Question About Hirelings

Lonador

Ok, so I just heard about hirelings last night while looking through the skill trees. I tried to do some research on them but all I did was get more confused with every page I looked at. Main problem was that the info was scattered over the 4 years or so of the games life. I didn't take long for me to just throw my hands up and give up and come to the experts.

So I'll ask it this way. As of today (2/21/18) what is the state of hirelings? Are they worth it? If I hypothetically wanted just a main and 7 mules is this feasible? It is my understanding that all crafts have hirelings but Alchemy. What is the minimum level that the mules have to be at to be mules? Or does level matter and just crafting level is important? If so, I believe lvl 3 is minium for all but provishing correct? And lastely (hopefully), are there more than 1 "tier" of hirelings and if so is it worth leveling the mules up or does quality of goods they farm stays the same? I'll take any and all info even if it's just pointing me in the direction of an up to date website.

Thank you for anyone that is able to educate me on this. If've had nothing but good experiences with this community so far which is refreshing given past experiences I've had with mmorpg forums. I doubt this will be my first noob question but I'll try. And as always thank you for your time.

Lon

Draxys

Crafting levels are all that matters, although it’s much more difficult to farm skill points on a level 3. With how easily you can level a character these days, you’ll want to level a crafter/gatherer.

I think hireling mails are helpful, but not necessary. They won’t provide enough mats to do writs unless you have hireling mails on 4+ characters (which many people do, it’s pretty easy). Gathering provides much more mats, but obviously is not passive like mails.

VaranisArano

For hirelings:

All the crafts except for Alchemy have hirelings. At maxed hireling, you'll get the mails twice a day (assuming you log on to that character) and they have a better chance to send you high quality materials. For woodworking, blacksmithing, enchanting, and clothing, they can send you gold improvement mats rarely, and the provisioning hireling will send the purple mats you can't get otherwise except from writs (I don't know if the provisioning hireling can send perfect roe because I really don't use that hireling.)

Crafting level is the only level that is important, I think, however that's going to take a fair bit of skill points. The hireling will send mats according to your crafting level. One of my alts is at level 2 of crafting, so she gets steel and flax mats.

The tiers of hirelings, i.e. additional skill points, improves the quality of items sent and increase the cooldown on times between when the mails are sent. However, you have to log on to that character in order to receive the mail. My main has the twice-a-day hireling mail unlocked, but since I rarely log on with her more than once a day, I rarely take advantage of that. The mails don't arrive if you don't log on to those characters.

I think that the hirelings would be worth it if I were logging on to multiple characters for crafting like writs or horse training. They would definitely be worth it if I had the crafting bag, since all that stuff they send you can go straight to storage.

Hope that helps!

Nestor

Lonador wrote: »

So I'll ask it this way. As of today (2/21/18) what is the state of hirelings? Are they worth it? If I hypothetically wanted just a main and 7 mules is this feasible? It is my understanding that all crafts have hirelings but Alchemy. What is the minimum level that the mules have to be at to be mules? Or does level matter and just crafting level is important? If so, I believe lvl 3 is minium for all but provishing correct? And lastely (hopefully), are there more than 1 "tier" of hirelings and if so is it worth leveling the mules up or does quality of goods they farm stays the same? I'll take any and all info even if it's just pointing me in the direction of an up to date website.

Lon

1. If you have extra Skill Points, or a Mule that does not do combat, Hirelings are worthwhile. Especially at Tier 2 or maybe Tier 3.
2. IIRC, Crafting level 12 is needed for Tier 2 Hirelings. You can get there in a short amount of time deconning regular or intricate CP160 items your main gathers. Crafting Level 3 can get you the Tier 1 Hireling. I got 5 mules to Tier 12 in all crafts with just 3 hours of grinding on zombies with my main, plus exp, gold and mats from the decon. So, win win.
3. You should at least have Tier 2, you get much more in the shipments if you do. Tier 3 is nice, but not so much for the double shipments, just so you can get at least one shipment a day no matter what time you log in.
4. You go get Gold Tempers from Hirelings, just not very often. I do get lots of Green, Blue and Purple ones, several each day in fact.
5. Provisioning Hirelings are your only source of Purple Ingredients, so make those Tier 2 for sure.
6. The alternative to an Alchemy Hireling is running Tier 1 Crafting Writs on your mules, the reward container gives Reagents and Solvents

No matter what, make sure to read the emails you get from your hirelings, they are a hoot.

Feric51

As much as it pained me to spend the extra point, I found that having tier 3 hirelings on my alts was worth it for a simple reason, which I'll explain (not so simply) below.

Tier 2 hirelings give better quality stuff than tier 1 hirelings, once every 24 hours from the time you first log into your character.

Tier 3 hirelings do not give any better materials, it just reduces the cool down time to 12 hours.

Here it where it's valuable, to me at least....

I login on 4 alts every evening when I first sit down to play. I do a quick Dreloth Tomb urn run which takes around 2 minutes to complete. With tier 2 hirelings, if I get on 10 minutes earlier tonight than I did last night, I won't get any hireling mails because it hasn't been 24 hours. Tomorrow I will get a hireling mail regardless of the time, but I've effectively lost a day. With the tier 3 hirelings, I'm going to get a mail every day, because I only play during evening hours.

In my opinion they should be on the 20 hour cool down like horse training, because eventually you're doing to lose a day unless you login to the alts within minutes of the prior day.

Do you need to invest those points from day 1? No, but once you've amassed spare skill points I feel it's definitely a worthwhile venture.

Lonador

Thank you very much for the replies - time to get busy lol

Lon

Lonador

I knew I would forget something. Does which alliance you are in play any part in this? I can have toons spread around the three alliances and still be able to get to the emails correct?

Thanks again.

Kraynic

Alliance makes no difference.

Lonador

Outstanding! More good info Thank You!

Lonador

Once again, Thank you for all the help. I learned or rather relearned something important tonight. Git gud (or at least competant) in a game before you start throwing more irons in the fire. I've got the info y'all gave me saved and now I'm going to actually just play the game and enjoy the story. If it starts feeling like work...you're doing it wrong.

Thanks, Lon