Nightfall Suggestion: Let us use our other characters >>> configurable henchmen

I never really thought to suggest this because this turns a character based game into a party based game, and gets away a bit from needing other players even more-so. However with the information on Nightfall coming out I thought it was time to get some input regarding this idea...

I always wanted to suggest to ANet let us take our OTHER characters with us (>>>> cofigurable henchies) so we could truly customize our characters and why wouldnt you want your characters together? Even give them that share of gold they eat (and hey loot if it wouldn't be too hard/free spots )

This though.. so we have 4/6/8 characters and each has their own hench possy to maintain... huh... I dont mind the change/option/customization to be sure, but I'd soooo much rather have my ele, necro, warrior, monk, hey even assassin work together with the gang I've built from the ground up.

Wouldn't it be a trip too - group with 1-3 friends, and create a group of 8 from your character pools alone. I think this would be a lot better. Still as stated this is something that interests me... but yeah I imagine each character would have their own hench pool to massage/maintain with no crossover. These configurable hench at best will have all the options of a real character (which I highly doubt) but be much less personal - your characters that much more so. If you're going to go deeper, DO IT... let us use our characters to party with.

IMO anyways.

CKaz

Good idea, but could be easily exploited.

/notsureyet

Right, maybe forget all the loot and even cash tho xp would be nice (not essential, but nice) - in general that'd just be skill point fodder.

I just think that'd it be that much more interesting and engaging.

taking all of the characters on your account and farming high-gp-output areas of the game would be quite profitable.

unless their share of the loot was spent frivolously.
*digs around for link*

there.
http://www.pvponline.com/archive.php3?archive=19991111

shoulda thought to do a google search sooner.

just to make sure the point isn't being missed
- lets nix ANY xp, loot, cash for the characters brought along

point is for configuration of armor, attributes, build, equipment AND having your characters along - cool!

and IMO >>> some typical (partially configurable) henchy you're going to bring along

BUT still allow that if you don't have a lot of characters/I'm not dissing that as a cool move

Just seems that much enjoyable to me to be able to leverage YOUR OWN characters in that manner

Yeah this would be sweet. Set up your chars, upload them into your party. Would kinda be a bummer because parties that need 2 monks, your not gonna have 2 monks of your own so would have to get a crappy other one. I more like the customizable heroes idea from nightfall.