Droid Engineer Archive

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RasalTheWise wrote:
Let's face it. The current CL10 combat pets are superior over our best combat droids. I accept that. But when they rebalance those pets, we'll have our marketshare back.

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Halthron wrote:

Ok, a display bug would certainly account for that difference, which, when using Joker's numbers, means the following:

Droid: 15 hits per bar, 45 total, self healing, lower damage

Pet: Variable hits per bar 20/14/6, 40 total, stims / food needed for healing, higher damage

Overall, the droid is still a better tank. While the droid doesn't heal for much, it's more than the pet's self regen. While the pet can take more health damage, that would only come into play if the NPCs attacks specifically targetted the health pool. In most cases, they tend to hit two more than the third (advantage to the pet if H/A, advantage to the droid for H/M and A/M) or hit all three randomly (advaantage to the droid).

Pets can excel at one job, tanking NPCs that use kinetic damage. While this thread is about combat, droids aren't limited to just that task like pets are, nor are droids limited to doing well against a single primary damage type.

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In a controlled test to see which was a better thankthat put a pet and a droid (using auto repair)againstsNPCs that did energy damage to see which would last the longest without any owner interference whatsoeverI will admit that under those controlled circumstances a droid would be a better tank...... While in reality everyone has novice medic and everyone has uber stim Bs.

Health and action are in fact targeted more than mind

the following hotkey macrocan instantly heal a pets mind in combat (advantage to the pet)

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Halthron wrote:

Ok, a display bug would certainly account for that difference, which, when using Joker's numbers, means the following:

Droid: 15 hits per bar, 45 total, self healing, lower damage

Pet: Variable hits per bar 20/14/6, 40 total, stims / food needed for healing, higher damage

Overall, the droid is still a better tank. While the droid doesn't heal for much, it's more than the pet's self regen. While the pet can take more health damage, that would only come into play if the NPCs attacks specifically targetted the health pool. In most cases, they tend to hit two more than the third (advantage to the pet if H/A, advantage to the droid for H/M and A/M) or hit all three randomly (advaantage to the droid).

Pets can excel at one job, tanking NPCs that use kinetic damage. While this thread is about combat, droids aren't limited to just that task like pets are, nor are droids limited to doing well against a single primary damage type.

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You know, this is one of those things that's great in theory but not in practice.

1. What's the most commonly hit pool in PvE? Health


2. What's the most common damage type in PvE? Kinetic


3. Under the current rules, you can force any creature or NPC to melee (kinetic) but you can't force them to range.


4. BE's arn't stupid, they will make the most effective pets they can for practical use...otherwise you would see more evenly spaced HAM bars for BE'ed pets.
   

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Halthron wrote:

Would it be better to nerf a profession (BEs) or would you prefer to get a new ability? Voting for both is being greedy.

http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=Announcements&message.id=481#M481

http://pc.ign.com/articles/594/594329p1.html?fromint=1

Fans of the films are aware that some of the characters have cybernetic body parts. Luke's hand and pretty much Darth Vader's entire body have been replaced with robotic versions. The ability to create and implant these cybernetic limbs will be included in the Rage of Wookiees expansion.

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JavelinCatcher wrote:

You know, this is one of those things that's great in theory but not in practice.

1. What's the most commonly hit pool in PvE? Health


2. What's the most common damage type in PvE? Kinetic


3. Under the current rules, you can force any creature or NPC to melee (kinetic) but you can't force them to range.


4. BE's arn't stupid, they will make the most effective pets they can for practical use...otherwise you would see more evenly spaced HAM bars for BE'ed pets.

1) Nobody called for a "nerf" ...the question was "How can we compete with this?"

2) I dare you to quote someone with a red name or blue name who says DE's are getting cybernetic limbs. For all we know, BE's could get to craft the final productbut need a manipulator arm package set (where quality doesn't matter) from a DE and Doctors install them.

....and with our luck, they wouldn't decay either.

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Sure, you can force any SINGLE NPC using a ranged attack into fighting melee. That doesn't prevent his ranged buddies from attacking at range. Running from NPC to NPC to do a melee attack doesn't always work either, many NPCs will try to get back to a good range for their weapon.

The nerfing comment was made more in jest than anything.

Until Sony comes out with an official comment about the contents, everything is speculation. I never said who would do what, I pointed out an article. If the article is true, that it would seem logical that DEs would have the largest role in crafting these items. Perhaps Docs and BEs would be involved, that would be logical as well. A case could be made for either Docs or DEs making the final product but again, it's all speculation.