05-22-2004, 10:06 AM
Heiho,
because of the above mentioned exp caps the fastest way of levelling a normal hireling is to go to a map where your char can slaughter away easily and your hireling won't die.
So you can, depending on your main skills and your ability to protect your hireling, go to pretty high maps.
Last time I had to lift up an hireling from normal difficulty to hLvl80, I could do most of it in the whole of act4+5/NM. The char was an oldschool MS/FA Bowie build. This was in 1.09, but the idea should work as well in 1.10.
If your build doesn't use area skills like MS for slaughtering, the hireling will have to do more work, so the hLvl<->mLvl ratio should be more considered.
Same if you don't have the ability to protect the hireling with minions or something like FA, dead mercs don't get exp ;-)
Actually writing everything down about hirelings and bringing in some conceptional ideas will fill about 5-6pages plain txt.
because of the above mentioned exp caps the fastest way of levelling a normal hireling is to go to a map where your char can slaughter away easily and your hireling won't die.
So you can, depending on your main skills and your ability to protect your hireling, go to pretty high maps.
Last time I had to lift up an hireling from normal difficulty to hLvl80, I could do most of it in the whole of act4+5/NM. The char was an oldschool MS/FA Bowie build. This was in 1.09, but the idea should work as well in 1.10.
If your build doesn't use area skills like MS for slaughtering, the hireling will have to do more work, so the hLvl<->mLvl ratio should be more considered.
Same if you don't have the ability to protect the hireling with minions or something like FA, dead mercs don't get exp ;-)
Actually writing everything down about hirelings and bringing in some conceptional ideas will fill about 5-6pages plain txt.