Bio Engineer Archive
Thread: Just a really quick question...
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Nell2ThaIzzay
Mon Nov 08, 2004 2:28 pm
#1
How good can I be with just the "Clone Engineering" tree?
I know I wouldn't be able to make the best pets, but can the basic pets in that tree be good still?
I ask, because I've always been interested in taking Bio-Engineer, but with everything elseI am taking, I'd already have to drop one profession, and then I'd only have enough skill points for the one tree.
ArthurDentOnBria
Mon Nov 08, 2004 2:37 pm
#2
With only the clone tree, you'd be able to make a wide variety of pets all with stats similar to durni's and gubbers. That's literally all you'd be able to do. If you want to make pets that are useful in hunting, you really need dna sampling and bio engineering (experimentation) skills. I don't think you could make effective pets with less than 0-0-4-4.
Nell2ThaIzzay wrote:
How good can I be with just the "Clone Engineering" tree?
I know I wouldn't be able to make the best pets, but can the basic pets in that tree be good still?
I ask, because I've always been interested in taking Bio-Engineer, but with everything elseI am taking, I'd already have to drop one profession, and then I'd only have enough skill points for the one tree.
Message Edited by ArthurDentOnBria on 11-08-2004 01:40 PM
Zadokk
Mon Nov 08, 2004 2:43 pm
#3
Back when I was doing BE for the first time I got 2xxx quickly just so I could make spats and gurrcats - which are quite popular non-ch pets and then did the rest of the trees. It all depends on how you plan to do it. If you're gonna sit down and grind everything out in a day then dont bother with it till last. If you're gonna do it slowly and learn the ways of making BE pet making then I would get a couple of boxes while improving your DNA skill tree, then focus on stopping criticals by doing xxx4. Then finish of clone enginering then tissues last. Of course if you've got all the res and you are just grinding then do x3xx (BSNs),then x3x4, 43x4 then 44x4, then master it.
Nell2ThaIzzay
Tue Nov 09, 2004 2:50 am
#4
Well the thing is, unfortunatley with my other main professions that I want to master (Droid Engineer, Creature Handler), I wouldn't be able to get more than1 tree in Bio-Engineer. Currently, I'm using that 1 tree's worth of skills to go into Pistoleer. But Bio-Engineer has also been another profession that I always thought would be pretty cool. But if I were to drop Pistoleer to take it, I'd only be able to take 1 tree. And as I look at the other trees, they would probably all be pointless w/o the Clone Engineering tree, I'm just wondering if the Clone Engineering tree is pointless w/o the other trees. According to the 1st reply, it is. Which sucks, cuz even if my pets would suck compared to other BE's, I'd seriously consider giving up Pistoleer for BE if I could make somedecent pets.
Thanks for the replies.
NancyJ
Tue Nov 09, 2004 7:08 am
#5
If you can only take 1 tree in BE clone engineering would be the worst to choose, its just skins, so you might be able to make almost the full range in terms of appearance but they'd be furniture and novelty pets.
If you want to make semi-decent non-ch pets I woul;d recommend taking a little bit of experimentation and a little bit of DNA sampling.
IMO your best bet would be to team up with another BE, pay them to DNA sample for you and take the experimentation line yourself, you could always give them the templates and pay them to put them into the skins.
Nell2ThaIzzay
Wed Nov 10, 2004 2:23 am
#6
Well, it makes sense.
After all, Droid Engineering, getting just the Blueprints tree is pointless, because you'd have a bunch of droids that could do nothing. You need the other trees that give you the modules to put into the droids to give them a purpose. I was looking for CH pets tho, since I am a CH, pets that I could use in combat. I was hoping I could get some effectiveness, but of course nothing close to top of the line. But when it's put into perspective with a class I do have (DE), it makes perfect sense.
Thanks for the replies. Appreciate it.
Zadokk
Wed Nov 10, 2004 4:02 am
#7
Really - what we are saying is that BE is not really a dabblers profession because of its nature. For instance, it would be silly dabbling in something like Weaponsmith or Armoursmith because you can very easily just go out and buy something that's a lot better than yours. A template with 0040 BE is really the only one that has a chance of standing on its own feet because it allows you to sample things like Mereks. However, you have a very large risk of critical failure andabout 5 skins to choose from. On the plus side it does let you make level 56 uber durnis so its not all bad ^_^
Nell2ThaIzzay
Wed Nov 10, 2004 12:54 pm
#8
Uber durnis, HA! That in itself might be worth it.
"YOU GOT PWN3D BY A DURNI! N00B3D!"
lol
Spazzers
Thu Nov 11, 2004 1:29 am
#9
Unless you had someone else you could buy DNA from just having the clone tree would be pointless. You'd be making all the animals out of worrt and rill DNA, and not very good quality DNA at that. You would not be able to experiment on your animals either so you would never make the high end animals creature handlers value.
Zadokk
Thu Nov 11, 2004 1:55 am
#10
Spazzers wrote:
Unless you had someone else you could buy DNA from just having the clone tree would be pointless. You'd be making all the animals out of worrt and rill DNA, and not very good quality DNA at that. You would not be able to experiment on your animals either so you would never make the high end animals creature handlers value.
lol i forgot about experimentation - really, you would needat least one or two boxes in the experimentation tree so you can at least get something that is tank worthy. you don't need experimentation to get a large resist to stick but without experimentation, ur pets HAM is prolly only gonna be about 25-50% of what it should be.
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