The mercs are really cool... If i came back to eq (6boxer also) I would consider just 3boxing with 3 mercs. hmm. I was thinking grabbing a healer and two tank mercs...but you are probably right that 4 + 2 healers would be better.

Thinking about mercs made me realize that my least favorite job in online games is healing. ugg. healing sucks. lol.

anyway, yeah, mercs are really cool for eq.

I did have a crazy idea (more of a theorycraft i guess) about converting my (inactive0 6box two 3 box teams with 3 mercs each, and going to an area ungrouped and trading kills to get fast exp for one group or the other. (stack DPS into one group or the other). Would be better if tehy released more merc types (a DPS type, for instance, which I believe they mentioned they would do).

My only reserverations about switching to a merc healer, is well, im sorta attached to my cleric with 300 days played....lol. Lota work to just...replace with a bot that I can't really control. hehe. (a big part of boxing is building up multiple characters...mercs sort of removes that. oh well).

just my random musings.