Though Path of Exile’s Secrets and techniques of the Atlas league has many new and fascinating options, Mercenaries take middle stage. The in-game league title is even Mercenaries.
These mercenaries subtly change the way you wish to play or method the sport, primarily from the looting perspective.
Aside from that, you may be questioning about a couple of mechanics revolving mercenaries, resembling hiring, reviving, changing, and extra. Right here’s the whole lot you’ll want to find out about mercenaries in Path of Exile 3.26.
Learn how to Revive Mercenaries in Path of Exile
Because you’ll most certainly be right here as a result of you’ve seen that your mercenary simply disappeared, right here’s how reviving mercenaries works within the sport. Even in the event you discover the revive button, you’ll discover that the mercenary nonetheless isn’t there after urgent it. There are circumstances the place it does work, however there’s a mechanism that stops it from occurring.
First, to revive a mercenary, you will need to press the mercenary button on high of the store button and your ability bar. If it has a pink and darkened icon, it means your mercenary has died, and clicking the button will revive your mercenary for a certain quantity of gold.
Second, you’ll have to concentrate to the place your mercenary died. Your mercenary will solely get revived in the event you go to a different space or occasion the place they haven’t died but.
So, if you’re combating a boss or you might be on a map they usually gained’t revive, you’ll should undergo your subsequent map or space to see them once more.
There are bizarre interactions with it the place, in the event you revive them in an space or occasion the place they’ve already died, they gained’t even come again to you within the subsequent space. Nevertheless, you possibly can nonetheless return to your hideout or city to inform them to accompany you. It doesn’t appear meant, they usually might repair that situation quickly. For example, in the event you use the revive button on one other space, they’ll all the time spawn subsequent to you.
Learn how to Rent or Launch Mercenaries in Path of Exile
To rent mercenaries, you will need to work together with them while you see them in numerous areas and cases. There’s all the time one per space, and you may both rent, exile, take an merchandise, or ignore them fully. To recruit them, choose rent while you work together with them. There’s a gold worth subsequent to them, which can value you some gold. Afterward, you’ll should earn their respect and battle them. In case you win, they’ll be a part of you. In case you lose, they’ll disappear, and also you’ll have to seek out the subsequent one. You’ll lose the cash on the try, but it surely shouldn’t be an enormous deal in the event you lose a couple of instances.
You possibly can solely have three mercenaries, all present in any city or your hideout. When you have three already, the sport will ask you who to interchange upon making an attempt to rent one once more.
Just one mercenary will be activated at a time, so if you wish to change, you’ll have to return to city and work together together with your most popular mercenary.
Tip: Hiring mercenaries throughout the marketing campaign and the early endgame is nearly ineffective. They don’t stage with you, so in the event you progress a bit, they’ll simply get powercreeped by the enemies, making them a cash dump in the event you preserve reviving them. Simply take a look at their gadgets for forex and equipment. In the event that they don’t have something good, ignore them. They provide a number of the finest gear throughout the marketing campaign, and also you’ll most undoubtedly get most of your gear from mercenaries within the marketing campaign. A few of their gadgets could possibly be rares with 5 to 6 modifiers as early as stage 30, which is insanely good.
Learn how to Gear Up Mercenaries in Path of Exile
When you have seen the gear outfitted in your mercenaries has that lock image, that doesn’t essentially imply you possibly can’t equip new gadgets. Even with the lock image, you possibly can change these gadgets.
You need to put together the merchandise earlier than equipping it in your mercenaries since you can not technically take away an merchandise from them.
In case you drag an merchandise to a desired slot within the mercenary’s stock display screen, it ought to change the present merchandise together with your new merchandise. The merchandise you changed disappears until that merchandise actually got here from you.
When changing gadgets together with your mercenary, you’ll have the liberty to unequip these gadgets, so long as they got here from you already.
They only added this function to stop gamers from hiring a mercenary and stealing all their gear to rent a brand new mercenary once more. If this wasn’t added, there’s no level in selecting the “take gadgets” possibility when seeing mercenaries.
