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Thread: Droid tactics-- Bomb and Attack droid tactics.....
Get a high yield bomb droid....tell it to follow your target....just before it gets to it tell it to detonate......Watch target panic as numbers tick over the droids head....
Pre-cu it used to be an incap...
they are fun though
Message Edited by Naplam on 09-03-2005 02:39 PM
obeewaan wrote:
Anyone know where to get some Bomb Droids on Bloodfin?
For bomb or other droids on bloodfin email Kalamari or visit the Iunctus Frons mall on Talus. he is my alt and a 12pt DE and I'll make what ever you need, just send an email detailing what you need. My prices are pretty good. My BH toon finanaces my DE allowing me to sell things pretty cheap.
As far as tactics go its best to use droids in cities cuz when you call them they come instantly. out in the wild they take 15 secs and that gives the jedi time t get away. or call them while you are still far out and have it follow you as you run. For bomb droids have the droid follow the target. the best time to detonate it is when you kd the jedi so he won't attack the droid. once kd'd issue the detonate command, I think its /detonate or /detonatedroid (can't remember off the top of my head). with the right droid it can dish out some serious damage.
I use my combat droid against npc's all the time. they tick away at the npc's with anywhere from 94 to 194 damage every second. doesn't seem like much but it does help. The same can be said for the jedi too. I think its more of an annoiance to the jedi having you attack him and having this droid nipping at his heals. They are usefull against jedi though, especially for tripple incap. I was dueling a jedi buddy once using my droid to test it and i incapped him twice and before he could heal after getting up from the second incap my droid auto attacked him and triple incapped him. we were both surprised. but it was a good lesson in droid tactics. once the droid has been told to attack he will continue to attack as soon as the jedi gets up from incap.
I've tried using bomb droids with very little success. The problem is you can't call them during combat, so you must call them and wait for 15 seconds for them to appear. Meanwhile, your target has to be standing around doing nothing. If he is riding around or running someplace you my as well recall your droid because he can't follow a target for a long distance. Not only that, but once you use the detonation command, the droid stops. You can't stop the countdown and the droid doesn't follow the target while in countdown sequence. If the mark sees the droid he can simply run from it, or one hitthe thing.
They are fun, but very situational. I manage to use one once in awhile when I get a mark that is in Bestine. That seems to be a hot Rebel Jedi hang out. I wait on the outskirts of the fight in casual wear and call the droid. Usually the Jedi doesn't know what hit him. However, some Jeid that are buffed up and defenders the droid doesnt do much daamge. I only found detonation power 39 droids so maybe higher ones could do more damage.
From my experience they are fun, but not something you could pull out every fight. THe situation has to be exactly right. In my expericne, the price I paid for the detonation 39 bomb droids does not justify the perfect conditions needed to use it because of the damage it does. I think I hit one Jedi for 600 damage. Which is nice, because you can follow with an Underhand SHot then lay on some damage. However, the Jedi will jsut stand up and heal to full health so not sure if its really worth to use them. Myabe some other people have had better success than me though.
i use attack droids and medic droids n got laods of bomb droids but barely get to use them.
combat droids are great the hit every 1 sec for about 100 a hit
medic droids are great if your cm 4xxx lets u heal for 1500 a heal an even if the jedi kil it it still gives u the bonus as lonog as your in 20 meters
bomb droids are hard to use the jedi has to be stupid for them to work. though on a plus side they actually work in water