Allow your other characters as henchmen!

GW should allow your other RPG characters to play as henchmen for you! Give them henchmen AI when not used as your primary character. Especially with expanded character slots in the expansion. Play with all 8 of your characters in a party! Wouldn't that be cool?!

Cool idea, bad execution. It would/might be horribly unbalanced as henchmen AI can't compensate for human thinking. Also, I believe the slots are increased to 6 with the expansion, not 8. I'd love 8, however, but with two new professions, I believe we'll only get two new slots.

Work on it, it has potential. Like if you could run your character names the same as you'd play em, but like henchmen AI stupidity <Like alesia tanking!> lol

--The Shim

Or maybe give them henchmen stats, but at least keep the look and names of your other characters.

As long as they are a lower level than you, and they don't get XP, I'll sign.

Basically, they're henchmen, but with the look and names of your characters.

If they get their fair share of drops when you take them out farming, then I'd say no to it. Thats just a get rich quick scheme. If they don't then I'm all for it.

He specifically stated they'd be henchmen, and as we all know, besides DIVIDING the droprate, they get nothing by a share of the gold. I'm sure they could even work around the gold, somehow.

--The Shim

Precisely.

Only problem is you could "lend" your henchmen to people, by inviting a henchmen, inviting a person, then leaving. Could lead to lots of scams. A possible solution to this is having your henchmen leave when you do, but if you lag up and error out during a mission, 3 people would drop out instead of one.

It would be nice if they would use the skills, gear, and attributes that your PC character has, for sure. It would also be nice to bring the same guy more than once. Say, 4 eles as an example.

Just have the henchmen transform back into regular henchman for the party if you leave the party.

Or, there could be parts of the game that are so hard, regular henchmen won't do it. You need a real players or your own characters as henchmen.