Should I hire? (in General)

Hi, I was wondering whether I should hire a 4th minion and make it a wall. I'm finding it hard to last long versus FB mages because my minions have low HP.

My character: Revelation II

Should I hire?

You could probably train a lot more xp into HP, seeing as you're nuking opposing tanks' ST and DX, so they wont hit you much or hard. Plus your ToA gives enough ST and DX.

So I'd say you don't really need to. You could also hire a PL/AS enchanter though, which is a cheaper alternative.

Depends on how big you want your MPR to be, I suppose. I wouldn't suggest hiring now, of course, but waiting until later to get the most MPR for your buck....but if you want your strategy to be better against mages now, then sure. =)

Just another question: Should I train evasion on the wall since I've got 3 AoI which could direct physical damages to the wall?

Well, it'd get penalised heaps. You probably want to decide if you want it to be an AC wall or an Evasion wall, training 1/2 Eva and 1/2 HP is a decent evasion.

I'm not too worried about the penalty since I'm equipping an AoF on it so I'm getting a bonus to the evasion instead. I just trained 10% into evasion and the rest to HP. Seems to be doing its job well. May consider training strength on it once the evasion and HP reach decent levels. Thanks guys!

When I had/used 3 AOI's to divert all damage to my heavy AC wall, i did learn evasion. 122k learned levels gives 98k or so with all the armor penalties. This gives a (40) effect, which did help my wall take one less hit almost every other round.

For the xp cost, I personally think evasion, even on a heavy AC wall, is not a bad idea.

But why are you using AOIs on your middle 2 minions? They do nothing and can easily be a kill slot x2 for you.

Yeah, I realised putting the AoI made my tank became the target when the wall died. Removed them and that should do the trick.