Mercenaries Broken after Shrouding

Today seems to be my day for bugs...

To preface: I am all access. My sub charged 2 days ago so it's a fresh one and not a case of final day limbo.

Shrouded to level 50, pulled out my merc to give an alt Temperance.
Unshrouded
Re-shrouded to level 5, dismissed the merc and tried to hire another. Couldn't.
Unshrouded again, tried to hire a merc, said I had an active Mercenary Purchase
Relogged
Upon logging in received the message "You no longer meet the requirements for this mercenary!"
Hit dismiss on a window showing no active mercenary, to try and swap mercs, it dismissed my non-active merc.
Logged out to Desktop for an hour.
Logged back in and got the same "You no longer meet the requirements for this mercenary!" message. But no longer have the "Active Mercenary Purchase" message.

CS said they have no resolution for this, so I am currently in the process of doing the quest for another Merc slot in hopes that I will not be stuck without a mercenary until this is fixed. I will update the thread once I finish it to let you know if the new slot is bugged, or if adding a new slot re-syncs and fixes the issues.

There are NPCs in the Eastern side of PoK on the western wall to recover mercs that you have dismissed.

I'll try this out, not sure which NPCs they are but I'll hail people until I find the dialogue to go through and see if it works.

Could not find any NPCs that would do this.

Also tried having another character transfer a merc to me, hoping it would shake something loose. Did not do anything. Collected the items for the quest, just have to craft and turn them in to see if the new slot will fix anything.

Lots of shrouding going on there and I think that is what caused the issue.

Did you try buying a merc while in shroud form? Making sure you have enough plat of course

This is from another bug report with same issue but on test server - maybe it will work for you

Open merc window, dismiss.
Open Merc Merchant window, try to buy and fail, keep window open.
Open merc window, dismiss. and repeat until you get error "You must own a mercenary to bring this window up!"
Try to hire merc, get an error about needing to wait due to recent dismissal.
wait 30 seconds.
Hire and collect bacon.

https://forums.daybreakgames.com/eq...ary-after-character-copy.284333/#post-4159883

I did try doing everything back in the same shrouds I had used before. Nothing. That fix sort of fixed things, I have one merc slot, but I can't swap to do the other merc slot, so it's still sort of dead. But my mercenary stances are blank. Also failed the combine with the Triumvirate stone (DOH) so it'll be a while until I can see if the third slot fixes anything.

Craft a Mercenary Signet Ring (jewelcraft, trivial 15, no fail): Jewelers Glass, Oval Cut Tool, Platinum Bar, Triumvirate Blood Stone.

How did you fail and lose the stone?

I failed to type out my entire thought. I failed one of the earlier ones in the quest, and failed to retain my Triumvirate Stone during my server transfer because it was in my Dragon's Hoard. Which was my other bug post today that was not resolved well. So I have to farm up another stone and another Prowler Pelt.

Thanks for keeping me on my toes and not offering feedback to the bug at hand.

Finished the Merc slot quest this morning.

It did not fix the slot that was still bugged with a "ghost merc"

Neither of my currently hired mercenaries have stances, and trying to change them via /stance tells me that they don't have that stance, no matter what stance I choose. I will likely do the merc slot quest again over the coming days to see if hiring a merc beyond the original 2 slots fixes anything further.

Fairly frustrating that such a major feature can't be fixed by Customer Support in any way and my only course of action is to post here in hopes that a patch in 2-3 weeks will fix it or that it'll fix itself one night as some other threads have had happen.

Pretty sure this is because of the server transfer - that was not clear earlier, sorry.

A few folks have posted about this. I highly doubt getting another slot will fix the problem.

It has been confirmed but no mention of when update will happen
https://forums.daybreakgames.com/eq...o-hire-mercenary-after-character-copy.284333/

Went back to the same bug I had in the first place of telling me I could not swap/unsuspend mercs without All Access, (but am).

So I decided to dismiss both the mercs I just hired after getting the new slot, and hire a new one as I couldn't swap back to my healer. Hired a new healer and it had stances, so I decided to keep trying to fill the slots. Hired a melee DPS and it worked, it had stances, and then it let me hire a caster DPS, it worked and had stances. I can swap between all of them now without issue.

It seems that my character at least is fixed, and getting the extra slot helped it do something, whether it was rotate through those slots I couldn't dismiss before to allow me to dismiss them, thus fixing them, or what I'm not too sure. The EQ spaghetti has straightened itself out on my end, and for that I'm relieved, but this is still a wild and crazy bug. And I'll never try to use a merc with a shroud again.