QUOTE (Brant @ Aug 26 2016, 10:58 AM)
- Experimental Kruna item: Fragile Orb of Mercenary Warrior, non group use, cost: 5 Daily Coins or 1 Big Malga from Woonsoo. (U)se the orb to summon and dismiss mercenaries. Very interesting concept. If they could develop a sudo AI that you could hunt with, poet for fighters and fighter for a poet, to allow them to solo or complete a group. This would be very interesting.
Curious to see how the mercenary thing works, but it could be a really neat concept.
If it's the system mug created years ago then the AI for the mercenaries is very good.
There was going to be a trial for Sa san where depending on your class you are put into a dungeon with several mercenaries of other classes and have to fight your way through a gauntlet of enemies.
Example: if you're a Warrior then you get assigned a Poet and Mage NPC; if you're a Poet you get assigned a Warrior and Mage NPC, etc.
I playtested the gauntlet and as I recall the AI was pretty good. The Mage paralyzed enemies for you, trying to even create sets while also lobbying Hellfires. The Poet kept you ASVed, Scourged enemies and healed you when your HP wasn't 100%. It was like playing with extremely talented players.
I can't recall the specific reason why it was dropped as a trial. I remember there was an issue with one of the NPCs, probably the Rogue one, which mug could not resolve.