Droid Engineer Archive

Um....yeah

A few nights ago I crafted a ADV Probot for a customer. Item Storage, Crafting mod, top notch armor etc...

40% resist to everything, and 819 hp. I had asked him a favor of putting this newly crafted probot against my 3200 HAM pre-nerf..

Would you believe it was a perfectly even match. The post patch Probot held it's own toe-to-toe with a pre-nerf, and I was surprised.. I was ready to watch my "Cyn" pulverize this newcomer, but nope. Didn't happen.

So what does this say? Who knows, but there's something to say for balance. Anyone who dosen't believe me and is on the Bria server, contact me in-game (Rhoeri) and I'll gladly duel you Probot for Probot, you'll see what I mean.

For what it's worth... There's something to chew on for a while!

So, what's the effective difference? Does the old probot have weak armor?

What's the armour on the pre-nerf? If it is medium @ 40% then there's no way they can be evenly matched. Not only is there more than double the damage for pre-nerfs, but armour makes a huge difference to the final outcome. If you have 3200HAM with no or only light armour, then maybe they'll be close to equivalent, but a proper pre-nerf will whip the new ones pretty handily.

Pre-nerf had no armor. But comparitivley speaking, that's where I was surprised. It seems that with 40% resist to all forms of damage, a post-patch Probot is the equivalent of a 3.2k HAM entity. This to me comes as relativley good news. I was expecting to turn the post-patch into paste..

Thats why for the most part I liked my probot better than my non-ch pets, except for the fact you cant heal it.

So what is the no-armor HAM equivalent of a probot with 40% armor?

When we get the droid repair tool that anyone can use, we are gonna clean up!

The no armor equivalent of a $0% resist by my test was obviously a 3200 HAM probot with no armor. Same would be with a creature w/no armor, not the damage and attack speed would play a signifigant role, but still.. The point of the post was to display my shock that it turned out to be a even tie

Errr... EDIT 0% to be 40%

With Medium 40% armor, a Probot has HAM equal to approximately 4600 HAM.

820 HAM+ ar1 = 50% damage or2x the HAM = 1640 HAM

820 HAM + ar2 = 50% of 50% or4x the HAM = 3280 HAM

820 HAM + ar2 + 40% resists = 40% of 50% of 50% or 5.6x the HAM = 4592 HAM.