Creature Handler Archive

Message Edited by Starmage on 07-23-2005 05:06 AM

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Starmage wrote:

7/22/05

With todays patch to TC Prime, allof the elite pets have been turned into normal pets. No more extra ham or attack. Elite chevrons are gone from their ham bars etc. The clhas been fixed though, so they allare correct in that aspect. Just another change that makes no sense at all and takes something unique away from our profession.

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I'm sorry, didn't they just GIVE us elites?

They give with one hand while the other taketh away.

I just checked my female narglatches went form <---> with 7718hp down to --- with 3086 hp.
Basicly about the same stat's as the males.

I made a ch on TC during patch 20 and had fun mastering it, I never seen the pet pull so did not miss it(can't miss what you never had).

I enjoy MCH so much was going to use my token respec on live to pick-up mch.

Guess I should thank soe for doing now and not after I did the respec.

Message Edited by Shadwe on 07-23-2005 06:55 AM

If they eliminate ALL elites from the game, it would be a good thing. Mainly because elites are a cheat. The elites have higher H than other mobs of their level, but only yield standard XP for the level. They're a cheat by the devs, a return to their old, bad habits of making things harder to kill but not increasing the reward for doing so when their "looks good on paper" plan runs into the reality of players who the developers consistently underestimate and NEVER learn from previous underestimations.

But of course, that's probaby not what happened here, only the tamable elites are affected by this.

When you say "all elite pets have been removed", does that include all elite creatures? Are the elites on Kash gone? This would be a real tragedy for BE's as well. Their DNA, along with other elite DNA,was one thing that helped create decent pets from time to time. Nothing that competed with wild female Narglatch Elites, of course. Also, are the double elite creatures "re-tuned"? Such as Kimos and the Ancient Rancors and such?

This pattern of "fixing" CH's makes so little sense it's almost becoming amusing. Why keep taking away the few things CH's have when major things like pet specials, ranged attacks, resists,etc. go not only unfixed, but are mysteriously undiscussed with the player-base. I think people would be more forgiving of this "scattershot" method of balancing CH's if some one would just let us know what the overall vision is for CH's.

Vuldranye

I'm all over this, and the Publish 20 AI changes.

I'm not going to be sad to see the useualle 3 female narglatch combo nerfed, but I don't see reasoning behind removing ellite pets that you can only have 1 or 2 out at once.

I guess I should be disgusted and angry, but they've beaten it out of me with the Bug-Bat ... I'm just resigned to seeing another vapid, cheery post from Thunderheart about player events while they blow us off on every one of these real game issues.

Rah.

The moment I heard about the 3 female narglatch option, I figured it'd be nerfed to hell in no more than a couple weeks. I guess I overestimated the amount of attention the devs pay to CH, because it survived for what, close to 2 months?

The interesting piece of information I see here is the new training interface, which I can only assume is going in to facilitate the new pet specials system. I think the outcome of that change will either refresh CH as a profession, or put the last nail in the coffin. And it sure is tough for me to think about CH going the way of the dodo, it has been by far the most fun profession I've played in SWG, and I've tried a lot of 'em.