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I'd been a CH long ago but never reached master before I dropped it, but I just recently decided to re-enter the profession. I had enough banked exp to get to 1/1/1/1 but sadly had no pets and began a search for a decent level 20 or less pet to begin with. I stumbled upon a BE shop that had a few underwhelming pets, to say the least, but did find one that appealed to me so I bought it. Now my question, do the stats on this pet seem reasonable for a level 17 creature, because I don't want to have my pet go poof without a backup in my datapad. Any thoughts would be nice, since I'm not a BE and have little idea how the experimentation process with pets goes.

Level 17 Gurrcat

Ham 8300+/6500+/6000+
No armor
Resistances - 50% KR, 10-15% on 3-4 random dmg types
Damage 150-160
No special attacks


It seems like a decent creature to level with, but I don't want to be hit when the bugged creatures are corrected, so I figured I'd ask the experts here in the BE forum for a general concensus.

Thanks a bunch

First off, no one knows what is or isn't legitimate since we haven't heard anything official that contains details. We do know that the BE lead considers the low CL high HAM pets "unbalanced." There was a nerf last week that was reversed -- probably temporarily.

My initial *guess* (and that's all it is) on this pet is that the HAM looks high for a CL 17 pet, but the lack of specials and relatively low damage compensate for it.

There just hasn't been enough time yet to discover exactly where the edge of the envelope is for legitimacy regarding BE pets. And once we get close to discovering the limits, they'll change it.

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Level 17 Gurrcat

Ham 8300+/6500+/6000+
No armor
Resistances - 50% KR, 10-15% on 3-4 random dmg types
Damage 150-160
No special attacks

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Compair stats to a wild desert razorback (these stats are off the top of my head, but they should be close)

Lv 24

HAM 7500

Resists 10 or 20%

Dammage 170-190

Some special

So your lv 17 pet looks somewhat comporable to a lv 24 pet. So its probably pretty close to the edge of valid. But as was said above, who knows.

Eede

your resist are what look high to me, thats not very special damage for a pet of that level.. its so weird who k nows, is it possible to make a pet with high resist but a 1k ham? Should be, or one with 9k ham and NO resist or crapppy resist. 9k ham doesnt make it = to a level 30 creature. Its so hard to tell, I wish they had proper testers to figure this stuff out and document it, but they broke it so who knows!

Thanks for the info guys, much appreciated. Since I'm using the pet to level up in CH, I was most focused on ham and resists...so damage was not as important, but I was concerned because I haven't really seen many with high ham and large kinetic resists. I assumed that, much like other crafting professions, you had the choice to experiment on damage, resists and ham among other things and that this one was expressly made to be a tank. Guess I'll just have to cross my fingers and hope he doesn't go poof.

Yes, it has vulnerabilities to a couple types of damage, but since my primary focus was ham and kinetic resistance I'm not sure which they are and since I'm at my office I can't check which. It does not have any special attacks or a ranged attack.

I'm wondering if it has any vulnerables. That could be another reason that it skates by with that much ham. My level 17 Kaadu's have about 6k of ham and 150 damage with 40% kinetic or less. with varied resists on the line. I do my best to keep vulnerables gone and they usually have two specials.