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Thread: Probot droids, what is going on?

Mohi
Thu Jul 21, 2005 4:31 pm
#1
I recently was on a daily harvester run and had to tangle with some level 14 thugs. Me being only level 10 I'm too wimpy, so I whip out my level 30 probot and tell it to kill the first thug (the 2nd thug did NOT assist in the fight). I watched in utter horror as my level 30 Probot was beat to a mechanical pulp by something less than half its level. I made this probot myself and it has the best armor and attack you can make.


Did the patch mess this up? I remember my probot doing quite well against equel level creatures before.


So, I tested it some more. Finally, Fawned Rawls outside Theed (level 8) were just enough for my Probot to eek out a win. Seriously, something is wrong when a level 30 has a hard time winning against a level 8 creature!!!


Am I the only one to have experienced this? Seems like a major nerf was applied to droid levels, or maybe a bug I wasn't aware of is affecting my droid. (I did pull out my spare Probot, also maxed in fighting, and had the same results). No, I've never used "Guard" as a command.



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ngp
Thu Jul 21, 2005 4:42 pm
#2
If you grouped with your droid, the droid's CL would be brought down to your level.

Misa
Obo_alCan
Thu Jul 21, 2005 4:54 pm
#3

ngp wrote:
If you grouped with your droid, the droid's CL would be brought down to your level.

Misa



Well there are two issues.

The first is where you group with the droid, bringing it down to your level.

The second is an issue where if the probot gets too close to its target (within 30m), it will start doing lower damage. The droid needs to get back out beyond 30m from the target to start working correctly again.




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Mohi
Thu Jul 21, 2005 11:12 pm
#4

Interesting. Didn't realize that grouping with my pet was a lousy idea I knew about the range issue, but somehow missed the grouping factor. Pity. Well I guess I can still target my pet to see how its doing in the fight. That would also explain why when I group with my friends (levels for them are over 60) that my Probot does fantastically better.


Does the CL go higher than 30 when grouping with very high level groupmates?





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ZarienYage
Fri Jul 22, 2005 5:10 am
#5




Mohi wrote:

Interesting. Didn't realize that grouping with my pet was a lousy idea I knew about the range issue, but somehow missed the grouping factor. Pity. Well I guess I can still target my pet to see how its doing in the fight. That would also explain why when I group with my friends (levels for them are over 60) that my Probot does fantastically better.


Does the CL go higher than 30 when grouping with very high level groupmates?






No, but the reason you saw it doing much better was because when you group with your friends who are above lvl 30 then the droid is now working at its full cl rating. So you were used to seeing it do medicocre damage being grouped with just u because it came down to your lvl and when you u saw it in with your friends group it was doing alot more. If that makes sense.
RasalTheWise
Fri Jul 22, 2005 3:26 pm
#6
Actually, droids are treated just like pets when grouping. So if you have a CL 30 droid and it groups with a CL 80 person, it will calculate damage (attack and defense) as if it were a CL 80 creature.




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Straker_Atrella
Sat Jul 23, 2005 6:12 pm
#7




RasalTheWise wrote:
Actually, droids are treated just like pets when grouping. So if you have a CL 30 droid and it groups with a CL 80 person, it will calculate damage (attack and defense) as if it were a CL 80 creature.



Actually Rasal, I just tested this 2 days ago, grouping it with a level 80 didn't raise it's damage or defense. So it seems like Droids will go down from a group, but not up.



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ZarienYage
Mon Jul 25, 2005 5:25 am
#8




RasalTheWise wrote:
Actually, droids are treated just like pets when grouping. So if you have a CL 30 droid and it groups with a CL 80 person, it will calculate damage (attack and defense) as if it were a CL 80 creature.




No this is wrong. The droid will only go to its max damage points of CL30 when grouped with anyone with a CL of 30 or higher. It can never go above the CL 30 and its crafted min-max damage output. The only thing you will notice is when its grouped with someone with a CL lower then 30 it will adjust its min-max damage output based upon the persons CL.


So it can never go above CL30 and its crafted min-max damage outputs. But it sure can go below.


1StarNinja
Mon Jul 25, 2005 11:06 am
#9
Craft yourself a and Adv. probot with 1 Level 6 Armor module, 1 Combat Module and then fill in the rest with your highest Auto Healing modules.


Because of the CL thing and the way it works ith droids now, you have a droid capable of dishing out the max damage it ever could, as much armor as you can put on it (considering the armor bug) and great self healing abilities.





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Straker_Atrella
Tue Jul 26, 2005 12:27 am
#10
Last night my Probot went on Strike, he killed one mob, then totally refused to fight. Storing and logging didn't help, no clue what caused it, he just started ignoring me.


Probots are weird.



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