Droid Engineer Archive

Yeup I noticed that as well BH is the new TKM. I'm selling Arakyds and Seekers faster than I can make them but funnily enough nobody seems to be buying med droids anymore (my main staple), I wonder why that might be ? Buffs nerfed perhaps ?.....

Regards S

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Staler wrote:

Yeup I noticed that as well BH is the new TKM. I'm selling Arakyds and Seekers faster than I can make them but funnily enough nobody seems to be buying med droids anymore (my main staple), I wonder why that might be ? Buffs nerfed perhaps ?.....

Regards S

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Hehe .. yep noticed that too .. my medic droids were selling crazily before the upgrade (along with my combat droid sales that is) but now my Bounty Hunter droid collection are being bought at a high rate. Already down to less than 20 on my vendor so have to rush off another factory run to cover weekend sales. ::laughs::

I have to say that CU has ruined this game for me for a number of reasons;

It's now impossible to do most of the content quests if you are a crafter. I have master pistoleer and have tried respeccing to master BH (having to lose master artisan in the process) and I still get stuck trying to solo quests which are obviously aimed at solo rewards etc.

What this means is I either stay a DE and forget about doing most of the content in the game because I can never get more than lvl 54 combat status, or I do what everyone else is doing and become master BH + another combat profession and go round kicking the sh*t out of everything - not what I joined SWG to do

The othe thing to mention is that the only droids that sell now are BH droids, the odd astromech and the occasional combat tank - but that'll only be until people realise that combat droids are nerfed as well.

yours despondantly Staler Kram, Veteran since release, Master DE since time began........

Message Edited by Staler on 05-14-2005 06:55 AM

Publish 17.0

Profession: Droid Engineer :
Droids with Detonation Modules in them will now properly damage their targets again. Damage output of the Detonation Droid was adjusted to match the new balance of the Combat Upgrade. Detonation Droids now do Kinetic base damage plus a 10% bonus damage of Heat
This is not a DE update but a update for those that use them !!


Droid repair modules should repair the proper attributes
This is not a DE update but a fix for those that use them !!

Crafting Droid Armor Module 5 and 6 should no longer require a Composite Armor Segment.
Hmm not true again also still needing the segments

Fixed Droid Auto-Repair module to correctly heal droid Health
This is not a DE update but a fix for those that use them !!

WOW Pub 17, mostly good apart from the massive DE killing change

Droids that don't regen who's brain child was that!!

I have had 3 orders canceled and 20+ email asking what customers can do about there now useless droid?

Did the DE community ask for this??

I know we can build new ones for customers with auto repair in them, but try telling the customer who brought a droid last week that sorry that one is now useless and I need to sell you a new one. Or you now need o use repair pack (with there delay) which I have tested and don't seem a viable system in combat.

I do think we should have a decay system using either wounds or one of the other good suggestions this board. But making combat droids so they can only attack one target then are useless is just silly.

I'm all for repeat business but this is a complete joke.

No one in there right minds will now use combat droids
1 - auto repair & combat - used batteries like there's no tomorrow
2 - Combat only - uses repair packs like there's no next hour!!!
Or
3 - use my pet that will fight use specials and regen for free?

Its a hard choice!!

Please tell us there is some wonderful plan in he pipeline to make droids good again. I have been a DE since launch, and until now I have supported the CU but this is a game breaker form me.

I like making droids they are one of the biggest Sarwarsy pulls for me but now I have only BH droids that are useful.

Please Devs give us a sign here, due to the CU changes you had already nurffed he DE biggest income medic droids(in all there various forms) You have Killed off most of the entertainer market also as droids now do nothing for that either (or so the ents are telling me)

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I admitted defeat on DE this week. Like you I've been DE since I got game in Nov 2003 but CU killed it on two counts. Firstly droids lost whatever use they had apart from BH or storage and secondly with CU as a master pistoleer I couldn't solo any of the content without dying umpteen times. So... I used my last respec to switch to a full combat profile on the basis that it'll be easier to regrind DE if SoE ever fix the profession and it's the only way I can continue to do the content that gets added in the game.

I am sure a lot of what I am to say has been said before but as this is my first day of posting I thought I'd get all the issues I have out of my system!

I love being a DE - it was the only profession that I wanted to play when I joined SWG back in January. I went up slowly and am now a Master DE with a small business that covers my costs and makes me a little profit (which is nice!)

Then the CU came...

Goodbye Medical Droids

Goodbye Harvesting Droids

Goodbye virtually everything other than the really exciting BH droids (hint of sarcasm there!)

Patch 17 came and whoopeeee - more BH droids that now work but still no armour on our droids which mean they are about as much use a chocolate fireguard in combat....

THEN I thought, well OK - someone somewhere will fix this, afterall droids are central to StarWars - hell R2 saves the day in most of the films in one form or another!!

To add insult to injury though is travelling around I see droids that are in the game but I cant make - most DE npc trainers have Droidika's in bits next to them - hell I can even go meet them on Lok..but craft them? No no no...

Doing a quest a few days ago and I have to fight two level 50 (50 - and here was me thinking all droids were level 18?!) Bodyguard droids. If someone somewhere can make these things - why can't we? I don't care how complicated or how obscure the resources are, I just want to be able to make droids!

Well rant over...I'm stil a Master DE - did consider respec but could not tear myself away from the profession I love so I'll just moan away here and hope that someone somewhere looks down and smiles.

I missed it so much I re-ground DE this week lol - but I fully agree with you - where are the combat droid chassis and how is SoE going to make the DE profession a profitable occupation again ?

Until then I'll soldier on trying to do content as best I can but it's hard when you only have lvl 54 combat

Welcome back! being level 54 is just about OK for me - at least I don't seem to get one shot incapped too much - get on my swoop and pedal to the metal seems to work on most occassions even on Danth (the mask scent does help too!)