Hiring Pawns

[BlemishedHaloTTV]

Why is hiring pawns is not a thing? After level 50 my pawn is not hiered at all and I don't understand why. I am not alone since I saw a lot of people saying the same. I suspect that I did something wrong when I created my pawn, maybe the vocation is not well liked. Well I tried every single one. Nothing.

People are still playing the game. So it must be something I did. Any ideas why people don't like using certain pawns?

My pawn usually is warrior/fighter with a straight forward inclination and logistican specialization.

EDIT:

I am gonna leave the pawn ID here so if you want to check her out. No need to hire or gift, but I welcome some criticism XD

ID: 2DEEY0P8IDPR

EDIT 2:

I changed her inclanation to calm and her specialisation to forager. If this does not work then she is ugly lol. At this point I am starting to not care anymore and jsut going to give up on it. If being calm doesn't help then I am gonna change it back to straight forward.

EDIT 3:

Nah, it doesn't help. Giving her skimpy armor or full cover doesn't change it either. I give up.

[Jamation]

Could just be the number of players that can hire a 50+ pawn will continue to drop the higher your level becomes.

Also could just be the logistican. Many people don't like pawns re-arranging their bags as they've had bad experiences with having hired pawns die with stuff like their tent in their inventory making their life more difficult.

[エキノックス・Equinox]

I often hire warrior/fighter pawn. Logistician is the one i'm looking for the most.
I would say Straightforward is the only inclination i don't take.
The Calm is better for tanking, the Simple because i'm lazy and leave them pick up things.

For skills i'm looking about anything i don't really care, but the counter skill on pawn is bad cause they don't get the placement or timing right.

I also look at the pawn Quest it's important to give good reward for pawn badges, oger or cyclop with 10k.

Ppl who give like roten meat for a pawn badge i straight up don't take the pawn. F thoes guys.

[Ryvaku]

I haven't reached 50+ and kept restarting.

[Seulin]

Well many people = many pawns, though i assume it has to do with how people are playing, some will start to challange themselfs by having just their own pawn, others have partys of IE all fighers, or archers for lozl and stuff. It varies. Others just roll with what they have. Why change pawns when at lvl 40 a good setup pawn i just...all You could need. You can hire stronger ones...but it's not much different i feel. Anyway, i feel similar way - i rotate pawns, finish quests, as part of community ingame. Mine is hired mostly when i change it's vocation to mage and pick a "area proper" buff.

[Danielle]

you'll get fewer and fewer bites as you level up, at least for now. remember that probably the majority of players are just playing for like an hour or two after work, and not for hours at a time like us sickos.
Unfortunately, there's another problem: there's really not much of a reason for people to keep playing once they've finished the game, just yet. A lot of people finish the game before level 50 and at that point most aren't going to bother with ng+ for long, not unless the game gets its own bitterblack isle to play in.

[Maltsi]

I never hire logistican since they move the potions away from my chirurgian pawn. And also never simple female since i absolutely despise the voice she has. Anything else i hire depending on what im currently playing myself. I prefer either elf language or forager specialization.

[BlemishedHaloTTV]

Originally posted by Danielle:

you'll get fewer and fewer bites as you level up, at least for now. remember that probably the majority of players are just playing for like an hour or two after work, and not for hours at a time like us sickos.

Good point.

[BlemishedHaloTTV]

Originally posted by Maltsi:

I never hire logistican since they move the potions away from my chirurgian pawn. And also never simple female since i absolutely despise the voice she has. Anything else i hire depending on what im currently playing myself. I prefer either elf language or forager specialization.

Well she never moves my stuff around. I am gonna change her to something else. I dunno abou the straight forward inclination since it is the best for a warrior, and OK for the fighter. Not that great for everything else. I think I am gonna make her kind.

[D. Edwards]

I think part of the reason is the game becomes trivial at 50+. I am currently level 98 and I've been thinking of just playing the game with just myself and my pawn. Just to make it challenging and I know some players already do this.

[Usagi-chan]

you are too low level for pro gamers like me who are lv 325

[BlemishedHaloTTV]

Originally posted by D. Edwards:

I think part of the reason is the game becomes trivial at 50+. I am currently level 98 and I've been thinking of just playing the game with just myself and my pawn. Just to make it challenging and I know some players already do this.

That is fine. But I don't think many people do this to affect pawns to be hiered at 50+. But honestly I can see it since my pawn alone capable of killing bosses. Not to diss on other pawns especially the ones I travel with because they can do the same.

To me this says that we need tougher enemies after 50+ for hiring pawns be worth it I guess.

[D. Edwards]

Pretty much. I enjoy the game but it's difficulty has become trivial. I see why some players restart a new game completely once they reach level 50. I've been thinking the same but I don't want to erase everything I progress on.

[BlemishedHaloTTV]

Originally posted by Laan:

you are too low level for pro gamers like me who are lv 325

Good for you. I don't have that much free time. And I chose not to be a pro. XD

[BlemishedHaloTTV]

Originally posted by D. Edwards:

Pretty much. I enjoy the game but it's difficulty is become trivial. I see why some players restart a new game completely once they reach level 50. I've been thinking the same but I don't want to erase everything I progress on.

I want to do every quest I can. I have 2 left. Then I finish the game and I shall start a new game plus. If I understood correctly you keep your level, Gold and vocation. At least that's what the YouTube tutorial I watched said.

[VoiD]

I don't have hundreds of likes on my pawn, but she does get hired, 2 days ago I slept and found out like 15 people had used her.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3211524919

Are you sure your pawn is well set up?

I can't speak for others, but here's what I look for.

- Check what I'm playing to see what's missing, since my pawn is not a mage, I'll almost always look for one.

- Search for female humans only, pick the inclination best suited for the class I'm searching for

- Search by class and what I need in my party, like a mage with frost weapon enchants, a thief capable of stealing, a fighter with taunt, a sorc with quick basic damage spells, etc...

- Ignore all the bad looking pawns

- Swap to missions, and see which ones have missions to kill an easy monster for 10k gold

- Of the pawns of the right class, right inclination, right kill quests, good looking, I open their stat pages to see if they also have decent gear & good remaining skills, I mean, a stealing thief is neat, but I'm not taking one without headsplitter doing no damage, or one without the pulling skill to yank harpies off the air. I'm also not taking a sorc with 2 ultimate skills that never get off in combat because they take too long to cast.

Some things are highly subjective, like gender & race, or even inclinations (I like my tank being straightforward, as she can quickly solo kill bosses & draw all agro for the team at the same time) but having the most important skills, or being well geared is not.

hell, my pawn in that screenshot has 3 dwarven upgrades+1 draconic on every item, and I got her fully upgraded before I did it to my own main character, the only reason why I'm not switching her chest armor is because the endgame ones don't look very good IMO, and the main stat, magic defense (fighters have plenty of physical anyway) is almost the same, so I'm not sure looking worse for a little extra defense would make people hire her more often or not.