Poll: Should Mercs Be upgraded?Follow

maybe give mercs a few basic slots to "further equip" them, similar to what the mercs had in Diablo 2

personally i think its awesome the content in uf hits so hard....teahc players to play there class again and make rangers/monk realize hey im not a tank

yes 100 people is most the population in eq

I personally think a couple more tiers of mercs could be added to UF. These would be obtained through your own personal completion of a particular progression arc, similar to SoD mercs. Complete the progression tasks in the tier 6 zones and you have access to a tier 6 merc, then later on when you complete the tier 8 progression tasks, you may purchase a tier 8 type merc. By obtaining mercs in this fashion you are obtaining access to a merc that is similar to playing with a real toon who has generally evolved through progression, completing a lower tier of progression and gear up in that tier is supposed to give you some new gear and AA exp that allows you to move on to the next tier.

For those of you who say you spend a lot of time lfg, I see your pain. I am a fortunate individual who can sometimes log on while at work, I work night shift 14 nights a month. Because of this I see the populations and difficulty finding groups during morning, afternoon and late night play times.

Mercs are not game breaking. Real people at the keyboard make mistakes, so does the coding that mercs are designed on. Learning to play the game with a merc healer/tank is not a lot different than joining a pick up group, when you can get one. The major difference is that when you use a merc and pay attention, you learn some of the flaws that merc coding possesses. Mercs have allowed people to go back and complete tasks or obtain items that they have wanted from past expansions but due to peoples desire to move "into the future" these few people were left with a void in how am I going to get this done now.

HoT is on the way now should they still be upgraded?

I tried using the tank merc in FoS and it couldn't tank the nameds even with 2 merc healers working. That was a tier 3. By the time you make it to the Warrens (still tier 3 until you complete it) even the trash hits for over 4k so tank mercs are out of the question. So their uses are pretty limited. They definitely are not going to be used for the progression part of an expansion.

*A funny side note is cleric mercs seem to take hits much better than the tank mercs do. Go figure.

Who said they want to do the hardest content in UF or HOT expansion. Maybe your little Raid clique may have no problem finding/creating "perfect" groups in your empty expansion (UF) but not everybody is (or wants to be) in the same empty world as you. EQ got away (a bit) from listening to one section (minority) of the playerbase at the expense of all others. Then the elitist whiners got UF tuned for their minority so much so, that they had to tune down many Raids etc during the course of 2010.




Edited, Oct 12th 2010 12:07pm by hexeez

Mercs are upgraded by levels now with HoT just like a player is. My t5 merc tank can tank Feerrott and HoT mobs just fine with one healer.