What is the Difference? Assassin vs Mercenary So my friend and I were talking today about Miz, as I always do with him because I am trying to convince him to join, and I started talking about someone (wont say names) who wanted to be an assassin, yet they didn't want to get the skills necessary to do it. So, we began to discuss what the difference is between and assassin and a mercenary. (Please note, this is my interpretation of things. If you don't agree, too bad. ) First of all, a Mercenary can and sometimes does do assassinations. That doesn't make them an assassin. Let's look at the skill requirements. A mercenary requires at least one combat skill, two if you want to be considered advanced. An assassin requires both a weapon skill or poison, and intelligence. Now intelligence is where we usually hit the barrier. People don't want to do the intelligence threads, and yet they think they can be an assassin? If you bust into a place and hack everyone to bits, eventually getting to your target and taking them out, you are a mercenary. If you had a plan at all, it probably went something like this: 1) Kick in door. 2) Kill some bitches. 3) Get my monies. If you spend weeks stalking a target, learning his eating habits, his bathing habits, where he goes to work, the people he talks to, what time he goes to bed, what the inside of his house looks like, the size of his shoe, his favorite wine, his sister's favorite color, his mother's maiden name, how often he takes a shit each day.. and then you kill him, without anybody realizing you were there, often making it look like one of his hated rivals did it.. well, if you did all that, then you are an assassin. So, if you ask to be an assassin and I say no, don't bitch at me. If you want to be an assassin, do the things I just mentioned. If you want to be a mercenary who sometimes assassinates people, then do that. But don't complain when I give you a mercenaries salary and not an assassin's salary. Now.. salary. That's another difference between mercenary and assassin. A mercenary makes 1-3gm for basic missions, and 5-7 for advanced. An assassin just plain gets 5-7. Now, lets look at this in more detail. The reason that an assassin makes more money than a mercenary is due to the types of missions they do. An assassin earns a large sum of money to kill one man. So it seems like they make a lot of money, but when you take into account the amount of time it takes them to finally get around to killing that man (or woman) it's really not that much money. A mercenary on the other hand gets paid a smaller amount, but usually kills lots of people, and gets to loot their corpses. Assassins usually don't get to loot. So really, a mercenary can make just as much money as an assassin, maybe even more, depending on the type of mission he does. So.. Assassin vs Mercenary. If you want to be one of these professions, please know what it is you actually want to be. Assassin - You take the time to get to know your enemy before finally taking them out in a way of your employer's choosing. Mercenary - You get to kill lots of people, monsters, go on quests, ect. Assassin - You are a creature of stealth. Mercenary - You are whatever the hell you feel like being. Assassin - You usually stay inside the city limits. Mercenary - You can find work anywhere. Assassin - You rarely work on the side of the law (though there are exceptions to this) Mercenary - You can work with the law, against it, or anywhere in between. Anyway.. I'm sure there are a lot of other differences I could list, but I'm done for now. If you'd like to input, feel free, since this is the discussion forum. If not, well, this was food for thought. |