Droid Engineer Archive

Well I find myself at a crossraods folks, i'm looking at this profession and I can't see where it's going. Let me give you a little background, I played at launch as a different character for two months and quit. I came back last summer and had more fun due to the vehicles making life easier, but after a month quit. That character I made is the one I am using now and is a DE 3333 and a pistoleer 1111 and almost master artisan.

Well I came back last week and I looked at DE and thought naaaa, so I surrendered some artisan skills to start scouting. I fancied creature handler and was happy to work my way there.

Then I had a change of heart and thought since I was so close to master DE I would give it a second chance. So yesterday I started working back those few artisan skills I surrendered with a new hope *drum role*

Then I read these boards and all I see is misery and further misery to come. I'm looking at what I have to look forward to in the last 5 boxes of DE and I isn't something that makes me happy. I currently have a probot, a surgical droid, an r2 unit and several adv z's for tanking. Well in the last few boxes I get an advanced probot that looks the same as the probot, protocol droid which is useless, you know the rest. I love the idea of DE, it's pure star wars, I like to tinker, I like the complexity. But I'm not stupid enough to stick with a pointless profession, right now it neither works as a pseudo combat profession or a business and it's only getting worse.

So should I complete my transistion to creature handler? pets are useful as mounts and combat aids. There's more variety which is the main draw and amazingly I can master CH and pistoleer and still almost master medic or maybe pick up some ranger skills if I like.

I really don't want to make another mistake, I've wasted enough time on what is supposed to be a game not a career choice which is what it bloody feels like right now.