Thinking about taking the dive...

[pakman]

Yes, it sounds counter-productive, but it works well in Normal difficulty. I don't have the luxury of being able to connect online at home to twink characters, etc. The main curse I use now is AD to get the first kill. I like my minions in normal to stay alive a little longer. Once I get to NM, I switch to a Might merc so he kills faster and I don't need to use AD anymore. Once the NM merc is bought, I switch to IM and use and IG mainly made out of weapons so they do more damage and get that kill even faster.

When I face the frenzied moon lords in A4, I don't want my merc to bite it ASAP, I want it to beable to take him down. The frozen aura merc is no good because I don't want the bodies to shatter and I want the monster close. The Prayer merc might be the other option to refill health faster, but that really doesn't matter when you fight bosses. Might will be useful against anything not PI, but that and Defiance are the only viable options. I don't want a rogue cause I need a tank. Skeletons die way too easily, and I don't like revives, although reviving OKs is really nice. I've done this enough times to know what works for me.