Diablo 4 Season 6 Mercenary Skill Tier List - Best Merc Skills Ranked & How To Unlock Them

Diablo 4 season 6 has introduced a new system called mercenaries in the Vessel of Hatred. Today, we’re going to show you everything you need to do to unlock them and use them and as well we're going to rank the best D4 Season 6 mercenary skills.

Diablo 4 Season 6 Best Merc Skills - D4 Season 6 Mercenary Skills Tier List 

In Diablo 4, mercenary skills allow players to recruit mercenaries to assist them in battles. Each mercenary has two core skills that can be augmented by passives and two "iconic" skills. Players can assign passives to tailor the mercenary's playstyle. Mercenaries provide valuable crowd control and support through skills that inflict detrimental effects like Vulnerable or stun, enabling higher damage output for players. Next, let's dive into the D4 Seasoon 6 merc skills tier list.

Shieldbearer Mercenary Skill

• Shield Charge (Raheir's Guard or Vanguard)

• Provoke (Mocking Lure or Iron Wolf's Ward)

• Crater Iron (Wolf's Call or Sundering Shield)

The Shieldbearer focuses on protecting allies via taunting, buffing survivability. Skills emphasize crowd control and enabling higher damage output for allies by inflicting Vulnerable. Playstyle revolves around controlling enemies via CC and transferring threat.

Berserker Mercenary Skills

• Cleave (Hysteria or Recklessness)

• Bloodthirst (Intimidated or Bloodlust)

• Whirlwind (No Escape or Taste of Flesh)

The Berserker focuses on high physical and bleed damage through skills that provide significant attack speed bonuses. They apply Vulnerable and can buff allies' damage. Playstyle emphasizes mobility, area of effect damage, and self-sustain through life drain from bleed effects. Strength lies in boosting allies' offensive capabilities.

Cursed Child Mercenary Skills

• Haunt (Terrify or Exhaustion)

• Field of Languish (Paranoia or Condemned)

• Chain of Souls (Amplified Suffering or Shared Pain)

They focus on damage over time from shadows and fire, while providing crowd control. Skills inflict Vulnerable/slow to boost player damage. Playstyle involves chaining/slowing mobs for DPS. Provides offensive support through buffs and debuffs to empower shadow/burn builds. Overall emphasizing control and enabling high sustained magical damage.

Drunken Archer Mercenary Skills

• Wire Trap (Piercing Arrows or Ready At Hand)

• Cover Fire (Pin Cushion or Opening Fire)

• Trip Mines (Loaded Munitions or Mastermind)

Focuses on controlling enemies through snares and stuns while enabling high critical damage. Provides reliable Vulnerable application and buffs Critical Strike damage. Playstyle is mobile crowd control to optimize Critical Strike damage through synergistic skills.

Diablo 4 Season 6 Mercenary Skill Tier List

S Tier

• Cursed Child (Haunt skill tree)

Provides excellent support for Shadow and burn damage builds through damage over time application, crowd control, and buffing damage. Skills have great synergy.

• Shieldbearer

Focuses on protecting allies through threat generation and crowd control. Skills enable higher damage output through Vulnerable application without investment.

• Drunken Archer

Strong Critical Strike damage buffing through Cover Fire and synergistic use of skills like Explosive Charge. Mobile crowd control playstyle.

A Tier

• Berserker

Emphasis on high physical damage and attack speed buffs allows for powerful offensive support of allied damage dealers.

• Cursed Child (Flame Surge tree)

While providing damage over time, lacks clear build synergy of Haunt skill tree. Mobility hindered by immobile Firestorm.

• Shieldbearer (Ground Slam tree)

Trades survivability emphasis for more damage focus. Resistances passive stronger than armor.

B Tier

• Berserker (Shockwave tree)

Less damage focused than Cleave tree. Reprisal helpful only for hardcore characters.

C Tier

• Shieldbearer (Bastion skill)

Very situational, limits mobility. Only useful for specialist encounters like boss fights where standing still possible.

How To Unlock Mercenary In Diablo 4 Season 6?

Mercenaries will be located in the mercenary Den, which will be in one of the game's DLC areas. If you do not own the DLC that contains the mercenary Den, you will not have access to mercenaries at all. To recruit a primary and secondary mercenary, you need to go to the mercenary Den in the DLC area. Your primary mercenary will automatically join your party when solo to serve as your main combat companion.

Your secondary mercenary provides supplemental support under specific "opportunity" circumstances, such as when using certain skills or getting crowd controlled. You build rapport with your mercenaries by having them in your party and getting kills/completing activities with them. This gives you upgrades and a currency called pale marks. Pale marks can be used to purchase D4 gear and currencies from mercenaries via a bartering system inside the mercenary Den.