D2R 2.6 Best Act 2 Merc Build (Aura Stack, Gear Setup) | Diablo 2 Resurrected Season 3 Mercenary Guide

D2R 2.6 Best Act 2 Merc Build (Aura Stack, Gear Setup) | Diablo 2 Resurrected Season 3 Mercenary Guide

3/29/2023 5:24:04 PM

Emilio has been with us through thick and thin for years and years in Diablo 2, he is the most powerful mercenary that you can have generally due to the auras and different things like that that can really help him out and you out. But with some of the new changes for the newest season 3, he actually got more powerful dare we say even possibly overpowered. In this guide, we will tell you how to set up the unkillable mercenary in Diablo 2 Resurrected Ladder Season 3!

Best Act 2 Mercency Build Setup in Diablo 2 Resurrected 2.6 Ladder Season 3

This mercenary is specifically amazing for the energy shield Nova sorceress, but it could be broken for many other builds as well. You literally have to do nothing with this ACT 2 mercenary setup, and you never have to worry about the blood man occurs again, usually what that blood man occurs we'll try to get it again as we are teleporting around you, the life of your character actually going down as you are teleporting. But actually with this setup as well your life even while teleporting around with blood man occurs doesn't go away and your health regenerate, you will struggle to find a way to die sometimes with this character.

How to accomplish this? Anyone can do this and you can get all of these base items and the runes from Nightmare, it's absolutely bananas and you can throw this together and your mercenary is incredibly OP, and causes you to almost never die and he as well now. No much further ado, let's dive into how to set up:

How To Build Up A OP ACT 2 Merc in D2R 2.6?

To help you understand the setup, we take the Paladin skill tree for explaining how the machines work:

Prayer Aura - Prayer Aura heals you based upon the level of the aura when you have it active, so right now it's two but as you know it goes up it'll be 3 to 15, and it'll be higher based upon the level. So that's the first thing you need to know
Cleansing Aura - Then go ahead and we'll move down to the cleansing Aura that receives a bonus from prayer, it doesn't exactly say what that bonus is but if we go ahead and look it up online for the prayer Synergy, it says the same as having prayer active without Mana cost. So while you have cleansing active, you do also automatically have prayer active as well that is apparently the Synergy the way it was changed here and it was kind of a complete oversight because who usually looks at the defensive auras for the Paladin?
Meditation - But now we'll move down to Meditation. Remember meditation is what is on the Insight, so it will recover your Mana but it also has a Synergy from prayer and it does not say what it is either. If we look up again on the internet - Meditation Synergy from prayer same as having prayer active without Mana cost. So what that can say is if you have meditation up you also have prayer up, if you have cleansing up you will have a prayer up again, and obviously, if you have prayer up, so that's pretty self-explanatory these three ores right here.

D2R 2.6 Best ACT 2 Merc Aura Setup & Stack

Now let's go ahead and take a look at that ACT 2 Mercenary and you're going to understand fully what's going on now. Here's where those three auras come in mega important with our Act 2 mercenary:

Prayer Aura - First of all, we have a prayer mercenary so obviously we are going to have prayer here, it's a level 18 aura and it heals 21 life.
Meditation Aura - Then we have Meditation here, now remember meditation has a prayer or an active when it is active as the Synergy. So now this also has meditation and prayer, and meditation automatically has a prayer on it.
Cure Helm - Now also we have the Cure Helm which has cleansing. Cleansing Aura also has the same prayer Aura so you actually are having prayer or active three times getting essentially the triple replenish life.
So that's what it was explained. The prayer Aura is triple active because it's activated by the three different auras because they all get a Synergy from prayer, so it's absolutely bananas, the amount of survivability you can get from that along with all of the other stuff you get from that act 2 mercenary. Because like we said you already get Meditation to replenish your Vitality which is why this setup is so good on an energy Shield Nova sorceress since mainly the Mana is your actual life pool because you have energy Shield.
Cleansing Aura - But also you have a problem with poison but cleansing Aura decreased the length of that poison and it also has poison length reduced on it and a bunch of poison resistance along with a couple of other things to help you out. So Poison's not going to be a problem anymore for these Energy Shield sorcerers, either also the cleansing Aura gets rid of anything whether you're talking about might - whether you're talking about AMP damage, whether you're talking about blood man occurs.

D2R 2.6 Best ACT 2 Merc Gear Setup

So now take a look at exactly when can you make this Act 2 Merc because actually, you can make a lot of it incredibly early:

Weapon: Insight
Helm: Cure Winged Helm
Armor: Treachery or Chains of Honor

You can get this with the Insight and Cure runeword and their base at the beginning of Nightmare, as for the Treachery armor that's going to be a bit of a struggle but this isn't even necessarily the best in slot, the best-in-slot option is actually Chains of Honor that you're not getting that early on but that actually has a ton of resist distance and light bleach that'll help with survivability way more. But Treachery is the budget option to go for Act 2 mercenaries.

What's more, Skin of the Flayed One will actually give you 20 to 25 more replenished life on top of what you already had there for your mercenary anyways we'll get that, you also will get Life Leech though and you can go ahead and upgrade it to give it a ton of defense and hypothetically. If you got really lucky, it's got replenished durability on it so you can get an ethereal one, but it's going into mercenary so it can be ethereal anyways. That's one way to get the life leech on the armor along with getting him even more replenish life.

So this ACT 2 prayer mercenary with this Insight and Cure is incredibly cheap, we would say just go ahead and throw this together to see how good it helps out your survivability because you've seen your life flies back up when you have this setup on.