Fancy a powerful mage by your side, here is the guide for act 3 mercenaries on Diablo 2 Resurrected!

Why a mercenary mage

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

• to manage immunes, if you play sorcerer in particular another type of damage will be very practical
• if you like auras, the mercenary act 3 can get you four of them (although that doesn't help much)
• it will soon be buffed, in theory providing more power

Types of mercenary mage

There are three types of mage mercenaries:

• cold damage: most useful, also providing a lot of incapacitating effects on enemies. He's also the only one who benefits from ice armor
• lightning damage: if you play ice or fire
• fire damage: if you play ice or lightning

Fast recovery stages

Here are the levels of the mercenary of act 3. These levels can be easily reached especially if you play double Spirit, you will have 110% directly. Otherwise, try all the same to have the plateau at 32.

• 0
• 5
• 8
• 13
• 18
• 24
• 32
• 46
• 63
• 86
• 133
• 232

Spellcasting speed steps

Here are the spellcasting speed stages, allowing you to have a lot more DPS. If you play double Spirit, you can easily go to tier 86, and otherwise tier 39 or 58.

• 0
• 8
• 15
• 26
• 39
• 58
• 86
• 138

Equipment

There are several equipment, depending on the utility, here is the standard equipment to hit hard:

• Spirit on a sword
• Spirit on the shield
• Vipermage with Perfect Amethyst or Chain of Honor runic word
• Shako or Griffon (lightning damage) or Nightwing (cold damage) with an amethyst facet / p or Andariel's Face if needed strength

The second is to shine with a thousand lights, it was very classic on Diablo 2:

• Lawbringer sword, Sanctuary aura
• Dragon Armor, Sacred Fire or Bramble aura, Thorn aura
• Dream Helmet, Saint Choc aura
• Phenix Shield, Redemption aura

The last choice is to mix the previous ones with objects with holes:

• you can accumulate 4 + 4 + 4 + 3 holes or 15 x 75% damage added and damage reduced in one element
• it can therefore be very interesting on certain objects
• however, beware of the spellcasting speed levels!

By Alchemists, December 2021