Suggestion to change merc's

[LordManhammer]

I really don't think this is necessary. As much as I would love to be able to equip mercs with entire sets of gear, they are already buff. An act 3 cold merc can farm Normal and Nightmare cows on his own without much, if any gear. An act 2 Holy Freeze merc(nightmare defense) is really strong in HC. Throw a Reaper's Toll on that guy and the mobs are almost completely frozen. If you really want to have a strong tank and spank experience, just run a Golomancer

[Equalibrium]

I really don't think this is necessary. As much as I would love to be able to equip mercs with entire sets of gear, they are already buff. An act 3 cold merc can farm Normal and Nightmare cows on his own without much, if any gear. An act 2 Holy Freeze merc(nightmare defense) is really strong in HC. Throw a Reaper's Toll on that guy and the mobs are almost completely frozen. If you really want to have a strong tank and spank experience, just run a Golomancer

i take your point mate but in all honesty we are talking end game here not norm or nm that content is just faceroll no matter your class. we are talking hell mode end game. this would help with more classes / specs being alot more viable. and would help alot towards HC players being able to actualy do ALL end game content. we who play HC can not die in order to do ALL content.
we get one chance thats it. this would go part way to lowering the risk a little for the less experienced or gifted players.