Most to least useful hierlings post 1.6?

GreyRanger · March 2015

I am curious what other players think as to the most and least useful hirelings? I am thinking about leveling up a profession on a character mostly on the hireling. Thanks for your advice.

I_killed_Vivec · March 2015

Most is provisioning - you get a chance for rare purple ingredients.

Least is the rest - chance of legendary tempers seems to have been reduced, certainly less than you get from refining and writ rewards.

Rosveen · March 2015

IMO Provisioning is the only one that's still really useful. You can take the others for raw mats and chance of purple tempers, but don't count on gold ones.

edit: scratch that, I forgot how many Potency runes I obtained from hirelings. Enchanting's useful too, even without Kuta.

Nestor · March 2015

OK, Provisioning as stated above is good, but so is Enchanting. At least you get a chance to gain a potency stone. But your not going to get Kuta's from them anymore.

Equipment Hirelings, I will have to say that they are not as useful as before, but they can still be beneficial to gain Green, Blue and Purple Tempers. In one week, with Gold ones still come, just way less often than before.

One Week with 4 L2 Equipment Crafting Hirelings and 3 L3 Eq Crafting Hirelings netted me:

27 Greens
23 Blues
26 Purples
5 Golds

Since i never upgrade to Gold anyway, this works for me. The trick is, and really has always been, if you get Equipment Crafting Hirelings, get a bunch of them, but you only need to go to L2 (L12 on the Craft Skill to unlock). This way you have a good chance to gain enough Purple Tempers in a couple of weeks to make a full set of gear.

Rosveen · March 2015

Nestor wrote: »

OK, Provisioning as stated above is good, but so is Alchemy and Enchanting. Particularly as with Enchanting, it is about the only way to reliably get Kuta's anymore. Alchemy is one that you get back more than you put in, so that's good too.

Alchemy doesn't have a hireling. Enchanting hirelings aren't a reliable way of getting Kuta anymore, writs are the best.

...are you actually talking about writs here?

Nestor · March 2015

Rosveen wrote: »

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...are you actually talking about writs here?

Yea, I was talking about Writs. I fixed it.

UrQuan · March 2015

Provisioning is definitely the most useful one right now IMO. It's one of only 2 ways to ever get the ingredients you need to make purple food/drinks (the other way is by doing writs).

I'd agree that Enchanting is probably next on the list, because I've always found it hard to get a good supply of appropriately-leveled potency runes just by grabbing nodes.

The other 3 are basically the same in terms of usefulness. If you've got a bunch of alts, I still think it's worth getting all of the hirelings because it's a steady supply of raw mats for refining. If you're only talking about 1 or 2 characters, then it's probably not worth bothering with these hirelings IMO.

DeLindsay · March 2015

I_killed_Vivec wrote: »

Most is provisioning

Least is the rest

This.