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If I could have three guns out, all firing at the same time, all taking damage for me while I sit back and fire gun number four (it's a weak gun and can't do all this stuff on it's own), hell, I'd expect the guns to maybe jam from time to time or be destroyed. Hell, those are some really cool guns!
But wait a minute, my guns degrade from use, and the act of repairing them can sometimes destroy them completely. But heck, it's not like a creature because the creature isn't so hard to keep alive. Hmmm, how do I keep my creature from dying? Well, I don't let him fight something that stands a good chance of killing him, or put him in a situation that stands a good chance of getting him killed. Some would wonder what the worth is to even have the pets then? Well, they can augment my own skills in which case they stand a better chance of living, or I just have spare pets to cover the times when my other pets die.
What do we prefer? Our pets being useless in a fight and just pretty too look at because they are immortal creations. Or pets being great in a fight, but having their own special risks involved (I have to keep them from dying).
you're missing the point.. Your gun isnt going to disappear if you lose a fight, no matter what kind of fight.. Like you're just blindsided by lag and run into a tusken warlord who kills you in one hit then DB's ya.. Or if you're overt walking around and a mob of rebels come by and tear ya up.. You'll get your nifty gun back.. But if we have our pets out and die.. they die.. gone.. poof.. see ya in 5 days..
Nope you go back to your corpse, or the nearest cloning center.. no loss to you.. no 5 day please wait while i grow a new gun period.. You can hop right back up and go about business as usual..
Happens to a CH... they have to spend time finding new pets.. giving them time to grow.. At lower levels this is going to kill any CH xp gaining.. If you lose one of your two pets, what then... Most CH's only carry one pet at novice anyways, to tame others.. But if your kept pet gets killed.. you have no back up..
Permadeath isnt that bad.. But where's the compensation? They're going to make our pets weaker.. Make them die.. And not heal on their own.. So now we have weak pets, who die faster, and cant heal on their own? hmm.. balanced? i think not.
Zepp
What ya mean?
"Your argument would make some sense if it was impossible to hit the CH himself. "
It is very possible to kill a CH.. one shot.. boom dead.. head shot would do it no prob.. Then what? incap the pets, db the CH, or just DB CH and poof, pets dead..
Zepp
What ya mean?
"Your argument would make some sense if it was impossible to hit the CH himself. "
It is very possible to kill a CH.. one shot.. boom dead.. head shot would do it no prob.. Then what? incap the pets, db the CH, or just DB CH and poof, pets dead..
That is what I said. Take out the CH, have your rifleman buddy (everyone has at least 1 rifleman buddy. they grow on trees) DB the CH. As it was, that makes it impossible fort the pets to hit you. As it is now, it quite literaly kills the pet and forces the CH to spend hours getting a new one and a week waiting for it to grow.
Just a word to the non ch'ers posting here saying how easy it is with 3 pets. Remember that's a master CH'er that can do that, and to those of us that didn't run around Lok with the 'mask scent exploit' it took a while to get to novice and it takes a long time to get to master.
And have you seen what a master Rifleman or Commando can do? I don't think you would call their guns broken. Master CH is the top of a second tier profesion and should be fairly powerful.
Ahh k zepp I see now 
thought you were responding to my post hehe..
Yeah.. CH's in PVP = suckers now..
One person in PVP could cause a CH to lose a weeks worth of playtime in one shot.. boom.. dead CH.. poof pet1, poof pet2, poof pet3..
WAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
'Destroy' an elite profession? <sigh> I'll take the responsibility for you and type the word 'fix' in place of 'destroy', since what you said is invalid.
OMG **edit**!!1 MY PET ISNT UB3R L33T N E MOR3 OMFG!~11
Seriously, rancors? What, they have like 15000 HAM, 500 dmg, 2 AS? Yeah... thought so.
I'm a CH and I've been waiting for a nerf ever since I saw how stupidly powerful they are. No, I don't have/want rancors. In fact I plan to drop this stupid profession anyway. I was one of the first CHs on my server, and I only chose it to be different. I didn't even care about using the pets in battle, I just thought it was something new to MMOs (the taming part, not the pet part). Well, the unexpected hit me as every noob who joined up wanted to be a CH becausethey're ub3r l33tz0r.
Hopefully they'll fix the corpse-summoning bug soon, so they can re-implement the CH fix and shut everyone up.