Squad Leader Archive

I realize that Squad leaders are one of the least loved professions in the game, however, for some reason I feel compelled to take the profession. Call it masochistic tendencies, if you will. I likely will be taking one ranged combat profession to go along with it (pistoleer probably), but after that I'll still have quite a few points left over: 38, in fact. I was thinking of medic, but I realize this profession will probably be too rough on the old mind pool in combination with Squad Leader. Does anyone have any good ideas in this regard?

Edit: ComplEment. I always mess that one up.

Many folks would argue squeezing Creature Handler in there just for the sake of a pet to always give you Squad Leader XP.

This is especially true since the last patch. I used to have a little R2 droid follow me around. He was a crafting, medical, etc droid. He never fought or anything, his entire purpose was to be grouped with me to give me the 20% SL xp bonus.

As we all know, this is important since we get zero SL xp when soloing. At least with a droid grouped, we get 20% of our main combat xp for it. (or double our combat xp, whichever way you wish to view it)

Now however, droids die. Before, it was annoying to have the droid get stuck, or get incapacitated forcing you to find a camp or building to pull it back out again. (along with the bug that breaks guild chat everytime you disband your group) But at least it was somewhat workable.

Even if my droid isn't fighting, eventually an agree mob will take a swipe at it and kill it dead. And it disappears from my datapad.

It's be silly to carry arough 10-12 droid deeds and keep pulling them out each time one catches a stray laser blast and dies. So once again, we're back to the situation where we can't earn ANY xp in the SL tract when solo.

I suppose one could argue that we shouldn't be able to earn any at all anyways, but it's not like groups are fighting to have us as part of their squad.

CH is probably the way to go for those of you still working on SL xp.

Many folks would argue squeezing Creature Handler in there just for the sake of a pet to always give you Squad Leader XP.

Faction pets work very well for this, and I think are a great way to earn some good SL xp solo. Especially if you get three guys... even if they are three basic troopers, those are not expensive, very expendable and easily replaced. But, they won't die in one hit (2400 for the imperial troopers) and are helpful enough.

I refuse to use the CH myself. I mean, I might own a dog someday or something... but I mean, its absurd to be like, "Hey Rufus! Hey Boy! Aim harder next time ok? Good boy!". I would feel stupid, and I KNOW I would look stupid. =)