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I just came back from a long absence. My best little hunting partner, Boulders, my gronda has been severely taken down. His armor made him the best little workhorse, making him very cheap to maintain on petstims. We had some great adventures, but I guess it's over now. I do have questions though. Since light armor was so useful for economical animal harvesting, what now is the lowest pet with armor? Now that BE's can customize pets, can they make a pet with armor and little else for cheap tanking?

I have 3 pets, all @ cl 30....all have light armor. 2 of them have 30% Kinetic resists and the other has 53%. This was by far the best bio pets Ive been able to buy (the 2 30% kinetic cost 80k each and the 53% cost 300k). Of course I can't use any of them since I no longer have the skill points in CH.

The last poster is corect, contact a BE and they can make you a nice pet with light armor good kenetic/energy and put it in whatever skin you want (almost) the CL for light armor can be pushed quite low but often the dammage will take a pasteing if its pushed below 35 or so.

This mornng I just bought three pets on Sunrunner light armor and 50-60% kenetic resists. I have one other that is light armor and 60% kenetic resist. They are all under level 36. The two drylakes are cl30 and the cu pa's are 34 & 36.

Yeah, that armor makes a huge difference in tankng. But, let me tell you a MASSIVE help which in my judgement makes them 10x better? buf them.

I have a cat with 54% kenetic resist and no armor. She is cl21 and has 9k ham. With a full set of buffs she tanked a thun lair solo while the rest of us pounded away with ranged weapons. Now when I hunt, espacially when I solo or have the only pets, I get them buffed if I can as it makes such a difference. You rarely have to use stims on them during the buff time also another big plus.

One important thing... don't store the pet once it is buffed. If you store it it loses it's buffs.

What are pets buffed with? Food?

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Cephalo wrote:
What are pets buffed with? Food?

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No, the buffs are the same doc buffs that are used on players. Only problem with that is you have to hire a doc to run around with you because your going to have the auto-store bug at least once an hour. Not to mention pathing errors where your pet suddenly cant walk faster than 1 meter every 10 seconds. Only way to fix that is to store the pet, but you lose the buff.

Basicly its more trouble than its worth unless you are a Doc yourself or have a friend that is willing to follow you around for 3 hrs buffing constantly.

I must be very lucky as my pets have never autostored. One day I had off I had them ou tfor 6 hours straight and two sets of buffs. To me the 6k pet pet is worth every penny.

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Shrik wrote:
I must be very lucky as my pets have never autostored. One day I had off I had them ou tfor 6 hours straight and two sets of buffs. To me the 6k pet pet is worth every penny.

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To answer your question. Your as lucky as the people who have opened their FS slot in 6 professions

Auto-storing seems to be heavily planet dependent (and server I imagine). On Corellia and Dathomir I never have a pet auto-store. I went to Tatooine and had my spider store three times in thirty minutes. Fortunately I avoid Tatooine at almost all costs.

There is a work around to the slow walk, too. Try feeding your pet, even if you have no food or it isn't wounded. Some tricks such as spiders' 360 spin also work. These turn your pet to fact you and reset their facing to match their axis of forward movement. You may need to move and repeat trying it once or twice, but this will usually fix the slow walk.

I have a cat with who is CL 30 has light armor and 60% kinetic resists (may actually be 63% i duno im at work) it also has ranged attack and dizzy strike. BE'd pets are leagues beyond tamed ones now, contact a BE and you will love the new pets, although you will hate some of the other changes.

As far as BE pets forPvPmy fav is my Vir Vir of death... (ranged attack, KD,dizzy strikeand he hits for over 500 with 9kish ham)

Message Edited by Aladine on 02-25-2004 03:38 PM

i dunno which server you are on but i got a master bio engineer who makes some awesome low lv pets , i currently bought two razor cats at lv 30 and one at lv 39..lv 39 has 65% kinetic resists, with 11k ham and 320-340 dmg... while the lv 30 has 60% kinetic, 10k ham and 300-320 dmg,both purchased at 90k each...he also makes razor cats in low lv 20's with 45-55% kinetic by far the bestlow lvcats i have seen , also all have light armor .... best bet like other said get a low lv bio pet made from a bio engineer that knows how to sample ! i have seen some that do not and are masters , they do not take pride in making there pets

Weeloo - master ch - sunrunner server