Mercenary Equipment Suggestions?

[Archon_Wing]

No love for hone sudan? Big crushing blow and maybe amn sockets. Not too rare and you can even upgrade it for more oomph. And Kelpie snare, though damage is weak the slows target helps a lot. I find that a defiance merc tends to last a lot longer with that weapon. Insight, of course is a good generic merc weapon. Combine with a prayer merc for some good healing for caster characters. The best weapon ever would probably be infinity, due to its crushing blow and conviction reducing defense to nil. Of course, you probaly won't find a legit one for a long while... However, the other options are more than viable in hell mode, even left as their exceptional versions.

For armors griswold's armor is very good for it's decent defense and you can socket more amyphests to give your merc more str to wear the heavier polearms.
Boneflesh is pretty good for a common armor-- leech and open wounds. You may even try upgrading it to exceptional. It's exceptional cousin toothrow doesn't have leech but it does have str and better defense.

Helm, you want some good leech circlet. Or tal's mask. Gullamine's face would be nice and not impossible to be find as well. The list here goes on as unique and set helms are ridiculously good for the most part. But gambling for circlets usually is a good idea and your best bet. . So in summary leech, leech, and more leech.