50k gold keeps adding up

Bongstrocity

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50k gold keeps adding up

So I just resurrected Ahsab for about the 900th time, and I noticed that when Asheara popped him back out into the camp he was blue and slowed, even though he had previously been deceased. I've never seen this before with poison/green that I can recall either, and have had difficulty replicating it all in terms of getting him killed while he still has a fresh paint job and then making it back to camp to get him a fresh lazarus. Is this weird or have I just missed this aspect for the near decade i've been with this game?

Also, he's level 89 and seems to have a cracked sash's survival rate. I have him geared with an insight scythe to keep damage low for IM in chaos with a steelskull and gladiator's bane to try to get some leech and damage reduction. I still haven't socketed the helm or armor, would a couple of sol's solve the problem, some other rune, or is my only option adding damage to help with the leech and just sucking back blues in the sanctuary? Is glad bane not what it used to be? And would leveling up to 90-92ish change his odds much?

Thanks guys:thumbup:

Update: okay something is actually up because it's like thirteen minutes later and he's still effing blue. obstinate bastard.

Man, I wish I had 50k Gold. That would go a long.... long.... long way. I'm not sure I'd be able to even spend it all.

maybe it would buy you another christmas hat :|


 
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Man, I wish I had 50k Gold. That would go a long.... long.... long way. I'm not sure I'd be able to even spend it all.
 
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Is he actually slowed, or just blue in color? I've had mercs continue to have altered color after an effect wears off, mostly with poison.

So, he's dying a lot, right? What kind of character is he used by? What's killing him the most (or is it only physical damage)? If this is for a sorceress, you could hold the insight scythe yourself in CS. Is this for questing or area running?
 
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This is an MF hammerdin (never really used a hammmerdin before, always been partial to something less practical, but with the ladder reset looming i figured get a little bang for my buck since this guy unloaded a 681 eth/zod HoZ onto me) He seems to die mostly from IM honestly, or else from large packs of projectiles like vipers or witches. Also i should probably mention he's a prayer merc for the synergy with insight (i'm fairly confident that works?)

Also another update: he's not slowed, which could be the result of the CBF on Gbane? But he's still blue after repeatedly dying and resurrecting. Haven't tried leaving / rejoining or killing off my character to see if those reset his color. Akara didn't cure it, and having him stand next to andariel and mephisto didn't result in any green/poison look so maybe i'm just stuck with a smurf for a sidekick?

Edit: Achmel turned him green, then Bartuc killed him, now he's normal again... so much for the excitement
 
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Hmm, in one game my act 1 merc got blue too while under attack from a conviction aura monster, she froze in place and even after I killed the mobs she still had conviction and was blue, the mobs wouldnt attack her either, it was like she wasnt there, did tp a few times, still there, entered tristam and she appeared, still blue and attacking this time, she remained blue for like an hour until she came back to normal for the same reasont that she became blue.

Try a red portal =P otherwise leave and enter game. its a pity though, I wish my merc would have stayed blue with conviction forever, people would go crazy over it.
 
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Considering your merc.
IM is the single reason i dont run CS, to much of a hassle to ty and keep my slave alive.
If you have low enough damage to not get one hitted from IM you generaly do to too little damage to to leech properly.
Swap the helm for something with greater leech vamp gaze/CoT comes to mind and throw in a sol or two in the mix.
IIRC vipers does about 40-50 dam/frame and my merc with 34 PDR laughs at them, gladiators bane rocks.
 
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CBF doesn't stop slowing due to holy freeze, fyi.

Yeah, IM will kill melee characters. So, don't use one. My hammerdin runs CS with this:

Cold Iron Wolf
Lawbringer (for the Sanctuary aura)
Skin of the Vipermagi (dex jewel)
Spirit (eth monarch)
Crown of Thieves (amethyst, for dex and str)

I get my mana from Meditation, Redemption and mana pots. Having an Insight merc is nice, but it simply doesn't work well in CS. The cold iron wolf does shatter corpses sometimes, which is a pain since you're relying mostly on Redemption for mana, but it does provide nice crowd control.

I sorc can use teleport to keep the merc out of trouble, but a hammerdin with enigma needs to be in the middle of a mob in order to kill things.

Bongstrocity said:
Also i should probably mention he's a prayer merc for the synergy with insight (i'm fairly confident that works?)

It does.

Flax said:
IIRC vipers does about 40-50 dam/frame and my merc with 34 PDR laughs at them, gladiators bane rocks.

I'm glad you mentioned that. I just took my kicker down to the halls of vaught. I killed Nihlathak, but then thought I'd run him a few times. There were only 2 or 3 vipers on the first run: dflight, kill. No bug problems. The second run was nasty, though. The merc went down fast, and I had to S&E. Now the merc wears this:

Jeweler's Gothic Plate of Amicae
Gothic Plate
Defense: 134
Durability: 55 of 55
Required Level: 47
Required Strength: 70
Fingerprint: 0x7c3c6f5a
Item Level: 90
Version: Expansion 1.10+
Damage Reduced by 38
4 Sockets (4 used)
Socketed: Sol Rune
Socketed: Sol Rune
Socketed: Sol Rune
Socketed: Sol Rune

And I'm wearing Gbane (18 pdr+sol, maybe I'll put a sol in the helm). The sin also has 50% DR.
 
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I just let him plow it to the IM and then leave him dead if I need to.

On my necro, I am willing to watch him die because he gets the first body down.
 
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Now the merc wears this:

Jeweler's Gothic Plate of Amicae
Gothic Plate
Defense: 134
Durability: 55 of 55
Required Level: 47
Required Strength: 70
Fingerprint: 0x7c3c6f5a
Item Level: 90
Version: Expansion 1.10+
Damage Reduced by 38
4 Sockets (4 used)
Socketed: Sol Rune
Socketed: Sol Rune
Socketed: Sol Rune
Socketed: Sol Rune

And I'm wearing Gbane (18 pdr+sol, maybe I'll put a sol in the helm). The sin also has 50% DR.

An epic merc armour that one, i'm envious :thumbup:


 
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