I don't believe that our current merc implementation allows for equipment upgrading. That came in a later expansion.
I had an idea of basing bots off of the account..but, then each bot would have a separate inventory (etc...) per character.
That would alleviate the issue of op gear on lower level bots..but, it would not address the issue of having to re-gear them each time.
We do not scale bots like we do other npcs.
This is due to their 'player-like' behavior.
They have stats that are modified like a client.
Their 'bonuses' come from level cap increases, worn gear, spell effects, spell/ability attainment, etc...
Normal npcs do this as well..but, clients do not receive a scaling bonus to their base stats.
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