What are villager servants for?

[AlduinTWE]

I know in general, that servants are used to gather resources from around the map, but most servants you recruit are also capable of defending your castle if need be. There are some villagers that have weapons, but most don't. If I turn one of the villagers with no weapon into a servant, will they still defend my castle or will they run. Also, do they work at the crafting stations? Make refined resources automatically for you and such?

[Suzaku]

You get servants for 1 of 2 purposes: to send out on missions to get resources, or to defend your base.

If it's just for missions, then you focus on getting a variety of servants from different locations so you can match the mission type and get bonus resources by using servants from the same area.

If it's for PvP, you want servants that are strong fighters. Servants use the same weapons and abilities that they used before they were dominated, so get ones that are hard to kill, deal a lot of damage, or constantly heal their allies.

Servants do nothing to aid with crafting.

[AlduinTWE]

Nguyên văn bởi Suzaku:

You get servants for 1 of 2 purposes: to send out on missions to get resources, or to defend your base.

If it's just for missions, then you focus on getting a variety of servants from different locations so you can match the mission type and get bonus resources by using servants from the same area.

If it's for PvP, you want servants that are strong fighters. Servants use the same weapons and abilities that they used before they were dominated, so get ones that are hard to kill, deal a lot of damage, or constantly heal their allies.

Servants do nothing to aid with crafting.

So, I guess villager servants wouldn't fight at all when somebody came trying to invade my castle? Or would they spawn pitchforks or something like their naturally armed counterparts?

[Suzaku]

I'm not sure if the villagers that normally run away would try to fight or not. The ones that would fight you should stand and defend against any attackers with the same weapons they would attack you with.

[AlduinTWE]

Well, I guess it doesn't really matter that much anyway, I only play PvE servers. Plus you can't take servants with you out into the world to help you fight (As far as I'm aware).

[Suzaku]

Nguyên văn bởi AlduinTWE:

Plus you can't take servants with you out into the world to help you fight (As far as I'm aware).

Correct.

[Bomoo]

Nguyên văn bởi AlduinTWE:

I know in general, that servants are used to gather resources from around the map, but most servants you recruit are also capable of defending your castle if need be. There are some villagers that have weapons, but most don't. If I turn one of the villagers with no weapon into a servant, will they still defend my castle or will they run. Also, do they work at the crafting stations? Make refined resources automatically for you and such?

They're the source of the Humble Appearance trait, which is helpful for running certain missions. You'll likely want to check your mission table, i.e. throne, to see how many villager servants from a particular region you're likely to want, and what gear level you're likely to need for them.

Are they powerful in combat? I doubt it, but then that's not their job. Their job is going into mission areas and bringing back fat stacks of resources.