Non-combat Thralls from Purge

[Judaspriester]

Hey,

did I just had bad luck with my purges until now, or are non-combat thralls not available via purge anymore?

[Chill°bucket]

there are only fighters/archers, dancers and bearers so far. (I guess cause they sit in cages and worker thralls need to be... in the chests?). Does it get fixed? Hahaha

[Judaspriester]

Originally posted by Chumbucket:

there are only fighters/archers, dancers and bearers so far. (I guess cause they sit in cages and worker thralls need to be... in the chests?). Does it get fixed? Hahaha

well... that sounds like bye bye to the special thrall workers and hunting for good workers the traditional way. somewhat sad.

[thurgond]

The bartender says she is not a good warrior.

[Chill°bucket]

Originally posted by thurgond:

The bartender says she is not a good warrior.

he asked for worker thralls. The barkeeper is a special toon to be set behind the bar, not a thrall in the usual way.

Originally posted by Judaspriester:

well... that sounds like bye bye to the special thrall workers and hunting for good workers the traditional way. somewhat sad.

The special thralls had anyways no special (better) abilities anymore; just the rarity to have them; But yes, now you can only find them by RNG running the spots afaik.

[Judaspriester]

Originally posted by thurgond:

The bartender says she is not a good warrior.

The Bartender counts as Performer system wise and is therefore a combat thrall (even if you usually don't want to use them that way).

Originally posted by Chumbucket:

Originally posted by Judaspriester:

well... that sounds like bye bye to the special thrall workers and hunting for good workers the traditional way. somewhat sad.

The special thralls had anyways no special (better) abilities anymore; just the rarity to have them; But yes, now you can only find them by RNG running the spots afaik.

Aaaaalright... Then the wiki is outdated, since e.g. for the smelter it still says that a T4 purge one has +150% speed, while the "normal" T4 one has only +100%.
Well, new asgard isn't that far away from my current base, sounds like I have to do a few more purge runs on them and hope for the missing t4 thralls.

[Wufei Chang]

Yea the new purge currently has zero percent chance of having any crafters spawn unlike the old purge. Purge crafters still exist in the game, if you caught one with the old system.

[Akadai]

The barkeeper is the first of it's kind, being a crafter type that is also a type of follower. Funcom mentioned that they will be going further in this direction in the future, turning more types of crafting thralls as follower types. We're just seeing the very beginning of things to come

As an example they gave, instead of putting a smelter thrall in the smelter slot (like an inventory item), you'll be 'setting' them at the station instead (like the tavern).

I don't know what this means for the future of wheels of pain, or if both systems will co-exist. It's not something they've talked about yet (as far as I'm aware).

[Judaspriester]

Originally posted by Akadai:

I don't know what this means for the future of wheels of pain, or if both systems will co-exist. It's not something they've talked about yet (as far as I'm aware).

All in all good to know.
For the wheels of pain, I don't see any problems here right now. it could still produce "items" that needs to be placed once, in order to interact with them in the intended way. That's how it works right now with combat thralls. Therefore, at least from my understanding, there's nothing that's forced to change, in order to go further the bartender approach.

For the road to go itself, I got mixed feelings. especially with the new purge system, it makes sense. But on the other hand it will make moving from one base to another even harder, since you can't put all your crafter thralls into the horse and carry them over in one go.