Creature Handler Archive

Well, I'll start off saying that a week ago, or near about, I started testing on TC(testcenter). I was ready to cancel my pre-order. Now, I won't go back to pre-cu for anything. I'm also disappointed with SOE on how they've decided to educate players on the new CU. It's basically, take someone who has never swam and and droppiing them off in the middle of the ocean. I expect most people didn't take time like I did and go test on TC. And it's unfair to those people, SOE should have did better a better job explaining the new system for those that had no interest in testing. Anyway, here goes.

So far, the new CU has been difficult to understand with all the changes. My very first experience was out roaming around and looking for a GSP to tame. I was MCH/master Fencer. The GSP was lvl 23 and almost killed me. I logged off and was furious at the new CU. Then, I swtiched to MCH/MBE, because I was bent on seeing how pets worked now and felt I had no chance to go out in the wild a tame pets on the TC. Well, having never been a BE, it took me 2 days on the TC to figure out how to make pets. But during those 2 days, I dueled around the frog alot and learned alot of new things about the new CU skills and how things have really changed. So after messing with the BE, and having felt I learned alot more. I decided to go bake to my normal template and give it another try. It took me about a full day, but I really got the hang of it and began having some fun. Taming was very difficult on the TC because I had no boosters to taming, mask scent or camo. Now with CU going live I played around with other templates on TC and found out the CU wasn't going to be nearly as bad as I thought, at first and read about.

So, anyway, the CU goes live on Eclipse.Well, it took me another day to organize mymain character and figure what out has beendone to current pets I own.

Man has it been fun. I've had no problems solo, but groups have been rough, seeing how people are just starting to learn thier new skills.

Pets are great. They regen so fast, and you can now usepets to pull mobs from large groups of nasty agrro lairs without having to get close enough to agro more than one mob. Killing things above your CL is no problem at all. For the first time in a really really long time, MCH are having fun again. Well, I am anyway. I haven't expereinced any bugs except for BE made pets or mounts being a little difficult to control. Seems like they may not attack when ordered to, when fighting against a mob with ranged attack. But once I engage the mob myself, and it goes melle, the pet will start hitting. I could see where this could be a problem for a MCH that uses ranged combat. He might have to go up to the creature and get it to engage melle so pet will attack. But all in all pets don't seem buggy at all in my experience. I NEED MORE PET STORAGE! lol

Well, I guess that about sums the CU up for me. For all creature handlers that are discouraged by the CU, keep at it, once you get the feel for the new pets and system, I find a hard time believing you would ever want to go back pre-CU. So, keep at it and good luck. And if you have any questions or would like any tips, feel free to ask.