merc leveling PDQ

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Is it me or does the merc seem to level very quickly?
I am in Nm and I joined a Baal game and got about few levels above my merc.
I was around level 68 and my merc was at 62. I did a solo Anya quest and my
merc did about 3 levels at the passage and 2 at the frozen river ( He is a
HF Act 2 merc). Now it could be I am a golomancer and he is doing a big
chuck of killing, but I've rarely seen my merc keep up with me so much.
Anyone else noticed this?

EB

 

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Yeah, come to think of it my mercs (tend to use NM Act 2's for the aura
stack) *have* been leveling a lot faster lately! Nice trend I say!
The majority of my chars are melee paladins (Fanatic Zealots\Avengers)
or Bowazons. Strangely I haven't really noticed any appreciable
difference\correlation between kill ratio (who's carrying the load) and
merc leveling rate. Either way I *like* it! Keep 'em well equipped
(love those ethereal weapons & armor ... unlimited durability on a merc
.... heh) and throw down baby!

 

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On Fri, 5 Aug 2005 23:12:32 +0100, "Eric Blake" <me@yahoo.com> wrote:

>Is it me or does the merc seem to level very quickly?
>I am in Nm and I joined a Baal game and got about few levels above my merc.
>I was around level 68 and my merc was at 62. I did a solo Anya quest and my
>merc did about 3 levels at the passage and 2 at the frozen river ( He is a
>HF Act 2 merc). Now it could be I am a golomancer and he is doing a big
>chuck of killing, but I've rarely seen my merc keep up with me so much.
>Anyone else noticed this?

Yup. It's a feature, not a bug - it's in the readme for the patch.
In the last few days of 1.10, I'd spent a bunch of tedious hours
leveling my merc from 28 to 32 (I was 38, and he was getting almost no
experience in the areas I was in). After 1.11, he caught me by level
42, in normal play (i.e. my CE and skeletons were doing most of the
killing).

--Craig

--
"Pain heals. Chicks dig scars. Glory lasts forever." - The Replacements
Craig Richardson (crichard-tacoma@worldnet.att.net)

 

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It's nice isn't it? I think that the valk and shadow master seem
stronger too but I might be halucinating again...lol