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Thread: Rancors are wusses
Speaking of - anyone on Bloodfin want to buy CL1 pre-nerf BE Rancor usable by anyone?!
You'll find many groups will want pets that are small and can tank, i.e. the TMB, relatively small compared to the rancor and heck it can tank better and dot too.
Rancors have never been a strong pet except up against commando weapons and as such hope it remains that way. Last thing we need is an army of CHs running around with them. It's the fact there were CHs with three adult rancors that introduced the CL nerf. aside being unbalancing it lagged most people's machines and made the game unplayable for some.
certifiedandrew wrote:In KoToR, you only fight one adult rancor. You have to either get it to eat a grenade, or lay mines and get it to follow you 6-8 times. If you get too close, it smashes you immediately. You can fight baby rancors on the Star Forge planet. They're not that tough, but they're about right.In Jedi Academy, you really have to use your skillz to kill rancors with a lightsaber, or you can be a **edit** and shoot it with heavy weapons from a safe position--that takes about 5 minutes of continuous fire. It's very cool to be picked up by a rancor and swing your saber in his face! There's a mutant rancor, but you don't fight it. It'll kill you right away, so you have to trap it.
when I was on the starforge planet I fought plenty of adult rancors. they're not too tough, hit them with kill twice and they're dead, or insanity and a few force storms takes out a whole group of them. but we expect an uber jedi to kill them easily, what we don't expect is joe shmoe the pistoleer to kill them easily.
Rancor fun facts...
Rancors are huge, voracious, long-armed predators which roam the forests of the remote and little-known planet Dathomir. They are also found on dozens of other worlds. The leathery brown hide is thick enough to allow a rancor to shrug off hits from hand-held blasters. Their maws are full of sharp, triangular teeth which are primarily used for gripping and rending prey; a rancor does very little chewing, preferring to swallow food in large chunks. The specimen owned by Jabba the Hutt was a juvenile in poor health, standing at only five metres tall. Wild rancors grow to greater dimensions.
On Dathomir local Force-sensitive witches use rancors as tame mounts. Although Jabba's rancor is clearly non-sapient, at least some of the rancors of Dathomir seem to approach intelligence. These rancors are social creatures, hunting in family-based packs.
It is not clear whether this is the natural state of the rancors, or whether they are have been altered by Force-based sorcery. The notion that rancors may be artificial or modified life-forms finds support in the fact that Emperor Palpatine kept an army of vicious sub-intelligent rancors at his Citadel on the Deep-Core resort world of Byss. These rancors were referred to as "crysalis beasts" and seemed to be among the menagerie of monsters deliberately created in experiments with the Dark Side of the Force carried out by Palpatine and his adepts. It seems possible that rancors might be one of the standard monstrousities available for creation via the ancient arts of the Sith. Indeed the Sith were infamous for the creation of abominations of nature, as seen in Dark Lords of the Sith, The Sith War and The Jedi Academy Trilogy.
Vertexon mentioned that in some Star Wars novels, Rancors are told to be taking out AT-ST's with ease. Rancors badly need a boost in power...