Ranger Archive
Thread: Trapping Droid is it worth it?
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droidnut
Wed Aug 11, 2004 9:39 pm
#1
Hello everyone;
My question is has anyone tried the new trapping module droid? I am wonder if they would be any good?
Lear Novice ranger -Sunrunner
Odajja
Thu Aug 12, 2004 3:21 am
#2
R you a Rifleman? Do you have a factory to make traps? if you said yes to any of these and you hunt with Cover to where you can move. Yes. If not No. I use mine verry rarely. Mainly when in Hunt group with TK or close in hunters ill takeit out.
Ischaria
Thu Aug 12, 2004 4:11 am
#3
In my opinion the harvest droid was the last nail in the coffin for rangers, was one of the reason's I changed prof 
Nemo' - General n00b
JascoSmlee
Fri Aug 13, 2004 5:17 am
#4
My harvest droid (+76) also has one trap module. It can hold 23 traps of the same type. I normally fill it up with P Dart or Adhesive Meshes. I find it very useful when hunting larger critters and the droid fired traps hardly ever miss and they also do not take up any space in my combat queue. Also, note that my +76 bonus droid still harvests more than me as a +90 bonus Ranger.
ShyGirl
Fri Aug 13, 2004 10:24 am
#5
JascoSmlee wrote:
Also, note that my +76 bonus droid still harvests more than me as a +90 bonus Ranger.
Yep, that strenghtens my personal conclusion.... When you use a Harvest Driod of +76 it adds a 7.6% harvesting bonus to the Rangers base harvesting ability.
In other threads it is mentioned that one should not buy a Harvesting driod which has less that +110 with the reasoning that only the last two digits of that value counts as harvesting bonus. So if you were to buy a droid with 100, it would be equivalent to a harvesting bonus of zero percent 
(I do not think that could be right.)
(I do not think that could be right.)So, a +110 would be a 10% bonus to your base harvesting abilities v.s. my conclusion that +110 is gives an 11% bonus and a +76 droid would give a 7.6% bonus... I think that sounds more accurate?
So, what is indeed the answer?
What is the non-specualative bonus formula for Harvest Droids?
TombRaiderDave
Tue Aug 17, 2004 10:25 am
#6
Im fairly new to this harvesting for cash thing. And i'm wondering about these droids. I have never came accross a harvesting droid. Can both I and my droid harvest of the same creature. Also what sort of droids are we talking, modified probots, mouse??? Oh, and whats the going price for them. Thanks
Calculus_Entropy
Tue Aug 17, 2004 1:00 pm
#7
TombRaiderDave wrote:
Im fairly new to this harvesting for cash thing. And i'm wondering about these droids. I have never came accross a harvesting droid. Can both I and my droid harvest of the same creature. Also what sort of droids are we talking, modified probots, mouse??? Oh, and whats the going price for them. Thanks
You can NOT harvest from a creature that your droid has. You CAN put the harvest module into any droid you want (that can hold a module), BUT they need to stack to get a good harvesting mod. Therefore, the droids that have the mostmodule slots are going to be your better harvesters (I believe that an ADV R3 can hold the most). price varies for server, but a 'good' droid will probably cost you less than 50k.
Fodder650
Tue Aug 17, 2004 2:40 pm
#8
I always liked my trapping droids. As a Master Ranger/Master CH i would send my beast in and have the trap droid launch mesh's at 60m. Usually this kept us weaklings out of danger. And the pets took the abuse.
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