I am experiencing "need fighter" message while I am on my wizard when I have a healer merc and the healer merc is not healing myself and/or it. Is this intended or is it a bug?
I was on my wizard and in the new zone and had the healer merc Chumba Spiritcaller . I am also now experiencing the same message on my wizzy with the merc Oor of Umbra and on my conjuror using a battlepriest mercenary in the new zone. They are both 120 or higher and until I went into the new zone I didn't get the message "need fighter" What kind of mercernary should I be using with the wizard and conjuror? Also the mercenaries are not showing up to other people when I have them active.
It's something not behaving properly, but usually its some ability of yours that throws the dumb message. It's not the mercenary.
Which new zone? Most likely what you are seeing is an ability not landing on you because you are not a healer. A number of these 'diagnostic' (for lack of a better term) strings are reporting to the player in new content; largely you see them when positional attacks don't apply to you because you are in front of/behind an enemy that uses a directional attack, for instance. If you recall, the same type of messaging occur(s/ed?) in Shar Vahl: Siege Break on the first named inside the castle, when the explosion happens but you are out of the room so it does not apply the killing blow; it gives a similar message along the lines of 'Must be in specific location' in yellow text in the same manner.
This message has also been reported as being generated from an item source too: https://forums.daybreakgames.com/eq...message-everytime-i-zone.602272/#post-6674347