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I have a bloodbone skelly on a silver account, in fact, I have seven or eight silver accounts - two of them were paid subscription accounts eq1/eq2 from years and years ago - the remaining silver accounts were paid for by using station credit - but here's the dealo. I'm unsure whether or not all the accounts had the option to select that specific mercenary contract or whether or not it came in a /claim reward or /claim veteran package deal on the old paid accounts. I do recall that some of my free/silver accounts had different choices to select from a list of possible /claim items: odd mounts like the topiary lion, a clicky HP/Mana buff that also spawned a small pet familiar like a tiny flying wurm/dragon -while some of the other accounts simply didn't have those specific options.

Also - yes there's more. Maybe two or three years ago EQ Sony ran a promotion to get old players back to the game - they offered a free full month subscription to people with 6+ month inactive accounts. I had a couple old inactive (free accounts)and simply used those to /claim the free month. When the promotion expired those two accounts gained silver account status - and never reverted back to free account bronze status. It's possible that the bloodbone merc contract came from those two accounts, too.

All silver account mercenary are A4(?) - whatever it is, it's the best merc selection of the lowest tier available. On silver account the bloodbone merc have the same stats as all the other A4 mercenary, it's just a graphical skin. That's why I never spent time checking/investigating whether or not which one had access to special merc contracts - because it didn't make a difference on how they performed.

Edited, Oct 21st 2015 1:06pm by Trappin

Weren't the Bloodbone mercenaries bugged at first... so they were actually better than your average merc? Or was that just urban myth? (faintly recalling a patch though...)

Too bad they didn't do it like EQ2. The /claim window has tabs, so you can see which expansion each claim is associated with.

Tat

And another list of claims, including some non-expansion-related ones.

http://www.paullynch.org/tnzfaq/?page_id=355