Just wondering what people think. I just got a Reaper’s Toll but I’m worried that maybe Insight is better. Right now I have Treachery, Tal Rasha’s Horadric Crest, and The Reaper’s Toll on my merc. I like the damage and life steal on The Reaper’s Toll, but I’m a sorceress and Mediation aura sounds good. What do you think?
Depends on your class. If you’re magic/elemental based, mana hungry, don’t have issues with physical immunes use insight.
What class are you and what are you needs?
I found a nice Reapers Toll but on my Trapper I’ll pass and on my Summoner I’ll pass…
On sorc…I’d Keep Meditation until you get Infinity.
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On sorc, insight is fine.
Reapers toll is an amazing merc weapon for classes that need CB on merc for bosses, so you can wear g-face on your merc, but sorc’s have static so it’s unnecessary.
Classes it’s legit amazeballs on:
Pnb Necro due to low dmg on bosses (even then insight is just as good for the rest of the zone)
Wind Druid/fury Druid - decrepify removes physical immune.
Other physical classes.
Is it a fair trade to trade The Reaper’s Toll for Insight?
Physical class = reaper’s
Magic class = usually insight, with switch to infinity once available for lightning/fire specs
Trading reaper’s for insight is roughly similar if the insight has an okay base (i.e. eth CV), neither is worth much anymore. Eth reaper is worth a lot more though, especially if it has good stats.
I’d use an eth obedience over a non eth reapers, especially if your merc already has LL from helm. If they are both eth the competition is much closer, but I’d still use the obedience vs bosses on the merc.
The insight is only really better if you want meditate aura.
You don’t really need medi aura by the time you start hitting lv 80+.
Reaper’s Toll is easily the better weapon for every mentionable reason. The decrep removes most physical immune and allows the merc to kill things that normally you’d be screwed against if he had Insight. IE: You are a Cold Sorc and come across cold and physical immune.
I find that Insight is never really a good choice over something else, but rather it eases the annoyance of manaburn. It is in no way mandatory or a performance weapon. I honestly never understood why it was valued. I always pick Reaper’s or any other good damage/life leech polearm over Insight.
Non eth sure. But you are still better off making insight cuz it is pretty cheap.
If you don’t need the mana, reaper’s toll is by far the strongest a2 merc item in the game. people don’t realize decrepify lowers enemy physical resistance by 50%! huge damage burst and removes physical immunities most of the time. but if you are struggling with mana i would stick with insight.
but hey i’m running a light sorc that has 90 all res, max block, 45% DR and she doesn’t have the best mana but i’m running non eth reapers on her merc. i don’t mind running through pots.