Tip 1: when Ascending a Main & Hireling, choose Dealer Perk for your Hireling. why? well, Perks on the Main are shared with the Hireling, which is why you don’t need to put Perks on your Hireling, unless you want to put Perks on the Hireling. when it comes to the Dealer Perk, when put on the Main, Items sold from both the Main & Hireling are increased by 1000%! but if you put it on the Hireling, only the Hireling has access to Dealer, and that means you can put Fortunate and Accomplished for the first 2 Perks on the Main.
if you read this Thread, you know i put Dealer on my Hireling and thought i made a mistake. i recently found out about Dealer Perk working on Hireling, and have been paying attention as to whether this is a good thing. well, with just Dealer Perk on the Hireling, i am getting enough Gold to purchase Perks for both Characters. of course, i do need to be careful as to any Gold i might spend…
Tip 2: save your Pets. i learned this while Ascending my Wizard, but it really makes sense for Ascending a Main & Hireling together. when you choose a Perk for both Characters, they both go back to level 1, and you need low level Pets for both of them, since all the high level equipment and pets were unequipped and placed in your bags/inventory. if you go for all 6 Perks for both Characters, that is 14 low level Pets you need.
Tip 3: when your Main & Hireling are sent back to level 1 after choosing Perks, put WD+ & ED+ instead of WD% & ED% . on the level 1 equipment, you will get more Dmg from the + than from the % affixes. normally, anyone who Ascends for Perks should have 3 Sets of Ascending Gears, level 1, 40, and 100. the level 1 gets you to level 20, where you can equip the level 40, which gets you to level 50, where you can now equip the level 100 gears. basically, the level 1 equipment/weapons work a lot like your level 20 equipment in the battle arena, except the values are near minimum.
the reason i added Tip 3 is because i only have the level 1 & 100 gears with mostly Myth Stones and a few Epic Affixes, to save time and resources. but because the level 1 gears started to slow down my experience gains from killing monsters slower the closer i got to level 50, i realized i needed to increase my Dmg somehow.
in addition to this, with the increased Dmg of the level 1 gears, i can go straight to floor 105 M3 instead of working my way up the lower floors. my level 1 gears have even killed Mythic Monsters on this floor, but i am careful of which Map Affixes i allow, so that i don’t get stuck with a monster impossible to kill.
8 more levels for the Fourth Perk. going for Enshrined for the extra Shrine. this means more loot, more Epic Shrine Guardians for more Experience. and of course, my Hireling already has Dealer Perk!!!