STK Load screens

[Krakov]

Anyone having issues today with STK hanging at the loading screens?

Thanks

[Krakov]

Found out it was the hirling..lol..and here I thought the hampsters needed changed :P

[Strakeln]

You'd think they'd fix hirelings so we could use them.

It's been what, a month since they were made permanent, and I'm still not allowed to use them due to the crashing issues they inevitably cause with other players.

[NameisToad]

I keep using a cleric hireling to solo tangleroot with level 7 melees. Only problem I've had is that they refuse to use some of the shrines.

I'd recommend removing them from your party before logging out and I'd recommend against using alt-f4 or the quit command to exit the game immediately after removing a hireling from your party, but I don't see why a few problems by some people should cause you to never use hirelings at all.

[NXPlasmid]

I keep using a cleric hireling to solo tangleroot with level 7 melees. Only problem I've had is that they refuse to use some of the shrines.

There was a mention of that and hirelings not being able to use other objects such as runes being fixed in either Mod9 or the next patch in the last DDOpodcast. Apparently has to do with where they reach to use something, whereas a player can simple move the cursor to the most convenient location on the object the hirelings only access one location, which depending on where they are standing might be unreachable, or something like that.