The damage ranges you list I tend to agree with. I agree, but I’m willing to try it out in PTR before I give the 100% to this. Chain lightning would also be a better alternative to charged bolt on the merc.Īnyway, please continue to look into the act 3 merc, since the announcement they would be getting rebalanced I’ve desperately wanted to use one! Even at that point they would probably still pale in comparison to the other mercs. Realistically numbers should range from 5-6k fire, 1-12k light and 3k ice to be viable in high end gear if they include their masteries. Not only would this boost their dps, (when compared to an act 2 merc doing 20k dps it’s laughable) it would also open up synergies for dream/dragon/hoj.

Especially cold and lightning since they have 3 damage synergies to max insread of fire’s 2. I feel like these mercs need more than the standard 3 skill slots, they need more synergies and ideally masteries for their respective elements. While redemption aura would be a nice boost to survivability on the mercs it seems to be coming at the cost of firebolt which means less synergy damage for fireball, which was already pretty sub par to begin with. Even with a 30+ Conviction they are so far off from being decent in Act 1 Hell.So with the New of the upcoming ptr they introduced a pile of great changes, however act 3 mercs are still shaping up to be bottom of the barrel.

I was hoping their niche would be AoE spell damage/alternate immunity help, but its so far off.

They honestly dont add anything over any other mercs in any way and don't leech.they should all get energy shield or somethingĪct 2/5 just as good for attack rating (Blessed aim/Battle cry)Īct 1/2/5 Have more general survivability, obviously being range is an advantage over melee but are worse in every way Iron Wolves still need help though, their damage scaling is still terrible. I think thematically and mechanically it would goĪct1-Belt (Lot of attack speed, pierce, FHR, defenses, etc)Īct2-Ring (probably least powerful slot, would 100% always be ravenfrost) I actually love that idea of the 1 extra item slot.

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