Bio Engineer Archive
Thread: How do I make these pets? BE lady needs help!
Here's a resource I think a lot of us use, the SWGCreatures DNA Lab:It seems to me like you bit off a little more than you can chew with this order. You learn as much from failure as you do from success, so you just need to keep at it. It does help when you don't have a very large and challenging order hanging over your head however. Perhaps if you posted some of the things you tried, that didn't work, we could give you more specific help.
Anyway, here are some comments on your order:
1-2. For pets in this CL range, I'd recommend not trying to get too fancy about it. If a customer approached me with those requirements (and they do) I would turn them away. There are so few creatures we can sample in that range, that there really isn't much opportunity to get too fancy about specials, and resists and so forth. The way I do it is to present the customer with a couple "take-it-or-leave-it" options at CL 70ish, and then let them decide if that meets their needs or not. At lower levels, go for it, knock yourself out with customization possibilities, but not in this CL range.
I'd advise getting yourself some mutant rancor dna, and some other high level dna that may compliment it (things like merek harvester, bark mite burrower, frenzied graul, and young malkoloc plainswalker etc) and experiment with different combinations. Be conservative, start with 2 MR dna samples, and 3 other types of samples, don't experiment fully, and see where that takes you, then refine it. There is a good thread on this here
3. This one is a lot more do-able, but still not completely reasonable. At CL 35 you pretty much have to sacrifice either damage, or armor, or energy resists. If the customer wants all three, then what they want is a CL50+ creature, and it's up to you to tell them that. Make them tell you which of those they are willing to sacrifice to get it down to CL 35.
Armor, high kinetic, high energy narrows down the creatures you can use a lot. Try a search on www.swgcreatures.com with criteria like:
light armor >40% kinetic >30% energy < CL 75
And you'll see that the list of creatures you have to choose from is pretty small. My main advise is to avoid using any creatures with energy vulnerability in your combine, and don't use all of your experimentation points when experimenting, because you'll likely be using dna from creatures 20-30 CL's higher than the one you are making at CL 35. You may get some ideas here and here.
4. There is really only one "technique" to use when making a pet like this, and it involves stacking vulnerabilities against a merek harvester base. There's really not much to it, except that CL 19 is in the low range to get armor. Make sure you give your customer some grief for insisting on an armored CL 19 and charge them appropriately for it, lol. Here is a thread you'll find useful.
