Meteorb Predicament

[:1]So, I'm building an untwinked meteorb as my first character. She's level 77, and doing alright with the standard gear like Occy and Shako, etc. I've been soloing all the way with little problem until I got to the end of Act 4 in Hell. In Chaos Sanctuary, Infector of Souls always spawns with Fire and Ice immunity, along with some other nasty mods. All I can do is to static field him down to about half, and let my merc take over... except my merc dies before landing 3 hits on the boss. This is after I've killed off all of the minions.

Merc is level 76 Act 2 Holy Freeze wearing a Leviathan, and a crappy helm (Duskdeep, I think) and a crappier Insight partizan. I'm currently trying to get a Tals mask for to get some leach on him, but I doubt it'd make a huge difference.

Any suggestions on what I should do? The merc is really mainly for the mana regen from Insight, and I've done the vast majority of killing myself so far. Just really need to find a way to kill off this unexpected roadblock.|||Level 77 is too low to expect your merc to tank groups of enemies in CS as the monsters will be ~10 levels above him. Single monsters like Infector/Seis should be no problem if you equip him properly and use Telekinesis to stun them.

Make his Insight in an ethereal elite polearm, get some life-leech (yes, it makes a huge difference) and max out his resists. Um-Tal mask should do the trick, else you'll have to change his armour. Treachery, Gloom, Lionheart or Smoke (preferably in eth elite bases) are all fine choices.|||You can also spam Telekinesis to knock the monster against a wall.|||Quote:








You can also spam Telekinesis to knock the monster against a wall.




This is a good trick, with a decent FCR BP you shouldn't have problems taking him down.

*Uppislol|||Cool tip, didn"t know Telekinesis could be used against mobs! Should help the survival rate of my emrc quite a bit|||I went into CS, ready to try out these tips, but Infector or Souls spawned without cold immunity for the first time in at least 10 attempts. Just killing him with orbs was kind of anticlimactic, but very useful tips nontheless.|||The CS is a level 85 area so as others have said your merc is not going to be able to tank well there.

What you can do is is be constantly moving. Tele to take the merc out of harm's way. Tele-orb, rinse and repeat. Also, you have a low level glacial spike which you can spam to help your merc. Even though the freeze time won't be long you can spam it between orbs to keep the monsters frozen solid. It is a mana hog but since you are using Insight you can handle it.

I prefer a defiance merc. He can tank better than the HF merc.