Decoy vs. Valkyrie

[whyBish]

Of course, the main drawback is that the decoy doesn't do damage.

OK, I got to 81 in HC ladder with an LF zon (before a dolls incident), and had almost maxed valk. Even at max she doesn't do noticeable damage, my a3 cold merc was helping me more against lit immunes than the valk, so if that is your *only* reason I would go decoy. However, my personal pref was to keep a Valk up and use decoy as a scout, or to draw out enemies slowly. As long as a valk does not get poisoned she will regen fully in what looks to me like 5-8 seconds. How high to take her depends on how much you have invested in the D/A/E passives. Since mine were all around slvl11 I could probably have left the valk at a much lower level, but was hoping for an alternative damage source vs lit immunes (... which was not the case).