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Act 2 Desert Mercenary

Insight, Holy Freeze

Mercenary Gear Options

General

• Bonespear deals damage in a straight line, with a decent width, and pierces every target to the end of it's trajectory. You want to have monsters in tightly packed areas, preferably bottlenecked in corridors.
• For areas that you cannot funnel monsters, Boneprison allows you to artificially create corridors by boxing monsters into place and allowing you to pick off big packs at your leisure.
• For Magic Immunes, or monsters packs that are stuck BUT wide spread, you can employ corpseexplosion to deal wider AoE Physical and Fire Damage.
• Tip: Make sure to cast amplifydamage before casting corpseexplosion to maximize your Physical Damage.
• Note: boneprison can box you into some dangerous scenarios by cutting off your ability to maneuver. It can also trap you inside its inner ring with dangerous monsters. Familiarize yourself with boneprison's radius to get a good sense of when and where to use it.
• Note 2: boneprison and bonewall cause monsters to aggro from much further away than they typically would. This does help to wrangle up more monsters to increase farming speed, but may draw in unwanted attention from highly dangerous monster types. The most notable example would be Gloams which cast high damage lightning and can catch players unawares.
• claygolem is an amazingly sturdy speed-bump and a 1 point wonder, as Golem stats scale with increasing difficulty.
• Without Teleport you cannot remove yourself from inconvenient or dangerous scenarios caused by being boxed into your boneprison.

Immunities

• Decrepify drastically reduces Attack speed, Physical Damage, animation speed, and Physical Damage Reduction of affected monsters. amplify damage has an even larger impact on Physical Damage Reduction.
• lowerresist reduces enemy Resistances, most notably, their Fire Resistance which can break their Immunity. This allows our corpseexplosion Fire Damage component to kill otherwise Immune monsters.
• bonebreak allow us to never face Physical Immunes while farming, and increases our effective corpseexplosion damage.

Late-Game

• With teleport you can safely reposition if and when you close yourself into a boneprison. Once you are at a safe distance and monsters are locked into place, you can continue to cast boneprison as long as needed to round up targets for bonespear.
• Using teleport brings your Mercenary to your position, so you can save them from dangerous situations.
• Intentionally boxing in other players with boneprison is considered griefing, and should be avoided when possible.
• For Uber farming lifetap is best used on a team that is dealing damage with weapon attacks. decrepify is a great option if your team is primarily using spell-based attacks.

Faster Cast Rate (FCR)

Faster Hit Recovery (FHR)

Stat Point Changes

• Allocate 171 Stat Points to Dexterity at by Level 99 for 75% Chance to Block for Stormshield.
• Allocate 128 Stat Points to Dexterity at by Level 99 for 75% Chance to Block for Homunculus Hierophant Trophy.

Item Changes

• Use Stormshield to maximize Physical Damage Reduction, Resistances, and Chance to Block.
• Use Homunculus to maximize Resistances, Chance to Block and Faster Block Rate.
• Use of Shimmering Small Charm of Vita for more Maximum Life instead of Better Chance to Find Magic Items.
• Use String of Ears or Verdungo's Hearty Cord for + xx% Damage Reduction.

• teleport allows a Player to select any square within the total range of the visible screen and teleport to that location, bringing any Mercenary or Minions with it. (Other than Traps).
• You are able to teleport an even farther distance by holding down right click and opening either the Attributes or Inventory screen and dragging your mouse to the edge of the screen in that window, while casting.
• Teleporting is not obstructed by walls or other impediments but can fail if your cursor is not completely passed those impediments when cast.
• In single player, clicking the Escape key after teleporting can give you enough time to determine if you are in a safe location before continuing. If you teleported into a sticky situation, consider Save and Exiting and try again.
• Depending on Minion type, your Minions/Mercenary becomes “stuck” to the spot you have teleported, so you often have to move from this spot to allow your Minions to spread out. Get into the habit of moving backwards after every teleport to give your Minions this opportunity.

• The speed of this Skill is based on Cast Rate.
• Fires a projectile in a straight line which pierces and deals Magic Damage to any target within its path until it expires

• The speed of this Skill is based on Cast Rate.
• Shoots out a number of projectiles in a cone-shaped arrangement in the direction of the cursor. The closer your cursor is to the Character, the wider the spread of the projectiles. Going far away concentrates them heavily.
• Each target can only get hit by 1 projectile. A projectile hitting a target is destroyed, while the remaining projectiles pass that target without colliding with it.
• Teeth causes a Next Hit Delay timer of 4 Frames (0.16 seconds) in which no Next Hit Delay Skill can damage that target.

• The speed of this Skill is based on Cast Rate.
• Creates a circle of walls around a selected target. Gaps can occur when obstacles or units are in the way, allowing the target to escape.
• The walls collapse, when either one segment is destroyed or when it expires after 24 seconds at all Skill Levels.
• Walls obstruct the pathing of all monsters except for flying monster types such as Wraiths, Willowisps, etc. It also blocks most ranged attacks. Exceptions are piercing projectiles and Throwing Spear attacks, like from they monster type Slinger.
• After being damaged, they regenerate 2 Life per second.
• Despite being "summoned", the walls are not considered pets, therefore Summon Resist won't apply, and they take 100% damage from bosses (Andariel, Duriel, etc.), not 400%.
• Auras and Buffs from party members do not apply.
• Conviction and other hostile Auras do apply.
• Life and Mana stolen per hit don't return anything from walls. They also can't be chilled as they are immobile.
• Cannot be cursed, however, Battle Cry and Cloak of Shadows do apply when used.
• Monsters that are killed by Iron Maiden don't grant experience.
• Surrounding monsters are drawn to the Bone Prison from off-screen. Be aware of this!

• The speed of this Skill is based on Cast Rate.
• Affected monsters will have their "Physical Resistance" reduced by 100% at all Skill Levels (slvl). This effect is reduced to 1/5 on monsters that are Immune to Physical.
• Amplify Damage will affect Undead type monsters before Sanctuary.
• Will be overwritten by any other Curse.

• The damage dealt is split 50%/50% between Physical and Fire Damage. This means only 50% of the damage benefits from Amplifydamage.
• Monsters with an Immunity to either Physical and Fire Damage can still receive damage from the other damage type of corpseexplosion.
• Each Skill Point in corpseexplosion increases the radius, with the Fire Damage having a slightly larger radius than the Physical Damage.
• This damage is not blocked by Physical obstacles.
• Damage is calculated using the base Monster type's average maximum Life. This means the player count and Champion/Unique/Super Unique status do not increase the damage dealt. Damage does NOT scale with Player's count making corpseexplosion less efficient in Multiplayer.
• If the Character's Level (cLVL) is less than the Monster's level (mLVL) of a targeted corpse, the damage dealt is multiplied by a variable (cLVL/mLVL) which reduces the total damage dealt.
• corpseexplosion is considered a Fire Skill for items which give + to Fire Skills, but not for items which give +% Fire Skill Damage or Fire Mastery.