Droid Engineer Archive
Thread: So what reason do I have to make 80K credit Advanced combat droids?
Sunfire1 wrote:
First off, its only 20% resist, the 40% the droid says is a bug. Secondly, they are EXTREMELY usefull.
On my 2nd account, I am currently hologrinding though pistoleer. I use an LE repair droid to hold agro for me on Tortur missions. Some of these missions spawn 2 Bull Torturs and 1 Tortur. I can take all 3 down with my pistol (about 5-6 minutes), while my droid tanks for me. I never once have to heal him in the battle. Once the battle is over, sure it takes 4 or 5 Repair Ds to get him back to full, but I never once have to heal him in battle.
In fact, since droids doing damage are just stealing exp from you anyway, I only put 1 combat module in the LE and 2 autorepairs to reduce my need for repair kits.
You fail to see the HUGE boost to droids. Droids have never and never will be pets that can kill a large creature for you. What it can do is take a MASSIVE BEATING while you kill what is attacking it. And with the new HAM levels, they are much better at doing this.
I agree completely. I've seen these things in action and am impressed. They are equal to my probat full combat sales atm. Although the post with AutoRepairx5 Probot may be very usefull model as well.
The R-3's with 4 or 5 auto repair modules and a few probots in a group can be a fairly impressive mix. The R-3 not only will attack and take aggro if needed, it repairs all droids in range AT THE SAME TIME. The lil tin can takes a whooping too. Group of seven with 6 probots and one R-3 can make for some quick and safe killing sprees, esp if you are bringing low level combatants to advanced planets. Proper stim and battery management are a must though.
*dreams of the day his R-3 sits on the flank of his REAL battle droids, merrily beeping and repairing them*