What is THE Merc for ME?

Act 5 is definitely the best tanker for pindle.

Just throw whatever armor/weapon/helm you can buy on him, and he'll do decent/fine.

Otherwise, be NICE to your merc and mf meph for a while to get him a decent rare sword and some good armor/helms

PETM.

We are watching.

i believe that the a2 merc has to kill an enemy before it even pops its aura....so on pindle runs, it comes down to tanking... a5 is better. here is what my barb uses...

Hmasues Adamament (sorry for the butchered spelling, too lazy right now to care)
shitty Arreats
Flamebellow Balrog Sword.

He has no prob in hell meph... hardly even loses life.

HOWEVER, my merc is only for botting/mfing. Rushing and lvling and whatever could have a better Merc/sorc combo. Just my input

EDIT: Oh and since he said he is a COLD sorc, i dont think he needs more cold spells (a2 Holy freeze or a3 cold).

As a reluctant member of PETM, I like NM Act 2 HF and the ACT 2 Hell def Merc. I have used both with a zon and have found them to be handy, especially getting extra defense on my 09 zon build. My Hammerdin uses the NM Act 2 merc and that combo does well also. All of my men, I mean mercs, use a bonehew with AMN x 2, a shaft, and either a veil or eth gaze. I love hearing them say, "I will put that to good use."

I guess either of these would be good but since I don't bot I cannot speak to what a bot would need.

Oh, BTW, Act 1 mercs suck. Never was able to get one to work very well.

in 09 they had a pretty tight bug.... if you equipped them with +5 all skills they would shoot this pretty damn Uber poisen along with whatever element they are. Now they just pure suck.

i see a lot of sorcs use act1 mercs and act 5 mercs. i have a lot of experience with the act 1 merc since i used to give them wf's in 09 cuz i was a dupe-ist. anyways, my choice is act 5 now, but getting decent stuff might take a bit. i can give him trangs armor, tals helm, but i cant find a decent sword.

I have used Act5 mercs in 1.10 for pindle runs. I had him at lvl92 with my sorc. He worked pretty well for pindle but sucked balls for everything else.