All of what you said is exactly what I do: 8 characters, all maxed out on hirelings. So much mail, but I'm never short of crafting mats.

Thanks for the replies

Im finding that Im getting all of any golds and purples I get come from hirelings. Nothing much from writs yet. Keeping the first passives on rank 4 in each on purpose to try and keep the mat requirements down.

so does my craft bag share across all toons

I can craft cp40 gear with my main so should I just make stuff, stick in bank and Decon with my mules?

My two mules do nothing except hold excess gear, they are at character level 3 and 4 only. I play on the other 6 every day, all are at max level in every craft (one is lvl 49 enchanting), these 6 get hireling mails and do daily writs.

I guess I should probably put the other two to at a level to at least get hireling mails but have never thought about it. Up until now I have been busy getting the other 6 leveled up, but as I get more than enough items to deconstruct I should get these 2 mules to work.

Hirelings are not really worth it. I just have them on my main but will be dropping them at the next skill point reset - I'm nearly done with research and want those skill points back as well. It's not worth having 2-3 skill points locked for 3-7 ore/wood/raw fiber or leather a few style or trait materials per day and maybe a purple or gold temper once in a blue moon. Daily writs provide much better rewards and they take only ~5 minutes in total for 6 all crafts. Hirelings only send if you log on to a character, so if you log anyway you're better off doing the writs, stacking them and collecting them at a later date in bulk to save time - in One Tamriel they will stack so it's even easier. Consumables writs have by far the best ROI, especially alchemy. If you get 1-2 columbine or lady smock nodes you recoup the investment for the whole week's worth of alchemy writs.

Also leveling a craft on a lowbie mule works but you won't have enough skill points to spec them right away and they'll have to quest and explore for the rest later anyway. I usually level provisioning and enchanting first, since they require no skill points invested and no exploration. I'm only putting points in crafting on my chars once they have a mature build and the gear crafting skills maxed out from deconstructing trash gear that drops from mobs. Enchanting is the hardest to level, so it's better to start early - my new chars sit idle for a few months until they learn to ride anyway. Basically you just drop all the white glyphs that drop from enemies in the bank and then decon with the char you want to train - you don't even need to take them out, just go to a table and decon them in bulk. I'm nearly done with my 5th but she doesn't have the points to spec it since she's only level 15. I have leveled it on my main to 50, then on 2 other characters but only put points in it when I started to play them and walk them trough silver and gold areas. The 3rd level 50 but he's waiting with the skill maxed out but no skill points to spec it. Gear crafting increases at a much faster pace than enchanting so I don't bother training that at all. Alchemy and provisioning are done in 20-30 minutes if you have the solvents and ingredients.

The problem is that the drops are scaled to what you put in the main skill passive. For example if you just put points in wood working hireling, but not in the main passive, they will just send you maple, not ruby ash, even if the skill is maxed out at 50. I also think that the chances of getting gold or purple tempers decreases.

Asardes wrote: »

For example if you just put points in wood working hireling, but not in the main passive, they will just send you maple, not ruby ash, even if the skill is maxed out at 50. I also think that the chances of getting gold or purple tempers decreases.

For a long time, it was my L1 Material Level Hirelings that were pulling in all the Golds, my Tier 10 Material Hirelings were not giving me any. Material level has no effect on the quality of Tempers you get from your Hirelings. Writ containers, I think it does, but not Hirelings.

What does have an effect on Tempers it the Level of the Hireling, L3 get two stacks of Tempers, where L1 gets 1 stack. I forget how many an L2 Gets, but I do remember getting Gold Tempers from my L2s also.

SpAEkus wrote: »

@Nestor you mean number of deliveries or numbers of stacks in each delivery?

I haven't really mapped them but on all my L3 I can get as many as 6 items and as few as 3 randomly. I haven't noticed getting 5-6 consistently. Another thing to map for a week I guess.

@SpAEkus

Ignoring the number of deliveries. I have seen as little as one item on my L3's, but there is a good chance to get two Temper Stacks on each delivery from L3's and L1's only seem to get one Temper Stack. Things may have changed in the last 6 months since I moved my mules up to L3 Hirelings but I don't remember seeing more than one Temper stack ever on an L1.

@Nestor

Ok thanks. I have L1 L2 and L3 sitting on PTS so I'll watch them for the next few days to double check whether the L1 and L2 can get the same. And to see if any changes coming, I haven't noticed any IP changes so far.

Ive seen a few 6 item mails these last few weeks on live but I wasn't logging exactly what they were.