Bio Engineer Archive
Thread: Pet Special Attacks
spacedoggys
Fri Jan 16, 2004 3:23 pm
#27
Vertexon wrote:
I think most people agree that this is a bug. I'll let you know as soon as I hear anything from the Devs on it.
Thank you
Cyluru
Fri Jan 16, 2004 6:58 pm
#28
yes thanks vert...anyways my pet randomly will kd or dizzy or disease the opponent...so its basically by chance for me now...hopefully this can be fixed soon...
theGauch0
Wed May 12, 2004 11:07 pm
#29
Anybody know where there is a glossary of all the pet special attacks by name and what they do? (For instance, what does crippling strike do? And is the only difference between strong disease and plague strike the amount of disease, or is plague strike something more specific?)
theGauch0
Thu May 13, 2004 9:47 pm
#30
swgcreatures.com doesn't have this info, although I wish it did
ZonJaiNezBA
Fri May 14, 2004 12:07 am
#31
Try swgcreatures.com they have various search options.
Sorry I can't be more help.
Devero
Fri May 14, 2004 12:21 am
#32
Crippling Strike is Posture Down. great with dizzy combo.
swgcreatures is a good place for info.
ohmsUK
Fri May 14, 2004 1:56 am
#33
If you use the advanced search on swgcreatures.com, there is a drop down list with all the special attacks. It doesn't say what they do but you should be able to work most of them out.
Yny
Wed Jun 16, 2004 11:42 am
#34
Yay!! I finally got to test it out.. A pet's knockdown move DOES work. I does a posture down attack. It works in PvP AND it works in PvE. This is good since so many people on a hunt will be spamming knockdown shots, the posture down has a seperate timer. The reason a lot of people don't notice their pet specials working is because for some darn reason when a MCH (or 4/x/x/x CH) teaches special commands... they don't match up.
When examining the pet, the special attack that is show in the special1 slot will, the special 2 command will work for it. Try this for yourself. I have a lvl 24 10K ham, AR0 60% kin gurreck withKD and cripple as the specials.I taught special 1 (KD) and special 2 (Cripple) the way it is shown in the CH tree and on the pet. Whenever I gave the KD command I noticed nothing. However when I did the Cripple command the good old +Posture Down Attack+ would up up over the pet's head and the animal would be postured down. If you are having problems with your KD specials.. try training them backwards.
ZonJaiNezBA
Wed Jun 16, 2004 1:26 pm
#35
Seiryuu wrote:
I could, but then he will just be dizzy/cripple instead of cripple/dizzy. And it might confuse the poor guy.
Meplorium
Wed Jun 16, 2004 2:30 pm
#36
Knockdown seems to work on NPCs like meatlumps, it doesn't have a visual effect on creatures like a players knockdown does. There is no timer on cripple and dizzy works well too.
All depends what you are going to fight and what specials you personally have as to what specials are desirable.
ArthurDentOnBria
Wed Jun 16, 2004 4:26 pm
#37
In last weeks 19 questions (and 1-2 answers)TH stated (hey, no snickering!) that dizzy doesn't do anything against animals. This was specifically in reference to a brawler special, but it likely applies to pets as well. I know that the rangers are all upset over it cause their big impressive trap that they spend 14 skill points to get does a dizzy and doesn't work against humanoids, lol. Anyway, sounds like avoid the dizzy special at all costs on pets unless it's meant for PVP.
Brawler
Dizzy currently only works on NPCs and PCs. Using dizzy on any creature results in nothing more than than the icon appearing beside the creature's name. Is it intended that dizzy not work on creatures and is working as designed? If it is working correctly, what can we expect to make this ability useful against creatures?
Dizzy is meant for PC’s and NPC’s and not creatures.There is a slight effect, but it is minimal.This is definitely a topic we can discuss further in our upcoming Combat Balance focus threads.
Message Edited by ArthurDentOnBria on 06-16-2004 04:30 PM
GMANHNC
Wed Jun 16, 2004 4:28 pm
#38
Meplorium wrote:Knockdown seems to work on NPCs like meatlumps, it doesn't have a visual effect on creatures like a players knockdown does. There is no timer on cripple and dizzy works well too.All depends what you are going to fight and what specials you personally have as to what specials are desirable.
So you deny that it the order in which you train your pets has any bearing what-so-ever on the effectivness of said attacks?
Kevie
Wed Jun 16, 2004 6:07 pm
#39
ZonJaiNezBA wrote:
I thought Cripple was a posture down attack.
it is lol