Commando Archive
Thread: Super Battle Droids & Other Stuff
WeissHengst
Thu Oct 07, 2004 5:57 pm
#14
thiostan wrote:
SBD's are easy if you are a lean mean cloned killing machine. My commando kills SBD's all the time. I prefer the Blaster rifle, but the EMP launcher works quite well, especially when they are in small groups. Sniper rifle works sometimes but notas good as it could be. The droideka are what give me a hard time, unless their shield is down.
Oh wait. You aretalking about SWG aren't you not SW: Battlefront?
Nevermind.
Get yourself a number of bullet catchers, oh wait, this is SWG where commando's ARE the bullet catchers. Sorry. Nevermind.
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aeuralis
Thu Oct 07, 2004 7:08 pm
#15
First off you cannot solo them. Second, they have only 30% resists to electricity, so i use heavy lighting cannons and have some one tank.
quitch
Thu Oct 07, 2004 7:09 pm
#16
They can tank them, only with a large group though.
Esteni wrote:
Ive heard TKMs can tank em, but dont they have 100% kin resists, and to ease the pain from anything load youself up with food like synthesteak
Ovakito
Thu Oct 07, 2004 10:46 pm
#17
cornbredx wrote:I believe 2 hand Swordsman can tank SBDs
Yeah, Most Master Swordsman, if played right, can solo them.
Message Edited by Ovakito on 10-07-2004 10:47 PM
nerf_you
Fri Oct 08, 2004 2:15 am
#18
I can tank SBD's (both the vette ones and the DWB ones) solo with BH 0004 / commando 0040 / smuggler 0010. And I have virtually no defenses except for armor (80-90% resists is a must). Flamesingle1, flamecone1, flamesingle2, then switch to the LLC and spam lightningsingle2 till the fire runs out, then repeat.... feign death and/or heal as necessary. The vette SBD's can be done just with the flamer but it'll take forever on the DWB ones. And with smuggler in your template you can be truly lame and set them on fire, feign death, heal up, and repeat till they're dead.
If you're just doing the vette for the loot boxes (and av-21 powerplants) it's totally possible to do it without having to kill any sbd's (just watch the area attacks lol). I built my template purely for the DWB and corvette.
nbd9k
Fri Oct 08, 2004 8:01 am
#19
I too spend all my time soloing the corvette (in order to sell the loot), and i have solo'd SBDs numerous times, usually without armor. My key stack is Commando/TKM/Smuggler0020, and i depend mostly on my uber-kyrat flamer to do so. It so happens that fire is one of their (cough) weaknesses, with only a 60% resist. if you write a macro that fires a flame single followed by feign death, you can light em on fire and wait for them to burn down. My uber-flamer max is 1200, which isnt that great comparatively, but over time it works quite well. If the droid catches on and kills me, i respawn, meditate offmy wounds, and go right back to work. it takes 10 or 15 min, ive never really counted, but occasionally you get loot spams (10 of an item), which is worth it.
TKA-MC
Fri Oct 08, 2004 8:42 am
#20
nbd9k, what are some of the better places to get the loot in the Corvette? I've been up there about 4 times now and have a general layout of the place.
nerf_you
Fri Oct 08, 2004 9:06 am
#21
2 loot boxes in a room off the side of the room with 5 hallways.
1 loot box in the room next to the #4 key.
1 loot box in the armory.
Sorry but it's hard to be descriptive. All the NPC's seem to drop loot such as dot weapons, but the loot boxes are where you find av-21 powerplants (and bantha dolls and spices and useless weapons).
SeraCohw
Fri Oct 08, 2004 9:26 am
#22
i have noticed they have a low resist like 30 to acid so maybe a use for the har lol...prolly not but they do have a low resist to acid i do know that
LuciusScipio
Fri Oct 08, 2004 9:40 am
#23
I used "Accurate" version of Brilyn's Acid Stream Launchers against them. I found them to be very useful since their accuracy had been upgraded. They have Medium AP too. I got them sliced and found that they do about the same amount of damage that Lightning Canons do. This is agood investment if you don't want to spend skill points in the BH Heavy Weapon Tree. BTW, I launched these things about 30m away from them for optimal accuracy.
Message Edited by LuciusScipio on 10-08-2004 12:42 PM
ShugFlurry
Fri Oct 08, 2004 9:58 am
#24
the easiest way to do it is through the flame DoTs, they hit for around 2k/tick in my experience which means a DWB SBD will be taken down in around 100 ticks, also factor in the fact that i believe if you change FTs the DoTs will stick as well. The wounds on the clicky are from flames from 5 different FTs of mine 
Envoy3113
Fri Oct 08, 2004 9:58 am
#25
Any stacked meele template can tank an SBD with medical support. Fein death and or inherent medical support makes this easier up to the point of soloing.
Electricity, acid and fire are their best ranged weaknesses. Keep the fire going and it's only a matter of holding out.
Grakis
Fri Oct 08, 2004 2:04 pm
#26
I wouldn't bother with lightning beam cannons, they have the worst speed/accuracy of all the consumable heavy weapons, and the best of them aren't all that great. I think it's +40/+40 but it might be even less than that. You'll never hit them enough to make a difference. Might throw a few in there just for giggles, but I wouldn't invest in them as a SBD buster. You're better off sticking with the torch and keeping the burn going.