Droid Engineer Archive
Thread: Real bad new bug Droid Healing
Message Edited by ArthurDentOnBria on 07-20-2005 11:31 AM
ArthurDentOnBria wrote:
One could argue whether or not this is actually a bug. No word from the devs one way or another. From my perspective as a DE, it's really not that bad, in fact, I'd hate to see it "fixed". Why? Because although I have a vendor full of repair kits that aren't selling, and it's likely that anyone with medic skills would ever buy one, it really does make droids more attractive to medics. Seriously, a droid is an easy sell to them now:
fights at level 30, increases your heals by 25%+, will store 10 items for you, and they can heal it themselves when it gets hurt. Who *wouldn't* want one? It's a no-brainer sale, and they'll pay well to get one.
Well, from past experience, it would be considered a bug, since droids it was remeded in the past. When Droids where hit by the blanket pet effect during the CU Beta, they were made healable by medical means. This blanker effect is still being seen with droids, since both BE crafted pets and DE crafted droids are hitting hard caps after they are called from the 'deed'.
I'll admit that I like this bugged feature, with my MCH/MBH/NCM, since it allows me to heal all of my pets at the same time, however I do think that it needs to be addressed, along with the Auto-Repair Modules.
As for Droid Sales....
Too long have droids suffered the bad rap. Its going to take a lot of encouragement on everyones part to make people realized how much of an asset droids are now, in combat. I was in the village the other day, with my above mentioned toon, during the Phase 4 attack. I had my 3 pets on one target, while I was targeting another sith, of the same level, and forgot about setting my droid to attack, since it is on a seperate command. The droid was hit by a AOE attack and aggro'd one of the Pirates. My little DZ-70 end up taking down 2 Pirates in the same amount of time thatit took me to I kill 4 and my 3 pets killed 3, without having to lend the droid a single shot. That is just on the PvE front.
When it comes to PvP, that extra 30+ points every 1.5 seconds makes a huge difference, when fighting someone with simialr skills. You might as well tack it on as an extra 30 DPS to the weapon that you are using, because that is simply what it is. Ina PvP fight, where every point of damage matters, having a droid there to assist with the kill is phenominal.Again, just trying to make more people realize their value.
. But I can understand why you won't like that. In fact, I purposefully had an auto-repair module put in because I didn't want to have to heal him all the time.