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Doesn't look like Pub18 fixes much in CH Land. And yes, you MCH's out there will still be able to call your brand new CL30 combat droid and three pets at the same time.

KK thx for answering so quick was just curious . cool about the droids i guess i really only use mine to pull ,but i can see us getting nerfed from using 3 pets and a droid. oh well heres looking forward to publish 19 maybe specials will be fixed then.

Tolas

Message Edited by Tolas_Crow on 06-14-2005 04:12 PM

I doubt that they would nerf that since calling 3 creatures out at a time equal to creature level of the ch is part of that prof then the droid still being able to be called out should not really call for a nerf i would say. I could only see this getting nerf if too many folks wine about a ch ganking them to bad .

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RasalTheWise wrote:
Doesn't look like Pub18 fixes much in CH Land. And yes, you MCH's out there will still be able to call your brand new CL30 combat droid and three pets at the same time.

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I thought droids were pathetic and pointless all around since the CU....?

well they are in the state they are now at lvl 18 with lvl 18 damage, but bumping min an max damge up to lvl 30 will make them more effective. in essence another lvl 30 pet to add damge dps wise not much granted but an improvement. guess well find out tomarrow. ill be happy to post some numbers to see it will accuatly make a diffrence.

Tolas

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Tolas_Crow wrote:

well they are in the state they are now at lvl 18 with lvl 18 damage, but bumping min an max damge up to lvl 30 will make them more effective. in essence another lvl 30 pet to add damge dps wise not much granted but an improvement. guess well find out tomarrow. ill be happy to post some numbers to see it will accuatly make a diffrence.

Tolas

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I heard the patch wasn't working quite right for DE in some ways, would be very interesting if droids really gave such a large boost that it mattered....

Pet specials are supposed to be mended in publish 18 this was previously posted in dev tracker also on subject of droids my friend is a master droid eng and has been for a long time. BUT and this is a big BUT with the droids in my opinion. Droids no longer rejuvinate there health when hit like they first did after CU so u take your level 30 to a fight and he gets bonked on the head by a rancor now u are in the unfortunate situation of buying repair kits for droids at whatever price hey are now at 5000 or whatever OR you can have a self repair slot fitted to the droid meaning one of the combat slots has to be took out to it it meaning the droid is less combat efficient- also the self repair takes ages to rest. THIS is the current BAD situation with droids so if you think they are a expense worth haing go ahead but in my opinion at present they are only good for one thing pulling creatures from lairs (which is unfortunate)

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zaal_swinari wrote:
Pet specials are supposed to be mended in publish 18 this was previously posted in dev tracker also on subject of droids my friend is a master droid eng and has been for a long time. BUT and this is a big BUT with the droids in my opinion. Droids no longer rejuvinate there health when hit like they first did after CU so u take your level 30 to a fight and he gets bonked on the head by a rancor now u are in the unfortunate situation of buying repair kits for droids at whatever price hey are now at 5000 or whatever OR you can have a self repair slot fitted to the droid meaning one of the combat slots has to be took out to it it meaning the droid is less combat efficient- also the self repair takes ages to rest. THIS is the current BAD situation with droids so if you think they are a expense worth haing go ahead but in my opinion at present they are only good for one thing pulling creatures from lairs (which is unfortunate)

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Wow that was hard to read. Be that as it may, combat droids are better than they were. And if they ever fix the armor bug, they will be *considerably* better.

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zaal_swinari wrote:
Pet specials are supposed to be mended in publish 18 this was previously posted in dev tracker also on subject of droids my friend is a master droid eng and has been for a long time. BUT and this is a big BUT with the droids in my opinion. Droids no longer rejuvinate there health when hit like they first did after CU so u take your level 30 to a fight and he gets bonked on the head by a rancor now u are in the unfortunate situation of buying repair kits for droids at whatever price hey are now at 5000 or whatever OR you can have a self repair slot fitted to the droid meaning one of the combat slots has to be took out to it it meaning the droid is less combat efficient- also the self repair takes ages to rest. THIS is the current BAD situation with droids so if you think they are a expense worth haing go ahead but in my opinion at present they are only good for one thing pulling creatures from lairs (which is unfortunate)

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Unfortunately pet specials were not mended in publish 18. All they did was add in a pet role icon for grouped pets.

Message Edited by InspGadgt on 06-15-2005 07:46 PM

You're right Orb...the combat droid revamp is going to be mildly crippled in Pub 18. The effort was encouraging, but they didn't quite get there. Look at droids having the following:

* CL 30
* Max damage of around 284
* Max health of 3742
* Armor Effectiveness of up to 9000

Sounds pretty rockin', huh? Well, there's an armor bug. It will show the AE correctly on its first call, but at the second call it will drop to about 1217. That's an old bug which apparently resurfaced and they are refusing to fix.

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RasalTheWise wrote:
You're right Orb...the combat droid revamp is going to be mildly crippled in Pub 18. The effort was encouraging, but they didn't quite get there. Look at droids having the following:

* CL 30
* Max damage of around 284
* Max health of 3742
* Armor Effectiveness of up to 9000

Sounds pretty rockin', huh? Well, there's an armor bug. It will show the AE correctly on its first call, but at the second call it will drop to about 1217. That's an old bug which apparently resurfaced and they are refusing to fix.

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I was looking at the DE forums, and now there's something about all pre-pub 18 droids going to CL 0 and not being able to learn attack commands? sounds pretty harsh over there :/.

ok let me get this right a non ch can control a level 10 pet but they can call a level 30 droid?