Creature Handler Archive

1. Always read the stickies.

Message Edited by Joker9125 on 06-12-2005 02:19 AM

Thanks so much Iakimo for all that Info , Thats everything I needed to know in one sweet post.

Best luck to you.

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Joker9125 wrote:

1. Always read the stickies.

2. If you intend to make a post about buying a pet post it in your galaxy trade fourms.

3. Since all pets are generic now any CL70 pet (reguardless of type) will be best.

4. As far as prenerfs go........Since the CU conversion process was ugly for CHs at best you will be extremely had pressed to find an uber converted pet, In fact I very seriousy doubt one exists.

Message Edited by Joker9125 on 06-12-200502:19 AM

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I love it when people pretend to be helpful and just come across as rude and arrogant.

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Weeeebang wrote:

Being a Jedi and also Creature Handler, i'd like to add this.

If your going to use a pet and solo grind your going to take forever.

Not only is solo grinding jedi the slowest thing possible but doing it with a pet will make it worse not better. You will have to share the xp you earn with your pet.

When i grind CH and also shoot the creature that i'm targeting the xp is split depending on damage dealt.

ie. if my pet does 60% of the damage and i do the other 40%. I'll get 600xpweapons xp 60 combatand 900 creature handler xp. If i leave the pet kill the creature on it's own i'll have 1500 creature handler xp.

You would be far better off group grinding your jedi and leaving your pet at home. When grinding Jedi in a group i could get 100k in1 hour xp. if you are group grinding, don't learn new jedi skills and try and keep your CL at 80 with normal skills for higher xp.

I say don't learn new jedi skills because if a BH gets you, you will lose 2k xp for every skill point you have. If your group grinding you only need to be able to heal yourself and hit the creature once to gain full xp.

Good luck with whatever option you choose, it's a hard grind either way

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Actually, the ratios are even wilder that this.

I started out with my training saber and a level-69 Reptilian Flyer to tank for me. As a Master Bounty Hunter/Master Creature Handler, I was pulling level-78 to -82 lair missions on the terminals. As a result, with my weak little saber going, I would do a max of like 60 points of damage next to my bird's 80-380 or whatever it is. I'd get perhaps 65 Jedi XP per kill and something on the lines of 4500 CH XP. However, now that the devs restored the XP gain for killing off the lair itself, it did have a nice payoff: 770 Jedi XP for using my lightsaber exclusively to kill the lair!

I joked with my guildmates about how I was thinking about how I really should just kill of the creatures as quickly as possible just using conventional weapons, then go for the XP for the lairs with my saber. They chuckled and replied, "Good idea...."

At any rate, I muddled through and have now filled all five Novice boxes. But I also made an interesting discovery this morning: Old news to more established Jedi, but I was quite pleased for discovering it... Lightsaber certifications (1st-4th-generation sabers) are not tied to one's Jedi or Lightsaber level, but one's general Combat Level. So, as a level-80 dual combat master, I could have been using 4th-gen sabers all along! ("Dohhh....!") So, now I've packed all my best pearls and crystals into one 4th-gen saber, and I'm tinkering around with that. I actually killeda missioncritter without help from any of my pets for the first time tonight. But my missions' difficulty levels have now dropped to around CL-68 to 72 as I've begun to sacrifice Creature Handler skill points for the Jedi grind. The Jedi XP for the solo kill weighed in at a cool 770 points, whereas whenever I'd used my pets this time around with my 4th-gen saber I would wind up with about 300-350 Jedi XP and about 3000 or so CH XP. That difference will eventually converge as my conventtional skills go away and my Jedi skills grow. But for now, it seems to be working okay, albeit slowly.

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aolita wrote:

Thanks so much Iakimo for all that Info , Thats everything I needed to know in one sweet post.

Best luck to you.

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Sweet, eh? Tell me how sweet I am after you've found your Blurrg Raptor baby....

(evil chuckle)