Hirelings!

[Hefa]

Sooooooo...
we tried out the hirelings last night....
OH.....
MY....
GOD...
they were hysterical!

3 of us grabbed our lowbies and went out into the gianthold.
I don't even remember what quest it was but, it started off ok...
we were a bard, monk, ranger and we hired a sorc, a cleric and a tank..
Let's start with the tank...we set up outside a door...buffed up...open the door
BAM the tank goes flyin in like his a$$ is on fire..
er...
and then it really was...
but thats not the point
the point was he just ran in and got agro from everything in there
my hired "battle cleric" decided that that looked like fun so...boom off he goes..
the sorc on the other hand actually seemed to know what he was doing and firewalled the pile...the tank dies while I'm wand whipping the guildies...
but we win...
so I order the cleric to rez the tank...
he complains a little and gives me so smart ass comment like..."as you wish" or something like that...the sorc chuggs a couple of mana pots and off we go again
repeat like 3 or 4 more times...
the whole time I'm thinking to myself..
I hired a cleric so I can do all the healing?
So we get to some trap and the cleric kills himself in it...
He then promptly drops group!
In the middle of the quest!!!
We were howling!!

Aye, tried a clreic out in a lowbie quest Red Willow, felt more like I was the cleric. The statement of parking the cleric in the quest sounds like a better way of using him, we had issues with the cleric going through the portal at the end of the quest he just ran around bumping into the halfings where you turn in the items and was unable to go through the portal. The hirelings are byfar no substitute for a real team member and I did see the problem with them arggo the crowds.

[Mithran]

I'll be interested to see what Turbine does with them.