Droid Engineer Archive
Thread: A question to all new DEs
DE has facinated me since I started, I always wanted to make droids since I saw the first trilogy (a very long time ago). When I learned DE, I would get a level and try out the new stuff in droids to get the feel before grinding the next (which also gave me time to get the grind resources). I actually sold some decent droids at 2-2-4-4, then ground the rest of DE after getting the feel for it. I still have plenty of questions, I just experiment till I get the answer or ask someone who knows. Also, I started SWG only 2 months ago (the board date it off a little, started playing before registering on boards) and have mastered DE only 2 weeks ago, but I know a lot about making droids because of the time I spent experimenting and asking other DE's. I plan on keeping DE untill I stop playing SWG alltogether (I may make another character on another server if I get bored with DE, but I'll never drop it)
Just curious about the newer members of our fine (and buggy) profession.
Weaponsmith-Dime a dozen almost. Most of the big names on my server have enough repeat, loyal business and the uber resources to keep well stocked quality vendors. For someone just starting out it would be kinda hard to get a foot in the door.
Chef-Loads of new ones popping up, mainly to get into the brandy market. Not something that really interested me either.
Armorsmith-Without the +2 experimentation most people won't touch your armor on my server. People have credits and are willing to spend them on the best possible product. Which is the armor sold by those with the 2 extra experimentation points.
Tailor-Never really interested me.
Architect-Same.
Doc-Didn't want to waste my time in starports buffing for $ when I could do other things. (I get enough of this type of business dealings with my Smuggler and rarely slice for the public, I've seen how some people treat docs and decided to stay away from it).
Which brings me to DE. I've long been fascinated with droids, I own quite a few between my two toons and thought it might be neat to check it out. Over time the will of most of the DE's on my server broke and quite a few of the original ones no longer produce droids. With this new publish there could be a large renewal of interest in the DE profession. With Artisan leading to the ship building profession in the expansion I can only imagine it requiring many different parts and components(like a droid). So I figured what they hell, give it a shot
Well I will be the first new DE to say, that i am a holo grinder, I am a Rp'ier too, but my main aim is get my jedi since it is my favourtite thing about star wars, everything about jedi intrigues me as corny as that sounds. Anyhow I got De and weeped, seriously its not good for jedi grinding as I have only had the game 1 month, and this is my second profession, and i am trying to beat the system and get mine before the change in the works of jedi, something tells me i won't do it but I still will have a shot at it.
Well DE is most definetly not a short class, I am just coming up to my second box on it and I have been playing DE for about 1 week....admitidly I have had to wait for my personal harvestors to extract the resources as I am always low on money paying vendors and helping out friends. But unless you have millions going into this and a lot of time in one go, you will be doing it for a while. My suggestion is to do what i am and take up other professions to do alongside it so that you improve the chances of getting jedi faster.
And you won't sell any droids untill you get the better droids and better modules for them, and thats a lot of grinding out droids (takes nearly 400 mouse droids to reach the first level of boxes) I will just grind, and then when the update comes make myself a few combat droids for myself and my guild and then put a few on the vendors I have, and move on quickly. I have no love for this profession while others it captivates them I am more combat...and this is about as far from it as you can get.
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Have fun. And watch out for the cynical, depressed people.
Tarne_Monter wrote:
Yay for all you new DE's.
Have fun. And watch out for the cynical, depressed people.
No no no, it is Jaded and Depressed. 
It is really sad tho that you have to be master in this game to be able to sell anything. Novice in any profession that you are going to sell basically means no sells. Trust me other then my guildies buying from me directly mostly for chassis to drop in a house and the crate of seekers once in awhile. I get no sells when I hit master hopefully before this weekend I should have more sells since I can produce master level droids.
The game is balanced for being a master and nothing else even in the combat professions its the same. I wish it was not that way but it is.
Ill live and keep playing and maybe make a few creds after pub 8 who knows I might go the way as some of the others have and drop this profession, since my other crafting profession would been ship builder and it looks like we will get that when Space Expansion goes live. So till then ill be a DE till I get fed up or a better crafting profession come out.
MilamberDragon wrote:
Tarne_Monter wrote:
Yay for all you new DE's.
Have fun. And watch out for the cynical, depressed people.No no no, it is Jaded and Depressed.
It is really sad tho that you have to be master in this game to be able to sell anything. Novice in any profession that you are going to sell basically means no sells. Trust me other then my guildies buying from me directly mostly for chassis to drop in a house and the crate of seekers once in awhile. I get no sells when I hit master hopefully before this weekend I should have more sells since I can produce master level droids.
The game is balanced for being a master and nothing else even in the combat professions its the same. I wish it was not that way but it is.
Ill live and keep playing and maybe make a few creds after pub 8 who knows I might go the way as some of the others have and drop this profession, since my other crafting profession would been ship builder and it looks like we will get that when Space Expansion goes live. So till then ill be a DE till I get fed up or a better crafting profession come out.
I actually found that as a 2/0/0/3 DE I was able to sell quite a lot of droids. Just make up some Level 3 modules and away you go.