Droid Engineer Archive
Thread: A Sad Tale
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HadishiJr
Mon Aug 08, 2005 11:48 am
#1
Mimes is my loving crafting alt. He is a Shipwright and a Droid Enginner with a smattering of Merchant.
I log in at my house in Naboo outside Keren and begin to empty my factories to replenish a vendor.
As I step outside, I realize some Narglatches are camping my house! Mimes is a lowly CL1, so I decide to finally make myself an uberCombat Droid!
Well, maybe not uber, since I was only able to make level 4 Armor Modules. But I made some pretty good combat modules, and used a combat module cluster. I forgot some components in one of the factories, so I made a mad dash outside.
A female Narglatch at CL 27 aggros me! I make it back in my lovely medium Naboo house, and oddly enough, the Narglatch chases me in my house, down the stairs to my basement, and incaps me, and hides behind my Starship Crafting Station.
Odd huh? The Narglatch stood there but harmed me no further.
Anyways, I craft myself a decent Combat Droid. A Probot of course, with 3750 HAM and 60 to 270 damage. No other stats listed. I was curious about that. Anywho, I am so proud of crafting my first combat droid to protect my fragile Sullistan from the denizens of the galaxy. However, as I get back upstairs to ready the droid, I realize I have to go outside, so I do. I ready the droid, but again, the Narglatch aggros me, chases me into my house, down the stairs into my basement, and incaps me again! DANG!
So I finally got the "uber" droid out. I see a female Narglatch baby. CL27. My droid rates at CL30. NO MATCH FOR ELROY THE PROBOT! Wrong. I sick my buddy on the baby, and the baby incaps my droid in a mere 3 hits. Then, the baby chases me into my house, down the stairs, and into the basement of my medium Naboo house, and incaps me, rendering my CL1 Sullistan crafting alt dead.
I got killed by a baby Narglatch.
Anyways, I fully admit I am new to DE. I returned from a long hiatus from this game. I left right before JTL was released, and I came back to an awesome game after the CU. I know many disagree, but hey.. it is what it is right?
Why did my droid die so quickly? I would have thought a CL30 Probot was pretty good considering how badly the nerf bat hits them. Do I have to group to run outside my house? Should I have called upon my guildmates to assist me? Is it normal for mobs to chase you into your house these days?
RasalTheWise
Mon Aug 08, 2005 2:52 pm
#2
Here's the issue: When they revamped the pets, they made it so MOBs will target you first when you attack with a pet. But first they will attack the target that is doing the most damage...the pet. But if there is a group of MOBs that normally help out their buddies, they auto-target you since they have not been dealt damage.
This was done intentionally because they introduced an aggro skill for CHs that allow pets to draw aggro off you. And since pet code is tied into droid code, it gets the same effect. What sucks is that droid do not have programming to draw aggro, so sending in an attack droid into a tight group of aggro is usually not a good idea.
With regards to aggro following you into a house...yeah that's a bug allright. It worked fine pre-pub 21...I was able to shake off aggro by entering a public building.
This was done intentionally because they introduced an aggro skill for CHs that allow pets to draw aggro off you. And since pet code is tied into droid code, it gets the same effect. What sucks is that droid do not have programming to draw aggro, so sending in an attack droid into a tight group of aggro is usually not a good idea.
With regards to aggro following you into a house...yeah that's a bug allright. It worked fine pre-pub 21...I was able to shake off aggro by entering a public building.
Message Edited by RasalTheWise on 08-08-2005 02:53 PM
1StarNinja
Mon Aug 08, 2005 3:12 pm
#3
Whenever a mob chases my poor CL1 into one of his houses I hit the /setpr and it boots them out since it turns the building private. As soon as it leaves the house I make it public again. Of course this doesn't work if you have a vendor inside. Don't know if setting a entrance fee would work (Be nice to set a 50k min and have the mobs charged 50k for following you inside 
Xrystal
Mon Aug 08, 2005 3:30 pm
#4
1StarNinja wrote:
Whenever a mob chases my poor CL1 into one of his houses I hit the /setpr and it boots them out since it turns the building private. As soon as it leaves the house I make it public again. Of course this doesn't work if you have a vendor inside. Don't know if setting a entrance fee would work (Be nice to set a 50k min and have the mobs charged 50k for following you inside
tsk tsk .. that sounds like an exploit if ever I saw one ... but .. who wants to try it first
1StarNinja
Mon Aug 08, 2005 4:13 pm
#5
It sure would be one helluva exploit if it worked. I doubt it does but with the way things go with a certain Dev team you never know. I may actually try that tonight just to see if it does work (of course I'd have to /bug it and then find a csr to take the money off my hands so I don't get my butt banned)
Bviper47
Tue Aug 09, 2005 12:09 am
#6
Tis a sad story indeed, the mob shouldnt of followed you into your house, but alas a bug. A droid should be able to take one down if you arent group with it, I dont know if you had any auto repair mods in the droid but those are bugged and wont help the droid. So until they fix the bugs, call for guildes.
SidNitz
Tue Aug 09, 2005 1:14 pm
#7
Tried this last night, aggroing diseased vrelts and dragging them into my workshop w/ a 50K entry fee, but no dice....
RHYN0X
Tue Aug 09, 2005 2:34 pm
#8
2 lvl 4 armor modules, one well made combat module, will make your pet max out on all stats, and gives you room to put whatever else you wish in it. Don't group with the pet, or it will drop in level... I have a maxed out Adv Probot, he hasn't lost a fight yet, even against up to CL32's.
HadishiJr
Wed Aug 10, 2005 9:32 am
#10
Thanks for the tips and for sharing in my sad tale of woe.
I am waiting on a crate of Battle Armor Segments from some of my guildmates. I doubt it would help any seeing as how everything in DE is busted or not working, but I thought it was a funny enough tale to share with ya'll.
Also, while I'm not a noob to crafting, I am certainly a noob to DE. I dunno how you guys do it with all these components. I need like 4 factories just to keep up if not more.
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