Ranger Archive

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DobePincher wrote:

I have one of these trapping droids and I used it to take down the muntant acklay solo. I filled it up with p-darts and set up a macro to tell the droid to throw a trap every 4 seconds and The acklay stayed snared and I was able to easily kite it. I find that "Herbie" (that's the name of my droid) comes in very handy when hunting the big game.

Tonja

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Ya know, its funny how often this tactic is used now..and I got laughed at here for talking about this tactic pre-CU. (my thread on it is buried in here somewhere)

Funny how times change :-)

http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=ranger&message.id=88459&query.id=0#M88459

Message Edited by Kinshi on 07-28-2005 10:47 AM

I too use a trap droid. Though it has no combat ability, Trapper chucks a p-dart every 10 seconds. If I find that a trap failed, then I can hand-toss one myself and usually do well. On Bloodfin, I am also a CH, so my pattern of attack is to have at least 2 creatures out, my trap droid, and hand toss a glow wire into a mob. The glow wire attracts and pulls only one creature. When I have that chreatires attention, I set off the trap macro for the droid, and send in my creatures. This usually starts beating up the target in enough time that once I open up with my Nym Slug Thrower, I kill the creature even before it reaches me. Ranger/CH is a deadly combo with PvCreature combat. Now if only they fix ranger to be a real combat prof, I can actually start woking PvP as special forces.

Make no mistake, the trap droid is an invaluable tool. Even with the P-darts "fixed" since pub 20, I can still kite big game with ease. I recommend spending the 50k creds on the droid you described int he original post.

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DobePincher wrote:

My macro is called trap and the command on my droid is T. Macro

/yell t;

/yell st: (this is to keep him from attacking)

/pause 4;

/macro trap;

Works like a charm.

Tonja

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