The Mercmancer

The Mercmancer, Ultra high DPS merc that annihilates everything!

Skills:

20 Corpse explosion

20 Golem mastery

1 Decrep

1 Iron golem

Rest bone armor & bone wall & bone prison

Stats:

Enough for items str&dex, rest vita

Gear:

20 fcr circlet with fun adds(necro skills, res, etc)

15+ fcr amu with fun adds(necro skills, res, etc)

Faith bow(great bow for low dex)

Enigma

Trang gloves

Arach

2 Soj's

Treks

Use Pride Iron golem.

Inventory p&b skillers, resist charms, mana charms. All with life preferably.

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Merc:

Always Nightmare Act 2 Merc with:

Botd War Pike

60 Ias armor(with high ED and resists preferably)

Guillaume 15 Ias(with high ED preferably)

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Alternative(less DPS, more CB and stronger CE):

Infinity Colossus Great Poleaxe

60 Ias armor(with high ED and resists preferably)

Guillaume 15 Ias(with high ED preferably)

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Other fun setups:

Eth Tomb Reaver(15/40 15/40 Lo), Fortitude, Guillaume 15/40

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Eth Tomb Reaver(Lo Lo Lo), 60/160 armor, Guillaume 15/40

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Strategy:

Cast amp, Let merc kill monsters, then blow everything up! Owns Players 8 Chaos:



Proof that DPS is higher than on Frenzy barb!

Merc necro damage(damage*DS*Amp to 30% phys res monster)

11012*1.15*(1.7/0.7)=30755 damage

DPS: 30755*25/4=134500

frenzy barb:damage*DS*ED*decrep to 30% phys res monster)

493*1.91*17.92*(1.2)=16874*(1.2)=20249 damage

DPS: 20249*25/5=101244

Merc does 33% more DPS than frenzy barb, Incredible!

Cheap version!

Gear

Eth thresher obedience

andy 15 ias

treachery

Comparison to other cheap builds

merc ED: 1(base) +.60 (lvl 26 jab) + 2.3 (str with andy) + 2.5(might lvl 22)=6.4

eth thresher obedience: (76.5*1.5*4.7 * 6.4 + 600)*25/4.5=22509 DPS, to 30% res monster with amp 22509*1.7=38265 DPS

Compare that to level 30 skels, with lvl 23 might, who do

a distributed(not concentrated on one monster)5365.2*1.7=9120 DPS

Lvl 32 bone spear with maxed synergies(to 25% res monsters, 10 frame cast)

2930*0.75*25/10=5494 DPS

Lvl 32 poison nova(to 30% res monster, 87% lower res, 25% poison damage)

4200*1.25*(0.7+0.87)/2=4121 DPS|||Merc and ce alone is not really that great compared to getting summons. I would not always rely on merc do kill a corpse and doing corpse explosion. Its way more effective making the necro summon/ce with the regular cookie cutter infinity merc.|||Here's a challenge: Build something comparable without Enigma.|||While I generally would agree with you, minuses, the merc with this setup does such ridiculous damage he'd be able to get you a corpse faster than any combination of summons could. He might even be able to one-hit PIs |||This build simply demonstrates that as long as you invest into CE and actively use it, any Bowmancer, Meleemancer, Daggermancer, etcNoveltymancer cannot call themselves anything but a CEMancer.|||Like anyone gets the wealth to do something like this. Also merc damage done and received is reduced vs bosses. That's not good.|||Quote:








Merc and ce alone is not really that great compared to getting summons. I would not always rely on merc do kill a corpse and doing corpse explosion. Its way more effective making the necro summon/ce with the regular cookie cutter infinity merc.





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This build simply demonstrates that as long as you invest into CE and actively use it, any Bowmancer, Meleemancer, Daggermancer, etcNoveltymancer cannot call themselves anything but a CEMancer.




No, it is not just a demonstration that CE + anything can work. In fact quite the opposite, it is demonstration of the BY FAR the highest damage non-CE tool that the necromancer has in his disposal(except possibly high level poison nova), see my recent edit in the poor-man section for comparison to damage output of other builds(though yes, it is reasonable to combine merc mancer with some other skill for even more power, though not strictly necessary given the scale of the DPS differeences)