Fancy a rogue by your side as a mercenary? The complete guide to learn all about efficient builds, their tiers and equipment!

Why a rogue mercenary

There are three reasons for playing the rogue mercenary, instead of the act 2 mercenary:

• it hits hard, and yes the damage is significant for this mercenary
• you can have fanaticism aura and its defense debuff is quite handy if you play damage
• it will soon be buffed, in theory providing more power

Types of rogue mercenary

There are two types of rogue mercenaries:

• cold damage: the most useful, which brings slowdowns
• fire damage: very little interest at the moment, the fire damage is not huge

Note for the patch, that they plan to increase the size of the area of ​​effect, so possibly mass slowing for cold or a large area of ​​damage for fire, which could make them more complementary.

Fast recovery stages

I will always advise against your rogue being in melee, so FHR levels are unattractive. I still gave them to you just in case.

• 0
• 6
• 13
• 20
• 32
• 52
• 86
• 174

Attack speed stages

The bearings are more complicated, since they depend on the weapon. I put the ones with a Windforce on a Hydra bow bases for you. If you have other item bases, consider calculating your steps! It will be interesting to aim for the 78 or 120 level.

• 0 - 16 - 1.38
• 5 - 15 - 1.47
• 11 - 14 - 1.56
• 22 - 13 - 1.66
• 34 - 12 - 1.78
• 50 - 11 - 1.92
• 78 - 10 - 2.08
• 120 - 9 - 2.27
• 215 - 8 - 2.5

Equipment

I'll start with the arcs, you have four choices:

• Harmony: grants damage and mobility aura. Shooting Ith Sol Ko. It is very simple to do and is the basic weapon for your mercenary.
• Windforce Hurricane: to hit harder and also gives base attack speed. You can also add Shael to have 40% attack speed.
• Faith Faith: the best weapon, granting Fanaticism aura and damage
• Ice Ice: a very good alternative, Holy Immobilize aura, cold penetration, etc., great if playing cold damage

For armor, it's more restricted:

• Treachery, for attack speed, Shael Thul Lem
• Fortitude, for damage, El Sol Dol Lo

For the helmet:

• Face of Andariel with good gems (attack speed,% damage or max damage)
• a helmet with life stolen pending (Tal Rasha, Crown of Thieves)
• possibly Giant Skull Giant Skull with two happy attack speed damage, or William Face with gems

The mercenary used for the gameplay:

• Windforce Shael 40% + Face of Andariel 20% + Fortitude, the level 50 is reached but not the 78, and besides impossible by putting a jewel 15% attack speed

By Alchemists, December 2021