while i agree that the drones may have healed for a bit too much before the patch, but was what appears to be a cooldown on the heal necessary?

the drones now are almost useless, from the reduced heals to the cooldown, combined with the horrible AI that seems to be under the assumption that the drones healing each other while you die is a good idea, i dont know if its worth having as a power at all now

These type of issues are being talked about here: http://forums.champions-online.com/s...ad.php?t=47226

Let me enlighten you.

It's not.

Reduced heal with the still ******** AI would've been good.

Reduced heal, ******** AI, *AND* 8 second or so cooldown on the heal? No. Just awful.

the biggest problems with the drones is their commands suck and they spend to much time healing themselves instead of me.

If i put my drones on STAY they stay out of harm alright only they will not heal then which makes it kinda useless. At least i didnt notice them healing.

If they are on ASSIST they spend time healing themselves while im getting killed and not receiving any heal.

Actually the major problem is that their healing power doesn't scale to increase as you level and also doesn't increase if you raise their rank. There is no discernible difference between a rank 1 Drone and a rank 3 is what I mean.

I've suggested they be removed from the game if they are staying the way they are now and replaced with a more useful power since they really aren't worth taking at all.

They aren't worth it, so I got rid of them (only one step back, thank God). It's ironic really, I'd been totally stoked about them as I'd just discovered them late Monday night. But after fighting a master villain Tuesday without getting a single heal from them...

Audios!

I was thinking of getting them the other day for my meleer, glad I didn't. Still undecided what healing power to get him though. He is dex/ego and mostly dual swords with reflexes as passives so kinda undecided

I don't even know why i summon mine half the time now, they spend the entire duration healing themselves. It takes them so long to heal their own HP now that they don't seem to have time for anything else.

I know many people have already mentioned it but I hate watching the heal bots heal themselves (or stuck in a ceiling) as I die horrible to some crappy villain and two of his buddies...I get hit for 900 damage and because of the PFF going craptastic that's gone and so is a lot of my hit points. Only to look at me drones healing themselves as a midget is stabbing them....

As someone also mentioned their healing doesn't scale. Most of these powers don't scale to your levels, at least not like they are supposed to. They made respeccing a bit easier but I still can not afford to redo all my powers to get rid of them. I sat against one villain and actively blocked while they were, Healing me.....he did more dmg than they were healing me... The villain was 3 levels lower than me.

The attack teddy bears with pirate hats. I first saw that and was like YEAH! Kung Fu pandas kicking ass for me...only to watch them turn in a circle and somehow hit one mob a few times from 100 feet away and than stop....respecc'd...but I digress from healing drones. They are awful and I am going to restart a character or possibly farm trash for respec money.

i just got to say that before patch drones was OP. But now they are just a useless waste.

Cryptic should remove em from the game or give free recon for those who got this power trained.