are they good and how do they do in pvp

They are good, hit harder than prophet, with aoe skill and can silence.

i really dont have much idea on how the dark archer works. but i am still pursuing it alongside with the northern viking. they are parts of my final build. hoping that i could attain them. i hope to have an elementalist too and a spartan and a pirate. ive heard that they are really useful. do you know anyone with a dark archer? is the quest hard to finish?

pirate is awesome anyway look at it, spartan is great unless u have high lvl war cry (which cost more than the spartan itself), elementalist is trash, unless they give it sum new spells it's useless wutsoever.

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Yeah as what ive read about the skill of the prophet it just reduces the effectiveness of axe,spear and sword and increases the ap of melee mercs. however, the dark archer has the most important skill that is a big help in pvp like silence that disabled the opponent. I rather go for the dark archer than prophet..

drunken, do NOT get the "high class mercs" like spartan, pirate etc, just cuze they are of a higher class, have to consider what will be their purpose, and what the actual high lvls feel abt them.

1. elementalist is quite useless, and nobody goes to FL with her, NOT even those i know of, who have her. guildie told me he wanted to try her out, and found she's not handy, okayish, but NOT worth the slot.

2. spartan - he's good only for his DoT, which when maxed, actually lasts an incredible ELEVEN TURNS (or so thats wat i've heard). His lack of innate fire magic resistance (like swords, LK) means he just dropped into the "soft tank" category after the physical dmg nerf. No shield doesn't help him much.

3. pirate is still very good due to her skills. toxic sword occurs by chance but reduces AP when it goes off, and blood vengeance plain hurts (yes it takes off like 40% hp off my artillery UNFROZEN)

elementalist is bad in our version because it hasn't been buffed up yet with its 2nd skill. once it gets the 2nd skill, it will be just as important as an exorcist.

To add on to what Tregonial said. (I have all 3 B mercs)

Elementalist is completely useless for now. You have to wait for the new skill to come out, which reduces attack and hp.

Spartan is extremely useful for his war cry ability mainly for the fact it reduces the probability of multiple attacks from enemy mercs. Eg. Casting War Cry (High level) on Cannoneer, reduces his chance to fire his cannon twice or thrice. War Cry is useful against stun build, it is also rather useful in PVE where bosses are dealing some pretty big damage, war cry effectively reduces his combo rate and thus boss will only be whacking once.

Pre patch, his attack power is rather high and it is rather devestating in FL. Now currently, his attack power is quite shitty, so the other thing useful about him is his War Cry.

Pirate is very useful. Toxic sword when it activates, effectively lower 1 merc's ap till he can't move for 1 turn in FL. Her other ability is mainly use for penetration build etc. Ice Ridge + Blood Vengence for some ridiculous damage and it only takes 250 AP.


Back to topic...

Dark Archer quest is rather easy, but you need a guild as in the questline you need to kill some stuff in Marksburg Castle. She is extremely important in PVP, most builds have a dark archer because her silence ability is just useful. Furthermore she can cancel scrolls

This post has been modified on Mar 24 , 2009 11:30:14 AM by Pradian.

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[QUOTE]To add on to what Tregonial said. (I have all 3 B mercs)

Elementalist is completely useless for now. You have to wait for the new skill to come out, which reduces attack and hp./QUOTE]

this should be interesting if the elementalist has this ability to reduce the attack and hp.. quite good for pvp.. anyways.. i don't have archer in my line up so i don't know about it... may be i will just watch it from the others.. hahaha...

so that's what dark archer do!!
hey guys thank you for the info cause i also have an archer in my line up...

one question what kind of quest you have to take on before getting it..

u need a lvl 100 archer 1st to get the upgrade quest. it's not hard but u need a guild to finish the last quest which required to kill marksburg.

wow i can get one, but im a mid level. maybe if i will do that quest i will ask my guildmates to help me on that part. ^^,

there's no point unless the archer is lvl 100 otherwise you can't rank it up anyways.

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then all i have to do is to level up my archer and that will do it

lvl 95 to 100 is like 20x the work from 1 to 95. good luck with that.

lvl 100 c and d mercs needs 200m exp total, b mercs need 241m exp.

I'll try them...who knows?

wow all of you are having a high class mercenaries.. lots of high level im only a middle class so thank you for all of you tips and information about the b class mercenaries..

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yeah me too i have nothing to lose anyway!!

guys have you seen the upcoming new mercs?