Droid Engineer Archive

• Not really enough skills to justify the skillpoints needed for mastery


• Stacking 2 combat professions gives you extra defense and more damage types, but you can't use two weapons at the same time. A gun and a droid can be used at the same time. This would keep DH in the same area as CH, a support prof, not a real combat prof.

Those 2 combined would make DH a profession for people who love playing with droids, not an overall viable choice. Not a real bad thing, but does not justify the dev time needed to create it.

Solution: Several professions are lacking in skillset to justify the skillpoint cost, Ranger and Smuggler come to mind.

A rough draft of some professions and droid skills they could get:

Bounty Hunters: Increasing level of CL for combat droids with max CL possible at master. (Highly debateable I know, I'm in favor of less visible Jedi, thus in favor of anything that makes BH stronger, stay of the terms if you don't want to die. Obviously, I'm not a Jedi, I do realize there are circumstances and perhaps bugs that put you on the terms without your fault and they should be fixed)

Ranger: Ability to call 2 droids at once.Can use combat droids upto half the max possible CL. (just like CH, e.g. Max is CL 40 so 2 CL20 combat droids or 1 CL40 combat droid and one harvesting droid). Ranger is a loner and has learned to work efficiently with droids in the field.

Squad Leader: Can call 3 droids at once. Can use combat droids upto max CL (again just like CH). Managing all the newbies on a corvette run has given them the mentality needed to work with several droids at once

Smuggler: Can use a combat droid upto half the max possible CL, has special attacks for droids. Can sliceone attack into other peoples combat droids.

This is a rough draft, it's late and I'm sleepy. Going to bed now. Any flames will be used to cook my dinner Constructive comment is always welcome.

BH's have also shot down the idea. The core issue is these professions want content that has to do with their profession added in to fill the gaps, not just toss droids in because they're convenient. A similar analogy would be if BE's came along and said that they thought DE was lacking content/skill point justification, so it would be all better if BE's could make crafting-enhancing clothes that DE's could wear and that would add more content to our profession.