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#1 Jan 26 2009 at 9:01 AM Rating: Decent
It is the returning noob again. I downloaded Seeds so I really don't have any information on Mercenaries. How do I get a Mercenary? Anywhere I can read on it, what it can do, how to get? Is there a level requirement. Not that I am ready to try out new areas yet, am still rediscovering the old ones and ones that were just included in the game when I left which I think now that leaving may have been a mistake but also am looking at the return to the game at this point as one of the most fun, refreshing things I have done game wise for a long time.

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#2 Jan 26 2009 at 10:19 AM Rating: Excellent
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Lots of info in this thread.

No level requirement, you can get a merc at lvl 1 and take it into the tutorial if you really want to.

You hire mercs in PoKnowledge. Just hit Find and you can select from the different races. Note that you can't get an "illegal" class/race combo merc so Ogres, Trolls and Barbarians (among others) won't offer Healer (cleric) mercs and High Elves & Erudites won't offer Tank (Warrior) mercs.

Edited, Jan 26th 2009 1:30pm by Jophiel
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#3 Jan 26 2009 at 11:25 AM Rating: Decent
Thanks! Some things are coming back to me as I take my toons around to the old, old zones and other things I need to ask about. Will get up-to-date eventually.
#4 Jan 27 2009 at 7:17 AM Rating: Good
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You hire mercs in PoKnowledge


I haven't been back to my starting city, but each hometown is supposed to have a mercenary merchant as well.

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Note that you can't get an "illegal" class/race combo merc so Ogres, Trolls and Barbarians (among others) won't offer Healer (cleric) mercs and High Elves & Erudites won't offer Tank (Warrior) mercs


Mercenaries do not get bonus for their race. A level 1 ogre merc tank will have all of the same skills/benefits as a level 1 gnome merc tank. With that said, some people don't like their orge/troll mercs since they are so big.
#5 Jan 27 2009 at 8:23 AM Rating: Decent
Great and Thanks.
#6 Jan 27 2009 at 1:35 PM Rating: Decent
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I still haet mercs. Getting a group was bad before, but now it's "I don't need a group, I have a merc"


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#7 Jan 27 2009 at 11:08 PM Rating: Good
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I still haet mercs. Getting a group was bad before, but now it's "I don't need a group, I have a merc"


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#8 Jan 29 2009 at 2:50 PM Rating: Good
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I am a cleric and not complaining. That's because I am a better cleric than a merc is. Don"t count the last 4 deaths guys, really a minor problem in communication.
#9 Jan 30 2009 at 6:57 AM Rating: Good
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You must be a cleric. Because everyone knows the only people complaining about mercs are clerics


LOL, I am a cleric, and I have a healer merc. My cleric can do more DPS than the tank mercs (that I have unlocked) and more DPS than some DPS classes out there that I see in PU groups. Plus, in melee, I can still cast spells like promised renewal and heal over time at full strength. On named mobs, I can always sit back and add to the healing as well. Once the group gets full, I can go back to full time healing and pocket the healer merc.

Best of both worlds.
#10 Feb 01 2009 at 2:33 PM Rating: Good
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I have and use merc's as needed, but many times I have recieved tells about someone needing a group and I enjoy packing away a merc for a real person...not that I am any better a conversationalist with them...Smiley: rolleyes

On the merc choices, I played around with a few different races a grades of them, I settled on the journeyman short guys...they always seem to be in the way...and they pay me no attention when I ask them to move, so short works. Smiley: yippee
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