Bio Engineer Archive
Thread: Getting to know you and your profession!
Seiryuu wrote:
The most pressing issue is that Creature Handler was "balanced" due to the Creature Balance, yet the rest of the balance never occurred.
Nothing has been done to compensate handlers in the 11 months since that happened and it will be at least half a year before the Combat Update does get pushed through. It has killed the profession and driven myself and many long-time handlers to quit in disappointment. Moral around here is abysmal because of all these things.
I have no need to add anything. Seiryuu nailed it in one.
My biggest annoyance is DoT damage not counting towards looting rights
. I often go with friends to try and kill high level mobs and end up being outdamaged by another group even tho the Krayt (for example) has more than half wounds This is the biggest thing I can think of now but I'll post later when my brain gets going
The Jedi Powers Tree has some abilities called Animal Calm, and Animal Attack. These literally stop an animal from attacking the Jedi, or make the animal attack the Jedi's target. This does work on CH's pets. I don't think it should, and many feel the same. If this is kept in, then to be fair, Jedi Caber Block should return whatever damage the shooter would have done to the Jedi, back at the shooter.
Storage Space. This isnt strictly CH, but maybe allow users to have 100 space stored on the server, and then an unlimited number of waypoints stored on their harddrive. Droids/Creatures/Vehicles would still take up the 100 on the server. And then what I'm getting at, is increase the number of pets we can store. As it is, it's impossible for a MCH to have all the rare/uncommon pets (the "content" we have).
If you look here you will see that while our CL cap is 70, we have only 5 Creatures over 50 available to us, and all of them are varying degrees of rare.
A CH quest along the lines of the RIS armor quest to tame a rare creature would be cool. Some have even thought about a one-time use "Train Adult" tool, or a "Train Untamable" tool for training an adult creature, or a creature who ordinarily isn't tamable (although within our CL).
Mountable Rancors!
I realize some of these are actually feature requests, but I'm sure some more jaded CH's will inform you of all the bugs we've got
Seiryuu wrote:
The most pressing issue is that Creature Handler was "balanced" due to the Creature Balance, yet the rest of the balance never occurred.
Nothing has been done to compensate handlers in the 11 months since that happened and it will be at least half a year before the Combat Update does get pushed through. It has killed the profession and driven myself and many long-time handlers to quit in disappointment. Moral around here is abysmal because of all these things.
- Cowardly Pet: This is where the pet keeps trying to find that "ideal" range to form an attack. This is most commonly found when 2 animals of 2 greatly distinct sizes go at it. My Greater Sludge Panther goes to attack a Turton on Talus. He keeps running because he keeps having to find that "ideal" range.
- Pet Vitality in PvP: This is an issue that has been attempted be fixed 3 times and unfortunatly, all three times have been failures.
- Mounts not attacking: In some cases mounts, after you dismount, will not listen to commands.
3) We have no "nitch" persay in the game, or in the GCW. Our skills in the begining allowed us not only for combat aid, but we were also to supply pets to others. The Non-creature Handler level was higher then, so we had more pets that could help out to sell. Since it was lowered to level 10, there is no pets that can be of use to others, that coupled with the fact that a Bio Engineer can develop stronger and tougher pets than we can find in the wild, there is no need to hunt down a creature handler for a good "sidekick." Also, when mounts were implemented, we found another nitch that we were able to use, transportation, unfortuantly for us, Master Artisans were given the ability to make swoops, speeder bikes and land speeders. There is no longer need for a mount unless you are a roleplayer or you like using mounts, because:
- Mounts are much slower than vehicles, so you will slow the party down if you in it.
- It is more economical to just purchase a crate of swoops with todays ability to hunt.
Our only use now is to help other gain higher end missions for them to get a better pay out or more XP, or to help a person obtain the healing experiance for Medic, Doctor or Comat Medic by spamming trick 1 or trick 2. We have been able to make our own content by hunting rares, but that is a solo act with in itself, and adding nothing to benefit other professions, where as most other professions are in some way or another tied to each other.
4) Communication would be one of my biggest issues as well. I understand that the Creature Handler forum can be filled with volitile issue. I will be the first to admit that I can be a little....uh....unevened temper at times. We have on many occasions extened an offer to the development team, and no reply. Untill your thread where you said hello to us, we saw no red names here in a long long time, yet they show up on other forums constantly. So yes, many of us have become a bit bittered, because we hear nothing, not even a word to let us know the Developers are listening. It becomes a bit un-nerving.I know there is currently a thread out right now extending an offer for both you and Thunterheart to join a hunting party on Valcyn to demonstrate some of these issues listed above, and we have yet to receive an answer either positive or negative.
Those are my list of issues, I have more, but don't want to bog you down with too much, and I would not want to take the oprotunity away from anyone else that wish to speak up.
Again, welcome to the creature handler forums Tiggs, and thanks.
1. Fix the broken base flo animations
2. Musicians can /startband and /stopband. Grant dancers the equivalent commands so we can do not have to rely on countdown cues and pray that the chat is with us
3. Keep a transition flo in each dance but provide us with 7 unique flos per dance (exotics especially are a joke right now
).Thank you for taking the time to get to know us, I hope to see you posting replies on this forum so that we can be confident you are listening rather than placating us.
Message Edited by Gyorgy on 10-11-2004 01:11 PM
PS I know that Tiggs doesn't necessarily want links to other threads but my own top 10 list can be found here.
Message Edited by Barafu on 10-11-2004 03:28 PM