Little Hero How To Get Mercs

This shows what the Mercenaries tab looks like.

Mercenaries are little helpers that tin can exist sent on various random quests, to obtain Gold, Rubies, Hero Souls, Relics, additional mercenaries or to activate random skills. After finishing level 139, unlocking the mercenaries tab requires ascending for the first time or buying a Quick Ascension. Doing so gives the player a gratuitous mercenary. Upward to 5 mercenaries tin be endemic at a time, and in order to go new mercenaries after that, a mercenary has to die or be dismissed.

Obtaining Mercenaries

The mercenary tab is unlocked after reaching level 139, after ascending for the kickoff fourth dimension or by buying a Quick Rise. When a player has no mercenaries, they will automatically get one for free (this will happen instantly if it'southward a histrion's first mercenary, or it will take 8 hours when all of their other mercenaries have died). Players can get additional mercenaries by either sending an owned mercenary on an 8 hr quest to get one, or past paying 40 Rubies (400 on mobile) to rent ane instantly. While a thespian has 5 mercenaries, the button to rent a new one volition exist gone and the mercenary quest volition not be included as one of the four quest options. When a player has less than v mercenaries, the mercenary quest volition e'er be one of the options.

The mercenary tab volition be locked again after transcending, until the thespian freshly reaches zone 139, ascends, or buys a Quick Ascension, though their old mercenaries remain alive and available once unlocked.

Using Mercenaries

Quests

When choosing a quest for an available mercenary, a player will go four choices, with various specific rewards for random lengths of fourth dimension. Some possible quests may exist repeated. Each fourth dimension a quest is accustomed, a new set of quests is created, only until accepting a quest, whatsoever mercenary may be sent on the current prepare. Choosing another available mercenary to a quest may open better quests for a higher level mercenary.

The size of a quest reward bonus is based on their rank/level, rarity, and time it takes to complete the quest. In one case a quest has been chosen for a mercenary, the quest cannot be stopped or changed until they are finished.

The store purchase Timelapse affects mercenary quests likewise, subtracting 8, 24 or 48 hours from the quest time. For example, if a actor has 15 hours left on a quest and activate an eight hr Timelapse, they will now have seven hours left, while a 24 or 48 hour Timelapse would end the quest. This can be repeated as many times as there are Rubies to fund information technology.

Quest Types

Recruit new mercenary (only available if a role player does not currently have 5 mercenaries, and will always exist ane of the quest options if information technology'southward available)
Relics
Rubies
Gilt
Hero Souls
Skills activation (activates random skills, fifty-fifty those not unlocked however)
Clickmas presents (seasonal, ever 4 hours)

Duration	Reward compared to a five min reward	Efficiency compared to a 5 min reward
5 minutes	1	1
15 minutes	2.58	0.8594
thirty minutes	iv.67	0.7785
1 hour	7.49	0.624
ii hours	13.13	0.5467
4 hours	22.5	0.4687
viii hours	37.47	0.3903
1 day	89.99	0.3125
two days	143.98	0.25

Please remember that non merely a mercenary's skill and rarity, but likewise their rank affects their effectiveness.

Shorter quests take a much higher reward to time ratio, but require much more micromanaging, and can, in fact, exist less efficient, as there is a fleck of delay between, say five-minute quests, equally there would exist a demand to click on the quest. Likewise, mercenaries only quest offline if the quest is long enough. (I can practise a 48-hour quest, and go offline, while the mercenary quests, but they can't exercise 288 5-minute quests, fifty-fifty with all 5 of their mercenaries.)

On a Golden quest, the Gold reward volition scale to histrion progress: information technology starts based on the highest current zone, volition increment as zones are gained, and reset upon ascension, even subsequently the quest is complete. For example, a mercenary that grants 100× Golden in 15 minutes will give 115× Gold if 10 or more than zones are to exist beaten before collecting. Beginning in 1.0, Hero Soul quests too scale to the Quick Ascension value the same way, resetting when upon transcension. Gold quests also scale to DPS as well.

Leveling Up

All mercenaries kickoff off at level one in one case they are hired.

Every 24 hours of questing becomes one level up, when the quest advantage is retrieved.

Lvl	Rank	Reward Multiplier
1	Noob	i
2	Rookie	ii
3	Journeyman	3
4	Expert	4
v	Principal	five
6	Grandmaster	six
seven	Fable	7
eight	Demigod	viii
nine	Demigod+1	9
10	Demigod+2	x
11	Demigod+3	11
12	Demigod+iv	12
13	Demigod+5	thirteen
xiv	Demigod+6	14

The pattern continues up, adding 1 onto the multiplier and demigod +x for each boosted level. With luck and revivals, it'south fifty-fifty possible to get to level 25, getting the Exceptional Specimen achievement.

Personal Bonuses

+% Hero souls
+% Rubies
+% number of skills activated
+% gold
+% speed to recruit
+ Actress lives

Bonuses just affect that mercenary and none of the others. Values range between 5% to 2000% based on their rarity. Extra lives is special: Instead of a bonus, a mercenary get gratis revives, though a thespian can still spend Rubies to revive instead. It can just appear on mercenaries of rarities Rare and upward, and counts upward instead of multiplying.

Below is a list of how each rarity influences personal bonus. There are 8 tiers to the rarity that each mercenary tin can become, just similar Relics:

Rarity	Reward	Chance	Gratis revives on "+ Extra Lives" mercenaries
Common	five%	60.72% (5000 in 8234)	Not possible
Uncommon	8%	24.29% (2000 in 8234)	Not possible
Rare	x%	nine.72% (800 in 8234)	i
Epic	xx%	iii.64% (300 in 8234)	2
Fabulous	l%	i.21% (100 in 8234)	3
Mythical	200%	0.xxx% (25 in 8234)	four
Legendary	500%	0.10% (viii in 8234)	five
Transcendent	2000%	0.01% (i in 8234)	vi

Losing Mercenaries

Sometimes players lose ane or multiple mercenaries. If all of a actor's mercenaries are cached or dismissed, the game will automatically starting time an eight hour timer to hire a new ane.

Dismissal

Merely a maximum of 5 mercenaries tin be kept at a time, then a player may want to go rid of a mercenary voluntarily to free up space for a new one. This can be done by dismissing information technology. A dismissal button is available past holding (ctrl) or (shift). When a mercenary is dismissed, it will exist released instantly, without having to wait.

Dismissal is extremely inefficient and almost never should exist washed. All the same, if the mercenary is really low level or just terrible in general, information technology may be worth information technology to dismiss it to get a better mercenary.

Expiry

A player can also unwillingly lose a mercenary, when information technology dies. When a mercenary has died, either Rubies tin be paid to revive it, depending on its level, or information technology can exist buried to go gold.

Burial Gold = 10 × monster advantage of (Pre-Transcendent HZE + 1)

Required amount of Rubies to revive = x + ceil(1.5^level)

On mobile the corporeality is multiplied past 10. And then reviving a level one mercenary would cost 120 Rubies and reviving a level 20 mercenary would price 33360 Rubies.

Lvl	Rubies needed to revive
ane	12
ii	13
3	xiv
iv	sixteen
five	eighteen
6	22
7	28
8	36
ix	49
10	68
11	97
12	140
thirteen	205
14	302
15	448
16	667
17	996
xviii	1488
xix	2227
20	3336
x	x + ceil(1.5^x)

Meet here to find out whether or non a mercenary is worth reviving.

A mercenary decease is not random. Their lifespan is predetermined from birth, with a specific lifespan, cumulative through whatever number of quests, and at that place is no way to change that. On average, every mercenary will live for virtually iv.5 days of questing, though particularly lucky or unlucky ones tin can range from as piddling as one second to every bit long every bit many years. A new lifespan is generated every time a mercenary is revived, with no relation to the terminal.

Game Data

Mercenary Text

At quest get-go	After mercenary death	After mercenary revival	After quest completion	After mercenary recruitment
Brb.	"Ascended"	Am I getting sent out again...	Am I missing any limbs?	I'm here!
Come back subsequently and see what I got!	Ate bad food	I'grand back, baby!	Donezo!	I'chiliad ready for adventures!
I promise I didn't leave the oven on...	Bae caught me slippin'	I thought I was dead!	Great success!	I'm ready for action!
I hope I don't die...	Chip the dust	Information technology was so dark down in that location!	It'due south a hard knock life.	Put me in coach!
I'll make yous proud, dominate.	Bought the subcontract	I'yard un-vincible!	I'm the best!	Rise and shine!
I'm off to piece of work!	Eaten by a grue	Not today.	I made it!	What chu wan do?
Let's go!	Encountered an Immortal	Phew, that was close!	I hope I didn't get out anything backside.	What do you need, Dominate?
My life for Aiur!	Forgot to bring water	Thanks, dominate!	I'm still alive!
This forest looks kinda dark.	Got dysentery	The man can't go on me down!	Mission accomplished.
This path looks kinda safety...	Had an unfortunate fall	Valar dohaeris.	Phew, that was difficult!
Fourth dimension to quest!	Is now room temperature	What is dead may never die.	Job complete.
Valar Morghulis.	Kicked the bucket	You won't regret it, boss!
Work piece of work.	On permanent Vacation
You got information technology, boss.	Paid the piper
Zug Zug.	Was immortality-challenged
	Went to a better place

Names of Mercenaries

In that location are 100 potential names for each gender, so every name has a 0.5% gamble of actualization, including Leeroy Jenkins.

Male person Names

Aaron	Adam	Albert	Alexander	Andrew	Anthony
Arteecee?	Arthur	Austin	Benjamin	Billy	Brandon
Brian	Bruce	Bryan	Carl	Charles	Christian
Christopher	Daniel	David	Dennis	Dogmeat	Donald
Douglas	Edward	Eric	Ethan	Eugene	EyesFrod
Frank	Gary	George	Gerald	Gregory	Harold
Harry	Henry	Jack	Jacob	James	Jason
Jayeeyee	Jeffrey	Jeremy	Jerry	Jesse	Joe
John	Jonathan	Jose	Joseph	Joshua	Justin
Keith	Kenneth	Kevin	Kyle	Larry	Lawrence
Leeroy Jenkins	Linken	Louis	Marker	Matthew	McNiiby
Michael	Nathan	Nazta	Nicholas	NoselessGuy	Nosfrat
Pasha	Patrick	Paul	Peter	Ralph	Raymond
Richard	Robert	Roco	Roger	Ronald	Ryan
Samuel	Scott	Sean	Sparky	Stephen	Steven
Sufail	Terry	Thomas	Timothy	Tiny	Tyler
Walter	William	Willie	Zachary

Female Names

Alice	Amanda	Amber	Amy	Andrea	Angela
Ann	Anna	Ashley	Barbara	Betty	Beverly
Brenda	Brittany	Carol	Carolyn	Catherine	Cheryl
Chobi	Christina	Christine	Cynthia	Danielle	Deborah
Debra	Denise	Diana	Diane	Doris	Dorothy
Elizabeth	Emily	Emma	Evelyn	Frances	Gigi
Gloria	Grace	Hannah	Heather	Helen	Hera
Jacqueline	Jane	Janet	Janice	Jean	Jennifer
Jessica	Joan	Joyce	Judith	Judy	Julia
Julie	Karen	Katherine	Kathleen	Kathryn	Kelly
Laura	Lauren	Linda	Lisa	Lori	Madison
Margaret	Maria	Marie	Marilyn	Martha	Mary
Megan	Melda	Melissa	Michelle	Mildred	Munchky
Nancy	Nicole	Olivia	Pamela	Patricia	Rachel
Rebecca	Rose	Ruth	Samantha	Sammy	Sara
Sarah	Sharon	Shirley	Snarfy	Stephanie	Susan
Teresa	Theresa	Victoria	Virginia

Mercenary Avatars

Achievements

Achievement Proper noun	Icon	Description
Merc Life		Get a mercenary to level 5
Getting your coin's worth		Get a mercenary to level x
You're still alive?		Get a mercenary to level 15
Mercenary Champion		Get a mercenary to level 20
Exceptional Specimen		Become a mercenary to level 25
67.66 Repeating		Coffin Leeroy Jenkins At least he had chicken
Team Leader		Have v mercenaries.
Recruit an Epic Mercenary		Recruit an Epic Mercenary.
Supervisor		Consummate 5 quests for golden.
Assistant to the Regional Manager		Consummate 25 quests for aureate.
Corporate Raider		Consummate 100 quests for gold.
Robber Baron		Consummate 500 quests for golden.
The Big Cheese		Complete 2500 quests for gold.
Soul Taster		Complete 5 quests for Hero Souls.
Soul Harvester		Consummate 25 quests for Hero Souls.
Soul Trader		Complete 100 quests for Hero Souls.
Soul Broker		Complete 500 quests for Hero Souls.
Disciple of Solomon		Complete 2500 quests for Hero Souls. Discipleship does not end when the teacher is gone.
Archaeology Educatee		Complete 5 quests for Relics.
Archaeologist		Complete 25 quests for Relics.
Museum Curator		Complete 100 quests for Relics.
Acquisitions Inc.		Complete 500 quests for Relics.
Collector Collector		Complete 2500 quests for Relics.
Seeing Red		Complete 5 quests for Rubies.
The Cerise Baron		Consummate 25 quests for Rubies.
Red Tide		Complete 100 quests for Rubies.
Blood-red Sea		Complete 500 quests for Rubies.
Red Planet		Consummate 2500 quests for Rubies.
Some skills		Consummate 5 quests for skills.
A few more skills		Complete 25 quests for skills.
Kind of a lot of skills		Consummate 100 quests for skills.
Enitrely also many skills		Complete 500 quests for skills.
Wow, really?		Complete 2500 quests for skills.
Short Work		Complete ten v-minute quests.
Running Late		Consummate l five-infinitesimal quests.
Overtime		Complete 250 five-minute quests.
Doubletime		Complete k 5-minute quests.
Micromanager		Complete 5000 5-infinitesimal quests.
Mourner		Coffin five mercenaries.
Gravedigger		Bury 25 mercenaries
Undertaker		Bury 100 mercenaries
Funeral Manager		Bury 200 mercenaries
Lifeguard		Revive 5 mercenaries
Resuscitator		Revive 25 mercenaries
Medic		Revive 100 mercenaries
Surgeon		Revive 500 mercenaries

Notes

Mercenaries were added in Patch 0.23.
In Patch 0.24, mercenary achievements were added.
Mercenaries were overhauled in Patch 0.25.
Characterization Makers alter the name of a mercenary to a random one. This helps become the Leeroy Jenkins achievement. On rare cases, the name will not change since the random name is the same equally the current one.

Source: https://clickerheroes.fandom.com/wiki/Mercenaries