How to get merc to level 25?

[Cellfire]

Is there anything I can do to help the merc get to level 25 so he doesn't die? Does the quest time affect their chance to die?

Once they get to level 15 or so they just cost me way to many rubies to revive. So I do not want to keep reviving them.

[Murt21]

I tried only doing 30min máx missions, but with these the mercenaries died. I guess don't die with máx 15min missions...

[Xpliciit]

I'm having the same problem too. From what I understand they are going to die at a predetermined time regardless of what quest they do so I just send them all on 2 day quests which gives 200% xp or something so they level up almost every time they do a quest and managed a level 18 who died at like 1 hour left of his 2 day quest which would have put him at level 19 or 20. Cost 1440 rubies to revive I think but I had only around 200 :(

[Moon Flower]

It's just Trial and Error. Keep in mind that merc recruitment quests are significantly more dangerous.

That was the case in a previous version as someone told me in a later post, sorry~

[Cellfire]

well that is good then if there is no extra risk of putting them on a 24 or 48 hour quest.

will make things much easier!

[WildKhaine]

Just wait until you get a good extra life merc. Then it ain't too hard to get it to a high lvl.

Some info on mercs:
http://clickerheroes.wikia.com/wiki/Mercenaries

Has some good info on mercs like reward efficiency table, life expectancy of merc, etc.

[davidb11]

Originally posted by Withered:

It's just Trial and Error. Keep in mind that merc recruitment quests are significantly more dangerous.

Where did you get that idea from? There's never been any indication that merc recruitment quests do anything to change the chance of death?

The chance of death is rolled at the creation of the merc. Or the ressurection of the merc.
It doesn't change. Period. It's set in stone.

[sfnhltb]

Originally posted by Withered:

It's just Trial and Error. Keep in mind that merc recruitment quests are significantly more dangerous.

No, they aren't. They used to be 6 months or more ago before the logic of how merc deaths were checked were changed to avoid cheating.

For the OP there isn't much you can do apart from wait, maybe risk rubies on late revival of mercs at slightly higher levels than normal/efficient, but even if you revive around level 14/15 the odds are still against you (seeing as the median lifespan is 4.5 days, you are still below 25% chance).

Another small thing you can do is ensure your mercs are on long quests any time you aren't going to be playing for a while (sleeping or working or that sort of thing) - while this doesn't help get your current mercs to any higher level, by having your mercs questing more during downtime you will get to the next mercs, and the ones after that faster, and thus reach the merc destined to break 25 faster than if they are all sitting idle whenever you are not actively playing. (This same advice works for anyone still waiting on Leeroy Jenkins, whereas the previous advice about reviving late is the opposite if you still need him of course).

Once you get eventually get close (23+) ensure you don't send the merc on a quest that sails past the 25th level, as you risk having a merc that would have lived to 25 but hasn't cashed in the xp from being half way through a quest when he dies - you can obviously offload too long quests onto one of the other mercs until you get something of appropriate length (which could be a 2 day quest if you are level 23 with 0% xp or similar).

The other thing is to hope for a +lives merc which while still not a guarantee, they have a much better chance of reaching 25 if you hold off their extra lives until after the rubies gets too expensive (this combines well with late reviving the merc compared to "max efficiency" level). Of course the more extreme version is just to bury all your mercs until you get one with +lives, but that is a risky strategy given it can take a long time to get one if you are unlucky, and meanwhile you are losing the chance of getting to 25 "naturally" with the mercs you are letting die.

[Cellfire]

o thanks that helps alot

On a side note - how do you get leeroy jenkins? Just luck when getting a new merc?

[ViciousCareBear]

you ll see when your times come, little padawan.
yes, just wait, after playing approximately for one year each day you ll manage almost all of those achievements.
dedication and afk is teh way to go
ah, and dont revive an exttra lives mercs with extra lives. use rubies until its too expensive

[Moon Flower]

Originally posted by sfnhltb:

No, they aren't. They used to be 6 months or more ago before the logic of how merc deaths were checked were changed to avoid cheating.

Oh! Thank you very much for telling me that!
I had no idea!

Looks like I should favour the shorter quests if I'm at my laptop.

[Sebluc40]

2000h to get level 25 mercenary and now die for revive cost 85 233 Ruby.I don't paid 10k for a game.

[Xpliciit]

Originally posted by Cellfire:

o thanks that helps alot

On a side note - how do you get leeroy jenkins? Just luck when getting a new merc?

I like how Froggy has 7.5k hours in the game and has yet to get the achievement for burying Leeroy Jenkins...

Edit: Also this is way off topic but i recently started playing Civilization V since i never really gave those games a chance for me to like them and noticed Froggy over on that games forums too :P

[Xpliciit]

Originally posted by Froggy Fraggelnos:

Originally posted by Xpliciit:

I like how Froggy has 7.5k hours in the game and has yet to get the achievement for burying Leeroy Jenkins...

I have far more than 7.5k hours. I started before the release on steam, and came to steam when it was released here. After a while I changed to the browser version and have been using that for atleast a couple months if not more.
Still no Jenkins though. RNGesus is not with me.

INB4 Leeroy Jenkins was introduced as a joke achievement and was never actually implemented into the game >_<

In all seriousness though i only have almost 600 hours into this game and i fully expect it at this point to be my first 1000 hour game on steam and its currently my first most played with second place being Ark at 439 hours lol. Lets just hope that RNGesus will be with me for Leeroy to show up :P

[davidb11]

No, there's a few people who have it.

[Criminal Space Cat]

Please, wish me luck!

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=803846144