Death Must Die – Merris, God of War + High Sorceress Abuse (D100)

Merris, God of War Build Guide

While I was trying ways to play Merris, I noticed during a run that I had really high general damage %. I wondered how that happened and I figured out this:

Let’s say I deal an instance of 100 damage. My starting items give me +156% damage, so now I deal 256 damage. If I get god of war, that applies on top of that so I deal 256+2.22 * 256 = 824.3 damage (+724.3%). Now, if I get two levels in cast blessings, from high sorceress, that applies ON TOP of that. So now I deal 824.3 + 2 * 15/100 * 824.3 = 1071.6 damage (+971.6%).

This basically means that every level on a cast blessing adds +123.6% to my damage dealt instead of +15%. The more the initial starting item +damage % is, the higher that will be.

Using the above I reached +3500% damage on my d100 run, and the picture shown is +4300% from a d80 run.

Therefore the idea of this build is to increase your general damage with god of war and cast blessings, and let the enemies die from other sources of damage, since your casts will have a really high cooldown. You do not need to level up your powers / strikes if you can level your casts, since leveling casts increases the damage of strikes/powers more. (Note: Hurricane is awesome if you get it, but it is not needed).

From gods, you need to get Krom and God of War.

Note: You will also need Justice for survivability. Inner Peace and Protection are really helpful. Your 3rd god is your choice.

I provide the items and skills I used, but those are NOT optimized.

Note: A better skill tree build can be found a few posts below. Going for dash skills improves survivability and damage at the start of the run.

The items I used provide a lot of health and kill % heal for survivability. Your weapon should provide high % damage. Uniques on the message below, since this got too long.

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From tier 2 uniques I used Strategically Fried Rice, The Waste, The trailed wanderer, Cat tail. Strategically Fried Rice is really important to roll God of War as fast as possible. The Waste improves your chances. The trailed wanderer improves your chances and give +dmg %. Cat tail is not required. Queen of Worms would be a good choice, but I did not have it when i did this run. The rest of the items are shown.

Thank you for your time and I hope this little tutorial was helpful to you.