EXPANSION MYSTERY: Mercenary

I got to thinking about mercs or heroes.

What if a special orb drop could summon a specific hero for roughly 15 seconds during a fight? It could potentially be the best of both ideas.

Please no..

Im very confident that they wont introduce anything similar to charms. If they existed then they will be mandatory and game will be balanced around everyone having them.

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CookieVortex wrote:

Please no..

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MasterAxe wrote:

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darkjoy wrote:

Is the expansion rumored to include D2-like mercs?

Can't wait to play if so... mercs and charms are some of the things I've wanted to see here.

Amen

Seriously, you want to carry a bunch of inventory-clogging shit with you to gain trivial boosts to stats? No. A thousand times no. Mercs, god yes. Even if having one boosted enemy health to compensate, I would fill all the oceans in the world with my microscopic baby juice if they were implemented.

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andkamen wrote:

GGG have said that they dont want mercenaries or hirelings. If they are too good they will be pretty much mandatory, and if they are not worth it then they are pointless.

The will have to be some major drawbacks to having hirelings.

When have they said they don't want them?

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Rhys wrote:

One problem with making Animated Guardians into "mercenaries" is that it means we can't do actual mercenaries later on (these are on the "maybe sometime" pile, since it's quite a large feature).

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Antnee wrote:

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MasterAxe wrote:

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darkjoy wrote:

Is the expansion rumored to include D2-like mercs?

Can't wait to play if so... mercs and charms are some of the things I've wanted to see here.

Amen

Seriously, you want to carry a bunch of inventory-clogging shit with you to gain trivial boosts to stats? No. A thousand times no. Mercs, god yes. Even if having one boosted enemy health to compensate, I would fill all the oceans in the world with my microscopic baby juice if they were implemented.

Yes, i love options, and charms added options and depth. Then not to mention what they added for PVP alone, they added layers of gear on top of more gear, which gave alot of depth. As for PVE, and clogigng my inventory, i almost always have slots that can not be filled from drops, small charms would work fine, but i would love to see more powerful larger charms also, for choices.

^hmmm I'm gonna go with no.


I'm all for choices but charms are not a real choice. If there is something that gives you any sort of bonus and your only choice is to not use these items or use them then its not much of a choice is it? Everyone is going to want to clog their inventories to the brim just to maximise the bonuses

this will also have the side effect of slower mapping because with perma allocation your loot stays yours and it will take you longer to ID due to inventory restrictions.

mercenarys for solo player yeah!