Creature Handler Archive

If you want a new FAQ why dont you make an advanced FAQ, the newbie is good enough, but need some stuff about what to do when you finally grind out Mch - what next. Im Just go MCH and im clueless. this game has become such a prof grinder all I hear about is how to become master of this or that, It seems once you master something - you have to drop it and go chase holo's.

So how abouta MCH faq?

If animals are not what they should be, maybe its beacuse they are needed to be weaker - so all the other classes can beat them in their wild stat, weakening the CH class accidently, because basically all we do all day long is hunt poor animals, WHY? what have animals got to do with star wars. Why do we hunt creatures 90+ % of our game time.

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Cailid010 wrote:

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Vertexon wrote:

Q: Do I have to give pets commands by speaking out loud? I don't want to annoy people by spamming commands.

A: In addition to normal speech, you can use /tellpet to silently give commands to all of your currently active pets. For example "/tellpet attack" will cause any of your active pets who respond to the word "attack" to do so. This works over a long distance than /say or /shout, and can be very handy (especially in your own customized macros). There seems to be a bug with /tellpet and single letter commands, though, so it is advisable to give your pets commands that are more than one character long.

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There is another bug with /tellpet. I've had a few times my trick 1 & 2 commands would stop working with /tellpet. All the other commands would still work with it but just those 2 would stop. These are pets that I've had a long time. I'd retrain that command and it still wouldn't work with /tellpet. It would work though by just saying the command out loud. These are full word commands too, not single letter. Afer the server reboot the next day the commands would be working again. I've only had it happen about 4 times in the last few months.

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Max_Dremel wrote:

Question to SOE Support:

- I believe that Creature Handler XP using 2 or more pets has been drastically reduced in the recent "patch"... but
was it mentioned anywhere? If so, where?

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I can only answer this one. But yeah... it was in the patch notes when it went into place. It was also in the notes before it went live. Most CHs did their best to master before the change happened because they knew it was happening and did not want to suffer with less xp.

As for the rest of it. I feel your frustration. I have it all the time with SOE Customer Non-Support.

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Svenon wrote:

Q. If a Master Creature Handler has skill mod of "stored pets +20" and they can store up to 22 pets (2 that everyone non-CH gets, + 20 more), then why is it that we have "Max level of pets +70" yet we can only call pets up to level 70? (where is the 10 lvls that everyonenon-CH gets?) Also, we seem to have "Max number of pets +3", yet we can call only 3 pets. (again, where is the 1 peteveryonenon-CHgets?) I posted about a similar issued on 10-26-03, and am still awaiting response.

A: There are errors all over in the way the game reports figures. You found one such inconsistency. Nothing more sinister than that I am afraid. You could say that Non-CH havea creature limit of +10 and Master-CH have +70.

Q. The CSRs tell me to post here, yet my questions go unanswered, and my issues unresloved. Are the CSRs wrong?

A. The CSRs are nota lot ofhelp for much. Even more so in the case of game related systems like this. You have a billing problem or cannot log in, maybe they can help (and I mean maybe). When it comes to what pets are best, what should I kill to earn XP? and crap like that... the community is a much more informed group. We learn by doing, for the most part, and occasionally share that with others thoruhg the use of the forums andFan Sites

Q. Once a creature handler tames all the creatures he needs/wants, what use is scout to us? It becomes totally obsolete, now that camps are not required for anything. I realize there is a speed issue (assuming you don't have to craft the tent first)

A. Maybe - maybe not. Simple fact is that scout skills are a pre-requisite just like other eliteprofessions have. When the Commando can give up the unarmed portion of brawler, maybe we can give up scouting. Until then, thems the breaks.

Q. If creature handlers rely upon their pets to protect them, yet it is not practical to have them follow you through town, and everywhere else(since they don't keep up), why is it that we cannot call pets during combat? Commandos can pull out their flame throwers during combat, should we not also be able to pull our "weapons" out during combat? I don't care to hear complaints when I walk through town with two very slow, very loud, very large kimogilla following me through to protect me.

A. Why? Good question. They SAY because it can be used to grief. Honestly, if somone attacks me and I whip out a Rancor, how is that different from whipping out a flamethrower (asside from the rancor doing about a tenth the damage)? I completely agree that we should be able to call pets at will. Putting them away... yeah. We should have to wait until they are out of combat.

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UbifaA wrote:

I have a few questions regarding the growth and leveling up of Pets.

- What is the avergae time for a pet to level up ?

A. Pets don't leve up. They grow up. They havea CL (Challenge Level).

- What makes them level up ? Do i need to visit a CH to have this done or does it happen automatically ?

A. Babies start at 10% of their total full-grown CL and gain 10% a day (that you are logged in) in your datapad. I cannot confirm this, but supposedly keeping the pet out and using it will increase that up to about half the time. So instead of taking 10 days to become full-grown, it can take 5 days.

- Ihave been playing with a Rock Beetle that has never leveled up from lvl13 fom the day i was given him. I am 1-1-0-1 Novice CH and use him in all aspects fo combat, he gets fed regularlay, and treated with much respect He grouped with me most of the time...

A. Sounds like he is already full-grown. Babies or creatures that are not full grown will have a CL expressed something like this "10(20)". This means when full-grown, they will be CL20 creatures and presently they are considered CL10 becuase they are not full-grown.

Am i doing something wrong ?

A. No. =)

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I currently have Lvl 50 pet calling abilitiy in CH, but need to drop some skills as I move to BH.

Question is this....

For Pets that are ALREADY in my Datapad...that are VISCIOUS, do I need to keep my Training ability up to call them from my datapad.. or can I keep other more usefull skills now and just use the general taminng skill?

Side questions:

- Are BE Gurrecks and Narglatches Viscious?

- Does the Wookie Taming bonus help with Viscious creatrures or just nomal ones?

Thanks

Well... it's been a few months, but perhaps someone is still looking for an answer to this question. It is my understanding that any moving target gives the attacker a penalty to hit. The penalty does not take your movement speed into account, however moving faster gives you a chance to get out of range faster.

It would make more sense to have your movement speed effect this penalty, but complicating the formula too much would be kind of silly. If they were to change this, they should do it with a flat rate bonus for maybe three movement rates (-5, -10, -20), rather than having individual rates for various mounts, vehicles, specials, and points of acceleration/deceleration. Then each speed boosting option (Burst Run, Mount Speed, Gallop, Vehicle Speed...) would be assigned to one of these categories.

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Vertexon wrote:

Q: How can I tell which creatures are tameable?

A: Only baby animals in the wild (those with (baby) at the end of their name) and Bio-Engineered pet deeds are tameable. Non-baby wild creatures are not. The "tame" option will only appear on the radial menu for a baby creature if you have at least a 15% chance of success. This is impacted by the Difficulty level of the creature, which CH skills you currently have, whether or not your character is a Wookiee, and whether you're using any clothing or food buffs with taming bonuses on them.

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Seiryuu wrote:
Q: How can I tell what the specific special attacks of my creatures are? Do you have to be Master Scout?

A: You need Ranger Tracking II to see special 1 and Tracking III to see special 2.

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I am not sure this is the correct answer, You need the skills listed if you want to see the specials of a wild animal.

However, if the pet is in your data pad the specials are listed in the right side at the bottom of the list now. There are also other nice things there like the HAMs of your pets, special protections, and even % of battery life left on droids (for when you have your harvisting droid out) as many CHers do now since we have scouting and hunting anyway.