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Thread: Couple of CH questions...
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Bradleyius
Wed Jan 12, 2005 10:21 am
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I'm newer to being a CH 2-2-0-3, I think my level of creatures is 27??? Anyways I had a couple question I hope someone could help me out with...
1. Whatis the biggest pet I can have being a 2-2-0-3?
2. How does the XP work for CH? If I just make my pet do one hit on a target do I get the max XP, does it matter if he attacks the whole time? Also if the lower the Creature lvl do I get more XP?
3. Whats the highest number or animal that does the highest damage for Master CH?
Thanks!
1. Whatis the biggest pet I can have being a 2-2-0-3?
2. How does the XP work for CH? If I just make my pet do one hit on a target do I get the max XP, does it matter if he attacks the whole time? Also if the lower the Creature lvl do I get more XP?
3. Whats the highest number or animal that does the highest damage for Master CH?
Thanks!
Kitoth
Wed Jan 12, 2005 10:41 am
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1. if by biggest, do you mean the biggest 'skin' (like fambaa, torton) or biggest i.e. toughest? (highest CL)
2. pet just has to hit it once. lots of CHs refer to that as 'kissing' thetarget
3. any BE pet, probably. I don't know if I've ever seen a tamable pet with close to 700 max damage, but I have seen a few that do up to 640ish.
oh, and familiarize yourself with swgcreatures.com. You can probably answer most of your questions about natural, tamable creatures there (stats, CL, etc)
Turbana
Wed Jan 12, 2005 10:43 am
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1: Check out <a href="http://www.swgcreatures.com/">SWGCreatures.com</a>. They have that info and more, this site will be your best friend as a CH, aside from your pets that is.
2: You pet only needs to hit -once- to get the full xp, so if you tank for your pet have them hit once and call them off. As for the amount of xp... well, it's wierd. There is a sweet spot for each creature. So if your pet is too low of a level you won't get much xp and if your pet is too high a level you won't get much xp. You want to find a pet that is lower level than the target, but not too low or too high. Sounds confusing and it is, you just need to experiment to find what works best on what creatures.
3: As for wild pet stats you can find that on <a href="http://www.swgcreatures.com/">SWGCreatures.com</a> also. A BE'd pet is going to be better though, so to really find that out you'll need to do some shopping.
Tristello
Thu Jan 13, 2005 10:13 pm
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Turbana wrote:1: Check out SWGCreatures.com. They have that info and more, this site will be your best friend as a CH, aside from your pets that is.2: You pet only needs to hit -once- to get the full xp, so if you tank for your pet have them hit once and call them off. As for the amount of xp... well, it's wierd. There is a sweet spot for each creature. So if your pet is too low of a level you won't get much xp and if your pet is too high a level you won't get much xp. You want to find a pet that is lower level than the target, but not too low or too high. Sounds confusing and it is, you just need to experiment to find what works best on what creatures.3: As for wild pet stats you can find that on SWGCreatures.com also. A BE'd pet is going to be better though, so to really find that out you'll need to do some shopping.
JayWind
Fri Jan 14, 2005 1:56 am
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Bradleyius wrote:
I'm newer to being a CH 2-2-0-3, I think my level of creatures is 27??? Anyways I had a couple question I hope someone could help me out with...
1. Whatis the biggest pet I can have being a 2-2-0-3?
2. How does the XP work for CH? If I just make my pet do one hit on a target do I get the max XP, does it matter if he attacks the whole time? Also if the lower the Creature lvl do I get more XP?
3. Whats the highest number or animal that does the highest damage for Master CH?
Thanks!
If by biggest, you mean highest level, there is a skill mod on your character sheet called Max "Level of Pets"
You get the full XP if your pet hits just one time. It must hit though. If it misses and never scores a hit, you get no XP. XP is also determined by the level of your pet and the level of what you're fighting. If your pet is too big or too small for what you're fighting, you get 1 XP.
As for damage, it varies by creature as well as if it's natural or bio-engineered. I refuse to use bio-engineered pets. I have several doing over 700 damage, but it all depends on what you get. I've bene a CH for a very long time and I have some of the rarest pets in the game, as well as some extinct ones and so forth.
MadLeprechaun
Fri Jan 14, 2005 7:16 am
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i would like to make my pets last a bit longer in combat. At the moment im doing fambaa lairs and i dont get hurt but they do. How do you call a pet off once you give them the attack command?
ChefGenius
Fri Jan 14, 2005 7:28 am
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In terms of xp I have tried many combination and I have found my tamed lvl 18 Woodland Kima gets me the most by a mile. I had heard before that level 18s were the sweet spot for grinding.
When i am FS grinding Hurrton Stalkers give the Kima 500xp a go, Squills hit 640 (and you can really clean up on xp in there),if you can survice the geo cave then he gets approx 1000 a go and if you can find some nice tactics then rancors can give 1440 a go (but this is hard and you have to plan cycling your pets attacks nicely).
Bizarrely anything lower or higher against these popular targets yields less.
Although xp requirements make this a tough grind, mastering CH allowed me to gain an extra FS branch while I did this.
Dandaas
JayWind
Fri Jan 14, 2005 10:25 am
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MadLeprechaun wrote:i would like to make my pets last a bit longer in combat. At the moment im doing fambaa lairs and i dont get hurt but they do. How do you call a pet off once you give them the attack command?
Tell them to follow you and they will run back to you. Fambaa are social though, so they may still attack your pets once your pets start attacking them.
Having them follow you also helps when your pets decide to run, or when your pets get the "ranged attack bug" where they will run away when you tell them to attack because they're trying to get to the proper range to use their ranged attacks and the target is too close.
JayWind
Fri Jan 14, 2005 10:30 am
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I've found that for most things, a pet between levels 18 and 22 tend to give the best xp. There are a few notable exceptions like very high-end content (Krayt dragons, Nightsister elders and such) that tend to yield large ammounts of xp.
My favorite was when my level 62 bio-engineered Kimogilla, the only time I ever used it, got me 2000xp after getting torn up by a Gorax on Endor.
The grind is tough, but it's not that bad really. The tradeoff for having tanks, extra special attacks (I'm a pistoleer/CH) and being able to pull high level missions without sharing the payout with anyone else makes it all balance out
There's also the satisfaction you feel when you finally tame one of those rare pets, or one of those "trophy" pets all Creature Handlers dream of. I'm still looking for a bull rancor (baby) myself and I've been a Master CH for over a year.
My favorite was when my level 62 bio-engineered Kimogilla, the only time I ever used it, got me 2000xp after getting torn up by a Gorax on Endor.
The grind is tough, but it's not that bad really. The tradeoff for having tanks, extra special attacks (I'm a pistoleer/CH) and being able to pull high level missions without sharing the payout with anyone else makes it all balance out
There's also the satisfaction you feel when you finally tame one of those rare pets, or one of those "trophy" pets all Creature Handlers dream of. I'm still looking for a bull rancor (baby) myself and I've been a Master CH for over a year.
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