Mercenaries have they been implemented?

[Rehlioc]

The title pretty much says it all. I never used the feature in live but understand maybe they were a diplomacy reward?

[Jakkal]

I know other games made use of this, but VG never really had it.

VG had mercenary contracts that just gave you a retarded little minion that barely helped. We very rarely used them, and usually only to mess around. (Or pet pull exploiting).

[Rehlioc]

Too bad. I was hoping it might help me in my solo coloration of content.

[Jakkal]

You'd probably be best off playing a disciple. They're one of the best (if not the best) solo class.

[cgwars]

You'd probably be best off playing a disciple. They're one of the best (if not the best) solo class.

Speaking of which, when can we expect to see the disciplines installed for the disciple?

[dhew]

R word

[Rehlioc]

Played one in live currently leveling Hida Matsu

[Arkat_DOO]

Too bad. I was hoping it might help me in my solo coloration of content.

If you can get to an auction house, you can buy higher quality items which will make soloing much better. It made a huge difference on my paladin

[Kinshi]

While I know VG never had it, neither did other MMORPGS that have been emulated, but they have been implemented to good effect, and frankly I think VGSOH will desperately need them, heck we needed them badly on live due to our chronic low-population issues that are only going to be more pronounced on the emulator.

Sure, more actual players would be better, but without them you wind up with more people "boxing" instead to achieve the same result and/or looking to do some sort of "MacroQuest" for Vanguard, or both.

[Xinux]

Do not take this as a for sure thing but I've been thinking about adding bot's in at some point in the future but to do this a good bit of code would need to be redone.