Creature Handler Archive
Thread: Finally I acquired a Bark mite Burrower Queen!!!
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A-Slave
Fri Feb 18, 2005 3:05 am
#2
I dont mean to put you down or anything...its a great collection! All the work and time you must have put into it to get something to rare (even the ones that cant be gotten anymore!) is impressive.
Just i never understood why people go after them so much (other then the fact that they are rare). Greatest creature handler i always thought (those who wanted to become great creature handlers at least )were those who had the strongest creatures and could control them! Your a great collector....and this isnt towards you...just i saw some others posting that they were great creature handlers because they did collect rare things like that.
Putting together the perfect animals (not just buying some off a bio engineer vendor, or putting one to work for you...im talking about being there right next to him figuring out the creature you want and going to hunt it down piece by piece...) is the greatest thing for a creature handler! Rare creatures would be so much better if they were stronger then normal, but they arent much good for anything but show of dedication.
JMShunter
Fri Feb 18, 2005 4:39 am
#3
yeah 2 bad wild pets and be pets are like the minors and major league.
MarlonB
Fri Feb 18, 2005 5:00 am
#4
Congrats m8 
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)But .... i mis 2 on your list ?? Aren't you interested in a WDB or malignant squill ??
Roporin
Fri Feb 18, 2005 5:30 am
#5
It's a great collection undoubtedly and congrats on getting that BMBQ.
As for the poster that asked "why do we bother" going for naturals/rares, the reason I bother is for a couple of reasons:
The thrill of the hunt/search. It can be awesome picking your way through angry mobs (esp if you are unbuffed) in the forests of Endor for example and to come across a rare and wonder if a baby that you *might* just be able to get may come from that rare spawn.
Anyone can have a B.E. pet made up how they like. To me, being a creature handler - I far prefer "wilds" as opposed to B.E. creations. Manufactured factory commodities is how I perceive B.E. pets. Having said that - I do have one in my datapad and he's been a great ally - but I much prefer wilds - and wilds that are rare, even better.
Anyways (tongue in cheek this bit): Naturals that a CH will never and *should never* 'tame' do exist that are far better than any B.E. pet... e.g... Previously, while looking for a Wild Dune Boar
Rop.
"Time is precious, but truth is more so."
As for the poster that asked "why do we bother" going for naturals/rares, the reason I bother is for a couple of reasons:
The thrill of the hunt/search. It can be awesome picking your way through angry mobs (esp if you are unbuffed) in the forests of Endor for example and to come across a rare and wonder if a baby that you *might* just be able to get may come from that rare spawn.
Anyone can have a B.E. pet made up how they like. To me, being a creature handler - I far prefer "wilds" as opposed to B.E. creations. Manufactured factory commodities is how I perceive B.E. pets. Having said that - I do have one in my datapad and he's been a great ally - but I much prefer wilds - and wilds that are rare, even better.
Anyways (tongue in cheek this bit): Naturals that a CH will never and *should never* 'tame' do exist that are far better than any B.E. pet... e.g... Previously, while looking for a Wild Dune Boar
Rop.
"Time is precious, but truth is more so."
enigma_writer
Fri Feb 18, 2005 6:34 am
#6
I do have impressive bio pets
But it is my goal to preserve the extinct pets that are no longer tamable and give them a good home. The other extinct pets I have I tamed myself save the Kilnik Queen and Bark Mite Burrower Queen.
Also bio engineers can make excellent pets but there are certain pets like the Bull Rancor or Screecher that have an area attack called the plague strike which is an area disease so potent it can hit up 800 wound dmg per tick and last up to 8 min. The disease can be reapplied as the victim can be diseased more and with the Bull Rancor especially the attack special hits hard making them an excellent pvp pet.
Also there is the taming experience itself of taming the creatures. Taming a bio pet will never be as exciting as taming an actual pet out in the wild.
Now I am a bio engineer and find that making the pets is just as enjoyable as taming them but no matter what I make I will never value them more then the pets I have tamed.
Milteck (BEAST)
hossp
Fri Feb 18, 2005 8:47 am
#7
i trust we'll get to see her on sunday....
and to comment on the person that doesn't understand the rare hunt..it's for you own personal enjoyment, if you want to have fun for several months filling your colection you can. that was my goal when i mastered ch , and except for the one in 10000 frenzied graul, i have all the current rare animals..some of them are not good combatants, but that is not why i spent months hunting them..i was showing my new WDB to a freind yesterday and his reaction was "the stats suck"...well yes they do, but how may people have one? for a lot of us the "fun" part of ch is hunting and taming what you want, those that do understand what i am talking about...if you get your game enjoyment out of pvp, then honestly you chose the wrong profession..ch to pvp is like bringing a sling shot to a gunfight, you might be able to make it interesting once or twice, but you will lose most evey time, so the issue of how "good" the rare pets are , is not even a factor for me..the purpose of the game is to have fun, for some of us hunting/collecting rare is fun, for otheres stacking defenses and spamming specials is fun...it's all good, just very different
enigma_writer
Fri Feb 18, 2005 1:07 pm
#8
My collection is complete
I once thought the Bark mite burrower queen was unattainable as I knew of only one person to have one on Radiant and that master ch left the game 
But i posted on the trade forum that was buying extinct pets to give them good homes to either me or to fellow guild members who never had the chance to tame a frenzied graul and so on.
I then got an email I had awaited for as someone sent me an in game email wanting a price check on rare creatures as I am well known on Radiant in selling the Rare spawning creatures. I saw the Bark mite burrower queen and gasped as now I had my chance to finally have one.
The seller did just want a price check at that time so I gladly gave the price of what I would pay and said would be make him very rich if he decided to part with prized creature. I waited patiently as the seller knew me well but was no longer a master ch so really had no need of the magnificent creature. I then saw her post on the forum about an item she was selling to swordsman and wanted people to pm her to explain what she had. I happened to also be a master swordsman with one of my characters so sent her a tell and teased the secret was the Bark Mite Burrower Queen. It turned out to be an uber power hammer but we re-engaged with negotation for the Bark Mite and at the end of the night the Bark mite Burrower Queen is now in my datapad
Here is my complete collection
Milteck datapad
Bull Rancor
Bark mite Burrower Queen
2frenzied grauls
Great Plains Stalker
MerekKing harvestor
Merek Queen harvestor
Aracne Widow
Screecher
Merek Deaths'head
2 Gurrecks
Gaping Spider Queen
Bloodseeker mite Queen
2 Swamp Stalkers
1 really nice kimo
Rhoa Kwi Packleader
Rancor
Milteck (BEAST)
Master CH
Rare pet collector/ jedi master ch/ Krayt slayer/ rebel soldier/ bio engineer/ and committed to the preservation of extinct and rare creatures of swg.
Founder of BEAST
Proud member of combat sandbox team
JMShunter
Sat Feb 19, 2005 1:38 am
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yeah hunting for rares is a lot of fun, and there is a thrill, It would just be nice if some of these rare pets were better than a pet you can pay a few 100k for.
AXEius
Sat Feb 19, 2005 5:55 am
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im a little confused. I just saw a bark mite burrower queen the other day (she was very tough). Did the devs decide to disable babies of this creature or are they be only pets? Is that what an "extinct" pet creature is?
theorb22
Sat Feb 19, 2005 5:57 am
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Their extinct in that they used to spawn babies, but now don't. Of course the devs felt that someone, somewhere, would of somehow felt threatened by one of these things in PvP or something, i dunno how exactly, but they were made extinct for being too powerful or something.
enigma_writer
Sat Feb 19, 2005 3:12 pm
#13
They were made extinct in the first series of nerfs for ch.
Why this is a very rare extinct pet is originally these had very poor stats compared to what they are now so most ch did not tame them. Then in all their wisdom the devs made them extinct and then made their stats what they are making them one of the best creatures to have as a pet.
Milteck (BEAST)
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