What really IS leadership? Leadership is a skill that has different ways of accessing it, based upon your race. The level of your leadership skill determines how many followers you will be able to control at any point and time. It also determines how well you’ll be able to order them around; your followers wont act immediately to your commands if you’re a poor leader. As well, your skill effects how often your followers will demand their pay, every few minutes for those with terrible leadership, and almost never for those who’ve mastered the skill.

The four commands for leadership are the same as for taming.

This command will make the followers follow whomever you target. If you add a “me” to the end of the command (ex: all follow me), it will bypass the targeting cursor, and the followers will all follow you.

This command will make the followers attack anything that you target. Fairly self explainitory.

This command will make the followers stop all actions they’re currently doing, attacking, following, or guarding.

This command will make the followers protect the player that you target. Adding a “me” to the end of the command will have the same effect as it does with the follow command. When you’re being guarded by your followers, they will automatically attack any creature that is hostile to you.

Quite simply, the best way to improve your skill is to lead NPCs that are not too difficult to control (hesitate almost every time you give them a command) nor too easy (never hesitate, ever). Also, the skill is ROT (Rate Over Time). The less often you give commands, the better the gain. On top of this, half of the time you will not be required to make a skill check when using the skill, which means that on those times, you will not gain in the skill, nor reset your ROT timer.

One suggestion is the use of macros. These names will be the names you always use for your mercenaries. Then, set up a macro. An example of what I am currently using is this; Mercenary names that I always use: Chris (male/female), Sam (male/female), Li (female). Macro actions: Say - Come now, let us go. Say - [Chris Li Sam follow me] Also: Say - There! *points with his weapon* Attack that one! Say - [Chris Li Sam attack] This adds a little more to your character, more than “Chris attack!” at least.

A small inconvinence is that saying “All” instead of ‘all’ will cause NPCs not to listen. Just be careful in your macros or your speech that you dont mistake the two.