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Know your game: Melee Mercenaries - Class B



Today we will check on the Class B Melee mercenaries that will help you on your journey to end-game!

So let’s start and delve on the Class B Melee mercenaries!

Puppeteer
A deadly duo of master and puppet that unleashes a curse upon the enemy and manipulating allies.

The Puppeteer is a mercenary who has high [Strength] and wields a Power Saw for her puppet’s weapon. A Puppeteer can easily null all magic casted on an enemy and can manipulate her ranged allies to act again. Her puppet’s attack can strike up to three enemies in a single row. She can use [Bloody Strings] to sacrifice an ally to tremendously power up her puppet.

Type

Class B: Berserker Mercenary – Melee strikes against a row of enemies. She can devastate enemy formations with her attack, Support her range allies by allowing them to act again in the timers of desperation, can sacrifice an ally to empower her puppet.

Skills / Magic

Bloody Strings – Use powerful puppetry magic to control and curse the enemy, nullify all Magic cast on them, except Purify spells.

Curse of Strings – Use powerful puppetry magic to control and curse the enemy, nullify all Magic cast on them, except Purify spells.

Empowering Control – Takes control of allies using puppetry powers, increasing their abilities. Allows Stunned characters to lose their Combo Count.

Taoist
An exorcist that uses charms to give his allies a boost and to devastate his foes.

The Taoist is a mercenary who has high [Strength] and wields a Spear for his weapon. A Taoist can disable and weaken enemy formations while supporting his allied formation. His attack strikes against two foes in a line. [Burning Essence] and [Empowered Aura] supports his allies while [Spirit Echo] and [Vital Seal] is designed to hinder and weaken his enemies.

Type

Class B: Dragoon Mercenary – Melee strikes against two foes in a line. He can disable enemies with [Vital Seal] and [Spirit Echo] slows down enemies. An ideal frontline tank with with magic skills that helps his allies and weakens the enemy for easy pickings.

Skills / Magic

Burning Essence – Increases Action Power, speed and Accuracy. When the spell ends, replenishes Health.

Empowered Aura – Empowers other Spear wielders, restoring Health and boosting Multi-Hit rate every turn (AoE).

Spirit Echo – Calls upon the spirit of the spear to deal extra damage and decrease Action Power.

Vital Seal – Decreases Action Power and seals physical and magical attacks. At higher skill levels, decreases Defense and gives a small increase to Magic Defense. Works on bosses.

Pirate
A ruthless and swift fighter that slice and dice her enemies with her excellent sword skills.

The Pirate is a mercenary who has high [Strength] and she wields a Sword for her weapon. A Pirate is ideal on sword-centric formations and her set of skills always puts her on the offensive. Her attack can only strike one enemy in a single attack. She can use [Toxic Sword] to both damage and drain her target of Action Power.

Type

Class B: Knight Mercenary – Can attack enemies in a row at close range. She has extremely low defense but she makes up for it for being very useful a in sword heavy formations, can easily weaken enemies with her attacks and her other skills makes her viable even for a diverse formation.

Skills / Magic

Toxic Sword – Causes damage at a certain rate and the enemy who's been attacked will be poisoned. This magic is not affected by charms or increased weapon skill. Drains monsters, including bosses, of Action Power.

Blood Vengeance – Deal severe damage to one enemy, in exchange for damage to one of your own mercenaries at random.

Crimson Blade – Summons the Crimson Blade to damage enemies.

Marauder’s Edge – Increases Attack Power and Multi-Hit Rate in Swords of Formation (AoE).

Spartan
Trained for war for his entire life with his spear and shield, his War Cry can crush even his mightiest foes.

The Spartan is a mercenary who has high [Strength] and he wields a Spear for his weapon. A Spartan is viable on spear heavy formations and he can weaken enemies. His attack strikes against two foes in a line. He can use [War Cry] to demoralize his enemies with a mighty yell.

Type

Class B: Dragoon Mercenary – Melee strikes against two foes in a line. He is ideal to have on spear heavy formations and his [War Cry] helps with weakening his enemies.

Skills / Magic

Sparta – Raises the Attack Power, Accuracy and Critical rate of allied Spear mercenaries (AoE).

War Cry – Weaken your enemies' morale with a mighty war cry.

Tarkan
A conqueror of kingdoms. Leader of warriors. She is the fiercest of the Huns.

The Tarkan is a mercenary who has high [Strength] and extremely high [Defense]. She wields an Axe for her weapon. A Tarkan can easily overpower enemy formations by herself with her set of skills and attacks. Her attack can strike up to three enemies in a single row. Her [Cleaving Blows] skill makes her a deadly force on each attack she makes.

Type

Class B: Reaver Mercenary – Can attack enemies in a row at close range. Her high [Strength] and extremely high [Defense] not only makes her an ideal attacker but also an ideal frontline tank. Her set of skills makes her offensive output an unstoppable force, thus making her a really and deadly killing machine.

Skills / Magic

Cleaving Blows – Gives basic attacks a chance to deal additional damage and weaken enemy defenses. Has a higher chance to trigger at higher magic levels. Cleaving Blows affects a full row, even if Attila attacks an opponent in an outer column of a row and doesn't physically hit all 3 characters in that row.

Tarkan’s Will – Goes into a rage, boosting Attack Power, Multi-Hit rate, Accuracy, Critical and Action Power. In TBS, boosts speed.

Unstoppable – Iron-clad will allows the user to hit harder and resist Stun spells.

Warlord
Combines magic and melee prowess to become the perfect second-in-command of any formation.

The Warlord is a mercenary who possesses a really powerful set of magic and skills and he wields a sword for his weapon.Combining his melee prowess with his magic makes him an absolute terror for his enemies. His attack can only strike one enemy in a single attack. He aids his allies with [Rally] and [Demoralize] can make bosses easier to defeat.

Type

Class B: Knight Mercenary – Can attack on opponent at close range. Offering various skills and magic allows the Warlord to support his ally, debuff bosses and do an AoE attack.

Skills / Magic

Rally –Seals the Magic of the enemy leader and drains Mana from him. Also decreases Attack Power, Defense, Critical Rate and Multi-Hit Rate.

Demoralize – Boosts the main character's attack, defense, critical, and intelligence. Passive Magic not increased by Charms or Equipment.

Thunderbolt Slash –Smite the enemy (front row) with bolts of thunder.

So, found your favorite mercenary so far? If not, there’s going to be more mercenary guides!
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