Thanks Shai
So, as I mentioned earlier (and this is going into the FRS)...
Five disciplines of the jedi profession.
Two damage disciplines: LS and Powers.
Three defence disciplines: Defender, LS and Enhancer.
One healing discipline: Healer (duh!)
Two augmentation discipline: Enhancer and Powers.
At master, all should have a decent bonus due to a he expense of each discipline.
MDef: all innate defence skills, uses no force to apply or use apart from a tiny bit force for avoid incap.
MHealer: one hit button to clear all states, bleeding, fire etc. Can heal all apart from fire on others. Total heal self not quite living up to it's name heal HAM wise.
MLightsabre: a few 'wasted' skills, but each LS tree has it's own benefits. Great degree of defence against ranged (LStoughness and 85% block) and against LS attacks. Strong attacks at master.
MEnhancer: awesome defence against force powers. Armour and shields are a nice alternative or addition to defender, but as it should, comes with a force cost as they require a few boxes rather than a master. At master can get up as soon as an incap takes place and force run to safetly to heal up and potentially return to the fight.
For the next one it's important to remember that powers were to be a viable alternative to lightsabre, albeit a little more 'glass' in thier defences.
MPowers: lightning at LS damage at 2 second cooldown. Almost instant casting. 2 second cooldown makes lightning only half the DPS of a lightsabre. Force cost is quite high. Choke at master is weak and not an alternative to any DOT weapon. Weaken can be good against an enemy (PvP if it hits and lightning is lucky, same as force KD. As Shaiton says, the accuracy seems off on these, the force is remarkably high (think of the lack of force used for an mDefender to do what they can) and the casting is incredibly slow. May take 5-6 seconds or more to cycle a force KD or a choke.
Now that I have some answers about mPowers, and that the FRS is coming up, what could be done to allow mPowers to be that viable alternative to lightsabre?
As powers is supposed to be offensive (still only half the DPS of a lightsabre if the lightning hits of which is severely gimped in a class called 'power' that is supposed to be an offensive class at the cost of defence) how should powers be tweaked to get into the FRS? True the FRS will boost powers, but it boosts all other jedi skills too.
A powers jedi would have very little chance of getting into the FRS to make his or her skills viable, while other jedi disciplines are already enjoying a foot up to rank in the FRS.
Greater accuracy? Faster casting times? Greater choke effects (only available at mPowers after all)? Greater benefits of weaken at master? Lower force cost? (Again, look at what an mDef can accomplish without using force, and then using avoid incap for very little cost).
I have been lucky enough to speak with a few crazy assed mPowers users last couple of days. Those folks are brave!
They all say the same thing. In order for powers to be viable in any combat or FRS a couple of tweaks really should be made. The counter of course are enhancers and lack of any great defence.
We don't know what tweaks are coming up in the next few weeks. We don't know what tweaks are in pub 9.
Is there a chance that powers could be de-gimped before pub 9, to open up more diverse templates and allow different playstyles?
I know it's a bit of a read there, but that's how it is. It's how I feel from my research and how powers jedi feel.
What are everyone elses thoughts?
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- the DPS is already half that of an mLS...
