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Thread: Looking for some advice
I just made novice CH. I've tamed a few pets, taught them commands, and sent them into battle (and watched them get slaughtered, hehe). I usually will go unarmed with a mob and then send in my pet to get a hit in before it goes down. Usually, the mob just turns on my pet and kills it in one shot 
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Is this how people lvl in CH in the early stages? Do people even bother with the fighting aspect at this point? I'm sorry my thoughts are so jumbled. Just woke up not too long ago. Any advice on lvling woudl be appreciated.
Give your critters a couple of days to mature and cut their first teeth. It may be annoying to get CH and not be able to use any pets in combat but that's going to be how it is. It was easier for me back in the day when I could tame just about anything at novice (Dewback and Giant Peko) and the babies were tough as nails compared to the newbie mobs. Even then they would still get whooped every now and then, though, so my main source of CH XP was TTR (Tame Train Release) and was all the way up to the point that I discovered that I could tame a baby kliknik and GCS and run them on a rampage through the newbie zone for poop-loads of CH XP without worrying about them being incapped. It was at that point that I realized why so many CHs had Cu Pas running around the newbie hunting grounds.
So since you're asking for advice, I'd say to TTR until your pets get big enough to survive a few fights with the newbie mobs (be sure to buy some pet stims if you're not a medic - no matter what some of the other CHs say, I will stand by pet stims. They aren't THAT expensive and have saved my pets from vitality loss a couple of times (I am guessing here (since I've only lost vitality on two pets once each) that if you store an incapped pet it is like a DB (because when I stored my incapped flap queen she lost vitality) and if you raise them with a stim they're ok 
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It all depends. If your creatures are babies, then you can expect them to be taking to Vit damage, but I reccomend that you let them mature a little bit in your data pad. Bring them out occasionally, if you bring them out every once in a while, they should grow faster. Also, it depends on the type of pet that you got. Try to get stronger pets, look at resists, ham and armor. Good luck.
Papp <nMe>
Flurry: MCH/Ranger 4/4/2/4
Hmm. In my opinion,pet stims shouldn't be used solely to heal pets.They're too expensive compared to normal stims (a a single stack of B stims cost about 2 - 3k, while regular stims cost a few hundred credits a stack on my server), and unless you have another money making profession built up before becoming a CH, or you have wealthy friends, cash may very well be an issue as novice. The only advantage pet stims have is that they heal the pet's mind pool. So if your pet loses a lot of mind in combat, you can save them from an incap with a pet stim, since you can't make them do tricks while in combat. Honestly though, the mind pool is very rarely an issue for any of my pets, and most of the time the mob dies fast enough for me to be able to heal the pet with regular stims during the fight and just making it do tricks afterwards to heal mind. Since the pet stimsalso heal the mind pool, they have less healing power on the other pools than normal stims, too.
As for the rest, the others have pretty much said it all. Wait for your pet to grow up before using it in combat. You get as much ch xp per kill with it being a baby as you would with it as adult (unless that was fixed in the meantime, I'm really not sure), so it's not worth using babies in combat.
Zoinks! 2-3k? Man, stim Bs cost 400 credits on my server in Theed. I buy Stim Cs for 2k and they heal around 1k per use.
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Hmm. In my opinion,pet stims shouldn't be used solely to heal pets.They're too expensive compared to normal stims (a a single stack of B stims cost about 2 - 3k, while regular stims cost a few hundred credits a stack on my server
Oh and, a few other things: I don't think pets don't lose vitality every time they're incapped. They only lose vitality if they get death blowed.
I also don't think it matters at all if you pull your pets out of your datapad or not, pet growth seems to have a bit of a random component, but other than that, I only seems to depend on how much you're logged on. From my experience, all the pet growth tips that have made it into a few CH guides such as 'calling your pets will make them grow faster', 'feeding your pets will make them grow faster' or 'using your pet in combat makes it grow faster' are myths.
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