Why Are Heroes Superior To Hench?

I was just wondering, because people always take heroes instead of hench when they're in a party. Is it just because you can give your heroes specific weapons/armor etc which you can't do with hench? Or is it because heroes have better AI & therefore know how to cope better with certain situations etc?

Thanks.

1:able to be customised with with skill/proffession/weapon
2:u can flag heroes individualy hench u cant.

You can give them skillbars that aren't terrible.

with heroes you can adjust them and select which skills you want them to have. As you know some skills are better than others and the hench skills can range. Heroes also have 2 professions unlike hench's 1, again improving skills. The usage of runes also help boost skills.

You can also flag each hero (put healer at the back for example).

When they made the hero, it really killed off a lot of cooperative game play for many people.

Thanks a lot

Runes
Insignia
Weapons with mods
Proper skillbars
Individual flagging

What's not to like?

And add the ability to micro manage them. For example make someone cast Protective Spirit on you before you pull that one nasty group and things like that

Repeatable resurrects, more than 4 skills... Good ones at that.

Heros allow you to build a party with complimentary skills. You can customized thier skills to match perfectly with the map you are on allowing for a much easier time.

But only as good as the player who has them.
The potential and concept of the heroes are great, but if you and your bar suck they will too.

So, yeah, while heroes are in general better for those very same reasons list above they can also be worse.

Henchies have a set skill bar, set attributes,a set weapon, set runes and set insigs and Preprogrammed AI responses, and you can not flag multiple henchies.

Hero's are completly custom, Skill bars, weapons, armor, runes and insigs, and 3 different preprogrammed AI modes, Attack,Guard,Avoid and can be locked on to targets as well as controled by flaging.

The real question is why did you ask such a dumb question that everyone in the entire GW world should know?

And Vekk can kill enemies with his brain. Sold.

Where can I find more information about these hero-henchmen?

Half the time, a bar doesn't define a player. I was playing with an elementalist in hard mode today. His build wasn't TERRIBLE, just not very energy efficient for the power he was churning out. He was still learning the game and didn't have very many skills. With those skills he used, (he actually took a snare for melee, believe it or not. I was impressed with that.) he was actually BETTER than most of the PUGS I've come across.

We didn't finish the mission because his assassin friend had control of the two monk heroes and charged in to battle things on the other end of the map. Although we didn't die, he was too far away with the monk heroes when Confessor Dorian was desperately needing healing.

Check out GuildWiki.

Too bad heroes makes this game more like a single-player dungeon crawler.

Oresteez...while i do agree in part with that...what you need to do is find a really active guild that's focus is on creating groups and clearing areas with guild members

If PUGs weren't so bad and could get ready in under 1 minute I wouldn't use heroes all the time. But most pugs are bad and take forever to get 8 people together.

I do have to find more of an active guild...that's just my initial feelings...and I've only been playing a little less than 2 weeks now...I do really like this game...but I don't feel the social interaction or interactivity like I felt in WoW...

I guess it's just a tradeoff..either that or I'm just not seeing it..YET.

Theres your problem. No one groups for easy normal mode storyline stuff because it is a waste of time. Get into a guild that does hard mode elite missions.