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Débuté par NuclearTech76 , déc. 17 2013 02:00

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#26
ROBOTICSUPERMAN
Posté 17 décembre 2013 - 06:01

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Chain overload, chain lightening, total spawn locking!

Or you can go for rocket drone for survivability, as it avoids enemies like the plague and shoots from a distance. But does way more damage. Whereas chain lightening does nearly no damage, but staggers everyone and draws attention away from you.

Rocket turret > rocket drone

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Posté 17 décembre 2013 - 06:12

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NuclearTech76 wrote...

Tell me why I'm wrong.


I can't, you are quite correct.

#28
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Posté 17 décembre 2013 - 06:13

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In my opinion there's no reason not to use the drone. It's extra damage/stagger, like having another person join with an N7 score of 1. It's cute.

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Posté 17 décembre 2013 - 06:28

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Scutshakes wrote...

In my opinion there's no reason not to use the drone. It's extra damage/stagger, like having another person join with an N7 score of 1. It's cute.

My drone usually outscores pugs. It should have a post game summary for my drone.

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Posté 17 décembre 2013 - 06:41

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b00g13man wrote...

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The drone is pointless really. At least on the HE.


It divides a spawn's attention and allows me to work on the badguys without taking as much concentrated incoming fire.  Now, if I killed stuff as fast as you do, that might not matter.  It's not a bad scrub crutch for me, though.

I dunno. Incinerate and overload do that fine. Come across a large group and throw incinerate first. It's bound to hit something, or make em dodge long enough to shoot em. Follow up with overload for the FE plus more stagger, shoot things during this time period then overload for the TB. Rinse and repeat. 

I personally see it as a waste of time, but that's just me.


+1

I started with 6 points in drone (detonate, shock, chain), then I noticed that chain was nearly useless so I dropped down to rank 5, but at that point I found myself overloading all the time to stun mobs, so I respecced to rank 4 to take detonate, again I felt it was really lackluster as my drone started to survive for entire waves <_<...alright, down to rank 3, but really even guardians take too long to turn around :mellow:

Modifié par Headless Nemesis, 17 décembre 2013 - 06:42 .

#31
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Posté 17 décembre 2013 - 06:50

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The rocket drone does have one very redeeming quality:

It will kill possessed abominations and troll you or your teammates at some very inopportune times... Like with 2 seconds left before extraction.

But yeah... Shock drone is better overall, but Rocket drone performs well on open maps without a lot of walls. It has Geth Scanner and likes to try to pretend it has drill ammo... It will often pound a wall over and over trying to kill a camping Nemesis. I caught mine doing that in the Rio box area a few days ago. It was also staggering Atlases to its credit...

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Posté 17 décembre 2013 - 06:59

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Lmao, now the drones are heading for the box too?!?!? Marvelous. :wizard:

Modifié par blackproject18, 17 décembre 2013 - 07:07 .

#33
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Posté 17 décembre 2013 - 07:02

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megabeast37215 wrote...

The rocket drone does have one very redeeming quality:

It will kill possessed abominations and troll you or your teammates at some very inopportune times... Like with 2 seconds left before extraction.


Meh, the Destroyer's missiles are far better for that.  I can't count the number of times I've seen them blow up PAs that were wrestling with someone.

I have only used the Volus merc once, so I can't speak for that one, but on the HE, I find any drone at all to be a waste.  Why throw out a drone that does mediocore damage, and has do be constantly recast to different locations in order to do anything at all.  I find that it lowers my DPS, as I have to wait for the cooldown on it before I can go back to creating constant fire explosions.  Fitness isn't all that great, but it is still better than the drone.
Also, if you are going to use the drone, I did indeed find the lightning/explosive drone to be far superior to the rocket drone.

#34
NuclearTech76
Posté 17 décembre 2013 - 07:20

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megabeast37215 wrote...

The rocket drone does have one very redeeming quality:

It will kill possessed abominations and troll you or your teammates at some very inopportune times... Like with 2 seconds left before extraction.

But yeah... Shock drone is better overall, but Rocket drone performs well on open maps without a lot of walls. It has Geth Scanner and likes to try to pretend it has drill ammo... It will often pound a wall over and over trying to kill a camping Nemesis. I caught mine doing that in the Rio box area a few days ago. It was also staggering Atlases to its credit...

If there were points for pounding the ****** out of a wall over and over again, rocket drone would definitely get my money. Little bastard is relentless in it's pursuit to kill the heck out of walls.

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Posté 17 décembre 2013 - 07:31

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Always felt like the "Up" button you can use in SP to make Garrus and that burly jock (Yes that is all James is, the fact he is a squadmat eand Thane, Miranda, Jack and/or Zaeed aren't is laughable) pewpew things that aren't husks. would've been useful in MP to mark enemies for other players and select target for autonomous projectiles. Rocket Drone would be awesome if it repeatedly missiled an ATLAS...

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Posté 17 décembre 2013 - 07:38

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It does damage and makes things become dead.

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Posté 17 décembre 2013 - 07:49

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Tokenusername wrote...

It does damage and makes things become dead.


Indeed.  Unfortunately, it does so rather ineffeciently, and when it does it from behind a wall, ineffectively as well.

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Posté 17 décembre 2013 - 07:50

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HusarX wrote...

NuclearTech76 wrote...

Tell me why I'm wrong.


No can do.
I just don't like how the drone behaves when I spec into rockets. I always go for detonate-shock-chain lighting. CC Banshees by forcing them to their nova (drone has to be in their melee range) never gets old.


NuclearTech76 wrote...

b00g13man wrote...

The drone is pointless really. At least on the HE.

The drone is my most dependable teammate in pugs. [smilie]http://social.bioware.com/images/forum/emoticons/lol.png[/smilie]


QFT / b00g13 plz =]

Also recasting is easier than reviving.





This ^^^

#39
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Posté 17 décembre 2013 - 07:58

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Tokenusername wrote...

It does damage and makes things become dead.

I'm sure it owns Bronze enemies when it's not busy trying to knock up the wall.

#40
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Posté 17 décembre 2013 - 11:06

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Drone sucks regardless of build after being nerfed. Its either rocket or stun/explosive and does bugger all damage unless playing bronze.
It was always best used as a decoy to tie down bosses and annoying mooks. Now its more like a novelty .
Unleash it and let it roam the map firing rockets for a few kills or constantly recast it to tickle mooks and hope that it takes a few out when it explodes.

One of the more disappointing nerfs in the game.

#41
HeroicMass
Posté 17 décembre 2013 - 11:09

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It was essential to me back during the weekly challenge by prestacious of the volus merc condor/collectors with the avenger.

I do prefer the suicide drone though.

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Posté 17 décembre 2013 - 11:49

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heroicmass wrote...

It was essential to me back during the weekly challenge by prestacious of the volus merc condor/collectors with the avenger.

I do prefer the suicide drone though.

 
What's refire on the drone like 2.5 secs? Might could get more DPS by spamming explosive drone. Merc decoy I always go for minimum shields because I want detonate.

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Posté 18 décembre 2013 - 12:51

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blackproject18 wrote...

Lmao, now the drones are heading for the box too?!?!? Marvelous. :wizard:

Players got the idea about the box from the drone, not the other way around. The drone started this whole thing.

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Posté 18 décembre 2013 - 02:40

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Nate_Assassin wrote...

I never used drone but, the turret sucks. I have it on GJ, and it died before it even fires at someone.


Methinks you are using it wrong.  Though I spec mine offensively on both my GJ and GE, its primary purpose is to heal my shields and that of my teammates.  OK so it's good for fire explosions on the GW, too.  But it's most reliable as a portable, spammable shield battery that happens to draw some aggro and shoot out some lightening and fire.

OT:  I used ot only use rocket drone back when the HE was my default class (which would be when I still sucked royally at this game instead of only kind of sucking).  I mainly use the drone as a detonator now, though I have one HE specced without it entirely. 

#45
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Posté 18 décembre 2013 - 03:14

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Drone should always be used to shock and explode, never for offense. Prime slap and it dies.

#46
Nicegil2012
Posté 18 décembre 2013 - 03:36

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I think the drone is useful built with lightning and its also moving bomb. The rocket does decent damage but yeah the drone likes to shoot walls... maybe the drone considers walls enemies. I have been gone from the forums for a while but its nice to see it's not completely dead.

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Posté 18 décembre 2013 - 04:45

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NuclearTech76 wrote...

heroicmass wrote...

It was essential to me back during the weekly challenge by prestacious of the volus merc condor/collectors with the avenger.

I do prefer the suicide drone though.

 
What's refire on the drone like 2.5 secs? Might could get more DPS by spamming explosive drone. Merc decoy I always go for minimum shields because I want detonate.


Tried my usual suicide drone on that run first.  It was trash compared to the rocket drone in that instance.
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