Mercenaries are NPC's for hire. Hire a mercenary that takes up a group slot, has a monetary fee and takes a small slice of experience and coin from fighting. They are varied and have different AIs based on racial characteristics that will make them behave differently in combat. You can customize their appearance with armor, set their gender and their actual look as well as even teach them phrases to say. They can all be collected (though city alignment may restrict access to some) but only one mercenary can be in use at a time.[1]
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Purchase price varies by level. Upkeep is every 30 mins (in theory, I actually think it might be 1-1.5 hours unless I'm missing messages). Upkeep also increases as you level up. Reportedly it's currently 3.5pp/upkeep charge at level 90. Definitely 30 gold/upkeep charge at level 51.
Like any group member, mercenaries take their cut of coin and experience, but they do not take loot items.
Currently there are 10 Mercenaries to chose from: healer, tank, melee dps and caster dps. Healers have a chance of actually rezzing you! No need to guess, their icons show their Archtype, and hailing them will tell you their class. Available types are Tanks, Healers, Melee DPS, Caster DPS, and Support mercenaries.
You can manage your merc's appearance clothing via your persona window. Add any armor you want to your mercenary to display, but remember that they will get no additional benefit from it.
The suspend timer is 5 minutes. If you suspend your merc, you'll have to wait 5 minutess to unsuspend/resume them. When a merc dies he becomes suspended. You can resume him from the mercenary window in your persona or you can type /merc resume
If a merc loses too much confidence they will panic and suffer from a stat decrease. Avoid this by keeping agro.
If you see one mercenary hanging around, there's likely more nearby. It is possible to sneak into other cities and hire their mercenaries.
Outside/Upstairs
On the harbor side of the Seafarer's Roost is a staircase leading down. At the bottom ( -243, -65, -10 ) you can enter a room where many mercenaries hang out.
Qeynos Harbor:
Fish's Alehouse and Inn:
Outside
Information on Rare Mercenaries is... rare. Note that they despawn when hired.
December 6, 2011 |