> Europe Ladder
> Act2 defence merc in Hell, Act1.
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> regards,
> Marcel (still learning the practice of trading)
Can I use your merc when your not playing. Mine runs in, changes his mind,
and guides all the nasties right back to where I am standing. I much prefer
to spend my gold on my merc, than picking up what is left of it with my body
(SC) or losing everything (HC).
Marcel Overweel - 02 Dec 2008 17:50 GMT
>> Merc sees multi-arrow cold cursed turned-to-evil amazons,
>> runs in without thinking (not his best 'attribute'), and dies.
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>>
>> Oh oh oh, can't keep up resurrecting him, running out of money soon.
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> Can I use your merc when your not playing. Mine runs in, changes his mind,
> and guides all the nasties right back to where I am standing. I much
> prefer to spend my gold on my merc, than picking up what is left of it
> with my body (SC) or losing everything (HC).
Sure, but ehm, chains not included ;)
Cheers!
Marcel
>Europe Ladder
>Act2 defence merc in Hell, Act1.
>With a lovely Insight :)
Is that the Insight Partizan I gave you? While an Insight in a
non-ethereal Partizan is fine for Normal and NM, it does run out of
'steam' when entering Hell.
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>Guess that was to be expected, he has no life leach.
Well, yes, that surely helps.
>What's an acceptable trade value for, let's say a Crown of Thieves?
>Have been running a game with 'O Pgms N CoT', but nobody showed
>up in an hour.
I've traded away mediocre variants of 'Crown of Thieves' for a handful of
pgems. When ethereal and (close to) perfect, it's quite valuable. See the
d2jsp priceguide for that.
>Maybe a bad time of day or maybe I've more luck mentioning
>the amount of gems I am willing to offer? (Don't have a pul.. yet...)
To be honest, I think Tal Rasha's Mask is a perhaps somewhat more
appropriate helmet for an Act 2 Merc, and that certainly goes for a few
pgems each. So try acquiring that?
Failing that, try gambling circlets/coronets; these can spawn with life
leech, and on top of that with +life, +ed, res-all, and all sort of other
assorted goodies for a merc.
Regards, Patrick.
Marcel Overweel - 02 Dec 2008 17:42 GMT
>>Europe Ladder
>>Act2 defence merc in Hell, Act1.
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> non-ethereal Partizan is fine for Normal and NM, it does run out of
> 'steam' when entering Hell.
Hehe, yep, still the same stick :)
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>
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> appropriate helmet for an Act 2 Merc, and that certainly goes for a few
> pgems each. So try acquiring that?
Ooh, think my merc and sorc would fight each other to get hold of that one.
Suicidal against over-confident? Ouch!
But seriously, I'll give that a try.
> Failing that, try gambling circlets/coronets; these can spawn with life
> leech, and on top of that with +life, +ed, res-all, and all sort of other
> assorted goodies for a merc.
She have to ask Gheed if she can get a loan first,
probably paying him the rest of her life to get even...
Hmm.. now that I think of it.. she *is* a girl..... :`)
> Regards, Patrick.
Cheers!
Marcel
Patrick Vervoorn - 02 Dec 2008 19:24 GMT
>> Is that the Insight Partizan I gave you? While an Insight in a
>> non-ethereal Partizan is fine for Normal and NM, it does run out of
>> 'steam' when entering Hell.
>
>Hehe, yep, still the same stick :)
Well, keep your eyes open for about any ethereal exceptional or elite
polearm, since that's what will get your and your merc through most of
Hell (all of Hell for the elite polearm)...
>> To be honest, I think Tal Rasha's Mask is a perhaps somewhat more
>> appropriate helmet for an Act 2 Merc, and that certainly goes for a few
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>Suicidal against over-confident? Ouch!
>But seriously, I'll give that a try.
It's indeed a lot more common. Beyond that, Tal Rasha's Mask is about
total garbage for a Sorc, unless you have most of the rest of the set
available. You should have something much better through, for instance,
gambling...
>> Failing that, try gambling circlets/coronets; these can spawn with life
>> leech, and on top of that with +life, +ed, res-all, and all sort of other
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>probably paying him the rest of her life to get even...
>Hmm.. now that I think of it.. she *is* a girl..... :`)
The added advantage of gambling coronets (I don't personally bother with
circlets) is that you can gamble a +1/2 sorc skills coronet with
additional mods. Your sorc will like that a lot more than a Tal Rasha's
Mask...
Regards, Patrick.
>Guess that was to be expected, he has no life leach.
>
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>Maybe a bad time of day or maybe I've more luck mentioning
>the amount of gems I am willing to offer? (Don't have a pul.. yet...)
Try asking for Tal's hat, which is almost as good and much more
common.
-- Roy L
I have never understood the code behind the merc.
I was playing a bliz sorc and every time I looked around the merc was
standing behind me.
I played a hammerdin and my merc was always running in to something
or going somewhere and getting in trouble.
>Europe Ladder
>Act2 defence merc in Hell, Act1.
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>regards,
>Marcel (still learning the practice of trading)