rabidfox
The People's Champion
Someone had suggested me posting the hires that I think are good recently and since I just made this post on another thread, I'm copy/pasting it as it's own entry. I'd grab the name of all the hires in my dim. hire folder but the game is down so will have to do that later. Add any hires you think are really good/solid to this post.
Basic hire guidelines to make your life easier:
Cleric/FvS for most content (yeah, I know there's a few non-divine hires that work but this the easy to remember method). When using a cleric/FvS follow these rules:
No AoE cures/heals. If they list mass cure as one of their active spells, don't buy them. Those with AoE heals tend to heal poorly.
Use ones with AoE damage attacks (you can use non-aoe hires at really low levels). It doesn't matter which spells they have: holy smite, flame strike, firestorm, cometfall, etc. They're all good.
Use the highest level hire you can that meets both of these rules (unless you're fighting mobs that heal off fire in which case you'll want to use the holy smite/cometfall ones). If that means using a hire lower level than you because that's the last one that met these requirements then that's fine. From level 19 onwards, use Caraneth Myar; she tends to outperform any option available afterwards.
Exceptions:
Use Byron at level 1.
Mikayl the Pious if you need ddoor for quest.
Epic rogues if you need them to speed up a quest, like for the underdark door instead of searching for the key
As many gold seals from expansions as you feel like using to fill additional party slots (worse case, they act as a meat shield and/or get 1-shotted).
Basic hire guidelines to make your life easier:
Cleric/FvS for most content (yeah, I know there's a few non-divine hires that work but this the easy to remember method). When using a cleric/FvS follow these rules:
No AoE cures/heals. If they list mass cure as one of their active spells, don't buy them. Those with AoE heals tend to heal poorly.
Use ones with AoE damage attacks (you can use non-aoe hires at really low levels). It doesn't matter which spells they have: holy smite, flame strike, firestorm, cometfall, etc. They're all good.
Use the highest level hire you can that meets both of these rules (unless you're fighting mobs that heal off fire in which case you'll want to use the holy smite/cometfall ones). If that means using a hire lower level than you because that's the last one that met these requirements then that's fine. From level 19 onwards, use Caraneth Myar; she tends to outperform any option available afterwards.
Exceptions:
Use Byron at level 1.
Mikayl the Pious if you need ddoor for quest.
Epic rogues if you need them to speed up a quest, like for the underdark door instead of searching for the key
As many gold seals from expansions as you feel like using to fill additional party slots (worse case, they act as a meat shield and/or get 1-shotted).
