Hirelings have become completely useless

[Bonulino]

My healer hirelings are reluctant to heal me and my fighter hirelings are reluctant to kill monsters. What is the point of buying them anymore? When will this be fixed?

[FranOhmsford]

Hirelings have their problems yes.

But there's no need to go overboard!

They're clearly not completely useless and Cleric/FvS Hires do still heal {yes the ludicrous cooldown on their teleport needs to be got rid of!}.


I badly want to see a proper hireling upgrade taking in every single hireling and working on each one separately rather than taking the easy route and slapping on yet another band-aid that breaks them even further!

Even if the Devs could upgrade just a handful of hirelings each update that would be a huge bonus - I'd start with:

Lvl 1 Cleric - Breven Boulderfist
We already have 3 Lvl 1 Cleric hires and 1 FvS so upgrade Breven to Lvl 2 and give him Cure Light Wounds, Nightshield, Turn Undead and Remove Fear.
His 4th Spell and spammable ability should be Nimbus of Light
Feat: Improved Turning

Lvl 1 Barbarian - Grommisk Axehead
Again we already have 2 Lvl 1 Barbs and 2 Lvl 1 Fighters so upgrade Grommisk to Lvl 2 and give him Sunder, Barb Rage, Trip, Intimidate {same abilities as now in fact}.
Feat: Power Attack {Considered always on!}

Lvl 17 FvS - Nina Tegren
This Hireling is currently almost completely worthless compared to other divine hires in her level range.
So:
Change her hotbar abilities to Heal, Resurrection, FoM and Mass Spell Res.
This will make her unique!

Lvl 21 FvS - Selis
Death Pact is broken and doesn't work on her! Why is Mass Cure Serious the best Healing ability of a Lvl 21 FvS Hireling? Does she really need True Res?
So:
Swap in Mass Heal, Resurrection and FoM {Keep Energy Drain}.

Lvl 24 Ranger - Tarlov Snowtrack
Stances are broken and don't work on him - Stay Frosty particularly is pointless as he is a TWFtr and never uses a Bow!
Mass Camo is Pointless!
Hamstring should be a spammable ability and has no reason to be on his hotbar!
So:
Give him FoM, Cure Serious Wounds, Ram's Might and Jump.
ALSO: Make him actually Lvl 24 rather than Lvl 23 with Min Lvl 24 to use!

[Bonulino]

The issue is not the cooldown. The issue is that the hireling stands there watching my red bar shrink until I die. It does not involve me calling the hireling to my side and then waiting for the cooldown. The hireling is already by my side, doing nothing. Then, finally, he decides that maybe he should raise me. I even try to watch my own red bar and disengage from battle when it is low so the sluggard healer can get a clue. Sometimes that works, often not.

As far as the fighters, they always wait for me to go in and initiate the battle before they decide to fight the mobs. Since I use the fighter hirelings when I am on my squishy Rogue, I would like for them to get the aggro and let me do sneak attacks.

[Avenir]

Have the mob targeted, then send in your hirelings to get aggro first by holding the left control and the attack at the same time.

[CavernDragon]

I would also like to see rog's get a bit of love, I like to solo HH on EH/EE but without a Rog, its a no go and the lv 24 is not able to do the job. We need a higher level rog with a better spot and open please. Bells will do the pick job, but I would rather use a rog.