Creature Handler Archive
Thread: How did CH become so shatty ?
Hahaha! Its all about the BE pets guys. As long as yall keep using natural pets, you'll continue to feel this way about CH.
Dont bother retorting unless you own a well made BE pet cause if you did own a WELL MADE BE pet, you wouldnt retort.
Well I can't see me coming back.
I restarted after a 9 month break when they announced the CU was going live (over a year late). In the last 6 weeks they've just added yet more bugs........
Like some others I have no problems fighting using BE'd pets I made myself, even with no combat skills I can handle CL 70 mobs, and with CH as my only offensive skill (giving me CL 61 with a little ranger) I wouldn't expect to be able to take on CL80+.
What hacks me off is the fact that so much of the professions (CH, BE, Ranger, etc, etc) are basically broken.
Specials don't work, the pet sizing is stupid and the thing that really gets my goat is that my pets can't keep up with me running on the flat.YesterdayI saw episode 3 (late, I know) - I almost laughed out loud when the varactyl ran parallel to Grievious' speeder.................
Almost every pet I've ever made or tamed from the wild has either been'resized' into a standard template (worse than the wild equivalent), rendered uncallable or otherwise messed up.
Traps don't work, pets almost entirely level based and combat now consists of pressing attack, autofire and going to make a coffee.
.My main char I had master CH for almost 2yrs.. I just surrendered it. You know what? I'm not missing it. Was so sick of all the bugs, all the problems, and all the false hopes.
I do have an alt though that is novice CH and it sucks to lvl CH!! I'm leveling pistoleer substantially faster. Not only that bug jezz pets grow slow!! I try to log in every day just to get the minimum grow rate on 'em, but it honestly shouldn't be based off of if a person logs in that character every day. I finally had a pet grow up and I was surprisingly 2 lvls above it and therefore got crappy xp for it. Sucks ass!
Plus pets are definately too templated. They all seem too stereotypical... But that does sound like it'll change a little bit. Is hard to say if the plans for a change in specials will be useful enough to make up for low health pets with low damage.
I might add: Why can't we see stats on our pets yet? I am very curious if wild pets have any decent Agro stat.. Being that seems to matter for a pet you want to keep agro. I have yet to have a wild tamed pet keep agro for long if at all once I hit the enemy animal. More wondering if this will be changed... can't remember seeing anything poste don this.
QuantumArtist wrote:
Dont despair guys! The poor devs want us to meet our potential, but they're besides themselves trying to figure out how to accomplish it while not overpowering us.
In all reality, we dont want to be overpowered either, but we dont enjoy being as whacked as we are. We can help them find a solution! I've done this in the past and the power of many minds will overcome!
I have created a forum with a new possible solution for a CH fix. Its low maintenance for the devs, gives us lots of options and allows good players to distinguish themselves from bad ones. Together we'll turn our profession around! Take a look at the following link and please contribute!
http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=creature_handler&message.id=239289#M239289
Hiya peeps, have just read the forum QA has started and it has some of the best ideas since sliced bread!!
*bakes QA a BIG cake for being a very clever bunny* 
Don't get so down, things CAN and will get better I'm sure. *big hug to all us CH out there*
Pet-in-a-can troll.
QuantumArtist wrote:
Hahaha! Its all about the BE pets guys. As long as yall keep using natural pets, you'll continue to feel this way about CH.
Dont bother retorting unless you own a well made BE pet cause if you did own a WELL MADE BE pet, you wouldnt retort.
It's funny, just about everyone I know who doesn't read the forums loves CH. And after they see my pets fight, they think about adding it. This weekend I got the pleasure of having my CL70pet tank a dune kimogila. The group took em down just before my pet got incapped. Little shaky with aggro in the beginning, but my pet managed to get the aggro at the end and I feel contributed to the win.
I also noticed something different lately. I didn't have my pet grouped due to the 8 ppl max but it seemed to be fighting at the groups level or something. It's only level 67 and taking on level 82s but not getting the big damage mitigation stuff.... Anyone else see this?