Creature Handler Archive

I decided a little over a week ago to start the holo grind. I had masters in pistoleer, marksman, scout and creature handler under my belt as I started this new quest.

My first two holos were brawler and doctor. Brawler was easy thanks to my gurreck and health shot 2 from pistoleer. Doctor was even easier and is definately the easiest master I've done to date. From the time I trained novice doctor it only took 12 hours to master it. Oh and master medic was required to start doctor also.

Luckily neither is a major skill point hog and I've been able to hold on to Master CH through mastering them both. After those two were done I got my silent holo (yay!).

My first post silent holo master was artisan, which unfortunately didn't unlock for me. I looked in to doing several of the trade skill masters after artisan, and they all seem to cost a fortune in materials, or at the very least they would require several weeks or more of harvesting.

Not being the richest person in the galaxy, I decided to send my focus over to being an entertainer. I just started on that yesterday, and have a ways to go before mastering novice entertainer. This is the last starter profession for me to master and I'm crossing my fingers that it will unlock for me. But it probably won't and I'll move on and do Image Design, Dancer and Musician while I'm here.

The other nice thing with the entertainer skills is I can still hold on to Master CH. Through everything I've done in this game, nothing is more enjoyable for me than being a creature handler. Yeah the nerfs sucked. We aren't the most powerful anymore. Not by a longshot. But it's just something I enjoy doing. I was a tamer in UO and loved it there also.

If and when the day comes that I do unlock (whether it's before or after the system change), I do plan on returning to my old Creature handler template. Maybe I'll get tracking back if there's more interesting rare pets to look for. Or maybe I'll try to mix something new in with it, like commando or rifle.

Anyway, I'm just babbling. I was kind of missing playing with my pets (not much to do with them while working doctor or dancer heheh).

I have held off grinding my first holo profession because I can't get a few million credits together as a buffer. I simply don't play that way. I can't grind money and over 1000 dant FS mobs never dropped anything worth selling (nor did scores of enraged rancor missions).

Let's face it.. as a rifleman, until the loot system is fixed... I'm never gonna get a good drop. I'm not fast enough on ninja-looting like the kids that play this game.

But, I digress wildly. I will never give up my CH mastery for the grind. Should I get master bounty hunter as a holo... I will officially give up on jedi until the solution to the jedi quest is posted on the net and EVERYONE is a jedi.

I saw 3 people using lightsabers on Endor in the last 3 days. I'm guessing there's a LOT of jedi running around now.

Well so far I have ground through Armorsmith and I am about to finish Brawler, so the only danger to my MCH was when I had to drop Medic late in the Armorsmith grind. Led to a lot more swapping out when I got tired of crafting and just wanted to kill some things.