Creature Handler Archive

Mastering Tk has been the only way i have been able to have any sucess as a wookie master CH against other players.I play with my master CH banner on and dont equip my Vks untill actually in combat. Genrally when you send your pets after an experinced PvPer they will try to ignore them and close with you. I dont have the points for master brawler so i use lunge one and then a macro which i think has blind1, dizzy/kd and unarmed hit 3 three times. By the time they realize that im on top of them i can usually drop them. Granted i also sometimes take a lightning single to the face or something like that and get dropped but its better then nothing. I also had a BE make me a level 65 kaadu with disease and poison specials. Most people laugh at it as they see it trying to run them down untill it starts doing 550-600 damage per hit rather then the 20-30 that they expected.

It all depends on what you're trying to accomplish in the game. I set out to be the Ultimate Tank, so I went MCH/TKM/Medic. I don't want to have to rely on my aim of a gun. TK's are 20% more accurate than the 2nd most accurate proff in the game (Rifleman). There is one small problem with fighting next to your pets... the fact that they stand on top of you while they fight! Sometimes, weeding thru the fur of a Graul can be frustrating.

And for those who complain about the TK's being too powerful... I don't see Rancors with guns to shoot you from 40m away. TK's are in the **edit** all the time. There is no kiting... only fighting!

--Barlok Shidoki-- Eclipse Server

I was a master CH and master pistoleer for a while, and I thought that was really fun.

then I tried master CH and master swordsman. WHOO boy. that's some potent shizniz. swordsman has incredible damage, more than a TKM, on pool directed strikes (mind pool!). the defense isn't as good as teras kasi defense, but as an MCH you don't care, you just want high damage output, and on that swordsman delivers.

my friend the grenadeer/CH was jealous when he saw how much damage I was doing to mobs as a swordsman, so yeah, very good damage.

I'm a MCH, Master Pikeman, and medic 4/3/4/0. I think the key is what do you want to do.....PvP or PvE or good at both. I can't say pike is for PvP unless someone has like traps to hold a person in place, very low range. But for PvE, I'm not sure there is anything that I can't take down as pike. Master Pike has kd and dizzy same as tka, can't buff ourselves, but with buffs and food, who cares....you can just take some food and buff yourself, lol. this was my master template since i started, and I've not had any issues with it for what I want to do. Granted I'm not doing PvP much at all, but when I do, its sure fun to kd an atst and whoop on it with my medium damaging poleaxe . just don't get grauls if you don't like the big bastards, i don't use them. i normally use either 2 crc's orsome other combo of 8k+ pets.....either way, the pets aren't for massive damage, just mainly CC and SA's. getting money is no problem, i just hit the 26k missions on dantooine and run thru the mokk shamans like water

okay, i made up my mind... i will go master ch + master pikeman and 2-0-0-0 in tka as well as novice medic.
might be a bit different than general taste... at least i hope so.
why the tka the way it is? because i am a wookie and can't count on a doc buffing me 24/7, so i at least want the powerbost, as well as i like the meditate idea... just kinda fits in line with my chat concept, so why not take the benefit as well.

arg, meant "char concept" meaning the whole background and how i intend to roleplay my furball

As you've probably noticed your pets are not a little flighty in battle and will run all over the countryside to achieve an "ideal range" for their attacks. As a swordswoman I can tell you this makes using pets as tanks for grinding at lower levels impossible for melee.

Although, while I was working on mastering brawler, I noticed the range meter on unarmed with knucklers was completely broken. If you've got VKs equipped you can hit things from 10m+ even when you have that little red line in the range adjustor (you know that little -50 to +50 thing). I only got the message "your target is out of range" when it passed over 15m. This was standard attacks too, not the unarmed lunge, but unarmed hit was landing at 10m as well when the range meter said I was well beyond range.

If you can get your pets to hold still I'd say a brawler class would work well too (otherwise I hope you like jogging). Although from what I can tell TKA pretty much has twice the range as any other brawler class, so you might as well take this pseudo-marksman class as long as you have VKs.

I tried using my pets in combination with TKA. I hate to say it, but the most frequent reason I pull out pets now is to boost the missions I can pull. A doc buff is more effective for tanking than a pet; doc buffs last far longer than my average gaming session, doc buffs don't need a camp (or a retarded 30 second delay) to get each fight, doc buffs keep up with my swoop, doc buffs never autostore... should I continue?

I most recently used an arachne webmaster while trying to find a toxic merek battlelord baby. With the webmaster, I killed the initial spawn, which was two adult TMBs and a baby ... blood stained? A TMB baby spawned on the first lair pop, but in my eagerness to tame it I didn't account for the second adult TMB spawn, who saw straight through my mask scent and charged at me. I had no pet out. I still killed it fairly convincingly.

Trying to have the pet take the brunt of the attacks while you dish out the damage is difficult as a melee profession. You have to be further away from the target than your pet is, and with critters dancing all over the place to get their ideal range, you've really got to stay on your toes to be within range yourself, but not closer than your tank.

All in all, Creature Handler has been killed by a combination of heavy handed nerfing and probably deserved boosts to other professions. I sigh for the inevitable nerf of TKA that will kill that profession also.

On the flip side, I'll probably be selling my repertoire of pets shortly.

with using pets, create macros and customize ur commands for each individual pet so u have them deal with several targets at once or have one attack and one guard. Though this is only an option for higher level ch's.

Foth!