The 10 Commandments of Creature Handling

[Xordium]

1) Go Singing Mountain Clan - if you don't go that way have a very good reason not to as you will have to accept a reduction of 25% damage output or 15-20% survivability for your pets at max level as the compromise for not going Singing Mountain Clan.
2) Go up the 4xxx line first. You want to be able to tame vicious creatures too this is the line that gives it. CH XP scales with how far up a line you've gone - you will get more XP at 2000 than at 1111 for example.
3) Before you start get Bio-engineered clothing with +25 taming and +25 vicious creature taming. Or tape up to +25.
4) Accept pets grow every day and it takes time - this won't show in the datapad - get them out and restore to see their growth. Top end pets will take a week to grow. Yep, it's frustrating and requires patient. If you don't have patience this probably is not the profession for you though. Plan ahead.
5) Look at a pets resists a pet with 200 HP and 100% Resist to Stun can be hit for 20000 stun damage and not lose any health. The look at my 17k HAM superbeast with 5% Stun Resist crowd won't feel so cool when they see their brute one-shotted. Light armour works like the armour you wear it reduces damage - you want it for a pet that actively tanks. Power equates to damage. Some specials will show on pets but don't work so don't excited that you've seen a bio-engineered pet that has something fantastic check they do work first. If the bio-engineer knows their craft they won't have done this for anything other than a show pet. If they tell you all specials stick consider going elsewhere. Get to know a good bio-engineer so you can get custom stuff made. Know DOT attacks are influenced by Battle Fatigue. So overtime the same special will be more damaging. Disease causes Battle Fatigue but poison does not. A knocked down target will take 1.5 x damage. Enraged pets do 1.15 x damage.
6) Pets suck at PVP - you can annoy people at best.
7) Pet specials don't last long when they stick. So you need to spam them.
8) Train pets and /tellpet command. Macro that stuff so you do it quickly. Learn to control pets early so you don't lose the ones that took you ages to buy.
9) Don't expect any pet to be the jack-of-all trades. Pets perform functions very specific functions. Know what you want it to do and and pick the right tool. Don't whack in a screw with a hammer and complain about the hammer or the screw!
10) Make a decision before engaging - who is that target going to try and kill me or my pet. Make sure the targets focus is on the one who can survive its attacks. Creature Handlers can take down all Master Bounty Hunter marks, krayts, and DJMs with ease. Not always as fast as some other templates for sure but you can often do these things without great weapons, unbuffed with a bit of food, and you don't even need armour for a fair bit of it too.


Plenty of Creature Handlers are doing end-game content every day. They likely won't tell you how they do it - that's for you to find out. Sometimes it's about the journey not the destination

Possible templates or ones we use:

M.CH/M.Rifles/Ranger0040/Marksman4004
M.CH/MB.H/Pistoleer0010
M.CH/M.Rifles/Scout4444/Squad Leader 0013

Have fun and enjoy a different part of the game.

Discord - Volcane

[Lamfir4]

Thanks for this! Extremely useful.