Okay, I'll see what I can do stat-wise, and use min & max hit. Once it's in place and scaling somewhat, the attack & other combat code can be cleaned up.
For confidence, it also determines if and when a merc flees. I was 'moloing' around crushbone and had 4-5 even or higher con mobs attacking me, and had my merc high-tail it out of there. It was pretty funny.
I have spells cast by healer mercs for apprentice mercs through level 60. I will try to test on the test server with journeyman mercs for their spell lineups- it's based on stance, and journeymen have more stances available.
Once option is to have a scaling rule available where at 100 (%), merc damage output would be exactly what is listed in the database, whereas 50 (%) would be half that. That may be oversimplifying it, but I think something could be in place to easily allow server admins to adjust merc damage (and possible stats), without having to manually update thousands of records (or run a script updating all records).
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