Bio Engineer Archive

When I was first in Beta, I wanted to bea BE, but they were really crappy and underdeveloped. On release, I went with architect instead, which I've enjoyed.

But now I'm considering going to BE because it sounds like they've really been improved and I'm sort of bored with architect. So here are my questions, asking for your opinions:

1) Is the profession fun yet?

2) How hard is it to get up to BE? I did a lot of grinding to get to master artisan and arch and don't want to do more than I have to just to start as BE.

3) Should I start a new character on a different server instead of giving up stuff like master artisan and architect on my established character, or just go for it?

4) Can you make any money as a BE currently?

5) What are these recent changes I'm hearing about? Can you make cool creatures not found in nature, or at least ones with weird stats? Like a Bearded Jax with Rancor DNA that could kick ass?

6) Colored pets??

7) Again, is it actually fun? I like crafting, and I like combining stuff to make new stuff that not everyone has.

Thanks!

I will try to answer your questions in order with my opinion. I have 3,3,3,3 with BE.

1. It is fun to a certain degree I think because of the problems.....I have more fun with my BH even with it's problems.

2. Well you are gonna have to grind away just to get there. You need to get Hunt 4 of Scout and Organic Chem 4 of Medic. That is the grind spot. After that all you do is grind for BE ( which I hate with a passion even though I have a macro that takes away a few clicks of the mouse to make something, wish I had a auto one ).

3. You have enough points to keep your master art and arch and still master BE. The reason to stay with this player and not make a new one will be revealed in the next answer.

4. As a BE I really have not made much money except during the mount craze of 03 and even then not much as I can not teach the command mount and I do not have the command transfer for BE's are limited. Chefs do not bother with the stuff we can add to their stuff and I have only had a few Tailors grab my stuff from me. Since our creatures aren't better than what a CH can tame in the wild there aren't too many people asking for our creatures. At least if you had the master artisan and architect you have a valuable source of money making available until they fix us better.

5. The pets we can make are able to be made with whatever dna we can get but it does nothing to it's stats really as we cannot adjust the experimentation too good yet. And many of the better pets that we can make are bugged.

6. Colored pets are being run in TC right now.

7. I am having fun but I hope they fix this stuff soon otherwise I will just go ahead and start the insane path of unlocking FS.

THanks for the info! My main char is also a politician, so she can't also be a BE wihtout dropping some stuff Anyway, it sounds like sort of fun, but not terribly useful yet, so maybe I'll wait to see how the next changes affect the class.