ShadowHM:
The mercenary continued to gain experience while he was gone, and it was while he was gone that he surpassed the experience needed to gain the next level. When I returned to town, the mercenary reappeared and as with ShadowHM's experience, the merc leveled up. I also noticed that the merc's experience was lowered to near the minimum required to gain his new level (47 above the minimum this time, I didn't check as thoroughly the other time).
This occurred (this time) with a level 21 or so skelemancer with a level 15 blessed aim merc in the great marsh. The previous occurance may have been with a skelemancer with a blessed aim merc in nomal arcane sanctuary. (During beta something like this happened to me twice, but only one of those times I investigated it thoroughly enough to be sure it was the same thing happening as happened now. I can remember that one of the incidents in the beta was with a skelemancer with an act 2 merc in the arcane sanctuary, but I can't remember which incident for sure)
I still haven't figured out exactly what triggers this bug, even though it has happened to me at least twice.
Quote:his screen had something like this:I experienced this at least once in the 1.10 beta and again today in 1.10 final. Both times, what I first noticed was that the mercenary had disappeared, and was not teleporting back. When I returned to the rough area where he had disappeared, he wasn't there either.
Experience 1,795,500
Next level up 1,787,000
i.e. He had surpassed the experience needed for his next level up.
This difference persisted a bit, but then cured itself when I next returned to town. Then he gave the announcement that he had leveled over his head, and his character screen showed an appropriate clvl, experience level and experience needed for next level-up.
The mercenary continued to gain experience while he was gone, and it was while he was gone that he surpassed the experience needed to gain the next level. When I returned to town, the mercenary reappeared and as with ShadowHM's experience, the merc leveled up. I also noticed that the merc's experience was lowered to near the minimum required to gain his new level (47 above the minimum this time, I didn't check as thoroughly the other time).
This occurred (this time) with a level 21 or so skelemancer with a level 15 blessed aim merc in the great marsh. The previous occurance may have been with a skelemancer with a blessed aim merc in nomal arcane sanctuary. (During beta something like this happened to me twice, but only one of those times I investigated it thoroughly enough to be sure it was the same thing happening as happened now. I can remember that one of the incidents in the beta was with a skelemancer with an act 2 merc in the arcane sanctuary, but I can't remember which incident for sure)
I still haven't figured out exactly what triggers this bug, even though it has happened to me at least twice.