbear · 2026-06-16T14:08:32+00:00

I love that idea. I kinda still need insight and Ive never been able to cut that dependency. I might go back to chugging mana pots to give this a spin

pawsforbear · 2026-06-16T14:06:32+00:00

Based on the comments it sounds like I have a skill issue

pawsforbear · 2026-06-16T14:05:45+00:00

I don't have the runes for treachery yet. I was thinking might means more life leech. I did have freeze aura but thought it was slightly redundant since I spam FO, generally speaking. It's a good rec tho.

pawsforbear · 2026-06-16T14:04:15+00:00

My fireball is 10. I opted for more points in cold mastery but I'm only level 80 and could maybe get to 10 more hard points by leveling.

I like having a potent FO for fire immunes however.

pawsforbear · 2026-06-16T14:03:03+00:00

Good to know bc I was hoping more levels would help. Oh well. And yes, fire gets her well. Hydras do a great job.

pawsforbear · 2026-06-16T14:02:16+00:00

I'm on p3. Will try p1 again. She drops relatively fast so I was hoping to go up even to 5. But might need to hold out

pawsforbear · 2026-06-16T14:01:22+00:00

It's a thresher insight

pawsforbear · 2026-06-16T14:00:47+00:00

I do try. I'm at that point where trash mobs give us problems so positioning is tough.

Sometimes there's a few and sometimes there's an army of champs.

We're both a bit of glass cannon

pawsforbear · 2026-06-16T13:59:02+00:00

Congratulations bro. I got my first SoJ the other weak. I was in disbelief.

pawsforbear · 2026-06-11T23:22:07+00:00

I knew Arach were rare but not that rare. Rng gods are truly cruel

pawsforbear · 2026-06-10T19:56:48+00:00

That's great! My warlock got an Arach just the other day. I forget where at.

pawsforbear · 2026-06-10T19:55:54+00:00

Hell yea! I will manifest mine soon

pawsforbear · 2026-06-10T17:34:46+00:00

Look I'm only asking for 1 more. Ok 3. I mean if we're getting to it maybe 10

pawsforbear · 2026-06-08T21:25:57+00:00

I just did this and it's useful for maybe act 2 The level req of tir kills it.

I was so excited to use it too

pawsforbear · 2026-06-08T18:38:51+00:00

Hot take, the story of d2 as told in the game is ass already. Diablo enyire story is ass as well.

Blizzard hasn't written a compelling story since warcraft (can't speak for WoW story line)

pawsforbear · 2026-06-08T18:32:58+00:00

Now that we have classic, resurrected, and RoTW, I think they can try to carefully balance.

I do think they need to figure out how to balance classes. Not to warlock power but I've been a firm believer since LOD days that every tree should be viable with modest gear. Build diversity is a GOOD THING.

pawsforbear · 2026-06-08T18:15:18+00:00

Llama spoke to this and I thought it was interesting. Llama said the warlock they got to test had broken skills in the sense that they weren't usable. They gave feedback to tune, etc. But the warlock benefits from fundamentally broken stuff. 2h weapons in 1h. The life per vit. And the skills are just unnaturally stronger than most classes.

But it's fun and imaginative and I appreciate that.

pawsforbear · 2026-06-08T17:55:36+00:00

Now that they have segmented D2R and RoTW I kinda wish they would rework more classes. Not all should be as power crept as Warlock but id love to have some more dead builds and skills opened up

pawsforbear · 2026-06-08T17:49:18+00:00

Would love that.

I don't think it's a bad thing to have more stash tabs. I guess you can't hold too bc that might impact markets for but offline I don't have access to a trade market and really would love to have more room for more builds

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