Tesladin mercenary help

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LtDrebin

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Tesladin mercenary help

I have a lvl 47 tesladin and I'm not sure what sort of mercenary to get. Wurmer's excellent guide suggests a defiance mercenary, but he did not use holy shield where I am (currently lvl 5, may boost it later), so it won't be as big a help for me. I am also considering a might mercenary, to boost my physical damage some, giving me much better life leech. However, I do not have good weapons, so using might might (heh) be a waste (I'm currently using Aldur's Rhythm). The other option is the holy freeze mercenary, of course. I'm not discounting the effectiveness of the other mercenaries, but to me it seems like they should be equipped well to make as big of an impact as act 2 mercs.

I'm not sure what route I will take once holy shock/resist lightning are maxed. I was considering boosting zeal and sacrifice for more physical damage, but again I don't have good weapons and also doing that would lessen the impact a might mercenary would have IMO. I'm also considering getting holy freeze and resist cold or salvation, (the teslafroster from Wurmer's guide), but then a holy freeze mercenary would be less useful. Last option would be to get vengeance and work on resist fire/cold.

What do you guys think? I've made a frost zealot before, but he got eaten alive in hell and so I'm thinking a tesladin would fare better (~2x more elemental damage). Also, making a crescent moon is much easier than making a doom runeword. Once I find an Um rune, I'll start looking for 3os -20 or -30 weapons for a crescent moon. Maybe that could also help decide on a mercenary.
 
Bonehew or Reapers toll(if you find it) is still better, you want your merc to do a different element damage so I'd go with Holy Freeze if you are sure that you are not gonna use eth doom on him.

Safe your Um rune for your OWN crescent moon sword or just make a Duress.(Both are good choices if you have 2x Um runes)

Try to shop for a Lifetap wand, it helps big time with the leech.
Or if you happen to find Dracul's grasp, that is a BIG plus right there
 
I agree that a Holy Freeze Merc is the way to go. When you don't have great gear to work with in the first place Defiance and Might sort of lose their effectiveness (what good is ~200% enhanced defense or damage when you don't have good base defense or weapon damage to work from?).

Blessed Aim might be another option, but since you plan on using 'Crescent Moon' (ITD) it probably isn't necessary.

Don't bother pumping Holy Freeze or Resist Cold, just concentrate on maximizing your lightning damage and getting a decent amount of Crushing Blow to help take care of lightning immunes.

Phase Blade (-30) is just about your only option for the runeword itself because it has better range and speed than Ataghan/Cutlass (-20). Do whatever it takes to get a 3os PB.
 
IMO you need defiance if your defense can't surpass 10k, in hell many melee monsters are pretty tough and good defense saves lives. Also I wouldn't reject holy freeze merc because the slow down effect is just amazing, it's good to watch the whole world slow down like in the matrix. IMO you merc needs CB to serve you well in boss runs and stuff but also make sure he has full resists so that he doesn't die a lot in hell.

Why the heck are you using aldurs? It's slow as hell for elemental zealers who don't get the huge ias from fanaticism. Even with a phase blade you need 72% for 4 frame zeal so aldurs is not even close. So plz, even a 4 socket phase blade with perfect gems in it will outdo aldurs. Also, the crescent moon is good, but not the best IMO, an azurewrath is the best. Why, because of the 500-1000 cold/magic damage is has and some other sweet mods like sanctuary aura and +1 all skills. Although the -35% enemy light resist from crescent is sweet, it doesn't work against light immunes, so sorry, only conviction and lower resist can break immunities, and all the -% enemy resist mods don't do **** against immunes. But since azure has the huge non-light damage, it dispatches immunes for you in no time.

Speaking of a teslafroster, plz don't make it. This hybrid would really have horrible damage for both light and cold. So a pure tesladin with azurewrath can kill light immunes faster than any teslafroster.

Azurewrath is only worth a um so it's cheap as ****. Cheaper than crescent moon because the um is in the RW itself. Also, although the ITD you won't have on azurewrath, with 6k+ attack rating you can do well in hell. Sure a tesladin will do good in hell. My last tesladin only had the following gears:
Shael'd Azurewrath
Leviathan
Hoz
Saracen's
IK belt
IK gloves
IK boots
um'd shako
2* ravenfrosts
So basically all the items were like 2 ists worth only and he did far better than I expected in hell. He had like 7k attack rating and 1.5k life and 15k defense and 1.2k-6.8k damage. Not only did he solo hell baal easily, he could also tank the minions like ****. So plz, don't make teslafroster, it sux.
 
Regarding teslafroster, I think it's pretty nice. Assuming around +3 to all skills, maxing out salvation will only increase holy shock damage by less than 500 dmg. IMO, saving the 20 points for zeal (AR) or holy shield, or perhaps pumping vengeance or something like that is better. Do you guys agree with that?

As for the azurewrath being that cheap, I looked on some forums for trade values but there was no estimate. Maybe once I have an Um rune I'll do a bit more research.

I'm using aldur's because it's the best 1h weapon I have. I have the general's tan do li ga as well as coldkill. Both of those bring my zeal to 6fpa while aldur's is at 7fpa (I can socket it with IAS if I want to...), but I chose it because it's physical damage is much higher and it has built in dual leech.

Anyway, because my physical damage will be crappy, I'm scrapping the might merc. I'm not sure how much I will put into holy shield, so I can't tell how much of an impact defiance would have for me (more HS means less of an impact defiance will have). Holy freeze is of course excellent, but in Wurmer's guide he said it did not work out too well (but he didn't use holy shield).

Or I could just say "forget it" and go for an act 1 mercenary :P
 
LtDrebin said:
Regarding teslafroster, I think it's pretty nice. Assuming around +3 to all skills, maxing out salvation will only increase holy shock damage by less than 500 dmg. IMO, saving the 20 points for zeal (AR) or holy shield, or perhaps pumping vengeance or something like that is better. Do you guys agree with that?

As for the azurewrath being that cheap, I looked on some forums for trade values but there was no estimate. Maybe once I have an Um rune I'll do a bit more research.

I'm using aldur's because it's the best 1h weapon I have. I have the general's tan do li ga as well as coldkill. Both of those bring my zeal to 6fpa while aldur's is at 7fpa (I can socket it with IAS if I want to...), but I chose it because it's physical damage is much higher and it has built in dual leech.

Anyway, because my physical damage will be crappy, I'm scrapping the might merc. I'm not sure how much I will put into holy shield, so I can't tell how much of an impact defiance would have for me (more HS means less of an impact defiance will have). Holy freeze is of course excellent, but in Wurmer's guide he said it did not work out too well (but he didn't use holy shield).

Or I could just say "forget it" and go for an act 1 mercenary :P
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It'd be better if tesladin using DoomZ...still, the holy freeze level 12 is still no good without conviction aura....

Skip Hybrid builds, it'll only make you weaker between both damages with teslafroster. Go with rest to Holy shield or Salvation something like that, either more defence or more damage.

For weapon choices, you bet you could've done better, use bstar or gimmershred, its all good. If you have Um make a duress, and just get a bstar. Azurewrath is good but still, you ain't gonna weight your @** just to get to level 85 and use it. Fine, if you are level 85, then trade for one. I'd suggest you work on your defence stuff and then probably just use....Passion in scourge or pb or zerk so you can have berzerk to back you up.

List of weapons cheaper weapons that are better than aluders:
Passion
Gimmershred
B-star
Lightsabre(heck better than aluders)
Black scourge
Honor(way better than aluders)
Anything with crushing blow.......list goes on depending on your budget.

dude, I know you can do better without aluders mace, try something else
 
Well yes I can do better than Aldur's Rhythm, but I don't really feel like trading. It just takes too long. I just want to kill things :) Right now, things are dying pretty fast is NM (i'm doing about 1-3100 lightning damage per hit). Yes, this will change in hell, but I'm hoping by then something will drop. 1h uniques seem to drop much more than other items for me.

BTW, i'm using the ward, the unique normal shield. It's really quite good. It has 112 defense, 34 resist all, 56% blocking, and some other mods. It drops quite often. If only I could upgrade it to exceptional...

Anyway, how about the mercenary? :P
 
Hate to say it but I don't think you'll ever solo through hell with that much damage and that equipment now. You need at least a hoz.
 
MegaFlame said:
Hate to say it but I don't think you'll ever solo through hell with that much damage and that equipment now. You need at least a hoz.
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Follow him, HoZ and B-star is minimum, must be above these 2 standards or else not gonna do very well in hell imo.
 
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