Alchemy Hirelings Why is they No Hirelings?

Mysteri0n · March 2016

@Gina_Bruno Can you please Respond to this age old question. Why is they No Alchemy Hirelings? Was this Intentional and what was the Reason behind it?

Sordidfairytale · March 2016

A search of the forums will provide an abundance of posts about the reasoning why Alchemy has no hireling.

But, mainly because mats for alchemy are so prevalent, and there are no blue, purple, or gold mats for alchemy at this time. Zenimax has addressed this in the past, so I doubt they will address it again.

phaneub17_ESO · March 2016

Possibly because there are no rare mats you can get every mat in every zone at every level, the only thing that scales is the water.

Nestor · March 2016

Because they wanted to give us Snakeblood instead.....

OK, that was a joke.

I do agree that we don't need Alchemy Hirelings. As mentioned above, we can get any reagent in any zone with relative ease, assuming you can see them. Keen Eye really helps with Alchemy farming.

I used to propose that we would get a passive that allowed us to pull more reagents from a node, like L1 gives a chance to get 2, L2 gives a better chance to get 2, L3 gives a chance to get 3, with a good chance to get 2. But, now we have a Champ Passive that gives a chance to get two per node, so the need is not there.

And, you kind of do get an Alchemy Delivery if you do Alchemy Writs, the reward container has 3 stacks of 3 items, usually a Water and two Reagents or 3 reagents.