Creature Handler Archive

There was a time when aggressive creatures had aggressive babies. These babies were red on radar also. So you had to stop at every lair and tab through looking for a baby. These babies were more likely to attack you if you failed the tame. Please share some of your successes and some of your failures.

My toughest, most difficult tame was a Kliknik Defender baby on Yavin IV.
I had wanted a Kliknik for the longest time, and so once I hit taming 2 I headed back to Yavin to see what I could get. I was then 2214 having gone up Management fully and training before hitting taming for aggressive pets.
I got a Defender and a Hunter baby to spawn as the second cycle. I attemped to tame the Hunter and failed three times including him aggroing me once. I decided to switch off and try the Defender. I ended up getting aggroed more than a dozen times, and it took more than 40 minutes, but I finally had my Defender baby. Luckily no other spawns of Klikniks had popped out. I did not get the Hunter as another CH who had stood there watching me run around in circles for 10 minutes trying to break aggro, ran up and tamed him.
Oh well, I got my Defender, and the thrill of actually taming this stubborn baby was immense. After all those aggroes, I prevailed, without pulling my gun out and smacking him over the head with it

My Deadliest, was my first trip to Endor. Endor was my last planet to visit and it was well over 3 months from launch when I went there. I went to Dath right before the great Graul migration to Dant.
Anyway, I came across a Blood Stained Merek baby. He was just within my taming level, so I donned my taming armor, unequipped my weapon, hit peace, masked my scent, went prone and crawled my way in. Ranger crawling speed sure helped back then. Anyway, I got to the baby and stood up and put myself on follow. I attempted the tame. I failed, but no aggro. I attempted a second time. The little monkey faced bugger walked us right between a few Harvestor adults. Then it happened. Tame failed, he aggroed, and my peace failed and I slapped him across the face by reflex. The Harvestors sure didn't like that. About 7 Mereks of various types all had their HAM bars lit up and boom I was out and dead in no time flat.
Come to think of it, I have yet tamed a Blood Stained Merek baby. I have always just passed them by since this day. I wonder if it is a subconscious thing? Oh well,

Just a random taming story:
During the patch in which Graul Maulers stopped spawning, I went to Dantooine. I was 2214 in CH and working on that 2nd taming box. I could tame Grauls but not the Maulers as they were just out of my reach. I was close to Master Ranger at this time, so I was out tracking Grauls for myself. I came across a few different CH out there, all wookiees, heh. Anyway, they had asked if I had seen any Maulers around. I checked track and sure enough there was one there. We all hustled over to see if we could get a baby to pop. We took turns popping the lair. I ended up grouping with these guys for 3 days straight and 2 other CHs during this week. I saw more than a dozen Graul Mauler babies get tamed, and all during a time when everyone was on the boards complaining that they had been removed. I was extremely lucky, and I even made about 150k in tips from these CH. It was a very fun time.

Also, these tames all took place back when taming clothes of any level sold for more 200k easily as Milk was a very rare thing.

Do any of you have stories like this? Please share

My first Toxic Merrek Battle Lord was my worst. This was way back
before taming clothes, mounts, and bikes. You ran everywhere and
armor was not even worth wearing. I think Chittin Armor was the rage
then. The TMB has strong poison and that little bugger would not tame.
Aggro babies agro'd back then. He was 1100m north of Smugglers
Outpost. On my first approach he agroed me and poisoned me before I
even started taming. I ran to break agro but died before he broke agro
because of the poison. The little bugger DB'd me. lol I clone run the
1100m back look around and see him by his lonesome I waypointed the
location. I redo the mask scent and go prone. It really helpped back
then. Tame failed, he aggroed with that strong poison and DB'd me
again. I died 14 times before he finally tamed and had to run 1100m
through the toughest critters in the game at the time every time he did.
It took over 2 1/2 hours until he tamed. Back then most people were
afraid to even set foot on Endor.

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Wow. Congrats on the tame and the patience.
Yep I was one of those that didn't go to Endor, until later on. :

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TivoTenook wrote:

definately have to be graul maulers on Dathomir north of the imp prison in the cliffs. i swear my mask scent would break every time i got within 45m. lol

as for more recent, the widow. took me over 40 tries and around 10 aggros. i was triumphant in the end

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That had to be a pain! Thankfully mast scent works a bit better now!

Hiya Tivo.

Hey if you get a chance can you jump on TC Eclipse and check on the Pet Vitality loss issue? Vert and I are looking into it. It looks like we might have Vitality loss and Incap recovery working to a point. If you don't have time, that is cool.

Okay I hijacked my own thread, sorry. Back to the stories.

Actually your Eclipse Character was copied over with everyone elses. I think they copied during your off time. You should still have your two Novice CH pets, of course they won't be full grown yet

Way back in 03 when I was a young TKM, I figured I'd head over to Endor and kick a few spiders around. Heck, I knew they would be no match for me. I had on some of that new 80% kinetic armor, found a doc to buff me, had a shield gen, even had some pixie in my pack, just in case.
Well I found a widow/webmaster mound. You know how Endor is at times, Then nest you want has enough red dots around from overlapping nests to make you a bit nervous. Well as Fable (my cat) and I started working the 1st spawn I targeted the nest by mistake. We all know what happens then. to make matters worse We got aggro from another nearby nest while trying to beat feet outa there, same thing, widows and webmasters. I was healing the cat, fighting, praying, trying to run, all at the same time. I put the shield gen on, used the pixie and kept on swinging. I cannot remember how many spiders we fought, but I do remember you had to use a magnifying glass to see what was left of my health bar when the last one went down. I just stared at the screen, cause I knew I was on my way to the cloneing center when this started. Rested up, tapped a nest, don't know if it was the one I started on, again and got a webmaster baby.