17 sellswords

Gearing them up

Upgrades for your sellswords are the first thing on their sheet.

• About 35% of the loot you find is rolled for one of your sellswords' classes: ordinary drops, chests, boss epics, set pieces, legendaries, mythics and uniques. On a solo run your hired sellswords still count. Act-finale set pieces, first-clear rewards and the legendary safety net are always for your class.
• Sellswords wear gear from your bag. Their Party sheet (town, or the gear sheet mid-run) opens on Upgrades waiting: every item in your bag that would make them stronger, biggest gain first, with what it replaces and an Equip on button.
• An upgrade is something they can wear now that adds at least 1 power: the same number as the ▲ on an item's Upgrade check and on a pickup's "▲ for" tag. A "you +N" note says when it would suit you too.
• A green ▲ count marks each sellsword's tab, their portrait in the dungeon, and the pause menu's Party button. Tap a sellsword's portrait, then Gear, to go straight to their tab.
• The gear they wear can be upgraded, enchanted and (uniques) ascended or merged at the Smithy just like yours: pick them under Whose gear on the Upgrade, Enchant or ✦ Ascend · Merge tab (a sellsword's unique ascends to their level), or tap Upgrade … at the Smithy on their Gear tab.
• Their sheet also shows their health and state, the potions they carry, stance, summon form and all eleven slots at a glance, and in a dungeon what they've done this run: kills, damage, times downed and the pieces they picked up themselves.

Their own Legend

Past level 20 they share your Legend XP; you set their skill bar — the Temple unsets it.

• Once your hero reaches level 20, each sellsword in your active party earns 35% of your Legend XP toward their own Legend level.
• Each level earns a rank on a Brand of their own: their class sigil plus a layout. By default they pick their own sigils (Auto); on the Party sheet's Brand tab you can see their board, Bonds and totals, choose one of their class's suggested layouts, or set every socket yourself with Custom. Changing it is free, in town.
• You can override which skills they slot on the Party sheet — tap a skill, tap a slot. The Temple's Rite of the Hireling (250g) returns their bar to their own picks and their Brand to Auto. Their talents are always their own.

Their pouch

Potions and party scrolls of their own, and when they use them.

• Each sellsword carries up to 2 healing potions, 1 Scroll of Mending and 1 Scroll of Raising. Their potions heal like yours, at your potion tier.
• They pick potions and scrolls up in the Depths, like gold: what they walk past, and what they fetch when nothing's going on. A full pouch sends it to your belt or satchel instead. You get first pick of anything at your feet.
• Give them one, or take it back, from the Party sheet in town or mid-run. Dismissing a sellsword hands back what fits.
• They drink below 35% health, on the same 6 s cooldown as yours, and only from their own pouch, never your belt. Not in a Dry Flasks rite, and not while wearing a no-potions unique.
• Mending: read when 2 or more of the party are below 50% health. Raising: if you fall, they raise you (straight away if nobody else can); a fallen sellsword or friend gets one in a fight when it's safe.
• The Settings switch for sellsword pickups covers potions and scrolls too; what's already in a pouch still gets used.

The roster

Some only appear once you've unlocked their class. The Tavern's level sets how many can join your party and who's on offer.