Droid Engineer Archive

I was running around maintaining extractors and found a group of 3 dragonets camped out near them. They were spread apart a bit so I was sure I could get just one of them. I made a camp real quick to pull out my probot (having to do that sucks) and attacked one. It charged immediately and I sent the probot, then I backed off and attacked with a laser rile (not a lot of damage dealt by these by any means). It was sloooow going, I was barely moving his health, and I kept waiting for the bot to drop. What seemed like a full 2 minutes later the bot was still up and I managed to solo the dragonet (maybe not a great feat but I suck at combat, it was the most rifle xp i've ever seen) - the bot never died.

Later I tried the same thing with my pet (a L10 bol). I swear he dropped in like 5 seconds...the dragonet was still almost at full health and I was trampeled and killed...

Anyway, I couldn't believe the difference between the two fights. Same player, same weapon, same npc, only difference was the pets. I say probots don't suck as much as many people think. Even if only we DEs know it....their loss.

Cheers!

oh...of course that's an adv version with 2 level 4 armor modules....

I'm getting similar results, but even better :

The deal I have with a couple of the gunslingers I rent lots from is that a portion of the stuff mined goes to gratis merchandise for them.

Two of them now have simple 810HAM Basic Probots I ground out, Armor3, nothing special.

I've been getting emails of "Oh, wow, this really helps!"

And I saw one of them in town the other day talking to another about how nice it was to have a probot....

Made a sale or two because of that.

Gotta love it.

I've given them to most of my guildmates and never had a complaint.

For the first time I now stock several of them on my vendor (was custom order only), the first one sold off the vendor only a couple hours after loading.

one big problem still with them: batteries- they don't last long enough, and there is no way to tell how much juice is left, say a METER. other than that their combat ability is pretty **edit** good compared to pets (unless you're a CH).

long live DEs

If that is the case wouldnt CH and DE be a good combination?

Or would CH with a probot be good because you could have good combat skills too, hmmmmmm, this gives me some food for thought

ya, i'd be in a really good mood bout this if our server hadn't been down for the last 4 hours, go bria go

I've beentaking outGualama, with a0/0/4/0 Brawler, with the help of my Advanced Probot. Iuse the Probot to pullthe beastieaway for me and then let it getchewed on fora sec before I step in andslice and dice.

Last night,one of my trustyProbots pulled aggrofor4 Bols on Dantooine. It may have only lasted about 1 minute, but it lasted more than twice as long as I did in the same spot.

Compared to a CL10 pet, a Probot is the only way to tank. Just imaginewhat it will be like whenA Droid RepairKit is around to heal the HAM bars

I was wondering why my Probot where flying off my Vendor. I sold 10 in about a day. Used to be I sell 1 a week, if I was lucky.

they were better tanks than cowardly gurreks already even before this patch, the thing is while pets can be hit with stims and tricks etc, bots get jack for ham heal. so result was either people don't buy them or they'd buy 2 of them and swap them around since probots have faster ham regen than creatures. + to heal the wounds on these suckers require another bot owned by another player with a repair module so it's completely whore sheez if you ask me, but we'll see what happens next patch.

Too bad BE pets pwn now, i really feel for DE's cuz im a BH and i need them, and all my old DE's quit and im runnign low on arakyds.

yay for level 10 kaadu with 4k ham and 60% kinetic.....

I would say enjoy those pets while you can, because they are bugged and aren't supposed to be CL10 pets. Some of the BE crafted pets are not reporting the correct Creature Level and from what I have heard will be corrected in the next publish.

Here is mine: Probot / L10 vs a Droideka (Droid Engineer Cave on Lok) - makes me feel retarded to be a DE.

Seriously. I should have taken screenshots. As I looked on in horror and dismay as the real droids backhanded my Probot with contempt, all I could think was Screenshot of the Day. But my buffs didn't last long enough.

Level 10 pet = house pet.
Probot = better than house pet.
Me = have probot for snack.
Droideka in DE cave = have Sinjen with doctor buffs for a snack.

I would be okay with this food chain if our other droids did something cool. Okay, I am the grumpy old DE who has been DE since beta, and very cynical. Sorry for spewing hate in your joy thread. I need a vacation.

no, you're right, we have a TON of problems still and the prof still isn't great. as stated above now we have BE pets to "compete" with. our best droid still sucks imho, i was simply stating it was better than my L10 CH pet which makes me happy. batteries need to last longer, need a battery meter, need to be able to have 2 droids out at once (to repair), need a better combat droid, need to fix droid customization, and so on and so on.