Musician Archive

I've paid 40k for one that was supposed to have all 6 effects, but only ended up having 3. I bought a second that does have all 6 effects for 30k. Like all things in this game, the price will drop dramatically once the demand for these items diminishes.

Somebody was charging $70k the other day in the Coronet Cantina.

Same advice as with any new thing: Wait two weeks and buy one. It'll cost the same as any other droid.

I always wind up buying something when it's brand new just to have something new to play with and then in a week they are a third the price.

after buying each, I was able to make up to cost for both with only a couple hours of buffing. I don't set prices for my buffs, and would be happy with 2-3k for each, but the majority of folks are willing to pay me 10k for each set of buffs anyway. I do not know why they pay this much, I do not know why they get mad when I try to pay some of it back. I guess doc buffs have em a bit wired in the head for buff pricing.

In any case, with good buffs, you can make up the prices for the new droids in no time. Another thing. I sold a droid with 3 effects to a nonmaster musician, and she was unable to use the effects, so I am unsure as to what skills are needed in order to use these.

I'm master DE and novice musician, so I don't have issue making all the component myself.

Only droid that can hold 6 modules is adv R3.
To build an adv R3 you need 2 identical advanced droid brain,
so they must be made in the same factory run.

To build an Advanced droid brain you need 4 identical electronic memory modules and 4 identical Electronic GP module both are master artisan component.

So, to build the adv droid brain required for an adv R3, you need at least 3 factory run, 1 requiring DE skill (not sure it's master but sure it's not novice) and 2 run requiring Master artisan.

Advanced droid brain is only 1 component of an Adv R3 chassis, there are 4 or 5 component, not all requiring that much factory run to make but most requiring subcomponent and some factory made subcomponent.

And that's without any module.

I'm not even counting the ressources here, just trying to give you an idea of what it is to build a droid.

I personnaly charge 60K for adv R3 with 6 module in it (and I think it's cheap), and even if demand lower, I probably won't lower my prices.

Gavvot pretty much hit the nail on the head. It takes A LOT of subcomponents to make one finished droid. And the utter dependency on Master Artisan parts means that for a DE to be self-sufficient, they have to master that as well (taking up valuable skill points that could be spent elsewhere).

You also have to remember that droids are a one time purchase. They don't decay. Unless you voluntarily destroy your droid from your datapad, it'll always be there. Droid prices often reflect that lack of decay.

I charge less than most for my droids, but more than some. 60k for a 6-effects R3 is very reasonable. I've already paid that much on another server for one of these. Yes you'll probably see the people currently charging 150k drop their prices in the coming weeks (unless the demand is still there resulting in them flying off the vendors), but they will still be difficult and time/resource/factory intensive to make and that will be reflected in the vendor's price.

To add up some informations :

Only novice musician or novice dancer is required to use the effect.

Didn't tested myself for dancer as I'm not one, but as a novice musician, I can use all the visual effects.
Didn't tried the playback module yet.

For those that want to grind to master DE to make their own droids, keep in mind those things :
1) even if only engineering 4 is required to be a DE, master artisan is required to make most of the droids, or you'll better have a good master artisan friend.

2) To master DE, you'll need alot of time (macro can help, but you cannot AFK-macroing) and alot of ressources (I'm talking in Millions here).

If you want to make money, and your entertainer skills aren't enough, remember you have 10 lots.
Ressource selling is the best money maker in the game.

That's about inline with what I paid for my droids. I think the R3s were all 23k.

On the HAM, be careful there. With the effects droid HAM doesn't matter, but when using a playback module a droid uses action to flourish. Only a fraction of musicians, but it is used. So if you get a MSE playback droid, you can get around 8-10 flourishes out of it, depending on resources.