Creature Handler Archive

Greetings, I am new to the CH profession, and am curious as to certain CH skills and the like. So if you would, please answer any of my questions, or feal free to ask your own. Thank You.

1. If a non-CH max creature level is 15, would becoming a novice CH add to this total?

2. Why must I learn the taming skill tree in order to CONTROL an aggressive pet?

3. What if another CH transfers me an already tamed aggressive creature, and I have 0 taming skills?

4. I plan to avoid the taming skill tree in order to conserve skill points, would this be a hinderance on the

type of creature I am able to CONTROL ( not tame ).

5. When examining a creature, what does the ferocity indicate?

Thanks

I'll try answer your questions:

disclaimer: I made Master CH before the big patch, so alot of the newest are still difficult to workout for me, but here goess...

1. If a non-CH max creature level is 15, would becoming a novice CH add to this total?

No, as a Novice only, you gain the ability to tamelevel 15 pets and can store4 pets.

Non-ch can nottame any pet and can only store 2. That's the only difference until you start training some more skills.

2. Why must I learn the taming skill tree in order to CONTROL an aggressive pet?

Well, no one wants you to control pets that you would otherwise never have a chance to tame.

And on a more practical note, the "max number of pet levels" skill had to be spread throughout the skill tree.

For example, if it weren't the case: someone could take ONLY training 4 and BUY a pet and be ALMOST as powerful as a MCH.... it's done this way to keep 1 skill tree from making the other skill trees worthless.

3. What if another CH transfers me an already tamed aggressive creature, and I have 0 taming skills?

Honestly, I'm not sure. I never had to deal with this system coming up through the ranks of CH before the big patch.

4. I plan to avoid the taming skill tree in order to conserve skill points, would this be a hinderance on thetype of creature I am able to CONTROL ( not tame ).

Sorry, I dont think you can control pets that you can not tame.

5. When examining a creature, what does the ferocity indicate?

It's the measure of how well a pet holds aggro when tanking,rather thanrunning away when hurt.

But there have been so many problems with pet battles getting really out of control by pet not doing what they are told that I expect the devs will be making pets more controllable.

So not only is training needed to control higher lvl creatures, but taming as well? Whats the difference between max level of pets, and max number of pets?

Thank You

Max Pet Level is the highest creature level you can tame (take from the wild and put in your datapad).

Max Total Pet Levels is the highest sum of creatures levels you can call at any one time. It is possible to have a max pet level much higher than a max total pet level. Which means you could, for instance, tame a CL 30 creature but only be able to have up to a CL 25 creature in actual use.

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Yvile wrote:

It is possible to have a max pet level much higher than a max total pet level. Which means you could, for instance, tame a CL 30 creature but only be able to have up to a CL 25 creature in actual use.

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The reverse is also true. You could only take a couple of the Taming skills and some of Training and Management and have 2weaker pets out. As long as each pet is below your "Max pet level" and the combination is under your "Max number of pet levels".

Seriously, Why the Heck didn't they pick more distinctive names for those 2 skill modifiers? Sheesh.

3. What if another CH transfers me an already tamed aggressive creature, and I have 0 taming skills?

As long as the pet's CL is not over your cap you can use it now. Whether this will be true after the next "upgrade" I don't know. I have given a few aggro pets to a friend who has the same taming boxes I have but is not a Wookiee and those pets serve him well.

I just trained Novice CH and I have some real newbie questions.

1. How do I set up a hotkey for the pet commands?

2. How do I toggle between walk and run without going into the option menu?

3. I'm on Corellia at the moment. So what should I be trying to tame?

Thanks in advance.

1) CTRL-A for the abilities screen, then click on the macro tab and create macros with your pet commands in them then drag them to your hotbar

2) Pushing SHIFT while running toggles you to walking. I put my pet follow me commands on hotkeys that require me to push shift to use so when a pet stops following I can slow to a walk and start spamming the follow me command all at once

3) Best Novice CH pets on Correlia are Bagaraset or Wrix. Wrix is probably the best non aggressive under CL15 pet on Correlia