Nerf Hirelings!

Molag_Crow

They're so OP! they gave me a single log. Sorry for the sarcasm, but wow.. what's going on there?

Artjuh90

yep gotten exactly 1 kuta in 6 months of hirelings 3/3 on 2 chars

Molag_Crow

I can stroll through Wrothgar and get about 7 logs from a single 'node' (log)

While I must wait a day for my glorious hireling to deliver me a single log.

Does anybody see the problem here? seriously

Molag_Crow

Artjuh90 wrote: »

yep gotten exactly 1 kuta in 6 months of hirelings 3/3 on 2 chars

Me too, well.. something along those lines... and with legendary Tempering Alloys, I've gotten like 1 in 1-2 months, and I try to do crafting writs each day. ^^

AlnilamE

Sometimes they bring you a lot of stuff, sometimes they don't.

ssewallb14_ESO

Hirelings be like:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTrAVpK9blw

Shader_Shibes

Try handing in 3 writs and getting nothing but trait stone in each, not even a poxy repair kit.

robkrush

Your hirling is skiming off you bro. Your gonna have to do something bout that.

Catblade

He even took the time to write you a lie about falling in a trap. Dude sold your mats and drank the $$$

Lightninvash

ssewallb14_ESO wrote: »

Hirelings be like:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTrAVpK9blw

what the hell kind of cartoons do you watch bro LOL

Catblade

Lightninvash wrote: »

ssewallb14_ESO wrote: »

Hirelings be like:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTrAVpK9blw

what the hell kind of cartoons do you watch bro LOL

Ren and stimpy. That show made me crazy

Forestd16b14_ESO

Try only getting 1 ruby ore from the BS hireling.

PBpsy

It's kind of 20%chance of nothing 50% of just one crappy log and 30% of 10 logs from what i have seen.

Molag_Crow

Makes sense

Nestor

Unfortunately the only way to make Hirelings really worthwhile is to have a lot of them. That way you get a decent haul of raw/refined mats and Tempers each day along with the Trait trash. If you only have one character running hirelings, then there is too much disappointment.

I would be all for limiting the number of characters who can have hirelings if they would just give us more of a reason to have them on one or two characters.

And, please put the timers on a 10/20 hour cycle.

Molag_Crow

Nestor wrote: »

Unfortunately the only way to make Hirelings really worthwhile is to have a lot of them. That way you get a decent haul of raw/refined mats and Tempers each day along with the Trait trash. If you only have one character running hirelings, then there is too much disappointment.

I would be all for limiting the number of characters who can have hirelings if they would just give us more of a reason to have them on one or two characters.

And, please put the timers on a 10/20 hour cycle.

I see.. then I guess I should invest more time in other characters' professions, eventually. Thanks for the mentioning that... I already see a good opportunity for getting alts professions up quickly with all the "280% more deconstruction inspiration" gear.

eliisra

I have maxed hierlings and 7 chars. I only open them once a day, because life. I get roughly 3-4 gold materials a week from all those mails. Could be better, but still free stuff.

But if you only have hierlings on one character, my guess is that you never get anything

Think the hierling rng/drop rates is balanced or adjusted based on the assumption that some people have tons of characters lol. It was getting out of hand. Before the nerf I sometimes got over a dozen gold materials a day from doing nothing.

Not sure how to make hierlings worth it for everyone, without allowing people to abuse the system. If you up the drop rate to much on the good stuff, you have guys with 5687677676 accounts just looting gold and VR16 materials on a massive scale.

Writs are still generous. I get around 15-20% gold materials, loads of Glass Fragments and nirn from Craglorn ones. I still make around half a million a week from doing those one a few chars. So actually fear a nerf incoming.

eNumbra

Lightninvash wrote: »

ssewallb14_ESO wrote: »

Hirelings be like:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTrAVpK9blw

what the hell kind of cartoons do you watch bro LOL

Found the under 20.

Beesting

eliisra wrote: »

I have maxed hierlings and 7 chars. I only open them once a day, because life. I get roughly 3-4 gold materials a week from all those mails. Could be better, but still free stuff.

But if you only have hierlings on one character, my guess is that you never get anything

Think the hierling rng/drop rates is balanced or adjusted based on the assumption that some people have tons of characters lol. It was getting out of hand. Before the nerf I sometimes got over a dozen gold materials a day from doing nothing.

Not sure how to make hierlings worth it for everyone, without allowing people to abuse the system. If you up the drop rate to much on the good stuff, you have guys with 5687677676 accounts just looting gold and VR16 materials on a massive scale.

Writs are still generous. I get around 15-20% gold materials, loads of Glass Fragments and nirn from Craglorn ones. I still make around half a million a week from doing those one a few chars. So actually fear a nerf incoming.

Half a million ? good for you ! What do you intend to spent it all on i wonder?

Asherons_Call

Funny that Alex didn't lock this one along with the others, lol. This one is even a joke thread!

Jura23

Hirelings suck so incredibly bad. I'm deleting at least 50% of their deliveries.

Nestor

CrowsDescend wrote: »

I see.. then I guess I should invest more time in other characters' professions, eventually. Thanks for the mentioning that... I already see a good opportunity for getting alts professions up quickly with all the "280% more deconstruction inspiration" gear.

L12 in the Equipment Craft lines unlocks the L2 Hirelings and those do fairly well Temper wise. You can get to L12 with a couple of hours of mob loot farming in Coldharbor so some other place with squishy zombies. However L3 is better as I can get 4 Purples or 2 Golds in one mail often from those. I have even gotten mails with 2 Purples and 2 Golds in them. L3 requires L32 in the craft line. However I will say that it ebbs and flows, lately my hirelings have been underperforming.

LostRedden

They are called hirelings, not freelings, maybe they're just a little pissed that they're being under paid.

#hirelinglivesmatter
#hirelingunion
#whatdowewant
#moregold
#whendowewantit
#now

Molag_Crow

Nestor wrote: »

CrowsDescend wrote: »

I see.. then I guess I should invest more time in other characters' professions, eventually. Thanks for the mentioning that... I already see a good opportunity for getting alts professions up quickly with all the "280% more deconstruction inspiration" gear.

L12 in the Equipment Craft lines unlocks the L2 Hirelings and those do fairly well Temper wise. You can get to L12 with a couple of hours of mob loot farming in Coldharbor so some other place with squishy zombies. However L3 is better as I can get 4 Purples or 2 Golds in one mail often from those. I have even gotten mails with 2 Purples and 2 Golds in them. L3 requires L32 in the craft line. However I will say that it ebbs and flows, lately my hirelings have been underperforming.

Oh yeah? interesting.. I'll definitely try that out then on my alts.

JackTheWitcher

Ay soft lad pack it in.

Knootewoot

Last few days I got for enchanter a few Ta's, whooptidoo. Been ages since I got a Kuta or the purple one (Rekuta I think).

I wish I could fire them.

Aimora

Seems they nerfed everything about crafting with the last patch - Psijic fragment drop rates got hammered into the ground too

DRXHarbinger

To date and 1200+ hrs in. 1 temp alloy. 0 rosin, 2 dreugh wax from hirelings...0 that's right 0 psijic fragments in over 250+ writs. Never had one never ever. But every monster helm and shoulder set I could want all want and everything else but hirelings fail me all the time.

Magdalina

Hirelings actually used to be really good at some point, but then ZOS decided they're too good and nerfed them to the ground.
I don't even bother with them anymore, no point in having them clutter my mail now.

Oldmanlawlor

I get gold materials quite frequently from all hirelings on Xbox one.. Well, the provisioning hiteling doesnt give gold things but he does load me up with berez juice and frost Miriam's.

I_killed_Vivec

I can handle RNG, because I've learnt not to expect much anymore. However, I'd like to think that investing three skill points in a hireling would get me some base level return - a base that would increase with skill points, crafting experience and level.

And doubling up on useless trait stones doesn't count!

It isn't right that when I get hireling drops or writ rewards I then go through my inventory and delete more than half of what I've received.

By the way, slightly off topic, but has anyone received a recipe other than a green from doing provisioning writs since they "fixed" the lockpick bug?