Creature Handler Archive

Tazz has no BE critters; he was an MCH back before BE critters were worth having, so he had a full datapad of natural tames when the BE revamp hit and made BE critters superior to naturals. About that same time he lost his mind due to holocron madness and pursued the elusive flashlight, dropped MCH to grind up to MCM and then later Doctor just to get it out of the way. So no BE critters on his datapad.

Zanti, on the other hand, is a BE and a novice CH. He created a CL 10 bantha for his own use using a voritor dasher receipe variant, anticipating that he'd drop novice CH (he has not, and he's completed his template, see below). That bantha had an H bar of over 4k, even after the CU went live.

Well, after pub 17, the bantha got nerfed. Zanti got the respec your BE pet message, and chose to adjust stats, rather than take the risk of the bantha becoming uncallable and knowing his datapad was filled with critters at the x/2/x/x CH level, all but two being level 10 or below, a few mounts and some critters that do cute tricks, like the level 1 large chuba.

The bantha was reduced to the "average" of CL 10 critters, an H bar of 1700 odd points. The previous intimidation special was morphed into a weak poison special, which the bantha retains, as well as a ranged attack, and it has a much higher damage range than it had before.

It is possible that when you hit the level adjustment of a pet, and the level would be above your callable level, it just defaults to a stat adjustment. Better that than have a level 200 pet you can't use.

But I just deleted all of my BE pets that I had. For one thing, even after conversion, they have none of the extra stats the new ones have (extra aggro, critical hit, critical save, ect). Then the fact that they have lower stats than some of my wild ones of similar level. I just hope I can find a BE who still makes pets.