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Beta was terrible for balance in general, there was a point where mercenaries were literally cannon fodder to the point that we would all laugh and say GG as soon as we saw a merc, regardless of the build.
Beta was ridiculous because of looping and smoke mass.

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No, mercs weren't OP, i think you misunderstood the term Cannon Fodder
It means we were godstomping mercs and they had literally no chance to win at all against heal loopers.

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I'm with Oba. As a beta merc I was never cannon fodder to TM's or BH's. Sure BH's were trickier to deal with as a Merc, but they were far from cannon fodder. Did you really forget how strong support mercs were or how their strength builds would easily take out heal looping tms? I remember my bezerker without rage was dealing 80+ damage to mages right before they would heal I'd take them out with ease.


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Also, IIRC the strongest faction in Beta, TSAAS were mainly Mercs. I don't understand how you came to that conclusion outside of you maybe just finding lots of new players in beta that were mercs. And they had no idea what they were doing so you would 2-3 turn them and move on. But those types of players were not just found in beta but all stages of the game...Noobs=cannon fodder, not the classes.

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Dont even start with that, I was a beta non var and for most of beta I was indeed cannon fodder for TMs, BHs, and even var merc's I guess. If the lower levels plus NPCs didn't exist I would have had like a 50% win ratio, maybe you think merc was decent because you slayed non var's and got some free wins. Support merc was decent, str merc yes indeed was decent (~80% w/ NPCs), but no the non var counter parts were terrible.

Non var BH/merc were cannon fodder to everyone with var, and even to non var TMs. Most successful non var TM I was saw was xxmirvxx w/ 88%.

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Dont even start with that, I was a beta non var and for most of beta I was indeed cannon fodder for TMs, BHs, and even var merc's I guess. If the lower levels plus NPCs didn't exist I would have had like a 50% win ratio, maybe you think merc was decent because you slayed non var's and got some free wins. Support merc was decent, str merc yes indeed was decent (~80% w/ NPCs), but no the non var counter parts were terrible.

Non var BH/merc were cannon fodder to everyone with var, and even to non var TMs. Most successful non var TM I was saw was xxmirvxx w/ 88%.