Nice! thanks for that.

Grabbed a Mercenary Staff Motif yesterday. I didn't realize it was new...not even sure what it would look like.

Full Mercenary set with swords and staff at VR9. Chest is medium, others light. Original colours are much darker, almost black. This is dyed to master clothier purple, lamae white, swordmaster mauve.




The armor is really good design, especially the asymmetric shoulders that extend down the arms. Details don't look so "flat" like with some older ones. But the chest, um, IS "flat" for females. An older armour as comparison:

By having some gear crafting skill leveled up, few Mercenary pages learned, and doing pledges. Last boss drops them. If you have one page learned, you have 50% chance for laurel, and if all pages, then 100% chance. You don't exactly have to do pledges, but they drop in same dungeons.

I am doing gold pledges with multiple toons, and they are all maxed crafters and at least some pages learnt, and i get one practically every time one laurel.

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