Beast Master
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Creature Handler based expertise tree, released in Chapter 6.
As a beast Master you will collect DNA strands from creatures, and incubate them into Eggs that you can then sell or hatch for yourself. As the Beast Master you have full control over the color, and stats of the beast. For information on leveling visit Beast Leveling.
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[edit] Expertise
 Incubation | This is your first step in starting your journey as a Beast Master! This ability allows you to use an Incubator to bio-engineer new beasts. You will also receive the "Extract DNA" and "Revive Beast" commands when you learn this skill. |
[edit] Creation Side
 Beast Empathy | Learn this skill to improve your ability to keep your beasts happy. Your creature's happiness can range from furious to ecstatic and has a direct impact on its loyalty and how quickly it gains levels. This ability is important to any Beast Master, regardless of the ways they put their creatures to work. |
 Incubation Quality | Beast Masters who enjoy making the best creatures during the incubation process will want to spend points in this skill, which can provide up to a 20% bonus to your enzyme qualities. Increasing the quality of enzymes can affect the points available for the beast's stats during incubation. You must spend three points in Beast Empathy to learn this ability. |
 Genetic Engineering | Grants a bonus to Genetic Engineering. Learning this skill gives the Beast Master a bonus toward the effect of hydrolase enzymes during the refining process of incubation. Train in Incubation Quality three times in order to take advantage of this bonus. |
 Stupid Pet Tricks | You can teach an old beast new tricks - two, to be exact! Beasts under your control will do tricks at your command when you spend a point on the Stupid Pet Tricks ability. Pet tricks aren't just for show. Some pets enjoy performing tricks for their master so much that it can improve their happiness. |
 DNA Harvesting | Once your beast has learned some new tricks, you're ready to use this skill to receive a bonus to DNA harvesting. Learning this ability increases your chance to obtain higher quality DNA from a creature in the wild. Every 10 points will give you a 5% bonus to the minimum quality of the DNA you are extracting. |
 Create Mount | Experienced Beast Masters who have taught their pet a trick or two can then use their skills to teach a beast to become a mount. The Create Mount ability allows you to make an incubated egg into a mount. Use the radial menu on the unhatched egg and select "Convert Egg into Mount" to create the mount. Beasts such as the Bantha, Bol, Bolotaur, Brackaset, Carrion Spat, Cu Pa , Dewback, Eopie, Falumpaset, Graul, Kaadu, Kashyyyk Bantha, Rancor, Tulrus, Varactyl, and more can become mounts. (Some of these beasts are only obtainable through mutations.) Remember, creature mounts must be sold to another player as an egg. You must spend one point in Stupid Pet Tricks to gain access to this ability. |
 Incubation Processing Time | Train this skill to reduce the time required to incubate and hatch a beast. If you spend three points in this expertise, combined with a high quality incubator, the time between incubation sessions can be decreased by as many as 12 hours. You must learn the ability Create Mount |
[edit] Combat Side
- Attack!: You can command a beast under your control to attack anything you are able to attack yourself. Choosing this skill automatically adds the Attack button to the Pet Toolbar. You must have the Attack ability in order to spend a point in Creature Knowledge .
- Creature Knowledge: Learn this ability to gather detailed knowledge about a creature. This skill allows you to study creatures in the wild for chance to discover special abilities that can then be taught to your beast. Beasts can only learn from creatures of a similar type; for example, a narglatch can't learn abilities from a rancor.
- Enhanced Skill Acquisition: This skill improves your chance to learn abilities that you may use to train your pet while you are studying another creature. You must learn Creature Knowledge before you can gain this expertise.
- Soothing Comfort: Learn this skill to soothe your savage beast. The Soothing Comfort ability removes a harmful effect, state, or damage over time effect from your creature. You must spend four points in Enhanced Skill Acquisition before using this ability.
- Swift Recovery: Choose this skill to reduce the amount of time it takes to revive your beast from incapacitation. You must learn Soothing Comfort before you can train this ability.
- Mending: After learning Swift Recovery, train this expertise to use the ability Heal Beast to restore health to your injured creature.
- Additional Combat Command:You may teach your beasts an additional combat command once you have chosen this expertise. This skill unlocks a slot on the Pet Toolbar. If your pet has enough ability points, and you have learned a new ability by studying a creature in the wild, your beast can fill that slot with a new combat ability.
- Exceptional Nutrition: Select this ability to increase the Health of all beasts under your control by up to 100%. You must have acquired Soothing Comfort in order to add this expertise.
- Improved Pet Recovery: Once your pet has benefited from two ranks of Exceptional Nutrition , learn this expertise to increases the amount of Health your beast receives when you revive it from incapacitation.
- Dexterity Training: Learn this skill to increases the attack speed of beasts under your control by up to 100%. You must spend two points in Exceptional Nutrition to add this boost.
- Specialized Supplements: This ability increases the Health and Action regeneration rate of your beast by up to 100%. Put two points in Dexterity Training in order to obtain this bonus.
- Fortitude: Choose this skill to boost your pet's defense and increase the armor of beasts under your control by 100%. Spend two points in the Dexterity Training expertise to add this increase.
- Savagery: Increase the damage caused by beasts under your control by 100% by adding this expertise. Place three points in Fortitude to unlock this bonus.
- Harmonious Understanding: Beast Masters who are ready to explore their beast's full potential will benefit greatly from this skill. By learning this ability, you and your beast are able to anticipate each other's needs. This ability reduces your damage reduction penalty when controlling a beast. Spend three points in Savagery to begin creating this bond with your beast.
[edit] Loyalty
As pets level up and mature, they gain levels of loyalty. The level of loyalty dictates what tier of attacks it can learn (Must be a certain minimum level also). Loyalty level has an effect on pet happiness, which affects combat.
These are the various levels of loyalty:
- Wild - No specials can be learned
- Disobedient - Tier 1 skills
- Trained - Tier 2 skills
- Obedient - Tier 3 skills
- Loyal - Tier 4 skills
- Best Friend Forever - Tier 5 skills.
Loyalty increases by killing beasts & NPCs that are within ten levels of your pet.
Loyalty increases even if your pet is set on "passive" instead of "defensive", giving it less chance of dying in combat.
Loyalty is decreased by pet death & pet hunger.
(Loyalty is unaffected by a pet death while in PVP combat).
Feed your pet regularly with a food substitute, at least every hour.
Feeding your pet affects its happiness level, which alters it's kill bonus, up to 50%.
Happiness affects the rate of loyalty gained, pet dps and experience gain.
A pet's favorite planet & favorite food effects it's happiness.
Feeding a pet it's favorite food improves it's happiness.
Feeding a pet food it dislikes will prevent loyalty loss, but lose happiness.
There are different ways to feed pets, the easiest is to just open the radial menu of the food substitute in your inventory.
Food substitutes are produced by Traders & sold on the bazaar.
Stims will cause faster leveling, but slower loyalty development in retrospect. So for example, if someone uses pet stims all the way until the pet is lvl. 75 (When stims can't be used anymore), they will not be able to achieve best friend forever once they hit CL90 with their pet.
The usual rate for someone using stims almost the whole way is almost the same as grinding from CL 89-90, twice. Meanwhile, it is speculated that a pet leveled with little or no use of stims could be BFF is anywhere from CL 75-78.
[edit] Stuffing Pets
After Update 5, Beast Masters have the ability to stuff pets. The pet will become the size it was of its level, instead of growing to full size, this action is irreversable.
[edit] External links
- Tech Specs: Beast Master Incubator, (SOE Guide)
- Helpful Guide on the Forums
- SWGPets.com Pet Database and Guides
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