If you reduced the already only semi-auto laser fire that STILL take a few hits to kill, and reduced the armor, it would probably be better to just play an infantryman...
I've never had that hard a time killing the droid. Only against a better than average player in the droid (and experience has taught me there are a very few reasonably good players out there), will they usually take me out before I kill them. Even then however, I'll typically return the favor on respawn.
Maybe all these excellent players with mad droid skills are just in hibernation or something, but I play all the time and usually spend half the round just dispensing information on how to even play the FS maps to new players let alone find an opponent who can hit the broad side of a star destroyer.
" Hand me my lightsaber. It's the one that says ‘Bad Mother F*cker' on it."