Creature Handler Archive

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InspGadgt wrote:

Here's something new that I have been getting. So far I have only noticed this with Vinny my lvl 65 Varactyl. I get this when I try and heal him after I've had to do an Incap Recovery on him. Not only that but when this happens his health regenerates very slowly, as if he is still in combat.

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Now that is interesting. It implys that other people can't heal your pet any more. This could have been true for a long time though since I rarly get to go hunting as a MCH. No one wants to wait for me to pull my pets.

-Indene-

I took up MCMwith the specific task so I couldheal my pets during combat and for a very quick incap recovery. (works a treat!) I have noticed though during the past few weeks that if I don't use my heals on myself or my pets after a hard fight, the healing takes forever!!

I had that same exact problem with my varactyl or whatever it's called last night (I named mine Bird-thing). I couldn't heal it after an incap recovery and the health wouldn't regen. I ended up storing that critter. Gonna sell him off and get one of those quest mounts anyway.

I thought it was a bug for the new mount or something.

My hubby has that problem with all his pets, after fighting for a bit he gets that message and has to store from the data pad as they now wont listen to any commands, just like they really werent his pets.

For me I have only encountered it with the Varactyl and using pet stims. I have no medic skills so that's all I can heal it with. The times I have noticed it is when I sent my mount into combat and forgot to group him first though I am not sure if that is the cause or not. When this happens I have to store the pet causing it to lose some vitality then call it out and group it to heal it or have it regenerate.

This happens way too often for me. and it doesn't seem to matter which pets.

It's happened with my lvl 65 brackaset that I had before the CU. It happened today with ALL 3 of my Elite Female Narglatches. It's happened with my kinad baz nitch, and it's happened with my BE Squall and Vir Vur. Sometimes it only affects one of the pets, other times all.

Todays instance was I took the Narglatches to the Imp vs Gungan battle to get some faction up. (Didn't realize how slow that would actually be). Noone got incapped to whole time. At times one would not listen to me, then 2 wouldn't. I would call them all to me, then the scout would do a pistol AE stun and they would all go and jump him, but they weren't in my control for the most part. When we went to leave it took forever for me to get them to follow. Eventually they did. I got the can't heal when I tried to use the petstim. I have never gotten it from Bacta. Only the stims. It also took a long time to put them away. Even though we were far far from the battle, All of them were in battle until I got at least 150m away from them, then they were out of battle and could finally be put away. Their regen was in the gutter.

There doesn't seem to be any particular thing that causes it to happen. It happens to me WAY TOO OFTEN.

As far as not being able to heal others pets with stims, i have been able to, in the past, heal my BF's Kaadu when it gets in a fight using the petstims. I haven't tried since publish 19 on his pet.

I started playing again about a month ago. i was on hiatus for over a year. the problem existed before publish 19. that much I am certain of. I guess not enough Creature Handlers out there anymore. When I started playing they were a dime a dozen.

I can sympathize with you all who don't get to use your pets in combat because others won't wait for you to pull them out. One thing I have found useful is carrying crates of tents. Pop one down, pull em out, disband camp. Most the people I have playing with are willing to wait that little bit of time it takes when I have a tent in place.

I don't know if SOE or LucasArts or whoever realizes that this is happening. But it is a big thorn in our sides. we need our pets. my pets are half of my CL. If I can't heal them, what good is that? It's bad enough they can't keep up with a mount or speeder. (we need a speeder with a truck bed for em!) Sometimes they get minds of their own. I am trying to be patient and stick it out, but it seems anymore that it is probably the buggiest profession out there. (next to tailors and Be's currently screwed).

Yeah, this happens to me pretty often as well.

Its probably working as intended.

Might this be related to the fact that veractyls in the wild are flagged tamable:no? i know that some pets ie:lowlands brackaset ive seen spawn babys that are no longer flagged as tamable

I hope that was sarcasm. heh

I noticed it seems to happen most often when you lose control of your pets. I lost control of my baz nitch on the Ryatt Trail last night. Sent him to one mob then called him to me then tried to send him after a different mob. No good. Could heal him, he wouldn't get out of combat and had to let him die.