Hi,
I play rogue as main and wizard as hireling.
I recently created my first mythic item, the hunter ring on the wizard. I expected shrines to spawn 1-3 epic monsters when I had the wizard hireling in the game and I played with rogue as the main. Only… nothing happens. However if I play wizard as the main and rogue as the hireling, the shrines do spawn the 1-3 epic monsters.
Do mythics only work on the main character? Or is it a bug? If it works as intended, I think the codex could be updated to better explain this “feature”. Those mythics are very expensive to craft and it’s annoying not knowing the full implications until after you crafted an item.
I had considered crafting 2x hunter ring, one for main and hireling, and I could accept if spawning 2-6 epics was unintended, however, you could just have a cap of 3 epics, which would still allow the hireling to have the ring.
As a 1.8 player, I find it next to impossible to aim for the crystal items, which seems easily available to the 1.7 players. As such, I see no other alternative than to shoot for the eternal items and hope you get lucky. My strategy is this:
Launch lvl 200 map at highest playable difficulty (i can do EP7), rush to the shrine, spawn epics, kill epics, return to main screen and repeat until you have killed 499 epics and 9 legends. Then open a highlevel legend map and kill the shrine epic there and kill the mythic monster.
To avoid accidentally killing epic nr 500 in the lvl 200 map, I rush past the shrine and just kill enslaver/ember when at 496-498. The goal is to control just killing nr 499 and not be dependent on a cartographer, which is often frozen due to the stupid bug. The shrine guardians are never frozen, so you can always get nr 500 in the legend map.
To speed up the process in getting to the 499 epics in the lvl 200 map, I have tried getting main character killed after killing the epics, instead of returning to main screen, since that way you can restart map and get a new one. It can speed up the farming process, however sometimes my hireling protects me from the monsters, and it ends up taking longer than just going to main screen.
Any tips or advice to the above?