Please have aUpdate for act 5 merc to use axes…it make no sense if there frenzy
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Sure but that is too much development work to change old classic graphics with a5 merc to swap graphics of sword to axe… blizzard needs ideas that even interns can develop for them, like adding runewords and making set items .1% better.
I’d like to see this as well because swords only is a bit restrictive.
Allowing axes would enable some interesting possibilities with Beast and Lacerator, giving some actual competition to a Might A2 merc with Reapers. Still a lot more expensive than the A2 merc but we’d see some more options which would be nice.
Regarding the graphics, it doesn’t really matter. A2 mercs can wield polearms and javelins which look nothing like the spears they use, I don’t see why the Frenzy A5 mercs can’t wield axes.
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No need, you give a scythe to A2 merc and they still carry a spear. The looks of their weapon don’t change regardless of what they wield. Be it a spear or polearm, it always looks like they have a spear in their hands. Also the modell of a dual axe wileding barb allread exists.
Maaaan a double throw merc would be soooo awsome.
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Another clueless take from a purist
They have barb mercenary models with axe all over bloody foothills
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There are no “purists” here anymore. They went back playing OG D2 and it’s mods, spitting curses at us.
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Nah, purists aren’t defined by those who want the original game, it’s those who are against changes, those who advocate for status quo
one preoccupied with the purity of a medium and its protection from the use of foreign or altered forms
Careful with your assertions.
At least one is still here. 
and no, i have nothing against making axes or maces available. it’s just stupid that the act 5 merc can only use swords. that makes no sense for a barbarian.
Does this mean that I am NOT a purist? Or that I’m just not as bad a casual as you?
Act 5 barb mercs should be able to weild any weapon in the barb mastery tree. They should be able to use mauls, spears, polearms, and axes. The only restriction should be bows, amazon javelins and orher class specific weaps like wands.
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Then we are on the same page.
Well i’m old, and have enough bull💩 in my life, so yes I consinder my self casual these days. So you’re not wrong there. For now.
Why not give all mercenaries 2 weapon sets like players and allow for hilarity to ensue.
And all this rhetoric is annihilated by the mere fact that basement devs did it in PD2 and pod… how would it be too difficulty for blizzard to do it… heck to copy what they did since it’s the same game running behind
They are a business. Businesses do not operate like some virgins creating a mod from their moms basement. Blizzard has put very minimal effort into fixing & improving things like the lobby and game creation menu but you expect them to add new content, WOW I wanna smoke what you’re having…
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Now that is like to see, how would that fair. 
I bet you those basement devs could get the lobby working within a few days
The biggest problem is not “not being to fix it”
It’s destroying it in the first place…