
At the shop there is this buff at this price ( for me - maybe has some tiny % reduction)
Premium 2 level it allows your party to have 1 buff for free. Don't look at the Prelium 1 description, because it says you should have. Maybe you want to sue my games and ask your money back for scamming the custommers

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Premium 4-5-6? it has 2 mercenary buff for free
Premium 6?-7-8 it has 3 mercenary buffs for free.
This premium buffs ends at your premium : 25th of the month, and is free for each run you que up, account based, not character.
Free mercenaries "are good" until Blue gear sector for everyone.
Everone, noob or experienced if fills the party with merc has a good chance to clear it even with low runes.
At the epic secotor it becomes a bit "not so comfortable" : the players are moving faster, taking less dmg, doing more dmg.
At legendary sector: low GS + row rune + inexperienced player: impossible to do it with 5x mercenary.
For me: with runes orange color, if Itake the very low GS gear from Astral academy, not is Fablet and 80% stats, without any buff, is hard a bit.
But if I get half set, like 8 slot relic gear and just the other is trash, than is fine, not needed the buff, but takes very long.
As the DPS:
An unbufeed mercenary in this relic secor does 300k to 1000k dps, mosty depends on the player GS and not the runes.
Runes matter for YOUR protection and jeep those mercenaries alive.
A bufffed mercenary deal like 2000k-4000k dps,
While I do 4000k -12kk ( depeds if Iam with draconics or without and many othen things like which class ansd build andd stats)
So a buffed mercenary is "a regular 8/8 player with full grears, without draconics 43.5 - 44.5k gs" in my oppinon.
New player to Rihat?
-hm, how much time does it take to kill 1x Bee?

and 1 Orge or Hydra how many imes need to CC it?
In my oppinion a new palyer should take the gear from Astral academy.
Depending if the mini seazon just started , than the gear at AH price is high, but in a few weeks becomming to normal.
So if you do a few maze and waste your money to a few cheap ear, like weapons are cheap, and a few gears, which has low protection wrist , hand, feet... is an option.
Other to ask friend and guild to carry 3-5 times and let you loot, you will res they if they fall

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I have helped a guildie, after 3 runs he did't die at each hit and after 5-7 run was a low GS viable player ( 1500k-3000k dps)
AFTER getting the 90% gear, you can upgrade it at Rihat and you can do the soloable quests alone, as how it meant to be. So you can have "fast 103% and later 106% from Rihat ( 2-3 weeks) , and 1006% it is a good to start the BG and earn a few slot of draconics, weekly
Some greedy palyers, without patience sign as healer and dps too. The sistem will see there is 4 dps only, so it comes the 5th as heal OR dps so it will put as heal. ( but he is in dps build and dps stats and don't want to switch build...
Soeveryone is looking around what bugged the game with 5x dps.
Just press the CTL+M and see who should switch now to Tank/heal... and you can start arguing, the tidiot will be there...
Than it comes the other smart / brilliant idea:
He is tank, so take somebody else the haler!
Why man? - why?
You should be alive, always.
You should be in your healer range in able to heal / purify you.
Same if the player healer don't take the tank:
- fore sure needs to heal the tank, and yourself too.
- but if any other player takes the tank, than the player should have higher priority to healit than the tank, because the player is wekaer than tank and die faster and when dead it will pull with him the tank too ... and the healer don't want to belive this...
The problem is: this forum is read by those players who knows how to use mercenaries, and not by those who can't use it and don't understand EN, DE, FR.
It realy should be conest with reward , probably some costume... for "mercenary user certificate" reward...and people may start using it properly : hire, attack, move back, retreat, attack

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