| Author | Mercenary Quests - are they insane? |
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| two words: full arts |
| depends on which kind of wizzy brigands. i had one without giants or titans, but it had lotsa lorekeepers and such. I killed them quick though |
I started doing quests when I was level 4 to get the hang of what they were. I think I managed about 4-6 then.
Then at level 5 I was a little bit more serious about them. Never managed to get reputation up to 10 when I was lvl 5 though. I still declined the harder ones.
Now at level 6 I've done quite a few... Check profile for what kinds of monsters (yes, the big hairy monsters) I have defeated. ;)
So, do I think they are insane? No. I think they're quite managable. |
I feel that as your level increases the mercenary quests become quite easier.
The difficulty decreases at lv 6 and above. |
I am thinking that the wiz quest would be doable with ini arti-boosters - otherwise if they kill you wizzes first you got problems.
Also it might depend on your Hunt Guild standing as you get higher ini when you are promoted.
I don't have the staff yet - have to make do with the hat and cloak ;) artis make a lot of difference - bu ti beat the goblins with no artis - such a vast difference between quests - it makes me feel that there is room for adjustment to the scaling.
There is one thing that may make a huge difference for a wizard - making the new boosted creature artis - but the better ones are sooo expensive! but that might explain why some peole find this easier = those that saved loads at the lower levels rather than using artis of any kind.
Other races though get their creature boosts immediately and at no cost - swings and roundabouts.
I have not found any 3 try quests yet - do they actually show XXX? I did try to re-access the quests but maybe you mine were single tries. |
Wizard hat and cape aren't that expensive, given that you can sell them back to the artifact shop at 2/3 price after their endurance are used up. It costs maybe 30-50 gold per battle.
Army{0} quests should always give you 3 tries. I think after army{4} they give you 4 attempts, and maybe 5 attempts after army{6}. |
i got mercenary guild lvl 1 when i was lvl 5 so there not that tough, (some are though)
u just need alot of arts |
Not even that you just have to choose which quest you'd like to do.
As a nec I didn't want to loose so many skeletons, so I simply declined those quests, that seemed to tough, but even so I reached lvl 1 merc guild in lvl 5 and in most cases without any arts.
Any other faction loses nothing at all if it gets defeated in the merc-quest but its still gets those valuable skillpoints. |
take max magi and split them
DO NOT cover them
they'll take the first attack(usually deadly)
put gargs in max number if you want
gargs go to the corner and let 3 stack weakest enemy block them
maybe these will make you easier to finish merc quest
sorry if I make any spell mistake. |
| I find the quests easy enough. Vanguard of necromancers are annoying, if I could control the magi I'd win, but they are intent on kill me and so themselves after they've used their mana. The other ones are easy, just kill the few ranged troops if any(shrews in DE) with magic and just wait with troops. Armies are kind of tough, but all you have to do is kill the harder troops first and the rest will follow in the next few tries(It says you have 3 attempts and 180 mins in the mercenary guild when you're getting notification of it). Delivery quests too, they're easy. Don't even bother with the monsters, unless you have arts. Raids can be tough, but for the most part doable(if you're a wizard, level 5+ not sure about other factions, tried a few quests as knight, level 3, and could only do the wizard vanguard.) Avoid ranged troop raids, unless they're weak, and fast moving ones, like griffins. You should be able to do up to {2}, and perhaps {3} in most quests. |
well - I was doing a lot of what you guys suggested and before and I added i some of your tips too! I hope I've sorta found my balance now. The army 3 times have started coming up and I have found that they do vary - The barbs I was amazed I did without artis, but I had to add artis on the second and 3rd tries at the Elves and just scraped by that one! Maybe I just had some hard ones at the start? Or maybe there are a lot more hard ones I am about to run into - but I have got to the plus side of quests overall - fingers crossed and so I feel much better about this now = ty
From what you guys are saying you all excell at different quests with your different armies and I just wonder if I ought to try some other factions to gain experience before going further. Anyhows thanks for everything guys! |
i didnt know how hard they were so i tried one at leve lthree and i got roked from head to toe. i was in the middle of the feild facing:'
bottom right monks 20+ crossbows15 +
bottom left: cavalry 3 and some other stuff
top left: mino sldiers 10 or so and
top right: elven bows 20
i had 18 FKs and 10 elven bows.
INSANEINSANEINSANE |
| here's a tip do them at a higher lv |
| ok i think you're lying woga... |
| yeah.. you can't have units from other factions when your delivering something |
| Well I have already done 66 MG task on lvl5, check my combat logs for tactics |
I just did the Vanguard of Necros/defend wizards thing:
http://www.heroeswm.com/warlog.php?warid=470971340
It was not so easy bu tI managed it with half arts - I understand what you are saying about the 'friendly' magi - I have similar problem with my own when fighting multi-battles because my allies do not realise what I need to do and they just sit in the way when I could kill 2 units in each of several stacks if they kept out of the way.
Sometimes I have to decide do I shoot though my ally and injurt 2 of his so that I can take out 8 enemy units and save the rest of his troops and mine from a mauling?
Ignored a Fairy-monster quest - no idea if I should have tried that, but after what you guys said ... though I might attempt a goblin or skelly monster one ;) |
| What you guys need are arts....full art gear..When u guys go in |
Scary........ T T............. crazy ............. T T............ Impossible................ not fair................. T T.......
i hate mercenary quests........ |
| why always Wizard win the mercenary quests??.... |
