Talk:Acquisitor/@comment-76.100.217.204-20141011164642

I returned to this game after a long hiatus. I created a sorcerer pawn after the first required 10 levels (as a mage), so his magic is high. He started as Scather only, then showed no primaries or secondaries. Eventually, mirroring my play style (aggressive ranger), he became a Scather (1)/Challenger (2).

Along the way, we hired a Medicant (1)/Acuisitor (2) mage. She was fantastic. She always healed during and immediately after battle, buffed before and during, collected after. I try to pick up everything I can, but when you're trying to get at least one of everything so you can enhance and rarify equipment, having an acquisitor in your party is hugely advantageous. If the pawn is small (she was one of those bitsy girls), then you take moments to parse stuff between your other pawns and you.

When we hit Bitterblack, I began intensive acquiring, bashing down all crates, checking all gather spots, taking everything. Within 1/2 a tour of Bitterblack's first level, my sorcerer was a Scather (1)/Acquisitor (2). I was aghast. Oh no!!!! Who'd hire my pawn??? (Never mind very few people are playing or hiring especially high level pawns.) I tried to purge the Aquisitor from him for the sake of getting hired, but it kept coming back.

Know what? It's a good thing. He scathes first, picks up after. I never miss a pickup, and I have at least one of every single beasty drop there is. I sell excess for gold to fund duplicating, enchancing and rarifying. Is that a problem? Heck no!