Mercenaries

The following changes have been made to mercenaries in Path of Diablo.

Mercenary auras have a maximum level of 18, unless stated otherwise.

Mercenaries hired from Normal difficulty have better stats than those hired from Nightmare or Hell.

By Act

Act 1 Rogue

• Has Pierce.
• Attacks with Fire Arrow (has been reworked) or Cold Arrow.
• Has Inner Sight (has been reworked).
• Can equip crossbows.

Act 2 Desert

• The same aura is used across Normal/Nightmare/Hell:

• Offensive uses Blessed Aim (Capped at level 18)
• Defensive uses Defiance (Capped at level 18)
• Combat uses Prayer (Capped at level 18)

Act 3 Iron Wolf

• Now casts at range ‘Elemental Bolt’ a spell that deals 100% Weapon Damage and Elemental Damage (of a random element). The spell scales with FCR, always hits, always pierces and the elemental damage scales from the Mercenary level, ‘+X to all Skills’ bonuses and +% to Fire/Cold/Lightning Skill Damage respectively. Has a maximum skill level of 32 from mercenary levels but skill level bonuses can go beyond this. Additionally, each level of ‘Elemental Bolt’ also gives him a passive bonus of +1 Dexterity (previously dex bonus per lvl didnt work).
• Have Defensive Auras:

• Offensive uses Meditation (Capped at level 18)
• Defensive uses Cleansing (Capped at level 18)
• Combat uses Precision (Capped at level 18)

• Can now also benefit from block chance, blocking with their shield (no animation/sound, no block recovery time).
• Act 3 Mercenary’s dexterity gain per level increased from 1 to 1.25.

Act 5 Barbarian Mercenaries

• Uses Bash exclusively (has been reworked).
• Uses Might aura. (Capped at level 17)