Now that I've accrued enough marks of valor, I plan on buying separate armor sets for each of the 3 types of mercs I have (healer focus, wiz focus, tank focus accordingly). While it is only currently 4 slots, having a way to either A) Make the armor bind to the specific merc type or B) Have a "bandolier" of sorts for merc armor where you can just swap all the slots with 1 click. Either of those would work, any thoughts on this?
it makes sense, but as far as i know from EQ's code there's no way to make that happen, because of how NPC item 'ownership' works and how it interacts with the items themselves. the only way i can think of that would work would be if there was some kind of flag on the player that said "all mercs owned by this person has X item in the chest slot", kind of like how mage pets come with gear on them if cast with an EM focus. but i can't think of how it would work within EQ's current inventory/item relationship that would let mercs swap a piece of gear on the fly like that. hopefully i'm wrong though, that would be pretty nifty.
Personally, I would hold off on buying merc gear right now. I'd wait to see if they release better versions of it.
