Imagine a3 cold has frozen armor and we want him to learn chilling armor after a leveling up. With clever workarounds we could even prevent the act 5 merc from overwriting our curses with the states thing. the enchants are at something like 25% atm.

seems like a no downside thing to me, if they’d cast it immediately when entering combat.

then he would enchant the whole team upon seeing an enemy (though that could be annoying in a players 8 game with suummon necros… he wouldnt engange in combat for minutes)Īlso, the a2 mercs could use higher values for their auras, its at something like 5% or so now. if he does use it, a solution could be to just ramp the cast % up like frozen armor. I dont know if enchant uses the state mechanic, i havent seen him recast it on me too often (while im still enchanted). When the hireling is deciding theĬhance/Probability to use a skill, Hurricane is no longer considered,Īnd so the skill will not be chosen again, until the Hurricane isįinished, and the STATE_HURRICANE is removed. Now what happens is that after the hireling hasĬast his Hurricane, the game will keep track and put STATE_HURRICANE as Has no other side effects, but has good uses for hirelings. Think you may use, and some of those that you may or may not use in. It is recommended to put all those that you These values can be put in skills.txt under the 3rd STATES, like STATE_FROZENARMOR or STATE_SHOUT, STATE_CONCENTRATION, With reference to States.txt, there is a list of

Mean that they will continuous keep casting the skill. However if you give a very high chance, it’ll Usually (and also in the original hireling.txt) a Immediately upon sighting an enemy to protect himself, or provide the This is so that the hireling will cast it (Bone Armor, Cyclone Armor, Sorc’s Ice Armors), certain magicks (TS,Īrmageddon, Hurricane - tho Armageddon and Hurricane can get messy if Generally a very high chance should be put forĪuras (Defiance, Concentration), Warcries (Shout, Howl), Shielding Warcry uses some of these described mecchanics atm (thats why he casts it so rarely, enchant also uses some): but here is an interessting article about the mechanics used for such cases, like frozen armor, etc. He does need to use it out of combat, I wonder if that is an option.Īs far as i know its not. I took Hazim out and it took quite a while to get him to enchant me.

Diablo 2 mercenary auras