I'm thinking of hiring a mercenary and would like to know who would be a good companion for my warlock? I'd also like some pointers on making quick money so I'm able to pay mercenary. Thanks!
i did not really notice a difference in the healing merces. Get one and Keep leveling it. There is no use to upgrade it when you see new merces. But it might be usefull to start with a new merc on beginning of the new expansion
Siggy and I with the help of a few others made a wiki page for Mercenaries. It was done in January and February of this year, so you might want to take a peak at that. I will give you a link: https://eq2.fandom.com/wiki/Mercenaries If you cannot heal, you might want to look at a healer merc and put it on passive so that all it does is heal and cure you. If you need a meat shield, go for one of the tank types. You are on MajDul, maybe someone here from MajDul could help you to get Zhugurus, I believe he is obtainable by Free to Play now. If you have gone ahead and subbed, then perhaps someone will help you to complete the Panda Yun Zi's Days of Summer 2017, I believe that is the one that we could get Evania from, she is a great healer and she can rez if needed and she pummels the mobs as well. Make sure you have the mercenary feature or you cannot use the mercenaries anyway. Type this in your chat box: /show_account_features This will show you everything that you have available on your account. If the mercenary feature is not listed there, you would either need to buy the feature for Daybreak Cash from the marketplace or buy the Expansion, although, I would verify with a red name as to whether you get access to the mercenary feature with BoL.
Not subbed yet. Hopefully, if things workout, I'll be able to next month. If I remember correctly when I was subbing I did get the mercenaries added to my account. Shouldn't they still be available to me? I'll check with the /show_account_features when I'm back in game. My shoulder is starting so I kind of need to give it a break. Know what I mean?
Why not a Paladin? They keep agro off you quite nicely and can keep you healed. I also notice that most mercenaries are straight up overpowered (at least until post-100, so you can hire a mage and his melee damage will kill most things dead in seconds. At least that's what I get from the dwarf cleric I bought in Qeynos harbor.
I'm a monk, and I had to team up with a paladin merc for a story quest. I couldn't draw agro away from him and he kept me healed without incident.
I usually leave all my mercs set so all they do is Follow. I activate them if I need help because they all blow stuff away so fast and I feel its my characters job to do the 'heavy lifting' (and it helps me learn my class better). Even when set to just Follow, a healer and a paladin merc will keep you healed up while fighting. My cleric is only 29 and I was harvesting in Sinking Sands for Qho, and for the heck of it I sent my paladin against a caiman (in the 40's I believe) and with me just healing, he beat it. I had him fight a jungle cat there but I ran out of power healing him and he only got it to about 50% health. Some mobs are tougher than others. But the mercs are all quite powerful.
You can hire as many as you want, it is just that if you switch to a different one, you will need to go back to where you hired them to switch to a different one unless you use DBCash to unlock them to hire them anywhere. Then you can switch them up anywhere you like.
Yeah the paladin will do well for you. If my cleric's pally is fighting a bunch of tough mobs where he's not just blowing them away it gives me a good chance to practice healing / keeping him alive.
