Permanent Hirelings

[eridanis]

The AI is there, and it's really not much different than pets in other games or duel-boxing, so I figure why not. If they could add a system like NWN where you can give them gear and choose what feats they get then even better, but the current system and simply scaling with you as you level would be good enough.

I came back to this game after playing mmo's for the last five years and burning out on raiding, leading raids and being a guild leader. Now I just want to solo some and duo with my brother.

Hirelings don't seem like they will ever be good enough for elite dungeon crawling or raiding, so I don't see it upsetting that aspect of gameplay, but it would really enhance the casual/solo experience.

I would be willing to pay a lot, either in Turbine points, in game gold or rep, or whatever it took. I would not mind having a level requirement on permanent hirelings, a recurring expense in game plat, like housing or mounts in other games.

[ripperj]

I can see this happening, so long as they only actually appear upon entering the quest so the world is crowded with them, and hey, make the permanent ones start at lvl 1 and level along with you
and yea, they'll be really expensive haha

[Astindan]

I would love levelable hirelings :D

[Uska]

Totaly against it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Why you say? anything that discourages grouping with real people in the game I will always be against.

[BobAccbar]

They could just add the leadership feat from dnd 3.5, it already has rules for level restriction and everything.

[efreet5]

I would love me some minions!:D:D

Unfortunately, I have to /not sign this as this is an mmo and a social game at heart and more effort should be put into supporting this.