Creature Handler Archive
Thread: so creature handlers, what do u think of mustafer?
Just curious
personally im really enjoying it.
Message Edited by Mack2000mc on 10-27-2005 01:46 PM
i got mine too, spent about 30mins taming a cl70 kubbazza bettle, which had no abilitys then tamed 2 smoking forest blitsmoks which took 1 tame each.
The 2nd blitsmok had fleet foot 3!
My cl69 reptillian flyer looks he should of originated from mustafer, just looks the part with volcanic backdrop
I like the idea of the lava rivers, an environment with repercussions BUT... I've been chased across it by too many critters & NPCs that haven't taken any damage at all from it. That seems unfairly one-sided to me. If the Devs thought it'd be that much of an exploit, maybe the should have put a slower swim speed on it for fleas and skiffs and given more mobs some ranged weaponry. Throw some malfunctioning, flea bitten mining droids out there on the rivers too if they needed a little more deterence against using the lava rivers as an escape route.
Looking forward to having a level 80 raptor - that's my goal. The fun of quests, searching for loot and going DOH! as I lose another swoop to a beetle with 1 hit area attack, or failing to notice my swoop off the top of the hill is going to land me in the lava - is giving me a lot of laughs.
So far I'm finding it fun, nice to see babies again 
Cool looking creatures too
I am starting to go blind though, they should issue us real sun glasses to wear lol.
One pet peeve I have is the theme of elite cl 83 jedi's on many of the missions.
All in all, I'm having a good time so far.
So far I have yet to see a single critter skin imported from somewhere else in the game, which was not true on WookieeWorld.
Also, the new critters are uniformly interesting visually (lava fleas have glowing eyes, for example) and the fact that there are more tamables now, and the taming process isn't as bad for level 65+ critters as it has been, for example, on Dath. I was in a group of CHs yesterday, and we all agreed that the tames are not as time consuming, in general, as it is on Dath (rep fliers, in particular), but you still get the tykes to crit fail on you at times. I've been able to run away and not use burst run to break aggro on some blistmok and blistmok raptor babies, for example.
Of course, the REAL payoff is that I have YET to see anything but an L3 special on a Mustafar tame. My lava flea became mountable after the second XP turnover, and gave up aggression L3 about 100k XP into the second cycle, which was a pleasant surprise.
From reports here, a well prepared pet (with L3 defensive skills) that has L3 aggression will be like the much missed tanks of yore, like Tazz's still beloved but nerfed to hell GSPs. The catch of course is it will take a great deal of time to prepare the pet via XP to reach its full potential; this is very comparable to the Jedi grind.
Message Edited by SioBabble on 10-27-2005 09:07 AM
in my own words. . . "pimptastic"it's really fun. i also like it because there are no a-holes runnning around thinking they know everything there is to know about the planet and its quests...yet. lol. the pets are really cool too, although i still get really discombobulated when my friends are like "dude look a level 72 xandank baby!! tame it bro!" and i'm like "fiddlestix!"
but, all good things come in time! ( i hope. lol. )
It is a very pretty world with some striking views from the high peaks.
Fun to explore. Lots of new babies.
I have not killed anything on the planet (yet) but at lvl 71 I am not likly to do so by myself. It is a small moon. Only about 1/4th the size of a normal planet but they did listen to our complaint about the paths in the wookie world.
Lots of new resources but no way to reasonably mine them so they will be rather expensive.
Found some Aluminum with conductivity 996 and most of the other stats in the 900s. Same with the Iron and Steel (well same as lots of stats in the 900's)
Have taken several lava baths in my Skiff. Will try with my lava flea (agression L3) when I get him mountable
Tried the lava barefoot. In a word DONT. It hurts.
Tried flying or walking up to the top of either of the tall volcanos. Can't get in. Not in the skiff up the lava flows and not on foot up the sides.
Learned to put my skiff away EVERY TIME. It's just too expensive to fix and if you dont have a flea then you can get stuck across the lava from the station. (there seem to be paths so you dont need the flea but the paths are very complex and at least the central volcano i have not found a path.)
-Indene-
Message Edited by Indene on 10-27-2005 11:51 AM
Cant wait to see more planets with this much detail and thought.
I really like it.
The worldhas unique creatures that are not the copies like the ones they used for Kashyyyk while the world itself is very hazardous and dark. My only issue is I really cant get the most out of the taming until I get that Necklace which may or may not be wearable by Wookiees. Also at times the world is very difficult to navigate and have to rely on waypoints to know where am going due to it being so dark. Also my CH is having trouble killed the lvl 80 and above npcs and will probably have to rely on My jedi character for taking down the high end boss marks to get good loot.