Creature Harvesting 3 (Source)
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Read in another post (scout forum I belive that it does). In that case would I be able to harvest max as a trandhosian with 0030 ranger? Would be 10(racial)+85(skill)+30(from vegash). Or could I get much more as 105 m ranger +10 trandh +30 vegash (dunno if this in any case would be 140 pr 145? or even 150 with fs box).
I wanna harvest as much as possible but 0030 ranger would allow me to get m brawler + m pike an nov medic.
Anyone know?
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This is common error that I see posted a lot on this forum. The harvest bonus of a droid is NOT just a straight percentage of your own harvest bonus. I regularly use a +76 harvest droid which ALWAYS harvest MORE than me (Master Ranger). I have actually tested harvesting with a +116 droid and I harvested no more than when using my +76 droid, so I believe there may be a cap to the benefit a droid can give, which I believe is also related to your own harvest bonus.
Also, though most people recommend *not* grouping with your droid, I tend to do the opposite. This is mainly due to the increase in XP you get for being grouped, now that I am trading it in regulary...
From what I have been lead to understand, racial modifiers are over and above other modifiers.
example, if you are at 100 harvesting, then eat veghash that raises you to 125 (let's say) you would then add yor racial modifier on, so you get to harvest at 135.
The cap only applies to "artificial" means (for the lack of a better word) to raise abilities.
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I do agree, the droids do work off your abilities, however this is not a straight % relationship. This guide also shows that as your own bonus gets higher the % increase you get from a droid is lower. It uses a +100 as an example, but from my experience at Master Ranger my +76 droid still harvests more than me, so I dont think +100 is the cuffoff point. I have been using this +76 droid for several months. I haven't recorded any exact numbers but I did try a higher rated (+116) droid (as everyone else was banging on about them being better) and I found that I did not harvest any more than with my +76 droid. I am speeking as somebody who actually uses a harvest droid
Yes i purchased a +14 harvesting droid when i was still novice scout, it worked wonders, untill i was near novice ranger. then i was harvesting more than my droid. At that time, i swore i would never use a droid again....
then i recently bought a +106 harvesting droid, i have since noticed that my droid harvests more than me. I was very pleased at this. Now its all i use.
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Yes i purchased a +14 harvesting droid when i was still novice scout, it worked wonders, untill i was near novice ranger. then i was harvesting more than my droid. At that time, i swore i would never use a droid again....
then i recently bought a +106 harvesting droid, i have since noticed that my droid harvests more than me. I was very pleased at this. Now its all i use.
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- The droids abilities amplify your own. A Ranger using a +90 Droid will harvest more than a Scout using a +90 droid
- Veghash DOES affect droid performance
- Even low level droids (70 and above is what I have found) will harvest more than a Master Ranger. Why? I have no idea. But that's the truth. Test it yourself.
- At a point te level of droid stops increasing the harvest. I am not sure where this boundry is, but I have used and replaced a good many droids. I have used everything from a +117 Harvest droid to a +50ish harvest droid, and they all seem to gather about the same over +70.
I usually try to get a combat module installed, but on High level mobs I find it means he gets blown up. LOL. I like the trapping idea, and I routinely do not group the droid, instead having him on follow. It definitely takes some getting used to. You have to change your tactics slightly, and you have to be situationally aware of your droid. But overall it becomes second nature after a while. I once tested back to back mission Rancor lairs 6 times. 3 with the droid, three without. These were mission lairs, so there was the standard number of waves each time.
Overall at the end, I harvested 20% more with the droid. This has to do with a number of factors...one being that even as a master rifleman it takes a while to take out a bunch of Rancors. If you get aggroed by neighboring wild spawns, it can be a good long time before you get to harvesting. With the droid you can harvest everything no problem. Before droids, I would always miss a few harvests on high-end wild spawns simply because of the number of mobs they spawn. With a droid, I can go after the wild Rancor spawns without a worry of missing one or two before I am done. The droid goes to work in the background as I kill away.
Personally, I was opposed to the idea of a droid at first. In fact I only pull it out on certain planets because pulling it out for every spawn when you have to bike to get to them is tedious. On planets like Dath, Yavin, Endor, etc.....the droid stays out all the time because I usually dont use a bike at all. But on Talus? Where I have to go 1500m or more each time to get another sludge panther spawn? Well, forget the droid. I can harvest more by biking and doing it the old fashioned way, than by walking with the droid out or waiting the 15 seconds for it to call .
Just my 32 cents.
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Just to add my bit of knowledge regarding droids into this.
I don't know exactly how a droids harvesting bonus translates into an actual increaseon of what you harvest, but what I do know is this....
A droid with +50 will harvest exactly the same as you wil harvest by yourself (regardless of your harvesting skill). If the droid's harvesting bonus is below 50, then the droid will harvest less than you. If the droid's bonus is greater than 50, then the droid will harvest more than you.
