Creature Handler Archive

Its true bout the size... I have some new be pets growin. My Gurcat at level 29(70)... her back is even with my head. And me Shear Mite a level 49(70) is comparable to a gaping spider queen in size. I love big.

Great, so we're going to end up with people having rancor sized Durni's now?

Bleh, no high level BE pets for me then. I don't my pets to be freaking huge, I pick the skins I do because they aren't so huge I can't see around them.

My CL 70 rancor is larger than my garden variety CL 50 rancor, but not overly so. My tall wookiee toon's head comes up to just below my CL 69 cat's shoulders. Makes me wonder if the CL 65 quest Vartacyl is bigger than the CL 10 DD gift...

This bothers me becasue so many people out there whine about big pets in hunting groups, check my Creature Handling is Not a Crime thread for more details

I am going to really hate it if this size thing comes in. I have always bought BE cats as they are often a little smaller in size but much better than wild. We now need to group to hunt and groups HATE big pets. They obstruct view and prevent others in group targetting clearly when tab isn't always working as it should. Also in dungeons and bunkers, my smaller cats were welcome - something the size of a faamba wont be.

Seeing pets which should be small like a durni, looking enormous, is just totally unrealistic. This is not going to be one of their better ideas - unless they put a stop growing command for size of pet. keep a small size while still growing to full adulthood.

As far as big pets obstructing battle, they are getting better at not doing that. I've noticed that recently when I send my pet in to battle, it will try to orient itself behind the opponent, giving a clearer view for other party members.

This is the stupidest thing I've ever heard of. People who bio-engineer a gurrcat to level 70 don't want a mammoth pet. If they did they would just get a rancor or something.
And what about non master Creature Handlers? Say their highest creature level is 14. They're stuck with something that never grows past mini baby size?
And people who just want a CL 10 mount? Are they miniature too?

I do not understand why this was even changed.

I'm glad that creature size will be variable, but I don't like the determining factor being CL. BE's should have a "pygmy" and "giant" experimentation line on pets, so that adjusting the size of the pet will limit the experimentation on more combat-linked stats.

I know that groups, especially random pickup groups, tend to hate large pets. Heck, they tend to complain about small pets even. Last time I was leading a group like that, I informed the complainers that a CH using pets is equivalent to other classes using a weapon, and that they need to use them for XP. I gave them a noob-refresher course in "targetting 101" (short version: tab is your friend) and was able to quell the uprising.

I've found that doing that explanation works pretty well... There will be a couple folks that whine and complain and bail out of the group, but in general those are the types that would have pulled everything that moves onto your group anyhow.

I just tamed a pre CU CL65 dune lizard I BE'd (when I was a BE), it started off the same size as a normal DL.... Think this thing will grow up to be near Kimo size

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Ithilkir wrote:
I just tamed a pre CU CL65 dune lizard I BE'd (when I was a BE), it started off the same size as a normal DL.... Think this thing will grow up to be near Kimo size

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Pre-CU pets don't seem to be affected by the new sizes, my CL 35 bearded jax is the same size as a wild one while my CL 13(69) Jax is already larger than it :/.

I've been a CH a long time, but I must say this is horrible. For one I like the samller pets and the ones that nobody uses. If they put this in then they should make it where it can be a choice made in the BE creation of the pet NOT automatic. I like that my lvl 63 angler is the same size as my wild Archane Webmasters, if I wanted a bigger pet i would catch a Giant Angler or would take the time to find a "giant" variation of a pet. This just goes to show that CHs are getting no love whatsoever. I know of a dancer/MCH how would it look for her to dance with a lvl 70 squall thats as big as she is its just stupid. The BEs should get to have this as an option not automatically included in their creations that way it will give CHs more variety when it comes to choosing a BE pet than what skin, or what kind of stats do I want.