well start with act one mercs. they are the only girl mercs.
ranger - she has the skills vanquish, cascade, wraith arrow, defensive harmony, and wings of wrath.
she casts vanquish which her sister counterpart does not have so thats a plus. cascade is her best skill without a doubt. it is very useful because her range is incredible and it tells you where the enemies are. wraith arrow is useless and is just for style.
advantages - excellent range, vanquish for superb damage.
priestess - she has the skills barrage, pagan rites, guided chain, defensive harmony, and wings of wrath.
her barrage just sucks completely because you cant fire it continuously like the amazon can and it also has a limited range. youll see her a lot be in the sight of the enemy firing barrage, but not hitting. her skill pagan rites is the only reason why youd want to pick her. to eliminate corpses that might be revived. her one guided chain doesnt compare to multiple guided chains like the amazons in tran athulua, and once again you cant spam it like the amazon can.
advantages - bugged guided chain [which is a good thing], destroys corpses whilst healing herself.
conclusion; ranger pwns priestess so bad its not even hilarious. they both have incredibly low life though. they can only equip bows. not class bows, not amazon bows, and not crossbows.
moving onto act two mercs...
fighter mage - he has the skills titan strike, guard tower, glacial nova, berserk fury, and blessed life.
the worst merc of median. his titan strike can raise his stats a lot when he attacks enabling you to equip him with some high-end armor but you must constantly always be in the heat of battle. his titan strike doesnt heal fast enough. his guard tower is just completely useless. his glacial nova is useless because of immunity and random freeze immunity.
advantages - can freeze enemies if he casts glacial nova, free damage from guard tower, boosts his stat alot when attackin with titan strike.
holy - he has the skills retaliate, retribute, inner fire, berserk fury, and blessed life.
he relies on getting hit and sometimes he doesnt cast inner fire fast enough to stay alive. he casts retribute somewhat to lower the resistances of monsters. he is just good to knockback monsters with his retaliate and has a way better chance to survive than the fighter mage.
advantages - good aoe knockback, he can heal himself, lowers resistances of monsters.
shapeshifter - he has the skills claw tornado, werebear, bloodlust, berserk fury, and blessed life.
the staple merc-tank of median. and why not, he kicks ass. his claw tornado stuns enemies. but you cant use pierce missiles or something like that because of next delay. he casts bloodlust a good amount of time, and you wouldnt want that if you were an amazon who invested in bloodlust. he has the highest survivability out of all the mercs in median.
advantages - incredible life and survivability, casts bloodlust.
conclusion; shapeshifter owns holy, holy owns fighter mage, and fighter mage just sucks. the shapeshifter is the tank to get. they can equip spears and polearms.
moving onto act three mercs. they are the only mage mercs.
slayer - he has the skills elemental, punisher, gift of inner fire, arcane power, and mage armor.
the only mage merc that can deal two elemental damages. hes great to have in parties or if you have skills that deal cold and lightning damage.
advantages - deals two elemental damages; fire and poison. his punisher is a very high damage-dealing spell. heals the entire party.
necrolyte - he has the skills pandemonium, dark power, nightmare, arcane power, and mage armor.
a really great defensive-mage merc. his pandemonium deals cold damage which could slow enemies down. his nightmare spell definitely does slow them down. his dark power provies a little damage reduction, attack speed, and magic damage. great for necromancers who didnt invest in dark power or for melee chars.
advantages - can slow enemies down quite a bit with pandemonium and nightmare. casts dark power.
abjurer - he has the skills forked lightning, banish, lightning shield, arcane power, and mage armor.
a very deadly offensive merc to have. he casts banish on his enemies which lower their life, and casts lightning shield on you or himself. great for characters that can tank.
advantages - lowers the maximum life of monsters, casts lightning shield.
conclusion; good to use only if you are with a party. they can equip a sword and a shield.
moving onto act five mercs. they are the only mercs that can equip a class-only item.
barbarian - he has the skills shower of rocks, thunderslam, gift of the wild, circle of life, and mountain king.
he is second to tank of the shapeshifter. his survivability is lower than the shapeshifter. he has a problem with ranged attackers because of shower of rocks. he doesnt cast thunderslam that often and even if he does, sometimes the stun cant connect. hes great to use with ranged attacks that can deal with other ranged attackers.
advantages - good life, good survivability. good crowd control if thunderslam connects. casts mark of the wild.
conclusion; a mixture of act three and act two mercs. a good choice to have if you do have piercing missiles. he can equip barbarian only items.
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special thanks to
demonicangel - for including act four mercs. why didnt i remember them! >.<
pza - for telling me not to say that 'that' merc sucks, that will lead to nobody to choose them, so i put in advantages and will later on edit out the sucks part... maybe
doabli - the retribute thing. Lol.
bro lazy - for making mercs being able to do ubers.
to everyone else who reads this guide, offers their input even though they know im right, and whoever finds it useful!
your welcome ^.^
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