Mercenaries

Mercenaries

Throughout Greece, many fighters make their living by hiring out their skills. These mercenaries gain great renown, and you can face them in battle to increase your own reputation among this group of hardy professionals.

Mercenaries are ranked in tiers, nine being the lowest ranking and one being the highest. Defeating each mercenary above you in your tier, or the next highest tier, moves you up one spot in your current tier until you’ve fought your way through them all and you advance to the next tier. As you advance in tiers, the enemies become more difficult, but the rewards grow to match. You will never run out of mercenaries no matter how many you kill, as there are always others willing to take their place.

There are also unique mercenaries that reward you with specific pieces of legendary gear. Some of these unique mercenaries also grant unique engravings once you defeat them and claim their gear.

To face a mercenary in battle, find them out in the world or perform crimes to earn a bounty. Once your bounty increases to at least the first helmet icon in the lower right corner of the screen, a mercenary comes looking for you to collect the bounty on your head. The more helmet icons added to this bounty tracker, the greater the number of mercenaries who seek you out, and they will be of a higher level, making them much more difficult to defeat. In order to clear your bounty meter, you can either pay off the sponsor with drachmae or you can travel to the sponsor’s location and kill them. No mercenary is willing to work without pay.

When a mercenary is nearby, a helmet icon appears on your HUD radar or on the world map. Once you start to get close to a mercenary, you “discover” them. Once you’ve discovered a mercenary, you can track them, view their level and a brief history, see what special abilities they have, and see what kind of epic or legendary gear you receive when defeating them. The mercenary will be using this item.

Mercenaries always come with two special abilities, and these can be positive or negative. Positives grant them some sort of buff, while negative abilities are a weakness you can exploit when fighting them.

Mercenary Abilities