Periodically freezes all enemies around for 4 seconds. Formula: Chance to avoid damage = 10 + Dexterity/10. Mercenary has a chance to avoid any damage based on his dexterity, base is 10%, cap is 40%. Releases some arrow novas in big AOE, 150% weapon damage, no flat damage, doesnt scale. Plants a device that shoots multiple arrows in the closest targets. 75% Weapon damage, small flat physical damage. Adds bonus attack rating to party and deadly strike (cap is 25%).

As of ESR 5.3, this is no longer the case, the hirelings' auras are weaker copies of the original character skills to reduce the high dependence on aura mercenaries seen in older patches.

Their inherent skills work as a synergy for an aura item.Oskill bonuses of their inherent skills are capped at +3 per character.

+X To Amazon Skills/Tabs does not work.Stacking +skills on them thus is useful only if you want pure damage from them.Īct 1 Hirelings - Glass cannon archers with innate dodge, low regen, low defense but high damage. Note: Hirelings are balanced to have average +2-3 to all skills to cap their core bonuses from auras and passives. A full equipable hireling is strengthened wearing the 'Mercenary Set' combined with 'Waves of Ascension'. In ES, all hirelings are well balanced and have auras, so you are recommended to hire multiple mercs to see the difference for yourself. In LoD, Act 2 mercenaries are much prefered. You can test multiple hirelings as many times as you want, or you may like to change the hireling from time to time, which refreshes your play and costs only 50000 gold. In addition to that, you always hire them at your level. In ES, the difficulty doesn't matter and hirelings of the same act always have the same stats. In LoD, hirelings hired in higher difficulties have less stats (life, def, etc.).

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