Creature Handler Archive

1. Call timers should be eliminated. I can pull a rifle in combat, I should be able to call a pet in combat. My pet is a weapon, let me use it as such. Every other profession can use any weapon in their arsenal at any time. Allow CHs the same privilege.

2. Pet usage in combat.If a pet gets incapped in combat I should be able to pull another to replace it. I can pull out rifle after rifle so long as I have them in my datapad, my pets should be the same. Maybe have an incapped pet not count against our control limit, but still only allow 3 pets out at a time. Ex: You get attacked, you call 2 CL35 pets. One gets incapped so you call a 3rd CL35 pet (You now have 1 incapped CL35 and 2 controllable CL35 out), a 2nd pet gets incapped so you store the remaining pet and call a CL70 pet(You now have 2 incapped CL35 pets and 1 controllable CL70 pet) and fight with it until you win or lose the fight or the pet is incapped. Once the fight is over you must revive and then store your pets one at a time. Maybe this is asking too much. An alternative would be allowing a MCH to revive a pet to at least half of it's health. If I revive an incapped player I do not have to spend combat time healing them because they can heal themselves, but when I revive a pet I have to spend several combat turns healing them so they aren't immediately incapped again. Give us some kind of Massive Creature Heal or something.

3.Pet levels/group slots. Either allow us to tame up to CL80 pets at MCH or do away with pets taking up a group slot when grouped. My pet survives a lot longer when grouped, but would not need to be grouped if it was the sameCL80 as the rest of the group.

4. Morestorage. Allow us to store our pets in places besides our datapad. A pen, a stable, a zoo, inside our house, in a droid, whatever. Just please allow us to keep more than 20 pets. I know 20 might seem like a lot, but considering there are now more than 20 abilities we can train our pets that must each be learned from different babies, 20 really is too little. I think have a stable somewhere would be cool. Maybe even a community stable in NPC cities or something.

5. Mount speed/abilities. The veractyl in EpIII could keep up with Grievous's wheel, please allow our mounts to travel that fast. It's like the Devs have never seen a horse race. My Cu Pa should run like the wind, my Brackaset should be a blur. We should also be able to fight from atop a mount and call other pets while mounted. I am a Master Creature Handler, my mounts should know what to do in combat, leaving me free to fight while still mounted. TKM would of course still have to dismount since punching or kicking something while mounted would be difficult, but anyone with a weapon bigger than a dagger should be able to use it while mounted and in range of their target. Aperson with a ranged weapon the back of a fast mount should be able to ride around and blast stuff. A person with a polearm or sword should be able to make hit and run attacks. However,the mount itself should not be able to attack at the same time as this woulddisrupt the rider's ability to fight. But either the rider or the mount should be able to attack while the rider is still mounted.This ability alone would make mounts valuable again. Also allow mounts to carry items, the bigger the mount the more storage. Let us use those dewbacks as pack mules to help people move from one house to another, or collect their inventory from their factories, etc. Give rangers greater tracking abilities while mounted as they should be able to hone in on the mounts ability to detect scents and such. Make mounts desirable again!