Mercenary

Primary Attack: A Melee Physical Slash Attack dealing damage.

Secondary Attack: Launches himself through the air towards the selected area, dealing damage upon landing.

Usable Weapons: Daggers

Lore: Previously serving as an elite royal warrior, the Mercenary is now a soldier-for-hire that utilizes contracts and bonds created with many strong and strange beings throughout Etheria to get any job done. Whether providing protection, or taking out a single target, the Mercenary has the tools needed. "Any job can be done for the right amount of coin" is the Mercenary way!

Hero Damage Scalar: 0.35

Hero Health Scalar: 1.65

Base Damage Reduction: 0%

Information

	Fan Of Knives: Quickly spin in place, throwing knives in every direction dealing damage to all close by.
	Poison Dagger Throw: Throws a line of poison daggers towards your enemies!
	Combat Preparation: Focuses on the battle ahead, giving an edge in battle by increasing movement speed, and damage.
	Sweeping Strikes: Unleash a spin move in the direction you're facing, dealing massive damage to any enemy unlucky enough to be in the path.

	Royal Guard Blockade: Blocks enemies. Attacks with his shield dealing physical damage.
	Nether Spider Spawner: Spawns several spiders that run towards enemies and explode, dealing physical damage and weakening enemy attacks.
	Nether Archer: Fires bolts of dark energy that bounce between enemies, dealing less damage after each bounce.
	Elvish Artillery Cannon: Fires a chaotic ball of energy dealing area of effect storm damage.

List of Mercenary-specific Item Shards:

Name		Effect (Gilded value in brackets)	Item
Name		Effect (Gilded value in brackets)	GearSlot	Shard Pack
	Back Stab	Primary attacks that hit enemies from behind now deal 100-200% (220%) of their normal damage.
	Binding Roots	Your slam ability has a 22-50% (58%)' chance to stun enemies for 0.5 seconds, then root in place for 4.5 seconds.
	Bounty	Restore 1-6 (7) mana upon defeating an enemy.
	Empowered Throw	Increases the damage of Poison Dagger Throw by 3-39% (52%).
	Escape Artist	Reduces the time of disabling effects you sustain by 0-37.5% (50%).
	Explosive Blades	Poison Dagger Throw now sticks to the target and explodes after 3 seconds for 500-2,000% (2300%) of Ability Power.
	Follow Through	Increases the damage of Sweeping Strikes by 3-39% (52%).
	Frenzy	Primary Attacks have a 21-26% (28%) chance to increase attack speed by 5-30% (40%) for 5 seconds. Can only proc once every 7 seconds.
	Knife Club	Increase the damage of Fan Of Knives by 3-39% (52%).
	Lingering Poison	Poison Dagger Throw now poisons the target for 100-800% (940%) of Ability Power for 1.2-5.2 (6) seconds.
	Momentum	Enemies hit by abilities reduce Sweeping Strikes ability cooldown by 0.2-0.8 (1.2) seconds every hit.
	Poisoned Blades	Combat Preparation now applies poison to your blades for 5s, causing you to deal 50-110% (130%) of your Hero Damage as poison damage on melee attacks.
	Shadow Prince	Taking damage has a 7-23% (28%) chance to make you take 3-15% (19%) less damage and stun attackers for 1.2-4.8 (6) seconds over the duration.
	Sharp Thinking	Increases the damage bonus of Combat Preparation by 4-40% (52%).
	Critical Allocation	Increases Elvish Artillery Cannon's Crit Damage by 30-46% (50%) and Crit Chance by 5-21% (25%), but lowers the tower's range by 25%.
	Earthen Guard	Imbues the Royal Guard Blockade's shield with Earth magic that has a 8-18% (20%) chance on dealing damage to unleash a fissure, dealing 200-1,800% (2120%) of your Tower Health as Earth Damage.
	Ghastly Curse	Nether Archer's arrows now make enemies move at 50-42% (38%) speed for 0-4 (6) seconds.
	Ghost Arrows	Nether Archer's arrows can now bounce 1-4 (5) additional times.
	Icy Spiders	Nether Spiders have a 6-16% (20%) chance to spawn a pool of Ice on the ground that makes all nearby enemies move at 90-60% (48%) speed for 5 seconds. The ice pools last 10 seconds.
	Overcharge	Increases the Elvish Artillery Cannon's projectile damage radius by 16-64% (80%), and reduces damage falloff by 18-42% (50%).
	Plated Armor	Imbues the Royal Guard Blockade's armor, making enemy projectiles deal 76-40% (28%) of their original damage.