Mercenary

Mercenary Job Training

Description

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As a mercenary, you’d depend on raw physique or aim for your attacks, focusing more on a good battle plan and tough armor than anything else. You’d learn to overpower your foes with sheer strength and determination, defend yourself with all manner of weapons and equipment, and fly a ship when the situation calls for it. The life of a mercenary is one of profit through violence.

Class Specialties

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Starter Items

• Melee Weapon: Knife
• Ranged Weapon: Eagle Handgun
• Armor: Dress Clothes
• Shield: Cheap JoyCo Shield Generator

Perks

Steele gains class-specific perks for each level earned.

Perks

Level	Name	Description
2	Critical Blows	Your strikes and shots gain a 10% chance of inflicting double damage on normal melee and ranged attacks.
3	Tough	Vulnerability to piercing, slashing, and kinetic damage taken reduced by 10%.
4	Juggernaut	Grants a 25% chance to overcome any paralysis or stun effect every combat round.
5	Second Wind	Grants the ability to recover half of your maximum HP and Energy once per combat encounter.
6	Tough 2	Upgrades the "Tough" ability from 10 to 15%.
7	Iron Will	Allows your physical fortitude to contribute slightly to your willpower, granting one point of willpower for every five points of physique.
8	Heroic Reserves	Raises your maximum energy reserves by 33, allowing you to use more special attacks before tiring.

Special Abilities

When choosing the special ability perks, Steele may attain abilities that fall under two specific themes to define the player's play style.

Specialization Theme

Level	Close-Quarters	Ranged Fighter
2	Bloodthirsty	Armor Piercing
3	Power Strike	Rapid Fire
4	Riposte	Take Cover
5	Carpet Grenades	Detonation Charge
6	Heavy Weapons	Low Tech Solutions
7	Cleave	Concentrate Fire
8	Second Attack	Second Shot
9	Rending Attacks	Giant Slayer
10	Lunge	Bigger Guns

Special Abilities

Level	Name	Description
1	Headbutt (Starter Ability)	A physique-based attack that does not factor in weapon damage but has a chance of stunning your target.
2	Bloodthirsty	Melee attacks restore a few points of energy.
	Armor Piercing	Ranged attacks ignore the first few points of enemy defense.
3	Power Strike	Grants the ability to perform a single melee attack for 200% normal damage
	Rapid Fire	Grants the ability to perform a ranged attack with two extra, reduced-accuracy shots.
4	Riposte	Grants increased evasion after any melee attack made for the remainder of the combat round.
	Take Cover	Grants the ability to avoid nearly all incoming ranged attacks for 3 combat rounds.
5	Carpet Grenades	Grants the ability to toss out a handful of micro-grenades, damaging everything in a large area. Hits all enemies.
	Detonation Charge	Grants the ability to throw a focused detonation charge at an enemy for very high Burning damage. Focusing the charge restricts the blast radius to a single target.
6	Heavy Weapons	Increases damage from Kinetic ranged weapons by 20%.
	Low Tech Solutions	Increases damage from Kinetic melee weapons by 20%.
7	Cleave	Grants an extra, low-accuracy swing when fighting groups of enemies or "plural" type foes.
	Concentrate Fire	Allows consecutive ranged attacks to gain a bonus to damage.
8	Second Attack	Allows you to make a second, low-accuracy attack whenever you perform a melee attack. Can stack with "Cleave".
	Second Shot	Allows you to make a second, low-accuracy attack whenever you shoot a ranged weapon.
9	Rending Attacks	Allows your "Power Strike" to apply Sunder (reducing armor by 50%) and your "Rapid Fire" to Stagger your opponents (reducing reflexes and aim).
	Giant Slayer	Grants +5% chance to critical strike foes who are 7 feet or taller.
10	Lunge	Grants the ability to target most flying enemies with melee attacks and a low chance to stagger ground-bound foes.
	Bigger Guns	You can use Heavy weapons without needing to meet the physique requirements.

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