Mercenary Guide

The complete guide to mercenaries, who to choose according to your class or your damage types, all the possibilities and optimizations!

How the guide works

This guide provides two ways to choose your mercenary, the first giving you all the possibilities of mercenaries and the second starting from your build to help you choose it. Please note this article is a complement to the in-depth guides, in particular for the calculation of the levels and equipment of the other mercenaries, which you will find on our page Diablo 2 resurrected.

Mercenary Rogue Act 1

Here is the interest of the Rogue:

stay at a distance, he won't commit suicide like melee mercenaries
good damage
many choices of auras with the weapon
slowed down your enemies with cold, which I recommend unless you play with cold damage

The Rogue's equipment for leveling and before the Endgame:

Armor: Treachery Rune Word
Helmet: Tal Rasha or Crown of Thieves
Bows:
- Insight: aura mana regeneration and damage
- Harmony: movement aura and damage

The Rogue equipment for the Endgame:

Armor: Fortitude Rune Word
Helmet: Face of Andariel or Veil of Night with Ice
Bows:
- Ice: cold aura and damage
- Faith: fanaticism and damage aura
- Mist: focus aura and damage

Desert Mercenary Act 2

Here is the interest of the mercenary of the desert:

basic aura
good damage
many choices of auras with the weapon

Desert mercenary equipment for leveling and before the Endgame:

Armor: Treachery Rune Word
Helmet: Tal Rasha or Crown of Thieves
Battle Axe:
- Insight: aura mana regeneration and damage
- A unique weapon if possible ethereal

The Desert Mercenary's equipment for the Endgame:

Armor: Fortitude Rune Word
Helmet: Face of Andariel
Battle Axe:
- Infinity: lowers enemy elemental resistances and defense
- Pride Pride: Aura of Concentration
- Doom: ice aura and damage

Mercenary Mage Act 3

Here is the interest of the mage mercenary:

Lightning: damage and static field
Ice: damage and control spells
Fire: damage and fire enchantment

Desert mercenary equipment for leveling and before the Endgame:

Armor: vipermagic
Helmet: Lore
Sword and Shield: Spirit

The Desert Mercenary's equipment for the Endgame:

Cold Damage
- Nightwing
- Chain of Honor or Ormus (note the +x does not work)
- Spirit x2
- Jewels of cold as soon as possible
Fire damage
- Wisdom, the new runic word
- Chain of Honor or Ormus +3 Fireball or Enchant
- Spirit x2 or Phoenix
- Fire Jewels ASAP
Lightning Damage
- Griffon
- Chain of Honor or Ormus +3 Lightning
- Spirit x2
- Lightning Jewels ASAP

Barbarian Mercenary Act 5

Here is the interest of the mercenary of the barbarian mercenary:

very good resistance
acceptable damage
uses Battle Cry which lowers enemies defense and physical damage

Barbarian equipment for leveling and before the Endgame:

Armor: Treachery Rune Word
Helmet: Tal Rasha or Crown of Thieves
Sword:
- Unwavering Will
- A unique weapon if possible ethereal

The barbarian's equipment for the Endgame:

Armor: Fortitude Rune Word
Helmet: Face of Andariel or Arreat
Sword:
- Plague: if you play poison or even elemental (cheaper than Infinity)
- Last Wish: Aura of Power
- Breath of the Dying or Grief: Damage

You need mana

Leveling / start of season:

take the one on which you have a 4-hole weapon!

Mid/Endgame:

you need power aura or ice aura, mercenary act 2 with Insight
you need ice or fire arrow, mercenary act 1 with Insight