Mercenary Lord

Mercenary Lord is a Generic Talent that both granted durability against enemy Mercenary Camps and empowered those that you claimed yourself. The damage reduction makes capturing mercs significantly easier, especially bosses which are affected by the damage reduction.

Mechanics
The damage aura is applied every 0.5 seconds to Mercenaries in 9 radius (around half a screen length), and can provide a huge boost in pushing power and presence. The effect is shown by the mercs growing slightly larger in size.

Mercenary Lord's damage aura can affect placed Turret power-ups in Volskaya Foundry and Hanamura Temple, but does not affect Bosses on any map. Multiple Mercenary Lord derivated damage auras do not stack with each other.

Armor bonus does not stack with other Armor effects.

Heroes with Mercenary Lord

 * The Lost Vikings

Modified Version

 * Rexxar's level 1 Talent "Easy Prey" grants Misha 50 Armor and 150% increased Basic Attack damage against Minions and Mercenaries.
 * Sylvanas' level 4 Talent "Mercenary Queen" increases the damage of Mercenaries near her by 60% and causes her to Stun and deal 30% extra damage to Mercenaries with 3 stacks of Banshee's Curse.

Removed
These Heroes no longer have Mercenary Lord as a Talent option.
 * Anub'arak
 * Arthas
 * Azmodan
 * Gazlowe
 * Gazlowe also had a modified version, "Hired Goons", which increased the damage of nearby Mercenaries by 50% and granted his Rock-It! Turrets 50 Armor against Minions and Mercenaries.


 * Nazeebo
 * Raynor
 * Sonya
 * Stitches

Similar effects

 * Azmodan's level 13 talent "Chain of Command" causes Demon Lieutenants to grant 25% increased damage to nearby friendly Minions, Mercenaries and Azmodan's summoned Demons.
 * Sonya's level 7 talent "Battle Rage" increase damage Sonya dealt to Mercenaries by 25%. Can be activated to instantly heal herself for a portion of her maximum Health. 2 charges.