Bio Engineer Archive

Is it just me or are there quite of few bothan/bio-engineer combinations? In particular, I've seen a lot of the masters I've met being bothans too (myself included). What gives?

I know for myself, I started out as a scout (and thus picked Bothan) but as I played, I decided to go up the bio skill tree. So that's how I came to be a Bothan Master Bio-Engineer.

Erais on Scylla

Bothans are few and far between on Ahazi, so no it's not universal. I bearly see any bothans let alone any bio-eng bothans.

Bothans get a camo bonus, which makes it easier to sneak up on DNA samples. That might have something to do with it.

I think it just has something to do with the road less traveled. I didn't know what profession I wanted to do when I started my bothan character. I didn't even look to see what the species bonuses were. Bothan sounded unusual and interesting so I took it, same with bio-engineer.

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Tal-N wrote:
Bothans are few and far between on Ahazi, so no it's not universal.

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Bothans are few and far between on all servers (at least that's what I gather). I wasn't really asking that.

Erais on Scylla

When I started mine, it was with the idea of being a BE/CH. The camo bonus was attractive to me, both for DNA and pet training. Also, I puropsely made him as short as possible. I thought it was going to be fun having this little guy running around with big pets. Guess what -- not! As soon as I could afford it, I foiund an image desinger to make me taller. Even then, with anything bigger than a medium size pet, you can't see enough of what's going on to control it properly.

Now my BE/CH is becoming a DOC/TKA. I have a Wookie CH on another server, and I am actully thinking about letting him take up BE if the new cloning changes ever come through.

I dont know about everyone else, I just wanted to be a short, fat guy. Bothan fit the mold pretty well.

Tilen
Scylla

hmm, I hear we make good diplomats too....

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Graeme wrote:

Bothans get a camo bonus, which makes it easier to sneak up on DNA samples. That might have something to do with it.

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The camo bonus is useless unless you're a Ranger. Camo used to apply to Scout, until they split it into separate Camo and Mask Scent bonuses. Unfortunately they neglected to give Bothans a +15 Mask Scent bonus to compensate for the loss. Sigh. Hopefully this'll get fixed soon.