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→12. What mercenary should I get, and what should I equip him with?
The most important statistic on your melee mercenary’s equipment will be Life Steal %. Equip him with a very powerful spear filled with Amns, and he will hardly ever die. Combine it with a Shaftstop for % Damage Reduction and a Vampiregaze/Crown of Thieves, and you shouldn’t have to worry about him for most situations. The only problem is getting that equipment, and ensuring that YOU don’t die as well.
Act 1 rogues make good and speedy mercenaries, and if you're playing Expansion and are on the Ladder (only available through online play), you can give them various items to provide auras. They have For example, you could give them a hidden power Faith bow, which is related to the amount of +skills equipment that they wear. Read would let you free up your own bow slot for something more heredamaging. A smart person gets either However, since Faith is an excellent choice for your own amazon, and a fire or cold rogue and puts bit pricy for many people to put on the amount of +skills to make her shoot the opposite. I.e. give a cold mercenary +skills to get her , there isn't very much these mercenaries add to shoot fire arrows as main attack.. the cold arrows will be shot by the rogue anyway. With a fast trigger the rogue can be quite a killeran amazon's abilities.
The act 2 mercenaries that are not discussed are prayer, blessed aim and thorns. These are in general not very handy, but for amazons that lack lifeleech such as Magazons, a prayer mercenary will be quite good. For spearazons that use Lightning Strike, they will benefit from blessed aim to deliver their spear and gear damage other than just the skill damage. For people that want to get hit a lot they can benefit from the thorns mercenary. Don't forget that both valkyrie and decoy can be quite helpful here because they can be durable distractions as has already been discussed.
Act 3 mercenaries are of the elemental type. Also these can benefit from +skills to boost their damage. Most only choose cold for the freeze effect, but lightning and fire mercenaries can be quite good too, especially if you lack that type of damage. Unfortunately, these mercenaries tend to be very weak, and run out of steam quickly later in the game - not to mention the fact that your valkyrie, if you have one, now has to tank for two people.
Barbarian mercenaries are quite good at tanking. They can use barbarian specific items and therefore have a step up the ladder with helmets. +Bash skills helmets can be quite good and the Barbarian specific Arreat Face is a gem on this companion. If you need another tank to knock back the creatures from your presence, this is the mercenary for you.
