UNIT NAME: Vulture Droid
ALIGNMENT: Dark
CATEGORIES: Dark Side, Separatist, Droid, Attacker
Persistent Separatist Attacker that inflicts Buzz Droids and is replaced when defeatedABILITIES:Basic: Unrelenting Attack
FINAL TEXT: Deal Physical damage to target enemy. If the target was debuffed, this attack has +25% Critical Damage. This attack does not remove Buzz Droids.
Special 1: Discord Missile (Cooldown 3)
FINAL TEXT: Deal Physical damage to target enemy and inflict Buff Immunity for 2 turns and 3 Buzz Droids. Buzz Droids can’t be copied or resisted.
Buzz Droids: -50% Defense and lose 5% Health at start of turn with at least 1 Buzz Droid (max 3); lose 1 Buzz Droid when taking damage from an attack or a Concussion Mine
Unique 1: Swarming Terror
FINAL TEXT: When another Separatist or Droid ally uses an ability during their turn, the Vulture Droid is called to assist if the target enemy has Buzz Droids. At the start of each enemy’s turn, if they have at least 1 Buzz Droid, the Buzz Droids reset to 3. At the end of each turn, if an enemy's Buzz Droids were dispelled, inflict Ability Block on that enemy for 1 turn, which can't be resisted.
When this Vulture Droid is defeated, it summons another Vulture Droid if the allied Capital Ship is Separatist and there is an allied combatant
Hardware: Buzz Droid Barrage
FINAL TEXT: Inflict 1 Buzz Droid on all enemies and Blind them for 2 turns. Additionally, call a random Droid ally to assist.
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EDIT: Can't wait for defense to not hold anymore since the AI will target Vulture droid when it shouldn't
I can see why the buzz droid effect is changed for the player vs the one in Geo TB. The Buzz Droid debuff effect is very cool in TB so I hope we see that available sometime soon
Is it going to be a marquee or Galactic Chase release?
Just release it :-)
A: While we have only a small number of Separatist ships in the game right now, the Vulture Droid could be the genesis for a potential Separatist fleet in the future
Cool, but we needs it now lol
No pilot. But don’t get used to that. This looks like it’s a one time thing
He assists on Droid ally attacks and calls droid allies to assist. Not being funny.
Also, is "hardware" a new thing?
They've already teased it twice now so they've already told us it's coming. It's just a question of when, not if.
Also, I read the text about summoning another ship when destroyed as ambiguous: “this” ship as in the original and thus only one summon; or “this” ship this class of ship.
The endless summons would follow suit of having a command of a legion of separatist forces... so it fits ?
I’m pretty excited for this news
^ This. So obvious it’s sick. 😏
^ This. So obvious it’s sick. 😏
Yep, "hardware" had been a placeholder ~"coming soon" feature but morphed to Reinforcements with Ships 2.0, https://forums.galaxy-of-heroes.starwars.ea.com/discussion/170333/ships-2-0-an-introduction-to-reinforcements. It's curious that that wording lasted this long, some 14 months, and escaped any recent review. It suggests some degree of long-term plans with ships, perhaps (that is, Vulture's been planned for quite a while), and may shed some insight to turnaround time from conception to execution.
Anyway, here's to hoping for more ships content, be it Fleet Battles (e.g., more than 3 or 5 ships per side), some form of Ship Raid (blended with ground troops if need be), or ???
The way they specify an allied unit needing to be present makes me think unlimited vulture droids, like a ns zombie effect for ships. That'd be cool
Actually the Dev Insights thread mentions it may be used for other factions too.
The Dev Insights refers to it as "a second" ship, so I don't think that would be Zombie style unlimited.
https://forums.galaxy-of-heroes.starwars.ea.com/discussion/210676/developer-insights-vulture-droid#latest
I really hope this thing is farmable or marquee.
From the Developer Insights… seems to suggest it could be a one time only.