Droid Engineer Archive

Hi guys.

I've been MDE since Decmeber 2003, was the only profession I wanted to be & ground it out from day 1 - I took a couple of months break before the CU hit & came back just after.

I have finally decided to chuck DE in. I am completely disillusioned with droids right now and after all we've been through what with the droid invasion etc. and the constant breaking of our modules you may think that this is a rather odd time to decide to call it quits, after all, since they sorted out the broken modules & seem to have stabilised the droid combat stats we're going through a pretty steady time ATM (it could be worse, right?!).

Well - I have always kept a wide variety of droids on my vendor - all of whichare hand bulit (albeit using crated sub components). R5 advanced with data modules & inventory storage were selling well - they have now dried up. No ones buying merchant barkers becuase of vendor search, I refuse to drop my BH droid prices - I upped them pro-rata with the increase in crate quantities so I sell about 3-4 crates a week of each tops. Up until recently basic probot combat droids were selling really well but now all I'm shifting are Probot advanced with max combat stats (1 100 rated module, 2 level 3 experimented armour), level 6 medical plus 3 auto-repair - thats the only droid selling & I can't keep them in stock long enough.

And you know how much they're going for? 245K. Yes, 245,000 EACH. I sell 3-5 a day. I used to struggle to sell these for 40K a while back.

I've got to the point where the money doesn't matter so I'm sitting here thinking why should I bother if all I can make is 1 droid type? Now, I'm not guilded which may make a difference as I have no large numbers of regular players after artisan/droid stuff but I've just logged off after having crafted yet another 5 probots thinking "is this is what DE has become?"

I used my respec token a while ago to swap my Shipwright skills for Master BH to add a bit of variety - hell I even became glowy for something else to do but I always maintined that DE was why I bought the game in the first place so would stick with it whatever.

Well - I've finally decided enough is enough - there's not enough droid content out there for anything other than FoTM combat templates ATM so if you can't beat 'em join 'em! I only ever wanted to be a DE since I got the game but the life has been sucked out of it with every publish til I've gotten to the point I'm at today. I'm going to knock up a few crates of droid stuff just in case & I'm keeping all my resources but in the not too distant future I'll be grinding up to CL80 then onto Jedi possibly.

Thanks for all the tips etc. I've picked up from this board & a very big thanks to the correspondants who've done a great job for the DE community over the last couple of years - cheers guys & you never know, if I ever do unlock my alt I may just grind out MDE again becuase hopefully by then the prof will have had the attention it deserves - this is Star Wars, droids should be an integral part of EVERY characters life not just the FoTM templates!

Cheers& good luck to DE's everywhere, you've got more will power than I have!

- Chaz -

Galtar Trask; Infinity; Ex-MDE, MBH

Sorry to see any DE give up, but I know the feeling. When I opened my bday present a year ago july, I knew the second my eyes landed on the box that I would be a DE. I knew before I got the game that I would be DE if I ever did get it. I still enjoy DE and won't give it up, but I get fed up with the crap they put us through. However I have found this is a perfect reason to have multiple toons. I have 2 combat and 1 crafter that I play, around 6-7 others that have been made and left virtually unplayed. When I get fed up with the droid bugs, I'll join the combatants. I hope the big 'real' droid revamp is right around the corner. Course that corner is 6 months to a year in the future.

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