Merc socket filling

Hey everyone just need a bit of advise please.....

What do you socket into a mercs helm which doesn't seem to need anything?

He has 75+ resists, very fast attack speed and lots of life leech

A previous post a did a while back advised that sols and bers were the way to go if all else covered on my character but do they work on hirelings?

Maybe i could go down the root of just putting a perfect ruby in there for a little life?

Need advise please, thankyou in advance|||What class do you play?|||sorry that would help wouldn't it! i play ww barb.|||You could do something about hit recovery. Act 2 mercs are notoriously bad at it which is a common reason for their death. With 0% fhr, a merc has 15 frames of hit recovery while it's 11 with the 20% which a lousy shael rune adds.|||Slap a Zod in that beast.

There's a bug that if you Zod a non-ethereal item on a mercenary, the merc himself becomes indestructible. It only works about 60% of the time, 100% of the time.

So that's 0.6 * 1 = 0.6. Divide that by 100 to get the percentage. Multiply it by the common denominator, which is 0.006. So I guess it happens 0.000000006% of the time. But worth the Zod.|||if between the two of you there is little or no crushing blow, I'd drop a ber. If not, like krischan said, shaels for FHR work as well.|||Quote:








if between the two of you there is little or no crushing blow, I'd drop a ber. If not, like krischan said, shaels for FHR work as well.




You understand this is for a hat, right? The ber would be for 8% damage reduced.|||Quote:








Hey everyone just need a bit of advise please.....

What do you socket into a mercs helm which doesn't seem to need anything?

He has 75+ resists, very fast attack speed and lots of life leech

A previous post a did a while back advised that sols and bers were the way to go if all else covered on my character but do they work on hirelings?

Maybe i could go down the root of just putting a perfect ruby in there for a little life?

Need advise please, thankyou in advance




Either FHR if you want to spend the shael (you really should) Or just slap Pruby in there. Extra life is never bad on a merc.|||NEVER waste a socket like that.

A sol would add quite a bit more of tankability.

Or a rare jewel with lots of fun mods could be nice as well

Myself i like a high value of PDR on my mercs.|||I'm sure that 20% FHR instead of 0% will do more good than 7 PDR from a Sol rune. I agree that Sol is better than 38 life from a pruby, however.