Droid Engineer Archive

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Sintrosi wrote:

I have not been privy to the final decision. Since they are going to post their vision I am going to post the main idea that has been discussed. Please note: This has only been a discussion and I do not know if this is the path they decided to go. They want to surprise me as well it seems. But I am pretty confident this is the way they will go ...

(CH+BE+DROID) - Organic Pets = New DE.

Anyhow ... thats the last thing I heard but things could change.

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Looks like it's time to go to Lok and tame some droidekas...

Now, is everyone going to become a 4-4-0-0 DE and tame AT-ATs?

*pats AT-ST on the head*

"Don't bite me."

im fine with the way its going. DEs become a mixture of BEs and CH, so they have the BE part to produce droids (still crafting with ressources) and they have the CH part (which basically gives the DE skills to handle droids like CH handle creatures.) so things like multiple pets, more storage in data pad for droids and some DE only droids + new droids to equal the products from BEs.

Ok hold up. What? Is that BE+CH+DE? Or is that a BE+CH with a droid or what? I have a master CH/master BE and there is no room to also master DE! The extra points are in marksman and there's not a lot. Can someone please shed some light here while I go get another coffee....

(CH+BE+DROID) - Organic Pets = New DE

/bewildered look...

Sounds to me like they're using the best class and the worst class to fix the broken class... er... I mean give the broken class yet another broken item.

Can we get some fixes please before adding gasoline to the fire?

"Hay guys isnt that droid neat? Should we make it actualy work now?... Nah!....Lets go add a few more neat looking pieces of 'Droid Style Furniture' to the game instead"

Seems to me they will fix the Droid engineers soon. Yippee being I just surrendered my DE skills. Any way I read it like this. Not only will they fix it but DE's become creature handlers in a sense so they can have personal battle droids to help them in battle to make money for harvesters etc. You are not turning into Creature Handlersjust getting specialized droids to help you in doing your chores to keep your stuff running. Seems like a pretty fair deal to me. Being Droid Engineers get tallywacked anyway by not being able to fend for themselves. This post should make you happy not want to rant and rave for nothing. I think the Creature Handler plan is a nerf and a half. No longer will you see master creature handlers except for the sole purpose of making mounts. No one will "dabble" I guarentee that. Droid Engineers seem to be the new kid in town. So enjoy it while it lasts. You know all will cry nerf when these proposed changes go through.

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tankus69 wrote:

To Holocron and the rest....all we want is new stuff to craft that is useful so we have stuff to sell... what the **censored** is wrong with with you guys at sony...

We are a CRAFTING class not a COMBAT class...

--Dolomite

P.S. My prediction was that they were removing droid engineer altogether because they couldnt seem to make us quit.

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the concept of a combat class with crafting base is exciting IMHO and something truly unique in ANY MMORPG.

((If they've already posted thier proposal and timeline, please redirect me and I'll happily eat my hat. if not, read below))

Guys, this is entirely pointless. Fine, we know the plan now (We can experiment on droids... oh, can do that already) and will be able to control some ourselves while selling lesser ones to others. This is great, but they (the Devs, and also Sintrosi above) said they were posting their plans for hte first page, not our correspondant's view on it. Where's this first phase document? I'm asking because more than anything I want a timeline on this. And I also want to see if they actually intend to fix current problems or just plow ahead and create new ones, making us doubly broken.

Where's the full layout of the first phase of development document? That'll answer a lot more questions than Sintrosi can (or will). Not that I'm doubting Sintrosi, but I like having the white paper as it is more clear cut and doesn't deal with interperatation

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tankus69 wrote:

We are a CRAFTING class not a COMBAT class...

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Speak for yourself please

Hey maby theyre adding cybernetic implants and some new boimechanicle droids, but I will be extremely pissed if they try to make droids like CH pets {you are alreathy going to take my cowerdly gurrek and Rockbeetle away, but you best not take my probot away too}. I say that I think that cybernetic implants might be coming because a while back many people where descussing how the DE and BE would both halfto work together in the use of them.