Creature Handler Archive

---

Aaaarrrrgggghhhh wrote:

It seems any BE pets that where converted using the 'Level to Stats' method need to be redone again, can you post results here please as I'm a devout coward who doesn't want to lose old friends if avoidable.

Also I want to get the best pets pos at the end if pos.

---

Yeah, some of mine did too and I did, they're mostly adjusting damage becuase of the damage change... instead of a 100 point difference they now apparantly don't have a min damage over 100 and ALL be'd pets prior to yesterday have 0% in state resist, crit hit and crit save chance, and aggro bonus.

I logged on this morning to check my pets, My old BE rancor that survived the first nerfing cant be called or even given the option to adjust him and the 3 lvl 65-70 cats I had made were hit hard. they each had 8-9k hams and did 550-625 damage, I let 1 of them be hit and it was neutered down to 5k ham and 360 damage.

Message Edited by Skull-Taker on 05-27-2005 08:07 AM

Message Edited by Aaaarrrrgggghhhh on 05-27-2005 04:12 PM

Ok, so I went ahead....

I had a junky BE pet that went to CL58, 8432 health, 3652 armor, 143 to hit/defense, 230-240 damage (used to be CL27 or so pre CU).

I have only 6 BE pets that survived the first neutering and just dared toreadjust4 of them.

Results are not pretty...

Creature #1. Level 10 Bol had HAM of 6314/3191/1539 and damage of 70-75.

I adjusted stats (not level) and now have a 1715 health bol with damage of 45-240 and 0s everywhere else. Hey, that's funny. His stats are equal in every way to mylevel 10 varactyl. What would Darwin say about this most unlikely coincidence between two distant species? (The one difference isthe varactyl's minimum damage is 40 instead of 45). Now that was worth the 40,000 credits, eh?

Creature #2. Level 25 Dalyrake had HAM of 8217/5632/3886 and damage of 190-200.

I adjusted level. He went to level 46, kept the 8217 health and the damage of 190-200. His "to hit" is 76 and armor is 783, which -- just guessing here -- is eggshell-thin.

Creature #3. Level 50 Gurreck had HAM of 10981/9437/0132 and damage of 380-390. Yeah, my onepowerful pet.

First, I tried to adjust stats, hoping he'd squeeze in under the arbitrary level 70 b.s. Suprisingly, a message popped up that I could not do this because he would now be level 104. Wow! A warning message. I almost kissed the screen. Back to my punishment, I readjusted his stats. Ooooooh, little kitty. Health of 5380, damage 81-342, to hit 107, defense value 107. I'll drop him off at the pound.

Creature #4. Level 48 Choku had HAM of 7319/6547/7265 and damage of 300-310.

I adjusted level. I hit the button and ..............ready for this? ...................he converts to level 72. No warning this time. No warning at all. WTPH!? He's gone. "I lack the ability to tame this pet." Well, you, SOE, lack the ability to run a coherent game. I understand there's a constant juggling of balancing going on, but why in the world do you give a message that one pet will be unusable but not for another pet? Is there some secret here -- that maybe level 72 pets will someday be callable? Whhyyyy...?

---prinkto, stubborn level 65 non double-mastering miscellaneous dabbler of a character / MCH

---

prinkto wrote:

I have only 6 BE pets that survived the first neutering and just dared toreadjust4 of them.

Results are not pretty...

Creature #1. Level 10 Bol had HAM of 6314/3191/1539 and damage of 70-75.

I adjusted stats (not level) and now have a 1715 health bol with damage of 45-240 and 0s everywhere else. Hey, that's funny. His stats are equal in every way to mylevel 10 varactyl. What would Darwin say about this most unlikely coincidence between two distant species? (The one difference isthe varactyl's minimum damage is 40 instead of 45). Now that was worth the 40,000 credits, eh?

Creature #2. Level 25 Dalyrake had HAM of 8217/5632/3886 and damage of 190-200.

I adjusted level. He went to level 46, kept the 8217 health and the damage of 190-200. His "to hit" is 76 and armor is 783, which -- just guessing here -- is eggshell-thin.

Creature #3. Level 50 Gurreck had HAM of 10981/9437/0132 and damage of 380-390. Yeah, my onepowerful pet.

First, I tried to adjust stats, hoping he'd squeeze in under the arbitrary level 70 b.s. Suprisingly, a message popped up that I could not do this because he would now be level 104. Wow! A warning message. I almost kissed the screen. Back to my punishment, I readjusted his stats. Ooooooh, little kitty. Health of 5380, damage 81-342, to hit 107, defense value 107. I'll drop him off at the pound.

Creature #4. Level 48 Choku had HAM of 7319/6547/7265 and damage of 300-310.

I adjusted level. I hit the button and ..............ready for this? ...................he converts to level 72. No warning this time. No warning at all. WTPH!? He's gone. "I lack the ability to tame this pet." Well, you, SOE, lack the ability to run a coherent game. I understand there's a constant juggling of balancing going on, but why in the world do you give a message that one pet will be unusable but not for another pet? Is there some secret here -- that maybe level 72 pets will someday be callable? Whhyyyy...?

---prinkto, stubborn level 65 non double-mastering miscellaneous dabbler of a character / MCH

---

Oh Devs, why do you keeppenalizing us CHs? Pre-CU bio pet level 10 with 10k HAM and 60% kenetic resists ... very very very very expensive but he kept my crafting character alive out in the boonies tending and setting harvesters. First post-CUcall had to adjust pet andselected adjust level rather than stats and he was adjusted to level 20 but the stats were still reasonable.Of course he could no longer be used by my crafting character but he was about equal to a "elite" Female Narglatch at level 22. Publish 17 comes out, I call the pet, and am again told to either adjust level or stats ... I pick level and he is now level 40 and no beter than a level 40 natural pet ... that is a total nerf in my opinion

Ok, worked up some bravery and thought maybe one more pet had low enough damage. I tried ...

What other choice do we have though? Better to have something usable I suppose. Until they change it again of course and we have to respec them a 3rd time.

Think I am going to try a level23(pre cu)Cu Pa(CL 44CU)I have, don't want to lose him he served me really well grinding lower level CH and still was a great mount but is the only one that I can bring myself to convert atm.

Keep the stats coming it may help others decide what to do, not that this makes any sense to me what so ever.