Bio Engineer Archive

I was checking out CH, and if they push the single attacking creture change to live, this will really hurt the future of our class. The suggested future changes that allow us to tailor the level of creatued creatures is practically mute if this goes live. I mean, who would care? They will jsut want the strongest single creature they can find. So much for fill in creatures.

I had been looking forward to the ability to make a variety of cretures and engineer the level to meet a client's particular need. He would come to me and say, "I need alvl 17 creatureto fill in a third spot in my pack. Make it have good kinetic resist and stun special if you can". So I woiuld set to work trying to engineer just the pet he wanted.

Well, that idea seems to be about to fly out the window.

I am not making sense of your post. You said the CH changes will hurt us but did not say how. I have read through it and it is a yawner. The only substantial changes are to lower the non CH CL to 10 that I can see. I am not too excited by the fact that they can now tame level 60 pets and we do not have anything above 50. That turns the statement that they made to me, to get me into the profession, a lie. That is, "the BE will make the strongest pets in the game". If they fold on that promise, that is one promise breaking they will regret. Does that sound like a threat? It is.

Read Thuderheart's 3rd CH update post, they aren't changing number of active pets or max pet levels.

I think he's trying to referr to the rare animals, but the fact is that we can sample as high as CL60 plus a bio-pet is rated equal to a higher level of the wild ones so we still come up trumps.

Krosc I think I know what you are worried about. That is people can only have one "creature" out at the time they will not choose a CL 10 animal, but will go for a droid or a faction pet instead.
Now I can se how that would be worrying, but if you read throe all that was written, you would have seen that it is just the beginning. They plan to add to the system later on... like faction rank will allow you to bring our more faction pets or what ever.
However, pets will have one advantage over faction pets and droids. They can be healed. When faction pets dies, then that is it, they will be gone forever. Droids cannot be healed with stimpack, and do not heal by them self over time.
Pets will still be able to be cured of al wounds by feeding them. They can be healed in combat by stim's and pet stim's, and when they die they just loose some vitality that can be partly regained by vitality medpacks.
Using a faction pet or droid to guard you, so it engages a enemy buying you time to run away will be to expensive.

"I am not too excited by the fact that they can now tame level 60 pets and we do not have anything above 50."

They didn't make this just available. CH's can tame lvl 70 pets actually, just that there are no tameable pets at that lvl. They say higher ones will be added. They have also said a lot of changes are coming to the cloning line. Why can't both happen?

IMO BEs have a horrible clone line right now. There are ok pets in the Rancor and Gurreck but that is a very limited number of people your selling to. I wouldn't really worry about rare pets since BE is still very broken. Can't really compare a broken profession to some proposed changes.