12-03-2003, 07:32 PM
Normal and Hell act 2 mercs give the same auras. Defensive is Defiance, Combat is Prayer, and Offensive is Blessed Aim. In Nightmare, Defensive is Holy Freeze, Combat is Thorns, and Offensive is Might. The advantage of getting a Normal merc instead of a Hell merc is that a mercenary hired in normal gets higher stats than those highered in Nightmare or Hell, and Nightmare gets higher than Hell. However, their is a common misconception that hiring a merc at lower levels gets higher stats (not true, only the difficulty determines the stats).