Droid Engineer Archive

MichelaSundiver I agree with you. My problem is not how hard it is to level up. I am just fine with that. My problem is basically all the droids are broken.

Sometimes it makes you wonder... All these people that get on and say DE is great how it is leave it alone. Do you even read the other posts and what problems people are running into? Of course you havn't your to busy being pampered by your PA's. Now that doesnt mean all of you that have worked hard and succeeded in DE have been helped out by a pa or some other way.

The only things people have said that supposedly will work a miracle and allow all DE's to actually make cash are:

1. Become another class and do missions all day. Which defeats the purpose of being a DE might aswell just stay that fighter class they are easier to level. I finally gave in and became a scout/marksman It's so freakin easy to level in these classes. I was hoping to be able to use my pointless droids to hold missions for me (made sense to me never once thought it could be a exploit, was finally happy we had a reason other than the probot). But of course that gets nerfed the next day so I never got to do it.

2. Sell your resources. Theres an idea become a miner for a living. Also on MY server resources sell for 2c a unit so its pretty much pointless might aswell just keep it for the exp.

3.Get into a PA. How most if not all of the masters running around got there so fast. Every single one I've ever met on my server did it this way. These are the ones unfortiently SOE is looking at and seeing how fast they are leveling. Then in return we get nerfed to slow our progess.

I think there were a few more ideas but they are even more pointless. Anyone that says they are selling their droids (other than probot) and making a healthy living off of... Either your server is just great for selling droids or your making it up. My server is a joke, I try to sell droids and people say what do they do again? Why should I buy one? So I attempt to make them sound good but everything ends with, except their entire purpose is bugged right now. To be fair all of our storage droids should be renamed trash can, since thats all they do. Everyone on that server just about wouldnt mind having one... for free they don't do anything to justify a price.

Its like a weapon smith making a weapon and saying sorry it fires but it doesnt do any damage right now its bugged. (compared to the storage droid, sorry you can store stuff but it eats it). Whats the point of having a weapon that doesnt hurt anyone, whats the point of having a storage droid that eats your stuff. The answer is nothing, and thats the reason no one is buying. Medical droids? Oh I forgot you can wip them out in camps. But wait every single fighter out there (with a few exceptions) is a scout. And guess what scout camps rock compared to droids. So people look at it and say well it costs that much? And I can only use it in camps (only place you would use it) nah sorry kinda pointless.

Possibly the only people that would buy our droids are people with deep pockets and are just looking for novelty items something cool to have since its new. That will dry up quickly people will wise up and stop buying and since droids don't decay you can't exactly have repeat buyers can you?

We grind away for endless hours so that we can make probots that is our only purpose right now. Other than novelty fun that is. But wait hey everyone chill in 1-6months we might be use full yippeee. Why wasn't it usefull in freakin BETA? Like so many have said before this just another step in beta.

Sign, Most of thse are legit answeres Id like to see some attention too.

/sign

I'm try to get the devs attention on the general discussion board but I think its hopeless. I just hope whoever gets the correspondant job does it well.

I'm not even a DE yet and I see problems with the profession, I'd Like to be one Someday (18K more exp), but even when I finally make it to novice, who'll want to buy my "newbie" droids. With no droid decay, you only need a few master DE's to fill up a server really, so what are the other 2 K ppl supposed to do who might want to be something else other than a fighter type char.?

/sign

Droid Engineers need serious help.

Cao Ren

Sunrunner

Sign me up on that petition too. There are many droids we see in the movies and books that aren't available for us to build. Plus all of our products are messed up and practicly useless right now.

Natealus Alanna

Coronet, Corellia

Corbantis Server

I'm not a droid engineer but I do know that you can put med modules and othersin mouse droids, so they aren't entirely useless. Correct me if I'm wrong.

This is to all you people who keep telling us DE that "Its not that bad, its just as hard as any other class." WELL FYI...ITS NOT!!! Lets look at CH...at Novice....they can tame im guessing over 100 ( im a CH...im not saying thats how many they have BTW....thats just showing VARIETY!) while nove DE get o say....1 MSE droid! OoOo wow....isnt that just great. We also need 48K exp to get to the next block so we can make droids people actually want to buy...i cant even give away my MSE Droids!!! PLUS we dont get Usage exp anymore. Creature Handlers on the other hand only need 17.5K to get a block...and all they have to do is tame a baby....teach it...release it...kill it....get the 20 or more hide. SO, they get high % exp and rescources.....we get low % exp and lose rescources (droids take more than 50 rescources each BTW).Hmmmm now tell me how thats fair....i planned to be a DE from WAY WAY WAY before this game cameout and then its ruined because the experience needed is WAY too high. I agree Elite Professions are supposed to be hard....BUT NOT THIS HARD....we need over 100K just to get all the lvl 1s and that is what this topic is about...so DO NOT come in here to tell us we are being wooses and just make droids and sell em!!! I almost have to convice people to take them for FREE! NOBODY wants them because they dont help! the storage is busted cuz if you put somethin in and store it disapears and comes back the next day....medical is the only thing some people want, but even then,most medics dont want em....come on DEVS.....help us out here....try the DE for yourself....its harsh....

Amas <BKB>

Chilastra

I agree with almost all that has been said. DEVS LISTEN UP... fix our class now!

Riku Rino- Novice artisan- 1 tier away from DE

I think the experience levels are fine. I basically ground my way to DE, the only time I enjoyed my character was when I stopped to try and sell my products. It is discouraging to get to novice and see that 48000 experience needed. However, it's a relatively quick process to master. I can guaruntee you that I will be able to attain master without any definite power gaming in a miniscule amount of time compared to DaoC, AO, UO, AC, and most definitely Everquest. Hopefully people will see that it's supposed to take awhile to become a master DE, instead of just seeing 4 tier levels. Heck, people who play EQ can claim to be powergamers, however, the journey to 60 is so long, that I can guaruntee you most of the time they are not doing so. And I compare our crafting system with EQ's leveling system (not their crafting system) because crafting is our method of leveling (when it comes down to it). I think what has most people angry over the experience is that they only see the 16 boxes in the skills screen, and that is all they need to attain to master.

Aside from all of this, our class is pretty broken. I just hope that official 'big update' comes soon, because there are lots of anxious people waiting around for their profession while they're in the middle of the skill tree.

-Satie

/SHOUT DO SOMETHING NOW PLEASE

I GOT A PIC OF ME RELASEING LIKE 50 DORIDS CAUSE I CANT SELL THEM

THE GRINED TO MAKE LEVEL IS BULL YOU PROMISIED THAT THERE WOULD BE A GRIND BEFORE THE ENG OF BETA

SO WHERE IS IT

Agreed on this petition. But one thing, you can't compare this exp to EQ or DAoC at all. You can master several profs in this game, but only one in those games. A profession should be like gettin' to lvl 30 or 35 in those games, which then maybe gettin' your characters skill pts maxed would be like hittin' 50 or 60.