Carbineer Archive

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The only reply the devs had about nerfing nonCH pets to level 10 was:

What will happen to 'legacy' pets that are currently CL 10-15?

"Unfortunately, most of these pets will be stuck in your datapad. You won't be able to call them or trade them (unless they know the transfer command), because they are higher level than 10. Your only option will be to destroy the PCD."

In other words - they ignored all feedback from nonCH players who enjoy using up to CL15 nonCH pets and didn't want to see the CL dropped down to 10.

As a Master Carbineer I know how much my rock beetle/mountain krevol/kahmurra etc helped me to reach master, and are *still* useful as I grind out faction missions. I could not do this solo without my nonCH pet. As a Carbineer I have basically no defense, as I am sure you folks will will notice as fellow carbineers. Even with Master Doctor as my other profession and buffed I still get incapped from headshots quickly if the bug does not distract white/blue cons.

I am talking having to deal with 3-4 mobs at once. Single mobs are fine without a pet - but just how often does that happen? Not very often unfortunately.

So, if you care about them nerfing your nonCH pet(s), please join the discussion. basically, in part 3 of their response, they backpedal on the changes to CH, making the only real changes a NonCH and faction pet/droid nerf for the rest of us. Of course, the CHs are out in force slapping SOE on the back (for nerfing nonCH and not them) so get some feedback up or this is as good as done.

Sigh. Well, they better flippin' reassess the non-CH world and make us able to do **edit** without a tankable pet. My mountain krevol is the only reason I'm able to do much of anything in this world. It sure as hell ain't my scattershots or fullautos dropping things (other than myself) quickly that's gonna let me survive my missions if stuff is actually pursuing me.

Nevermind the idea of ever using fullautoarea in combat again -- in PvP it just auto-targets you in a bunch of ranged combatant's attack boxes, in PvE it aggros everything, while sometimes damaging them. No thank you.

Of course, I'd gladly trade my mountain krevol for a more in-character faction pet of similar quality -- unfortunately, stormtroopers aren't exactly meant to take beatings. I'm gonna miss my krevol's phenominal melee resistance.

Yes- personally I'd rather be more self-sufficient and NOT NEED a pet at Master Carbineer level - double master that is with Doctor. It's embarassing to say the least to be this reliant on a CL14 pet to tank my cl25 missions for me.

The problem is they are just nullifying our tanks and not giving us anything to replace it - there have been hints of a beefed up probot - but whether I hide behind a beetle or a robot... it's the same principle! We'll still be dead in a few hits and be forced to hide behind a tank pet.

What *really* gets my goat is who do they consult about doing this? The CH's. Of *course* they want to see nonCH pets nerfed as it steals their thunder. They happily one starred anyone who has spoken out against lowering nonCH pet levels in that thread already.

I want the timer removed from posture changes and knockdowns...

That's how a gunman should hunt...pin the targetdown and then kill it.

Yep - looks like I will be retiring my third character until carbineer gets fixed if they axe the nonCH pets like they are saying.

I am really getting tired of spending months getting a character to master level and then have the game mechanics change in a huge way.

Makes any progress pointless... Here's to hoping they fix carbineer soon so we don't need pets at all!

At least they boosted TKA after the nerfs to knockdown and more is to come, guess I can take him out of storage now...

i like all the changes, too bad it wasn't dome earlier.

Must be a bunch of CHes in the carbine forum - the 1-star disease is spreading =)

Seriously, I don't see how CHes can lie to themselves that they aren't cackling with glee as everybody who isn't a CH in the game is made weaker at the same time as they are made stronger.

One starring folks who write the truth won't save you from the nerf you *will* get a few months down the road when it becomes clear how much the devs are screwing the general balance of CHes vs nonCHes in the upcoming patches.

You're greedy, and will have nobody to blame but yourselves when you're nerfed back to the stone age after a few months of uberdom.

Sure, since day one I have known CH combined with most any class makes for a powerful combo. Have I ever cried nerf? Hell no. So quit pissing and moaning and getting nonCHes nerfed.

**edit** wars baby, only the weak win with pets!

I never wanted a pet. I hate the ones I use now. They get stuck all the time, do strange things that end up getting me killed, and a pain to deal with.

SOE can feel free to nerf my ch abilities and my pet just as soon as they fix the game so that I am not eating dirt every 3rd pull (without a pet) due to:

1) Mob warping

2) Rampant social behavior.

3) Completly broken state effects (blind, dizzy, stun, ect)

Most of us would not be bothered in the least by a pet nerf if we could actually live wihout one.