I've given up on continuing the discussion, but since I was the one who originally posted I'll make a final comment. While I understand that stats in the Wiki are not necessarily accurate, I have hired enough mercenaries for my guild (look at my guild rank "Legendary Mercenary Wrangler and General Advisor"... I didn't get that just for kicks! lol). I was the one who did the majority of mercenary hiring for a very long time. Now a lot of people do it themselves since I've reduced my playing time.
What I do know for a fact, though I can not document it, is that the stats of mercenaries have been reduced. That Erik of the Frozen Wastes used to be one of the mercs we would look for when we needed a lot of damage. it always had way up in the 20 or 30 thousands for damage. The stats I showed you for the one that only had around 6K damage just simply did not seem correct compared to the others. Also, in response to grim's example of the 765 level elite, there are higher level mercs who do not always have the highest level stats.
Anyway, it's worth a discussion, but I'm not going to waste any more of Hoof and Grim's time on it, they have much more important in game things to fix and work on!! I do thank you both for looking into it though, thanks very much.

Here's Erik's stats as of a couple minutes ago. Definitely not what the doctor ordered. Sorry.