FIx the Henchie Drops - or create Mercenaries

OK I know that guild wars is about team play and you should play with real people but many pick up groups are useless. Also, If I am worried that I may need to go AFK during a mission or whatever I don't like to screw over the group. As a result, I like to go out with henchies.

But the way henchies get drops really sucks. First of all, you dont get to see their drops so you dont get to learn if a certain area drops rare or unique items by watching what they get. Secondly, they are not required to pick up their drops - if I die my drops just lay there but they get all their drops. So, if I am out with one partner and some henchies, he can pick up my drops when I am dead (for long enough) but not those that belong to dead henchies.

The way henchie drops works promotes the idea of solo farming builds - so one person can get all the drops. An alternative that I think would be useful is to have another class of henchie - the mercenary, where you have to pay them a certain amount per hour (say the equivalent of 10 keys for the area) but they do not take any of their own drops. This would enable those who don't want to spend hours perfecting some solo build for farming a specific boss to have a decent chance of getting the rare item he drops. Also, if a henchie dies his drops should sit there just like a real player - another henchie coudl take them when they come free, or they could rez the dead henchie or I could run and scoop it.

Just a thought but I am getting pretty tired of trying to solo farm everything so I can get cash together for EGO armor and weapons. Basically, the way the game is set up you need to ahve a Whammo and a 55 to do your farming and then your other chars to play.

so you want a bargain basement price farming team to literally do your work for you while you stand back and rez them as needed and pick up all the 100k+ items on a fast farming run.

since they wont do that for you i will just say

/unsigned because the idea is greedy bandini

Bot Heaven, insted of 1 bot earning 15K an hour we now have 1 bot + 7 henchis earning 120K an hour at a cost of 10 key's.

NO WAY




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Agree with you on that part. However, I don't believe a mercenary is the solution. A better solution would be to have the drops shown, but permenantly reserved for henchmen.

Honestly I'd rather keep it as it is now than seeing a gold req8 crystaline sword reserved for Mhenlo dropping from an unlocked chest of SF...

And conerning the mercenaries suggestion:

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If you're not going to put in the time and effort to try to get your 'EGO' armor then you don't really deserve to get it, do you? And no you don't need a wamo or a 55'er to be able to farm things; if you'd put in a little more time thinking about your own build and how that can be effectively used to farm what you want to farm then maybe you could afford your 'EGO' armor.

But as it stand all this is is a cheap and easy way of getting a fast and good return on the cash you put in. Allowing you to mow down everything in your way and getting all the loot that drops.

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Maybe an alternative would be to give the Mercenary the same greed factor that you have; thus when they see you getting so much gold and so many good drops they can turn on you and take all your stuff.

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With the way the merc's are abused they deserve all the montary compensation they get.

Fluff role playing aside, drops in full human party are not that bad, I do know the ratio goes up with less players but then it suppose to be a challenge and Anet has designed / tweaked levels to not allow 55 to work in all area's.

This would flood GW with money and cause inflation / price to go way up.

Noodle Arms!

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