Droid Engineer Archive

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Holy crap, this is the first thing on this forum that I've seen that gives me HOPE for this profession, if this were done I'd stick with DE and go full on for Droid Commander and be happy that I could keep artisan too!

Drashk, I was begining to doubt..but you've changed that. Keep up the good work and push this through, this is a FANTASTIC idea!

Sorry im still not convinced by the Droid Commander idea. be it a small profession or not.

Yes there are hints at DC in episode one but what people are neglecting to mention is that...

1. The droids in Episode one are actually commanded by leutenant droids ("check it out corpral") not other non-droids.


2. The droid control ship is more of a power source than a control ship - why else would the two appear to a battle droid as a hologram telling the droid what they wanted.


3. ALL combat droids as of the current SWG timeline are illegal, yes certain weapons are illegal too but its a **edit** sight easier to conceal a pistol than a probot!.

Creating a droid profession will give us a new market but its not going to be very profitable for long - The fact still remains your giving a percentage of our market to either ourselves or one profession.

There is this misconception that droids are as powerful as creatures. This is wrong. You stick a single rancor head to head with a droideka and i garantee the rancor will win. look at the fight in Attack of the clones in the pit - it took multiple wounds to drop the creatures while droids where dropping by the hundreds from a single hit. what droids lack in power they make up for in numbers.

Droids are a way of life in SW, i cant stress this more!

im so against the idea of saying to customers "sorry you cant buy that droid because you arent experienced enough to talk to it!"

Look at how many people jumped on the CH bandwagon when it first appeared and then look at how nerfed it became because it was so overpowered. You think the community will get there fingers burned a second time?

Drashk again i must apologize to you it seems that unlike other DE this 210 or Master Artisan theme was not intended by you personally. While the remainder of that statement hold true as a blanket generalization to the DE profession.

It is a non-argument that you must master Artisan (only out of convience) because it is done by choice. If DE's desire to keep all their credits to themselves that is fine but dont call it required if it is a choice.

If this happens i think it requires a revision to the whole system.
CH cert Handles Pets of various CL's
DH Cert Handles droids of various CL's
Pitols Cert ALL WEAPONS CERTS ARE BASED ON 25% increments of damage.
Rifles Cert
Carb Cert
Droid Cert
Flamethrower Cert
LLC Cert
Carpenter Cert
Miner Cert uses harvester of various sizes based on certs
Minor crafting Cert food, meds, clothing
Major crafting Cert weapons, structures, armor
Survival Cert
Medic Cert Healing Heals 25% increments of 1000
Biological Warfare Cert 25% increments of some base damage for chemical warfare
Unarmed Cert


These are but a few of the professions ive readily converted. Give everyone 20 SP and use the 1-4 increments that are currently in place. No prerequisites mix and match. For weapons make sure that ranges balance and for crafters just make sure they realize they are making the choice.

Certs are certs and if they are going to be some new thing that has no relationship to a profession then they should be there for all things. Not some fix so DE's dont have to be DH's. Even with certs youre still gonna be a ferro-CH. Its just a cert not a profession.

Nelus even if they dont stack you get CL20 from DE plus CL20 from DH. That is even leaving out Cert. Assuming at least double strength firepower of the current probot thats 2 bots for an extra 100 DPS. Still worth it if the Skill points stay the same 2 Graul Maul and 2 Semi-decent Probot2. Certing stacks with both so 2 CL25? 125 DPS.

That even leaves room for rebels to switch to imp and pull out an AT ST.

lol btw i hate powergaming but ill point out the shortcuts we all know will happen, which is what the Devs are worried about.

if they dont stack, they dont stack like in ur example. DE get bonuses, and DC get bonuses. if u now play DC and DE u dont get more bonuses that those from DC. so u can use the best droids just by mastering 1 profession and not 2. the maximum skilllevel of DE/DC doesnt add up and the maximum number of droids doesnt stack up.

but DEs have stated they dont want bonuses in the DE tree they could be left out at all.

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Shian_Tavkin wrote:

Surely we won't be reduced to "prostituting" outside the Starport?

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LOL Shian, please dont save face now you wanted him removed a few days ago. Keep telling us its all or nothing. When all he sed was he wanted what benefitted the majority of the profession although on a personal level he saw that DH was most sound solution (i hate to say valid here) for combat droids. As a gamer, i agree but you cant fire me. Im a CH the devs already did that.

Atleast, i think hes trying although i still believe DE's getting bots will also ultimately allow BE's to do the same with pets. And since you dont want to mirror the pet professions at all, then by your own arguments this falls short of a real solution. I say that as a generalization towards the profession.

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A Master Droid Commander would have a total of +40 Max Droid Levels, +10 Stored Droids, and +3 Additional Droids. The total cost from Novice to Master would be 800000 Combat Droid Experience, 50 skill points, and 1220 Apprenticeship Points. The Droid Commander Profession would be stackable with Master Droid Engineer, so a Master DE/DC combo would give a total of +50 Max Droid Levels, +12 Stored Droids, and +4 Additional Droids. Total Skill Point Cost for a Master Artisan/Master Droid Engineer/Master Droid Commander would be 210 Skill Points.

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This isnt any compremise at all. Its force ramming the Droid Handler profession down our throat.