I tell you which mercenary to choose according to the equipment, from the beginning of the season until the ultra endgame to sorcerer on Diablo 2!

Preamble

Having a good mercenary for your sorcerer is crucial, however of course you are not going to have the same ones at the beginning and at the very end. So I'm telling you step by step which mercenary to choose!

Mercenary depending on your equipment

Here are your mercenaries step by step:

1. Act 1 Fire or Ice Rogue - Insight and Treachery - as long as you don't have a lifesteal helmet.
   Pros: best at staying alive without gear, gives mana and some damage
2. Act 2 desert power or sacred immobilization - Insight Treachery Helmet Steal Life - will have more and the weapon can be ethereal unlike bows.
   Advantage: very good single target damage to kill immunes and mana aura
3. Act 5 barbarian frenzy - Plague + Truncheon or Oath or Lawbringer Treachery and Arreat - ultra powerful, often cast Lesser Resistance and Lawbringer cast Decrepit.
   Advantages: very good resistance, debuff resistance, great mobility
4. Act 2 wasteland power or immobilize - Infinity Treachery or Fortitude Lifesteal Helmet or Face of Andariel - best if you have the runes for
   Advantages: the best possible debuff

Some precisions :

• Lesser resistance with Plague is level 12 and lowers Fire, Lightning, Ice, Poison resistances by 57% and casts when your mercenary is hit.
• Conviction with Infinity is level 12 and lowers Fire, Lightning, Ice resistances by 85% and enemy defense by 82% permanently
• The mercenaries of act 3 remain uninteresting
• The mercenary of act 5 are not very interesting, because too slow. Orient yourself to the Frenzy or stay on act 2
• An Insight ethereal weapon will hit much harder than a bow because it is not ethereal. In addition, the mercenary's aura makes him hit from 1000 to 5000 damage, something completely impossible on your act 1 mercenary.

Gameplay

Here is some gameplay with my sorcerer:

• Diablorun act 5 with two-handed Plague
• Diablorun act 2 with Insight
• Diablorun act 5 with Frenzy
• Diablorun act 5 with Infinity

History

• 2.4: creation

By Alchemists, May 2022