Droid Engineer Archive

Just an idea for a new non-combat droid type that I would like to see in the game. Sorry if this has been suggested before - I've been lurking for a while and haven't seen it.

Here it goes:

Remember the training droid used on the Millenium Falcon - the "but I can't see with the blaster shield down" whine should bring back some memories. What if that was a craftable droid at low levels, and more advanced models were available as you moved up the tree.

The idea would be that a new D.E. character would be able to craft these out of minimal basic resources and be able to make at least a small profit from other newbie characters who are looking for a safe way to gain some xp. Perhaps new combat characters would be able to gain half the xp of killing a gorg or something after 20 seconds of practicing their selected skills with the droid - the balances would have to be worked out of course... Also, the droid would have a quick rate of decay from a low-level D.E. and not offer alot of xp - but still a good item to sell and buy for newbie characters.

As you moved up the D.E. tree, you would have options to make practice droids that offered more xp for practice session and didn't decay as fast as you moved up the tree - but would cost more resources or more rare resources.

I will make Master Droid Engineer by this weekend or early next week and it would be too late for me to benefit off of crafting too many of these droids, but I know what a pain the grind has been to this point. It would be nice if a lower level D.E. had a decent chance to make a profit too - something the other crafting professions have from the start.

It's just a thought, but maybe we can get something like this added in with the combat droids that are hopefully coming. Thoughts are appreciated - even if they aren't necessary.

Also, I don't think that you should be able to take down a Rancor or Krayt Dragon just because you've worked with a practice droid for 1500 hours. The xp benefits should level off at some point, maybe you should at least be able to put up a good fight vs. a random thug or two before you wouldn't gain any benefit from using one of these...

Awesome Idea.

/agree

they should give xp over time like dancing and stuff but onlyuntil u have reached enough xp to lv up the first box in a starting proffesion. also there should be droids with that u can fight to warm up for battle, resulting in an temporary buff for ur evade hit and other skills like eating food. and there should be droids required for Jedis to train some lowlv boxes for lightsaber and jedireflexes.

also i would like to see grenade droids, droids that can be trown like a trapp but instead the fly homing at the target

droids that could be set up as turret

droids that shoot the area around the user after flying over his head

droids that prevent the user from beeing shoot by catching the shoots

droids that shild the user with shildgenerator