Same

zaria wrote: »

Agree, an Argonian searching for tail jewelry would make sense. For personality think Sharp😺

Yeah, Sharp would love foraging around in the wilderness, far away from the maddening noisy hordes of people, looking for nodes.

Gold Jewellery is supposed to be expensive and rare. Zos are ruining the whole system, and are also making green, purple and blue jewellery pointless

h9dlb wrote: »

Gold Jewellery is supposed to be expensive and rare. Zos are ruining the whole system, and are also making green, purple and blue jewellery pointless

I guess, in the same way that transmutation and reconstruction “ruined” the need to farm without a guaranteed end. Most people aren’t really encouraged when it feels like their goals are unreasonably out of reach, so this will help accessibility.

It used to cost more to get 1 plating than to gold out an entire clothing piece. I have lost count of the jewelry I golded out for tri progs, and I am very happy the cost will go down for everyone. It is long overdue, imo.

It might depend upon what they do with drop rates from the daily jewelry writs. Do we still get terne/iridium/zircon... or will it just be chromium (like the other crafts)?

BigMakatak wrote: »

Back on topic, I would like to request that a Jewelry Crafter hireling be added, too, as well as an Alchemist hireling (what with Alchemy being the only other trade-skill without a hireling ).

Alchemy currently has two unique ways of getting mats that other trades do not:

First, it has a bit of a “pseudo-hireling” in Remains-Silent. You can only get poison mats from her, and the mats don’t come in the mail, but it’s a free daily chance at a satchel per character who has the one skill point invested. It requires access to the Dark Brotherhood to level up the line, but once you get it leveled you no longer need access to the DLC, just like how Blade of Woe works. It also has an opportunity cost that hirelings do not, as the satchel is one option among a few; it is also not guaranteed from the dialogue option that gives it. (You can get actual potions instead.) This strikes me as their first attempt to provide some of the mats that might have come in a hireling, but I think they realized it wasn’t a sufficient replacement.

Now you can also get dragon parts and the base game potion mats missing from Remains-Silent’s loot table (including columbine and corn flower) from the box on Tideholm once per account per day. That one doesn’t take any skill points but is dependent on access to Dragonhold. Again, it isn’t a proper replacement for a hireling, as it’s DLC locked and once per account daily. It isn’t even the only source of dragon rheum, which can also drop from Tales of Tribute reward coffers on characters who have not done the Good Bits quest to unlock the drop from dragons. (ToT coffers can drop mats from other crafts too.)

While I’d be happy for a regular alchemy hireling, since these two options don’t really replace one, I worry that any hope sailed when we got those alternatives, which are at least better than nothing.

I’m also curious to see if they ever change the remaining things that make the jewelrycrafting skill line different from the other crafts: not just the hireling but also the research slots and the pulverized form of the trait mats.

Not so much the chromium plating, it's the materials for the traits bloodthirsty and triune that are rarer

Another vote for a Jewelry hireling. Even if it's only the unrefined pulverized trait materials that they bring.