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Mercenary
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Abilities[]
Laser Sword |
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Cooldown: 0 seconds Slash in front of you, damaging up to 3 enemies for 130% damage. | ||
Whirlwind |
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Cooldown: 2 seconds Quickly slice twice, dealing 2x80% damage to all nearby enemies. | ||
Blinding Assault |
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Cooldown: 6 seconds Dash fowards, stunning enemies for 120% damage. If you hit an enemy, you can dash again, up to 3 times. | ||
Eviscerate |
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Cooldown: 6 seconds Target the nearest enemy, attacking them for 6x110% damage. You cannot be hit for the duration. | ||
 Massacre Target the nearest enemy, attacking them for 6x110% damage. You cannot be hit for the duration. Refreshes duration on kills, jumping to nearby enemies. | ||
Tactics[]
- An explanation for Massacre, as the skill description, can be confusing for some: It deals 6x110% damage to the nearest enemy. If that enemy dies, the ability chooses the next nearest enemy, dealing the same damage to them. This continues until an enemy survives the damage or there are no other nearby enemies to target. Accordingly, this helps the Mercenary deal with large crowds of small enemies, such as Lemurians.
- Because the Mercenary suffers from rather low damage, the key to mastering him is learning to use his skills not only to damage enemies but to use the time spent invincible to dodge more powerful attacks. Learning the patterns of bosses and strong opponents and using Blinding Assault or Eviscerate to avoid most damage is inevitable. Utilizing the low cooldown of Whirlwind on top of abusing his long amounts of time spent invincible.
- A typical combo for the Mercenary is to Eviscerate into a group of enemies, Whirlwind out, Blinding Assault through them and repeating for the remaining dashes followed up by another Eviscerate.
- Whirlwind can be used to get up to places the player might normally not be able to, as it does a small jump.
- Items that reduce cooldowns, such as Wicked Ring or Alien Head, are extremely effective on Mercenary as they give the Mercenary the ability to stay invincible nearly indefinitely.
- Wicked Ring combined with a decent critical chance is devastating against Magma Worms since Whirlwind will reset its own cooldown enabling the Mercenary to literally climb up a magma worm, dealing incredible amounts of damage.
- A near-exploit situation can be achieved with a combination of Rusty Jetpacks and Alien Heads causing the Mercenary to "fly" endlessly using Whirlwind, hovering above enemies and remaining out of reach from their attacks. A demonstration is available here.
- Like all melee classes, items like Tesla Coil, Toxic Worm, and Barbed Wire help to increase his damage output when he is in the thick of the fight.
- On-hit items, such as the Sticky Bomb and especially the Brilliant Behemoth, work well for Mercenary. Whirlwind and Eviscerate put out a ton of hits, each of them calculated separately, so he gets a lot of chances to activate these bonuses. The Brilliant Behemoth, in particular, lets him damage entire crowds with Eviscerate.
- When 2 Wicked Rings are stacked on the Mercenary, it allows him to perform a constant Faux-"screw attack" by bouncing on the heads of enemies with Whirlwind. This greatly increases his ability to remain relevant past the 3rd or 4th stage, allows him to chain Whirlwind into his Massacre consistently, and removes the need for his normal attack.
Achievements[]
| Eviscerate 50 enemies. | Chargefield Generator | |
| Beat the game on
Monsoon - MONSOON - difficulty.
For hardcore players. Every bend introduces pain and horrors of the planet. You will die. |
Ancient Scepter |
