Alchemy - Would you guys want a hireling for it?

Kammakazi · July 2016

Yes I know it would cost another 3 skill points.

I was wondering why it's the only crafting skill line that doesn't have a hireling.

It'd probably go something like

(1/3) — 10 reagents of any type + solvent
(2/3) — 15 reagents of any type + solvent
(3/3) — 20 reagents of any type + solvent

Thoughts?

Tevalaur · July 2016

10/15/20 reagents from a hireling would be far more than you get in other crafts' materials from a hireling. More points spent on a hireling makes the mail come more frequently (at 3 points) or better chance of the other ingredients (at 2 points), not very much more of the base materials. Isn't it 5-10 for food/drink ingredients or only 3-5 raw materials typical for blacksmithing, clothing, woodworking?

My blacksmith and clothing hirelings where I have them only send 3 materials each time (the same quantity you gather at one material node) and sometimes trait gems or style gems or tempers/tannins/etc (usually green or blue if one does come, although over the long-term it can be a good source of purple upgrade mats). This is why I generally don't recommend most hirelings (except provisioning)... so I think if one were offered it would more likely bring 1/2/3 reagents and a solvent sometimes.

BruhItsOver9000 · July 2016

Agreed, replace snakeblood with a alchemy hireling.

code65536 · July 2016

At rank 1, the hirelings for the hard crafts return just 3 raw mats (unless you're at the max 10th craft level, in which case things get weird). That's basically 1 node. This increases to 4 and 5 for ranks 2 and 3. So almost 2 nodes at rank 3 hirelings. That's the base and the only part that's guaranteed. Then there's the chance of getting various miscellaneous items--trait stones, style mats, and/or improvement mats.

10/15/20, in this context, is ludicrously unbalanced.

1/2/3 reagents plus 1/2/3 solvents as the guaranteed base drops for ranks 1/2/3.

With a chance of getting bonus reagents/solvents--the size of the bonus and chance increases with hireling rank.

Pheefs · July 2016

No, I wouldn't get the alchemy hireling... mind you I haven't spent any points in snakeblood either.

Bouldercleave · July 2016

I would be all for a hireling replacing Snakeblood (I'm surprised a hireling isn't offered in the first place), but I agree that 10/15/20 is WAY too many.

More like 3/5/7 with a CHANCE of a bump to 10 (total mats, not per type)

Evil_Rurouni · July 2016

BruhItsOver9000 wrote: »

Agreed, replace snakeblood with a alchemy hireling.

This.

An alchemy hireling might be useless to a lot of people, but it's far better than keeping snakeblood which is useless to almost everybody.

At the very least the completionists who have characters with every skill point in the game will appreciate having something slightly useful to spend their spare points on.

EDIT: People with crafting alts might appreciate it too.

ARIES SERPICO · August 2016

Yes for hireling!!

markc01 · August 2016

Higher Minimum Wage for Hirelings!!

Feel The Birn!!

f047ys3v3n · August 2016

Honestly, an alchemy hireling would be the only one to make sense anymore. Now that most hirelings effectively (or in the case of provisioning actually) don't drop gold mats they are not worth logging into. At least if an alchemy hireling gave a fair amount of mats it would be worth logging into as many alchemy mats are valuable and we all need pots frequently.

Silverado · August 2016

Not anymore now that I already have loads of them.

dodgehopper_ESO · August 2016

I'd enjoy it as a happy apothecary type.