I now have The Scribe and been buying from him for over two weeks. Before patch, he would either not show up, or disappear after about three days. He is working great now. Granted, I still have him in the original settlement I sent him too, I haven't moved him around. Also, I didn't send him to Sanctuary, I hear this place is a buggy mess when sending people there. He's at a settlement and been running his armor shop fine. I also found Smiling Larry. He's still broken, and never shows up. Hope this helps some, but like me, always make a backup save just in case.

These named hireable traders spawns at certain locations, if you happens to be close to these locations, they will leave settlements and spawns elsewhere. You will then have problems to re hire them, because you already have done that. Smiling Larry and Doc Anderson still have problems yes.

Cheers,

-Klevs

Some of these random encounters of legendary merchants are just awful. What bethesda needs to do is to NOT make them random events and instead place them in a constant location and give them essential status cause it's simply broken

Stealth, very well said. Not sure why they all haven't been fixed yet.

Agree, these should have at least waypoints to follow and not spawn random. Essential yes. Dog seller could have hidden location where he keeps the dogs. To not have alot of dogs at the same time, it should be a timer..... one dog per week or something.

Cheers,

-Klevs

I wouldn't be surprised the reason why I haven't seen the scribe or weapons smith(larry was it?) is because suiciders kill them blowing up a mini-nuke in their face. It's stupid