Droid Engineer Archive
Thread: Is DE even worth it?
I just became a Novice DE and last night aquired intermediate blueprints. It's a lot of grinding and hard work, and now I come to this forum and it all seems not worth it. What CAN I do with these droids. Any attack functions? Do they build? Please help. because it seems as of now afterreading here that I should pursue other avenues. I hope this is not the case. Thanx...
I agree, there is alot of negativity here, however, i find my droids quite useful. The Probot is a good tank ... he may not kill things, but he tanks good. There are bounty hunter seeker and probe droids that sell like hot cakes. After you make your first weapon,droid and general item crafting station module equipped droid, you'll be glad you did
Shinigurai wrote:
I just became a Novice DE and last night aquired intermediate blueprints. It's a lot of grinding and hard work, and now I come to this forum and it all seems not worth it. What CAN I do with these droids. Any attack functions? Do they build? Please help. because it seems as of now afterreading here that I should pursue other avenues. I hope this is not the case. Thanx...
I havent even got master blueprints yet, and i'm having a ball Oh, dont try to sell your droids on the bazaar, they sell terrible, mostly because they show up under misc/generic item instead of deeds/droid ... just stand in town and make a macro calling out what your selling. people will see it, and buy from you. I sold 140k worth of droids yesterday in 4 hours of playing.Most of us have faith that there will be BIG changes coming our way soon... but, that's a matter of faith and hope. We currently are somewhat hobbled in what we can do, since our droid selections and modules are rather very limited in ability. Again, it's a matter of faith... if you have the patience and desire to stick with this profession with the hopes that we'll have much more capable and competant products in the future, then welcome to our brother/sisterhood friend.
To answer your questions... well, I'm not going to answer them, but I'm going to repost the comments of another DE by the name of JaatoWaals who summed it up here rather nicely:
JaatoWaals wrote:
1. Allow medics/doctors to treat wounds outside a hospital (currently, in some cases, with even better success than in the hospital if the droid has a L6 med module) (medical module)
2. Store schematics (large quanties of storage are possible with multiple data modules; however, note that the ability to store schematics is more or less useless, since who carries around more than two or three schematics at a time?) (data module)
3. Store items. (capped at 10. Not sure if the bug that causes items to disappear still exists) (item storage module)
4. Serve as a portable crafting station (arguably the greatest benefit of droids, especially when a food/med station is combined with a L6 med unit. Many customers actually report greater successes with droid craft stations than with even high level personal crafting stations (+40 level). (weapon/droid, armor/clothing, food/med, or structure crafting station)
5. Attack (Most of the combat effectiveness of probotsis due to their ability to utilize medium armor with 40% across the board resists, which gives them an effective unarmor HAM of about 5600. However, their 50 extra dps is nothing to sneeze at, especially when you consider the amount of credits people pay for krayt dragon tissues which boost personal weapon dps by 30) (Probot and DZ70)
6. repair other droids wound damage (I've never actually see a droid take wound damage, so I wonder about this 'feature'. Plus the ability to repair other droids isn't so much a 'feature' as it is something that exists in some form for pretty much anything in the game (doctors, trick1 for pets, etc) (repair module)
7. Power other droids (requires a very expensive type of droid which can't do much but provide power. Also, given that each person can only have one droid out, it's impossible to use this type of droid to power your own combat/crafting/medical droids) (power droid [Gonk])
That's all I can remember off the top of my head. So you see, droids aren't completely useless. They basically provide added functionality for all the other classes. Unfortunately, everything a droid can provide can be found better/cheaper elsewhere- free ability to heal wounds in medical centers, private crafting stations with utility ratings made by master architects, backpacks (with up to 50 storage units), creatures, which do more damage and, in ch-only pets, can have radically higher damage and HAM/armor). About the only functional thing unique to droids is their data storage modules, which don't really have much usefulness currently.
Good to see another D.E. / T.K.A. about... not that it makes very much sense. 
Very much not trying to discourage you - we seem a bit negative, but that's just to let people know that we're not content with our professions state of being yet. If it's what you want, definitely stick with it! You have a solid group of peers here who will support you, help you, and make fun of creature handlers with you. 
That said, be prepared for grinding 2750 advanced droid frames for 1,250,000 droid crafting experience which will only cost you about 412500 steel and 192500 fiberplast. Best Buy has a good deal on Logitech optical mouses (mice?) this week. 
Nah - Welcome to our little club!