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Message Edited by Dodece on 11-23-2004 07:50 AM

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Dodece wrote:

Here is my problem when I find a BE shop 7 out of 9 times. The player dosent even sell ch pets. Then when I do find a shop selling pets its usually the same kind of pet level 25 and the like. I have found a shop that actually sold higher level pets, but unfortunately no GIant carrion spat. Infact no giant carrion spat on any vendor I have checked out.

Wow, 2 out of 9 that sell CH pets. That is pretty darn good relative to my experience. In my experience it's more like 2 out of 20 But anyhow, "giant carrion spat" is not something we can make. We can make "carrion spats" and we can color them red like a GCS, but it won't grow to the same size. The fact that it doesn't grow bigger is actually a bug in our crafting system, that is slated to be fixed in late 2010.

Needless to say I sent alot of tells. About getting a giant carrion spat made to specks. keep in mind I am a ch level 45 and the kinetic resist dosent really matter to me. Since I can just go tameing a prowling gurrek. 65 kinetic and the rest is 30 percent. So each time I find a BE I ask them about makeing me this pet. Saying level 40 to 45 giant carrion spat only looking for reasonable resists, and specials do not really matter to me.

Hmm, I don't follow the logic there. Yes, a prowling gurreck makes a pretty terrific pet. It has 65% kinetic resist but it has no armor. A bio pet can have 60% kinetic resist and light armor, which is the equivalent of an 80% unarmored resist. Also a bio pet can have far far higher HAM then a prowling gurreck at the same CL.

In the end all I got for asking the questions was a shopping list. Stuff like you need to bring me the dna. Which blew my mind if I had BE why would I be gathering dna for others when I can just work towards makeing the pet myself. I would expain that I was MBH/CH level 45 and couldnt actually get dna for them. Maybe I could help them by aquireing creature harvests, or forageing for eggs or milk. The most I got out of one of these guys is yeah we need meat. I spent hours trying to be helpful and offer to help the BEs make my frankenstein only to end the conversation the same way. They would talk to me for like fifteen minutes and then it was like they melted away.

Ah well, you are certainly not talking to a pet-making BE then. Probably some "chef alt BE" of which there are unfortunately an awful lot of. From the sounds of it you wouldn't want those guys making a pet anyway. They probably have sauce all over there fingers and would end up making you something plump and fat.

My question is how do I bribe a BE to make me such a custom order pet. As a group is there something you lust over. Some resource a non BE such as myself can get. Is there some item that BEs long to get that I might be able to get and trade.

If you really wanted to score huge points with a BE, I'd suggest trying to get some dathomir insect meat, egg, and/or fish (don't bother though unless you can secure some with good OQ, PE, and flavor). Aside from that, a big stack of any kind of meat that is very high in those three stats will impress. But if you are having to try too hard to impress, then I question whether the guy you are talking to is capable of making you a good pet anyhow. But then again I wasn't there to hear how this conversation of yours went. I've certainly turned my shared of rude or impatient, or overly demandingcustomers away unceremoniously, but I wouldn't want to draw any conclusions without hearing both sides of it.

Be pleasant, be patient (good pets take a lot of time to make), be appreciative, be specific about what you want, and if that's not enough, go to somebody else who will appreciate your business.

On sunrunner if anyone can stear me in the direction of a BE that actually is willing and able to do custom orders.

Try this. This is a stickied link at the top of our forum.

http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=bio-engineer&message.id=79030&highlight=sunrunner+vendor#M79030

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Message Edited by ArthurDentOnBria on 11-23-2004 08:35 AM

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Dodece wrote:

Asfor the 60 percent kinetic light armors the problem is that to get that 60 percent light armor atleast the BEs on my server end up sacraficeing next to everything else. Kind of looking forward towards the CU, and even a melee stacker has powerhammers, and pikes to fall back on.

The prowling gurrek. Atleast lets me get the nice kinetic resist, and dosent get gimped on the other stats. Kind of a judgement call. Since I am a MBH I can usually trounce anything thats fighting my pet. So again the hams count for very little.

Tradeoffs are made, yes, but I can't help but think that the "prowling gurreck configuration" is certainly not optimal, no matter how you are using the pet. Honestly, how many times were you thankful for the 30% cold resist? But I won't belabor the point.

Plus the BEs on my server have one last problem they have like no creature variety on their shelves, and that saddens me there is just something unfulfilling about beating down a graul mauler with a kaddu. Is the BE profession really limited in the skins it can use. Do you guys only get like ten to work with?

It's like anything else. CH's determine what there is demand for, and we stock according to demand. There are what, maybe 3 dozen different skins we can make? Some thing like that. But since speeders came out I haven't had a single request for a carrior spat in the last 12 months, so you wouldn't find a whole bunch of carrion spats on my vendor.

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Message Edited by ArthurDentOnBria on 11-23-2004 09:00 AM