The "Mercenary failed to spawn!" error

[sorvani]

Better question, do mercs even need special abilities?

This is a very recent change and you can modify the SQL that was used to convert npc_types to convert the merc table.

Edit: Reading your post again, that is a view not a table. The relevant table is merc_stats. That table need converted the same as the npc_types was.then the code that uses that table will need modified the same as the rest of the attack code was modified.