Curse

Cherrie · Mar 04, 2011, 07:44 AM // 07:44

I understand the reason behind the current limit (so players can't amass armies of clones) but I still believe this to be quite pointless.

Lets say I want to make my Mesmer character a Mercenary Hero because I like to run around with Mesmer Heroes and until now I could only use two.
With how the things are right now, every other char on my account can have 3 Mesmer Heroes except for my Mes herself.
Unless I make 2 Mesmer Mercenaries or use a phony character to create one in the first place...
Same for every other class that I'd find useful.

The problem of Clone Wars is, in my opinion, negligible - we already can have more than one same Hero in our parties (think of 1 Gwen and 5 Vanguard Mesmers in the Deep or in Urgoz) and players ale not really bothered with it - it's a price you pay to use the system. If it breaks your immersion and it's more important for a player to retain it, he will simply not take duplicates.
What's more, the name of a Mercenary Hero can be changed if the original is present much like default heroes' names are already, for example to "[Personality] [Profession]" ("Arrogant Mesmer", "Born Leader Paragon" etc) to further limit the problem.

Also, players themselves can protect themselves from having exact clones if it bothers them - they can change their armor.

I simply find it hard to accept that if I want to be able to use a 3rd Me Hero on every of my characters, I can't register my Main, or I have to register two...

Del · Mar 04, 2011, 07:59 AM // 07:59

or perhaps character name(2) sort of like how windows treats a duplicate save of an image in the same folder.

/signed.

Neo Nugget · Mar 04, 2011, 08:10 AM // 08:10

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Originally Posted by Del

or perhaps character name(2) sort of like how windows treats a duplicate save of an image in the same folder.

Now that's a good idea.

It would be very nice to see this slightly inconvenient restriction changed sometime in the near future.

Dre · Mar 04, 2011, 11:05 AM // 11:05

Why not just call them something generic, like when you have the same hero twice in your party, the second one gets renamed.

[Region] [Profession] ==> Canthan Warrior, Tyrian Ranger,...

gremlin · Mar 04, 2011, 11:44 AM // 11:44

Do I get this idea right you want to make yourself available as a hero for yourself to use.

If the idea behind this mercenary mod was to create extra heroes of your own design then yes that is fine, but the name would have to change and so really should the face of the "hero"

They should really just have made more heroes but I guess they want the money.

Anyone with enough spare change can now create enough heroes of each class to fill a party.

IronSheik · Mar 04, 2011, 12:51 PM // 12:51

3 mesmer heroes=3 mesmers

2 mesmer heroes+party leader (mesmer)=3 mesmers

not signed

SpyderArachnid · Mar 04, 2011, 01:21 PM // 13:21

Or like me, I have three Mesmer toons already. So I can just use one of my other Mesmers to tag along with my other Mesmer.

DeanBB · Mar 04, 2011, 01:41 PM // 13:41

Just make a PvP mesmer, register it, delete PvP toon, make PvP mesmer, register it, etc. You can have 7 mesmer heroes if you want and they can all be Barbie Twins if you so choose!

jazilla · Mar 04, 2011, 05:05 PM // 17:05

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Originally Posted by DeanBB

Just make a PvP mesmer, register it, delete PvP toon, make PvP mesmer, register it, etc. You can have 7 mesmer heroes if you want and they can all be Barbie Twins if you so choose!

^this. You can have an 8 Mesmer team if you bought the 8 pack of mercs.