It still lowers the resistance of any monster that isn't immune and thus further boosts your damage. Yes Griffon's is still effective on a Light Sorc without Infinity to break immunity. Other people like super high Defense but I find that my mercenary ends up being easier to kill because Fade doesn't proc as easily. Some people like really low Defense armor so Fade procs almost immediately. I find that 600 is a good balance between allowing Fade to proc early enough and providing enough Defense after Fade has been proc'd. On the Treachery base I personally prefer around 600 Defense. If you choose any other socket, Great Poleaxe actually hits the same breakpoint and does more damage. The 15 IAS Jewel is the ideal socket, especially with Infinity. Do note that this is with Andariel's Visage as the helm with a 15% Increased Attack Speed Jewel inside. For mercs with a lot of crushing blow the extra strike rate can be helpful but in general find your target IAS and go with a gpa or ca.The best base for Insight/Infinity is Giant Thresher with Thresher coming up right behind it. Threshers and giant threshers are typically about 1 frame ahead in attack speed (though gpa is as fast at certain IAS) but the added speed doesn't make up for the significant weapon damage drop (12% less than gpa, 18% less than ca). High damage mercs using ebotd and andy's should use a war pike for max damage instead of a gpa (15ias jewel in andy's is useless for this setup, the optimal breakpoint for ebotdwp is 80ias) A typical high-quality merc (eth fort, eth andy's with 15ias/30fire res jewel, and infinity/insight) will have 35ias and therefore a cryptic axe or colossus voulge will do the most damage per second. Great poleaxes do the most damage over the largest range of IAS, but ca/cv have max damage at important breakpoints. IAS WEAPON (gpa=great poleaxe,ca=cryptic axe,gt=giant thresher) Just found something to end all polearm debateĪct 2 merc base weapon selection (highest damage per second for every IAS)
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