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The mercenary system is designed to add a new dimension to Ragnarok Online, allowing players to have an NPC henchman to fight at their side. Players will be able to support, party with and control a mercenary using an updated version of the homunculus system. Different from homunculii, any player can use mercenaries, but instead of a creature that grows alongside you, mercenaries have fixed stats based on the level of mercenary summoned. A contract is made with a mercenary and scrolls are used to call them into battle. Both homunculus and mercenary can be used by the same player at once.
Availability
The Mercenary system is currently implemented on kRO.
Summoning a Mercenary
Initially to make use of the mercenary system, you must visit one of the mercenary guilds across Rune-Midgard. The Swordsman Mercenary Guild is located in Izlude, the Archer Mercenary Guild in Payon, and the Lancer Mercenary Guild is located in Prontera. To invoke a contract with a mercenary and summon one to your side, you must purchase scrolls. The cost of scrolls increases with higher level mercenaries, and the maximum level of mercenary that can be summoned is limited by a character's base level. Some high level contracts require a certain amount of reputation to purchase, and the Superior Mercenary Scroll (level 10) cannot be purchased. Scrolls cannot be sold, transfered, or moved into storage or carts.
The stats of the mercenary summoned is based on the scroll used and they come with fixed skills which are different depending on the type of mercenary summoned. Once a mercenary is summoned, it will last either until it dies or the contract expires.
AI
The mercenary system is very similar to that used by homunculus, as both are run by an AI on the client side. Mercenaries by default use a non-aggressive AI and only attack targets hitting the player or targets the player is attacking. The AI itself is located in the /AI/ folder in the RO directory. Where as homunculus normally executes AI.Lua, mercenaries use a seperate file AI_M.Lua. Users can and are encouraged to customize their mercenary AI by modifying the files in the /AI/USER_AI/ folder.
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