Risk of Rain 2 – OP Mercenary Build Guide

This is a guide for what I think is the most powerful Mercenary build available.

Guide to OP Mercenary Build

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Eviscerate

This is the Mercenary’s ability that works well with this build and causes extreme damage with all other items obtained.

Gray Items

• 1st: (9) Crit Glasses (Used for 100% crit chance).
• 2nd: (1+) Focus Crystals (Used for high damage). Main focus of build.

Green Items

• 1st: (Start with one, 5+ later) Harvester Scythe (Used for healing). Optional.
• 2nd: (1) Predatory Instincts (Use only if Shatterspleen is not available). Optional.
• 3rd: (5+) Razorwire (Used for ranged damage and extra damage). Optional.

Red Items

• (1+) Laser Scope (Used for large damage increase).

Blue (Lunar) Items

• 1st: (4) Gesture of the Drowned (Used for auto ability). Optional.
• 2nd: (1) Spinel Tonic (Used for stat increase). Optional.
• 3rd: (5-10) Purity (Used for Eviscerate) Kind of Optional.

Purple (Void) Items

These items are not at all necessary, but if you find one get the following:

• (1+) Weeping Fungus (Used for healing) Optional.
• (1+) Lystate Cell+Fuel Cell (Used for Eviscerate stacks) Optional.