Allow for Permanent Hirelings as end game content for Dexxers?

Well hell you might as well go play baulders gate

While I will always lean towards and support group play in MMO, there is and always should be viable gameplay for the solo adventurer. Picking up some NPC hirelings is an age old tradition in RPGs and having them here would only bolster the community and variety in the world.

That would be cool to find a more powerful npc hireling out wandering around beating up an ettin. I have always wanted roadways to be used by npc that would hire you to guard them, like escorts but they get attacked by different monsters on the way from Trinsic to Britain. Anything to add life to the world would be great.

Exactly! Random "rangers" around Yew that are hunting monsters encroaching on guard zones, things like that. Nobles that actually follow the roads between the towns and compensate you for escorting them (without use of gates).

Would hit, verily.

If slayer shields became available - I would try out a parry dexxer.

As for increasing slayer drops I am for that too - but some folks already paid top notch for the existing slayers.

bahahahahahaha i love your sig

slayer shields sound awesome

What's next slayer albums?

People have paid a mil for gold runic hammers and 3m for blood red mask dye too.....things change.

Did this actually happen? I saw someone ( non gm ) using one of these but I never saw patch notes put out for it. .

Friend of gm or what?

You can hire npc's right now without any game master assistance. Once they die however they are gone forever.


This discussion started out with the thought of allowing a hireling to be bonded like how dragons and pets can be bonded.

What about allowing parrying to be used with two handed weapons to some extent. Say a pole arm such as a hally you could block some melee hits with it. Quarter Staff would be slightly better parrying because it is lighter etc... I like the slayer shield Idea too but Im having a hard time getting on board with the slayer armor. Tamers are basically only template able to kill big game. As for the hirelings... No thanks. Why not make a tamer dexxer?

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Stats could vary but Int would have to me 50 to gate your animals around. If anything add the slayer shields, increase slayer drop rate slightly, we dont want to many out there. otherwise why not make the monster weaker since everyone will have slayers. Nerf Tamers or allow them only 1 dragon. (Tamers, its not personal) I just wish 3-4 dexxers could take down a boss such as a diseased blood elemental or colossus. I dont want it easy but at least doable or maybe I just need to get better at the game.

I agree Parry should be applicable to polearms, staves and spears, but at a reduced rate compared to actually wielding a shield.

Osi parry worked with 2h weps and there was a bonus with bushido skill..

I wanna say gm bushido and gm parry you parried as well with a 2h as u did with a shield.

I think 2h parry should be a thing BUT parry with a shield needs love already and this change would KILL it. The change would have to beef up 1h parry or shields would be worth less than a resurrection robe

That was quite far out of our era though, which is why it doesn't exist here.

Obviously we'd need some love for parry with actual shields before giving any consideration to polearm parrying. I don't see it being very likely as it was an AoS mechanic or something therein.

I love using shields….Maybe add a skill to use with them…Make parrying more effective slightly for the defense… Also adding smiting would be f%$#ing awesome! It would be used like peacemaking or poisoning.. WHen you attempt to smite your smiting skill would be bounced against the targets PARRYING skill and a few other things. With a successful smite you would do X damage etc etc and you could smite again after the successful cool down. I think it is 4 seconds and a fail would be 10 seconds.

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I don't know something to consider. As Blaise stated.. THis is getting way beyond our era



But since we are talking about it you could also let mages cast with small shields and let archers wear them on their backs or maybe use a buckler only on their arm thats holding the bow..Ok I'm done for now..

As a very long time dexxer with parry and also someone new to the shard, here are my thoughts. Warriors have almost always been on the crap end of the UO spectrum. Mages and tamers are always going to be able to withstand more punishment and pain, and take down larger monsters. Mages by themselves can take down higher end mobs with EV's and whatnot. Tamers can take down higher end mobs with their dragons.

Why not simply adjust the armor ratings for plate/chainmail/shields? If plate gives double the armor than it currently does, it mitigates a large portion of the melee damage from mobs. This won't give a huge advantage to warriors in PvP, but it will help tremendously with pvm. I love the idea of hirelings as an option, but frankly, I don't want to be a character with an add-on, that's why tamers are already in the game.

What it sounds like to me is: Dexxer's need a way to be at least sort of competitive against higher end mobs, and not Dexxers need to have hirelings to be competitive.

And also a bump because I'm a selfish dexxer who would love to see this implemented!

I'm new to this shard, but I played osi during the ren era. I have recently played on several other free shards. I like the slayer shields and bonded mercs. The bandage timer idea would help dexxers in all aspects of gameplay.

As long as the bonded hirelings are on par with the available npc's, with possible skill gain, I think it would jive well.

The evo mercs on other shards are ridiculous. I like the idea of a lower stat/skill cap. They could also start with mediocre stats, and half of their skill points spent. Players would not be able to distribute points. Also, this would create a market for dexxers and non combatant characters to buy/sell trained mercs.

Miners, fishermen, full bard templates, t-hunters, etc could all benefit from that.

Just a thought.

+1 to bumping up plate armor and/or shields!

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