Creature Handler Archive

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sherriffjustice wrote:

Not good to hear if you are not already a MCH. Can you imagine finding a decent pet to grind up with now. Glad I'm already MCH.

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Very true! This new system makes it a challenge to reach MCH, but it also ensures that only someone who really wants it will make it.

What is SOEs problem. That was one of the many things I loved about this game. Taking out 3 kittys to reak havok. I loved rifing my mount with my 2 swamp stalker not far behind ready to tear the limbs off my enemies. Sticks andStones, my langlatch marauders, Whiping out my torton, rancor, and blurrg with my droid to get myself the best missions possible like enraged rancor ones all for myself. And of caurse going out and tmaing different pets to create teams that best fit your battle, like a gaping spider recluse with a shear mite recluse, 2 crimson razor cats, 3 different vesps, 2 rancors. The combos were almost endless.

I hate how Sony always Forces us into doing things THIER WAY! I doubt they read our threads and can care less about our ideas. They do what they like and if we dont like us they dont give a rats A$$ if we quit the game. I know I wont be playing this much longer, And on top of that I will never buy another Sony MMORPG. They really seriously without a doubt hate us Veteran MCHs, since they keep doing opposit of what we wanted. sony- "oh but we made everything tamable and gave you a MCH quest?" big friggen deal, those where the last things I cared about. I wanted bugs fixed, creatures not raised in level or anything trhat they did, but more useful in combat. Soooo many things they could have added or fixed for us, but they dont seem to care, And they arnt changing this Creature crap for us CH they are obviously doing it to balance out PVE for other professions.

Today someone gave me their craggy bolma which they can't use anymore (respec'd out of MCH). It's CL 70 and MASSIVE! It's almost as big, if not as big, as a fambaa. They must have scaled it up when they changed it's stats.

Also, my Bull Rancor now is a little more respectible for something it's size. It was sad that a webmaster had better stats.

My choku hunter, which was tamed on a whim and because I liked the coat color, is now CL 65!

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enigma_writer wrote:

Bull Rancor: Still on 65 and unchanged This should be a lvl 70

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Message Edited by Kitoth on 05-06-2005 01:22 PM

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theorb22 wrote:

I for one couldn't possibly fathom any explanation the developers would have for nerfing our additional pets mod.

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Well I can't say if this 3rd or 4th CH nerfing was necessarily intended but it is a logical consequence of going to the level system and moving away from a skill based system. From a very strict database management issue all the changes brought about by the CU make complete sense (although I still think the CU sux as a player and MCH). The database tables were probably getting too overloaded with the variety of items and creatures on each of the servers. By having unique items and creatures for practically everything it makes it very hard to deliver new content without a correlating affect on the databases. New bugs arise that were unforseen (as if they have never have happened before, hehe), and server stability takes a hit under the old system because of its complexity and intricacy.

Now, by making everything from weapons to creatures to items, etc. basically generic and level based with just a new skin on its appearance they can shove out more content. Only time will tell if they actually do shove out more content that's worth a darn. Furthermore, it also becomes easier to deliver an MMO to a console system such as the new XBox2 or PS3 or PSP, albeit probably on separate console only galaxies (servers) and to get that content to these dumbed down PCs, while maintaining the stability of everything.

This has saddened me to the point that I have cancelled my account when my prepaid subscription expires. Time will tell if I will get any enjoyment out of the new system, but so far I am very saddened by the nerfing of my favorite pets and the uniqueness they once had and my inability to call out several pets at once.

Hi

Spot on CoenNoth,

As a MBE/CH and MCH I got hit on both sides,
BE and CH.

Can't be bothered any more, will have a pet
give away on Lowca in a week or two when I
use up my useless bugged DNA (nice one Devs).

Cheers
Anity
MBE/CH - Lowca
MCH - BF

Yea, the new levels are lame. Now my entire datapad of 17 pets, about less than half of them I can use anymore. The levels better get changed back, especially with my kliknik being OVER level 70.

Being able to call only 1 pet would trully make me sad. I guess I wouldn't care as much about number of pets then cause it'll just be a few good high level pets that I'd be using then.

Exactly what I mean "They are doing the opposite of what we wanted" Instead of reasing our data pad level or our max CL, they instead made it so we only need about 3-4 pets, Most of my pets the past week have just sat in my data pad, I only use my Great palins stalker wild dune boar malignant squill and both my swampies or my plains hunter (all elite) why? cause they are the only useful pets I have, and i will whip out my level 1 blurrg to help, thank god he has ranged cause he cant tnak for beans.

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teshma wrote:
Hi

Spot on CoenNoth,

As a MBE/CH and MCH I got hit on both sides,
BE and CH.

Can't be bothered any more, will have a pet
give away on Lowca in a week or two when I
use up my useless bugged DNA (nice one Devs).

Cheers
Anity
MBE/CH - Lowca
MCH - BF

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essentially, i'm at the same spot, here. with the added aggravation that i'm NOT at master-level CH.

and this goes beyond pets as weapons, of which i'm left with very little.

granted, i developed a very particular/specific character and manner of playing, but in the span of two weeks it has been completely crushed. it's to the point where i am afraid to log in or even look at the daily publish notes.

i don't buy into the constant "stop whining and adapt to the changes" comments; if you're going to involve yourself (even a little) in the RP aspects of a MMORPG, this just doesn't work.

i'm curious as to how hard other *grinding* CHs were hit, and how they are dealing at this point?

Message Edited by goatt_13 on 05-07-2005 11:14 AM