Of course, the higher level your merc is, the more expensive it will be. If your mercenary dies, he can be resurrected from one of the townsfolk, although there will be a price. If they are still poisoned when they get back to town, they can still die, until they are healed by the local healer. Mercenaries can die, not only by losing hit points, but also from being poisoned. Mercenaries can be healed with healing potions, antidote potions, or wells, and are also affected by the Paladin's Holy Bolt or Prayer Aura. If they are at a higher level than your character when you hire them, they will not level up until you reach their level. Mercenaries can level up to 98, but can never level up higher than you. I don’t remember if this was mentioned in any patches or in the D2R release, but it’s good to know, although it’s nothing too serious.With the Diablo II Expansion, the hired help has been greatly improved. I’m not sure why they decided to change this, maybe just as a fun little joke or something I’m not sure if that column was included in D2R at release or if it was something added with 2.4, but we can see that some values are the regular 50K gold cap that we’re used to, while others are increased or decreased.Īct 1 mercs are capped at 66666, A2 and A3 capped at 50K, some A5 mercs are capped at 50K, some at 11111, some at 66666, some at 42000, and some at 40000.

In original D2 merc revive cost is hardcoded into the game’s binaries and capped at 50K, while in D2R there’s a new column in hireling.txt labeled “resurrectcostmax” which controls how much they can cost to revive.

Both original D2 and D2R uses text (.txt) files to handle a lot of the game’s stats and information, and there exists hireling.txt that defines merc stats/skills and whatnot.

Diablo 2 more than one mercenary