Bio Engineer Archive
Thread: CH's ready to tar and feather.
GreenStok wrote:
Since the big CH nerf, many left the profession and the remaining ones just wanna tame pets.
http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=creature_handler&message.id=154332
Check this out, the CH's that have remained in the profession apparently think their sole purpose in the game is to tame pets... This post got 9 pages of posts so far and is still raging.
They feel the must tame pets, but don't know why. They do not post about the mission they do with their pets. I predict that at some point the game will throw them a bone. I hopethey give them apurpose rather than taking the bone from us.
I would be fine with things if...
- The super rare tameable BS that we were given were given a reason to be so rare.
- If CH's were actually able to have a stable for pets, something nice and interesting for people to look at.
- If the devs could figure out what we are and give us our place, because we really don't have one.
- If everything wrong with this game didn't oddly revolve around the Creature Handler Profession.
GreenStok wrote:
Since the big CH nerf, many left the profession and the remaining ones just wanna tame pets.
Check this out, the CH's that have remained in the profession apparently think their sole purpose in the game is to tame pets...
Not all of the CHs feel that way... but yeah there are a handfull of pretty vocal "taming purists".
I think CH profession could use some fixing, but do not agree with calling for nerfs on one profession to fix another.
Anyway, just wanted to post that not every CH is out to get the BE. 
Cressida
hananoken wrote:
**edit**? When did I start agreeing with Arthur?
It's not that the "Taming Purist" CHs are anti-BE, it's just that there is more skill and pride in being able to find your pet out in the wild.
While BEs do serve the same function for CHs as Weaponsmiths do for all combat profs, the ability for a CH to get his or her "weapon" in the wild is something that makes them unique.
It's a symbol of accomplishment more than a sign of boycott against BEs, but that's just an ex-MCH's opinion. 
RonninOtnemem wrote:
It's not that the "Taming Purist" CHs are anti-BE, it's just that there is more skill and pride in being able to find your pet out in the wild.
While BEs do serve the same function for CHs as Weaponsmiths do for all combat profs, the ability for a CH to get his or her "weapon" in the wild is something that makes them unique.
It's a symbol of accomplishment more than a sign of boycott against BEs, but that's just an ex-MCH's opinion.
Yeah and there isn't anything wrong with wanting to tame decent wild pets... but people should not be asking for a nerf of one profession to get another improved.
I don't think the BEs would be hurt if there were a few wild rare pets that were better than what is out there now... but CHs should not be asking for ways of downgrading BE in the process.
Cressida
Shaylin wrote:
RonninOtnemem wrote:
It's not that the "Taming Purist" CHs are anti-BE, it's just that there is more skill and pride in being able to find your pet out in the wild.
While BEs do serve the same function for CHs as Weaponsmiths do for all combat profs, the ability for a CH to get his or her "weapon" in the wild is something that makes them unique.
It's a symbol of accomplishment more than a sign of boycott against BEs, but that's just an ex-MCH's opinion.
Yeah and there isn't anything wrong with wanting to tame decent wild pets... but people should not be asking for a nerf of one profession to get another improved.
I don't think the BEs would be hurt if there were a few wild rare pets that were better than what is out there now... but CHs should not be asking for ways of downgrading BE in the process.
Cressida
Really, I don't see what the whole "taming is so much fun and requires so much skill" thing is about. I can hit the Tame button as fast as the next guy, and I can even laugh at the corny "Don't bite me" taming dialog for a little bit. But really, if it's about exploration, take a nice walk around, or a ride on your mount (bio-engineered, of course
), or break out the speeder and go see the cool stuff and pretty landscape this game has to offer. The exploration/taming thing with pets makes no sense to me, and I was a CH for a long time myself. The complaint about bio-engineers making head-and-shoulders-better-than-wild pets still comes down to the debate about loot weaponry being worse than crafted weaponry. I don't mean this as a shot at creature handlers (like I said, I was one for a long time myself), but you guys really are complaining baselessly, and, in my opinion, pointlessly.
Message Edited by Delbon_Clinion on 02-12-2004 01:41 AM
Message Edited by Delbon_Clinion on 02-12-2004 02:01 AM
Matsubaa wrote:
BE's are not a one-trick pony. Making pets for CH is not the only thing you do. Taming and training pets *is* the only thing we do. The fun has been sucked out of the stand-out feature of our profession. Now we're at best a decent crowd control in PvE and at worst a curiousity.