Creature Handler Archive

I understand, really I do

I have nothing though that might help you except maybe creating another character on a different server. It may help. I used several servers with different characters and if I was boredwith my main would go play in a band or do little crafting.

They have taken a lot of the fun and variety out of CH, that is for sure. I can see no reason to pull a weaker pet (or set of weaker pets) anymore since they get trashed so fast. I used to have fun hunting with pets of level 15 through 64, depending on my mood and on what sort of XP I was looking for (CH vs. TKA, etc), and on what the targets were. I had pets that were good vs. NPCs, pets that were good vs. other critters, and the like. Now they are all just bags of health of a given level, and if they are too low a level they get smushed. So all I do is pick one of my wild tames of level 60-66 and use it -- of which I have about 4. And every one is the same except for appearance. Since the brack male is 65 and can be ridden, and none of the others are mounts, at this point I'm not clear on why I would bother to pull anything BUT the Brack, except for the sake of seeing a different visual model. There is no difference otherwise. And all my pets below level 40 are just useless... I have sent a pair of 30s in against a blue con (79, thus blue to me at 80) and they are dead so fast I can't even get in there and finish the blue con off in time to save them. So I don't even bother to use them anymore.

The CH prof is supposed to be the "multi role" profession in theory. In practice it's not at all like that. They've taken almost all of our options away and left us with generic lumps of health. Very disappointing. But not, I must say, very surprising, given past events.

I am keeping CH for only one reason: I like pets. Even if they are uselss, I like them. I made this character on a 2nd account specifically to be a CH (she is also a TKA but that I can take or leave.. CH was the main purpose). So... I'll stick with CH or, if it is not worth it, I will cancel the 2nd account. To be honest I am very close to cancelling at this point. But I'm gonna give it a month at least, since they may still improve things, if they realize how much they have ruined the profession.

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CH was hardly worth it prior to the CURB. Why you would stay it now is beyond me. 20 Correspondents came flying in here saying how sweet CH was going to be. LOL. No wonder they all quit.

The Devs won't fix us before we all leave CH.

Hmmm, I'm having the same thoughts for the first time since coming to SWG almost 3 years ago. I am thinking of quitting MCH and going doctor/rifleman combo. My pets were ok in a group but frankly since the hate system was introduced I am ALWAYS aggro'd to the point of taking a pounding. I can work around this usually with kneecap shot but it's taking longer to kill beasties. Basically I can no longer solo this way. I do fine in groups but the reason for me being MCH was that my time was valuable to me and I am a casual gamer and did not have time to search for groups so it was great going out soloing with my pets. Now I can only pull out one nice pet at a time with level nerf and they can take a pounding if I am solo.

Any thoughts on doctor/rifleman combo?

My BE pets are deleted. I took up Smuggler to compliment my Rifles.

Sorry, but I have no advice to give.

There was a time when there would have been several replies saying how much people loved being CH. The under whelming response here is a bit depressing.

The best reason I have is that I'm stubborn. I'm closing in on 2 years as a CH, and there aren't any other professions I want to play.

Two words...

"Solo MOB's"

OK, one is an acronym, but it counts as 2 right? lol.

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DaBudo2 wrote:

There was a time when there would have been several replies saying how much people loved being CH. The under whelming response here is a bit depressing.

The best reason I have is that I'm stubborn. I'm closing in on 2 years as a CH, and there aren't any other professions I want to play.

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I still love CH... I am not happy that the specials are working... but then again I am double Damned since I am M BE too...

SO the 2 professions I love are borked.... holding out for 3-6 months and then I will see what I will do...

So I respec'd to MCH the other day because the one thing I've noticed in the XP run on Bloodfin was that the guy who could pull singles from the MOB was a valuable person to have in this new grouping game. The other reason was that I was trying to get XP for the Village. So I respec'd and went to Dantooine for a group...that is when it all got a bit confusing. Do you have to be grouped with pet to get good xp? I was getting great xp just taming and training...but I go to Dant and kill a level 80 Piket and was getting almost nothing...granted pet wasn't grouped, but it is hard enough to form a good group...everyone didn't want the Pet taking up a spot on the max number of 8. Funny, I thought the new system was formed because people complained about it took them too long to get into combat..having to be buffed,etc. To me trying to get 8 people grouped and ready to go took twice as long...and then half way through it a couple of members would flake out and you'd have a bunch of missions either borked or too hard for group now.
It's really too bad. I had been a CH since I got done with Beta...gave it up only about 6 months ago...I was hopeful that it was going to be of use again. Just don't think it is even now.

Well, I was grouped last night still as an MCH, had my pets out, but ungrouped from the main group and racked up some serious CH xp. Try going to Lok and pullin gurk missions they seem to be working the best. I was getting CH xp both grouped and ungrouped with my pets.

/sigh

I will forever miss being an MCH now that I've switched to Master Doc. Don't think I will be soloing anytime soon as we now have EQ2 in space with forced grouping. May keep SWG just for JTL. Still not sure.