Hirelings!

I'm not sure why but this made me laugh. In the blacksmithing tree, the third passive skill is "Miner Hireling" and is described as:

• Tier 1: A miner hireling will send you ore and possibly other items every day.
• Tier 2: A miner hireling will send you more ore and possibly better items every day.
• Tier 3: A miner hireling will send you even more ore and possibly even better items twice a day!

It looks like Blacksmithing, Clothing, Woodworking, and Provisioning all have a hireling, though the description on the Cooking hireling specifically refers to the hireling being used when you go offline.

It'll be interesting to see if they send enough mats to make it worth putting skill points into them. Also, I wonder if they keep sending mats if you're offline for an extended period. If you go on vacation for a week, will you come back to 14 deliveries from your hireling (assuming you put 3 points into it)?

PS: I'm pulling this info from the calculators on esohead.com.

Generally speaking, the hireling is worth it. Now if you're trying to do 3 or 4 crafts on one character, you won't be rushing to get all the hireling levels in short order. Additionally, when you receive mail from your hireling, it's generally worth reading, as well as providing you stuff.

Good to know, thanks Malthol. Do you know if all hirelings are triggered by going offline? Only the description for the Provisioning hireling says that it is triggered "when you go offline." 

From my limited exposure to the crafting system I like it.  Can't wait to dive deeper into it when the game releases. 

"It'll be interesting to see if they send enough mats to make it worth putting skill points into them. Also, I wonder if they keep sending mats if you're offline for an extended period. If you go on vacation for a week, will you come back to 14 deliveries from your hireling (assuming you put 3 points into it)?"

I do not know for sure but my assumption would be it triggers when you go offline.  It would require you to be online to then go offline again to trigger the hireling.  I doubt it would keep going if you were offline 7 days etc.  But that isn't fair to those who play 24/7 (I am not one of them but I know they are out there :-) )

@Malthol Thanks for the info, good news indeed !