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Thread: De's ? on effective Combat Droid
Could be a prepub droid, or, it may be a Tanker. Check your droid and see if he has a heal power statistic. What you may have is an Adv Probot with 5 auto repairs in him. To use that, you toggle on his auto heal from the radial menu and send him forth into glorious combat for the Klingon empire!!!!....., err, wait, wrong sci-fi, sorry 
Anyways, once in combat your sturdy buddy will do minimal damage (saving all the phat xp for yourself) and heal himself over and over to last longer.
If your looking for a decent straight up tank with a weee bit of extra punch, ask your local friendly DE for a AdvLE Repair Bot with one combat module, 2 auto repairs and a lvl 6 armor module (you want the level 6 to max out his resists to 20%) Make sure he's got some good chems on him, so you can get as close as possible to the 6k HAM these things can have. Adv Probots max at 3200, while Adv LE's can max at 6000. If your feeling fun, ask for a personality chip for a few extra credits.
Side note, your droid may inspect at 40% resists, but true max is 20%, the 40% is a display bug. Best thing you can do when you buy a new droid is ready him, then inspect, should see the true resists the first time around to know if you got a fair deal.
Yes you got what's been dubbed a Tankbot. Most likely it's filled with (assuming it's an advanced version?) 5 auto-repair modules. Probots and D270s have an inherent attack of 1, so they still have the attack command even with no installed combat modules.
Off the top of my head, I believe a probot with 5 good combat modules will do somewhere 150-170ish. With a high rate of fire, that can come in handy 
It's really up to you if you get more use out of the droid repairing itself (and other friendly droids within 30m) while holding agro for you, or if you get more out of a higher damage dealer. It's times like this that I'm glad you can have 5 droids in your datapad (although I wish it was more than 5 
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It take damage for you, but doesn't take the xp.
Combat probot with 5 combat module are very good.
The 40% resist is a bug, it's 20% but still,
tested my probot against a guy TKM and fencer but not master, without buff, with a stunt baton, the (almost maxed) probot does win.
With another baton that does more damage but kinetic, the fencer win.
In PvE, the probot is great.
With 5 good combat module, damage are about 170-180 and chance to hit about 40%, and speed about 0.75 second.
Maxed combat rating is supposed to be 500 on probot, even if one guy on farstar sell some with a rating of 503.
DZ70 has about the same HAM (a little less), but does less damage.
Mix of HAM and damge you have 2 options :
Combat adv R3, lower damage than probot but higher HAM or a probot with 1 or 2 repair module.
I think combat stat formula for droid is somewhere in the sticky.
Message Edited by Gavvot on 05-27-2004 05:37 PM
As I have said before elsewhere, the R3 with 5 autoheals is by far the best tanking droid. If you want xp more than anything, ask a custom droid maker to make the one combat module low.. its unlikely you will find these on a vendor sale.
Remenber, you need droid stims for when the going gets tough, but that R3 wil surprise you
Good Luck!!
Really?? I just ran a factory lot of combat modules with a 102 rating.. When I was making my last batch of "Spinnin Top of Doom" probots the rating is 510.
Gavvot wrote:
In PvE, the probot is great.
With 5 good combat module, damage are about 170-180 and chance to hit about 40%, and speed about 0.75 second.
Maxed combat rating is supposed to be 500 on probot, even if one guy on farstar sell some with a rating of 503.
Message Edited by strykler on 05-30-2004 12:01 PM