Bio Engineer Archive

First I should say, I love the changes to the profession. By far and away I think BE is the most challenging and open ended class in the game. The possibilities are endless. That said, I haven't sold a Pet Stim in 4 days. I have had a great business in these since I first started the profession. I know alot of people dot left behind with the ch changes, but my main money making form is gone. Is it just me or is the whole profession in recession?

Hmm. I am selling more pet stims then ever. Its been my experience that Creature Handlers are excited about the new BE pets they can use. Yeah it sucks for them that their old Graul Mauler combo is gimped now but I can make a pair fo level 35 Grauls, Gurreks, Rancors, or Durnis that have better stats then the old Graul Mauler with the exception of 15% of kinetic resistance. I can give them light armor, way more HAM, and better special attacks.

Well thats just what is surprising I had a great customer base. I have a friend in my guild that is master doctor. I have been making Pet Stim b's that heal for 900+. Maybe it is just Chilastra. Who knows maybe once the holos calm down things will get better. I seriously doubt to many peoples holo said CH.

I think there's also a huge influx of Bio-Engineering students...either dabblers here for the pet meds so they don't have to buy them from someone, or because it's 'cool' now. I think that's a big reason for the sharp decline in pet med sales that I've seen. It doesn't help that I'm not on a newbie planet anymore, either, but the city I'm in on Dantooine is huge, and I'm the only vendor on the map in the Pet Meds catagory.

Yeah, I haven't sold any in days. Have very HQ 900+ heals too. Been making big money on pets at least.

the nice things about pet stims is still that they cycle on a different timer so you can use both, including using one for yourself and one for the pet. Also, you can pet stim heal on a mount.

Away, I can't throw a rock in the air without it hitting a BE on the head anymore. I think we are the flavor of the month.

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Mattakar wrote:

Away, I can't throw a rock in the air without it hitting a BE on the head anymore. I think we are the flavor of the month.

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Yeah but the grind will kill most of them.

Pet stim sales definitely way down, no question.

As far as the grind killing em, well, apparently many of us would kill ourselves by requesting such things from the dev as less skill points to become BE and less xp to become master. Go figure, some people just don't see the big picture.

I think when I threw my rock yesterday it took out about 3 or 4 of em at the starport yesterday.

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VorantasBorotva wrote:

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Mattakar wrote:

Away, I can't throw a rock in the air without it hitting a BE on the head anymore. I think we are the flavor of the month.

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Yeah but the grind will kill most of them.

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I would say it has to be the non-CH pet nerf. The overall population of Non-CH's is a lot bigger than the CH's in the world. I junked my pets after the patch after I saw what they had become. I used a near useless probot now.

i am looking to buy 1k+ healing stims on KAURI send me an ingame email if you have any

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I have a hard time on Valcyn finding crates of pet b stims... sometimes I have to go to three differant planets and visit 6 differant planetsto find any

There are a lot less pets around now, pure and simple. You only have to hang around Coronet starport, AH or Bestinefor a few minutes to see that.

People don't want to bother with a pet that can only take 2-4 hits because pet management in a fight is then too much about being a medic (expensive) and it takes away from the real damage output (players damage a _lot_ more than anything we can make). People want a pet that helps them play their class, not takeawayfrom playing their class.

It's only going to get worse once the sub10's get "adjusted", so make a few good CH friends and start scaling operations back now, cause the DE upgrade soon will only make this worse for BE's IMO.

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meroc wrote:

There are a lot less pets around now, pure and simple. You only have to hang around Coronet starport, AH or Bestinefor a few minutes to see that.

People don't want to bother with a pet that can only take 2-4 hits because pet management in a fight is then too much about being a medic (expensive) and it takes away from the real damage output (players damage a _lot_ more than anything we can make). People want a pet that helps them play their class, not takeawayfrom playing their class.

It's only going to get worse once the sub10's get "adjusted", so make a few good CH friends and start scaling operations back now, cause the DE upgrade soon will only make this worse for BE's IMO.

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I agree with that, unless as a community, we as be's can make a viable under 10 pet. I have come close, but nothing great so far