09-15-2004, 10:32 PM
hmmm,
noggin covering I tend to go with a blood craft helm, lifesteal and a chance for double damage, as well as some potentially good random stuff. If you can get hold of one, a Rockstopper or a vampiregaze (although that has lots of stuff that is useless to a merc, so it's a bit of a waste.) Or a crown of ages (I suspect that if you had one of these, you'd be wearing it)
Weapons, well, an amn rune for lifesteal could be an option, but it seems like a waste of a socket, same for a nef/knockback. Don't suppose you have Sur Cham Amn & Lo, do you? Hand of justice is pretty powerful.
Hmm, about the only achievable thing that I've suggested is the blood craft helm, a lot of my mercs wear them. I've never found that a merc needs AR (this is probably wrong, infact, I guarantee you that it's wrong, I just tend to find that it makes little difference when I'm playing, mostly because I rarely have high AR items to give to my mercs to test), so, other than that the sigons is useless. Besides, you're not even getting the AR bonus... ditch the helm, a decent sallet will give you more defense and the +mana is useless.
You might be able to pay a high level character to buy you a magic armet (or get one with a different character & do the crafting there as well, be warned that you might get something with a high level req though)
Notes:
read this with a shovel of salt, most stuff that I say about D1 & D2 tends to end up being shown to be wrong.
-Bob
noggin covering I tend to go with a blood craft helm, lifesteal and a chance for double damage, as well as some potentially good random stuff. If you can get hold of one, a Rockstopper or a vampiregaze (although that has lots of stuff that is useless to a merc, so it's a bit of a waste.) Or a crown of ages (I suspect that if you had one of these, you'd be wearing it)
Weapons, well, an amn rune for lifesteal could be an option, but it seems like a waste of a socket, same for a nef/knockback. Don't suppose you have Sur Cham Amn & Lo, do you? Hand of justice is pretty powerful.
Hmm, about the only achievable thing that I've suggested is the blood craft helm, a lot of my mercs wear them. I've never found that a merc needs AR (this is probably wrong, infact, I guarantee you that it's wrong, I just tend to find that it makes little difference when I'm playing, mostly because I rarely have high AR items to give to my mercs to test), so, other than that the sigons is useless. Besides, you're not even getting the AR bonus... ditch the helm, a decent sallet will give you more defense and the +mana is useless.
You might be able to pay a high level character to buy you a magic armet (or get one with a different character & do the crafting there as well, be warned that you might get something with a high level req though)
Notes:
read this with a shovel of salt, most stuff that I say about D1 & D2 tends to end up being shown to be wrong.
-Bob