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I am primarily a rifleman. I got CH so I could have a pet tank while I did the shooting. Can BE's make a creature that does very little to no damage with a very good armor and HAM? I want to be the one doing the damage, not have my pet do it for me. I just want him to be able to soak damage. Thanks for any replies.

armor seems to be directly related to damage...there are some low level mobs with armor 1...but they have such a low HAM that they would prolly not last long enough and give you alot of downtime

only creaturea BE can make with armor 2 is a gurreck and does a significant amount of the damage

soon you will not be able to calla gurreckout until master CH

until then your best bet is to have a CH friend toss you a Giant Sand Beetle...lowest hitting armor 2 critterI know of, but again..this will only last until the "big" patch comes out

hope this helps

I play as a BE/CH/Rifleman, so personally I'd recommend you bulk up on training for taming, first of all. As for a good tank to soak up damage, well, gurrecks are easily the best tanks, but we won't go there. I've found kusaks to be the next toughest pet survivability wise. Other pets like the brackeset have higher health, but lack armour and have lower resists I think. You'll be spending more down time waiting for them to heal, or spending more money on stim packs and/or ingredients.

So my two cents goes to the kusak.

No I think you may be wrong....and if you are correct then it is a bug I will be reporting it when I get home from work. I have noticed different amounts of EXP for the same type of creatures using pistols, carbines, and pistols. Exp is based on damage done by your weapon, traps, etc... The only thing I know you getmax exp from a single hit is a pet for CH exp.

I have also gone the BIO/CH/SNIPER (rifleman realy but i like the sound of snipper better)

Iplayed beta 3 and found this combo works wonders but has its draw backs

you need to get a pet that is arggo or it will run every time or run to you making your shot to hit harder. I use to use a dewback but he never could stand his ground he was constanly running so i would have to un-kneel and run as i shoot making it harder to hit. then i tryed a giant peko peko (naboo pet big bird) it was ok but being so big made it anoying to keep track of him so i put him on the side and picked up a plains hunter(naboo cat 9k ham big boy) he seems to stand his ground also pushes some mobs back as he hits. the only time he comes to me and i think its a bug that needs fixing is when he gets hungry or whants to play he runs up to me saying so bring the mob im trying to cap off to me. as a sniper u need the pets to stay at idea disst range so keep this in mind when choising your pet. also pets do not steal the ep no matter what you use if you shoot the mob 1 time you will get full ep in rifle. I usaly shoot it at least one time with mindshot then fallow with headshots till its dead.

the bio/ch/sniper is a strong comb and i hope u have fun with it like i do.

you can master ch and master bio and have novice rifleman and 1 lvl 1 skill and a lvl 2

im going to pick mindshot3 and headshot2 in the sniper tree no you cant master rifleman tree with what i have but your pretty strong in beta i was doing 1k mind bleeds every 10 sec 6 times and headshots close to 2k with a lazer rifle made from a master weaponsmith and befor thay made it where the mobs argoedyou when thay bleed i was soloing fumbaas with out pets

HAPPY HUNTING

if you got personal questions dont hesitate to call me ingame i dont mind to ask questions i like the conversations have fun.

Message Edited by Kevm on 07-30-2004 07:52 PM

Message Edited by Zadokk on 07-31-2004 01:55 AM

If you're not bothered about the poison attack it sounds like you just want an ancient graul