If any errata were to happen, this would be the best path. Most significantly, it doesn't change the way they're played at all, it just makes them less attractive (and in the same way, makes other options more attractive).

I would be happy with that solution. And I agree with Echo that simpler (ie, less confusing, allowing the piece to still play the same) is better.

Lets see, change Cloaked to Stealth, Damage 20 to 10, and then you go with the Kel Dor Bounty Hunter for 13 pts. Unless it's in Reinforcements and you're facing Jedi.

This is the slippery slope though, because why not get rid of Panaka and the naboo pilots too while we are at it. Add bastilla's force power cost to 5 force points, make buzz droids not affect huges, give all huges huge walker and stable footing to begin with, make neo crusader only work on non-uniques, get rid of GMA on Mace Windu, drop rapport on republic commandos, drop soresu style mastery, and so on. There are more than enough counters to the Geonosians (Bastilla, bomb disposal, distraction and disruptive turn them into two point fodder as well as the sea of 10 damage area abilities). Once you start changing things, where does one stop? The Klats are especially annoying to play but I think that before they weren't used at all and at 3 points they probably won't see any play again. If people decide to change things that is fine, but it's a slippery slope of going and undoing past mistakes then. Also for cards that do get errata done (slaver and Daala so far, and whatever else gets done). Can we have a mini set called "Corrections" with all of their new stat cards on it for easier reference. I have had to explain to the non-Bloomilk players time and again that certain pieces are no longer what they were and a new card would be much easier.

But at the same time those things would naturally follow if we start going back and changing everything to make it more balanced. Personally I think the worst thing to ever happen to the game for imbalance was the lancer. A piece I never use just on principle. Board wide-strafe is brutal. And I would love to see that piece just simply banned instead of all of the counters created against it. I know many people agree with that statement as well so why not ban it? And bastilla's ABM has been talked about since day one of the vsets being released as a problem to address. But instead the game was carried on and a whole new sea of abilities was created. As has happened with Poggle. I would argue that bribery was also created in part response to him. Stealing 5 activations from an opponents team's reinforcements is pretty legit. And even if it's not the SD 20, mouse droids are still 2 points so why not drop the rapport on Gha too? It's not that I am against Poggle being changed. He isn't a problem up here and I hear down in New Zealand he is more of a pain with Durge. What I want people to be careful about is going back and rewriting the game this far in to fix imbalances that have checks and balances put in place. My biggest gripes in the game that I wish were changed are:

Wuher (single handedly made the uncompetitive reserve teams even more uncompetitive, should just said fringe droids or droids with printed damage of 0)
Buzz Droid (while I love what they came out with to beat the annoying lancer, taking out huges that are completely nerfed just by their size alone set the game back even more for bringing huges to the table. Should be changed to just affect strafe/vehicle)
Bastilla (ABM changed to force 5, shutting down CEs for half the game is too much)
Lancer (lose Strafe attack or drop HP to 10, no piece should be able to attack the entire board 4 times in one round, while at it, chance the republic clone on speeder to the same as well)
R2-D2, astromech droid (lose tow cable)
Panaka (hands out +2 attack instead of twin)
Reikkan (hands out mobile and evade only to followers within 6 squares)
Lobot (cost increased to 35, I'm tired of seeing him on every single squad, would be better to have some more reinforcement options to choose from)
Neo-Crusader Officer (only affects non-uniques)
SSM does not affect adjacent ranged attacks.
And if there is still a spot Geonosian Drone (Geonosians cost 4 normally)

And even if someone doesn't agree with that list, they probably have their own list of top things they would change. And probably for legit reasons too. That's why we have to be careful about just changing everything rather than counters.

There is no way any changes are going to happen to WotC pieces. V-set pieces are a different story, cause those were created by the community and cards can be reprinted if nessesary or adjusted publicly because it is our content. There are tons of counters to Lancers, so if you don't build a squad without thinking of having a counter, that is your risk you take in your local meta. Any squad that has Lobot really can bring in a counter to lancers. Any Jedi/Sith with Lightsaber Riposte is a counter to Lancers. There are a lot more counters, but i think everyone gets the point. Lancers are powerful, and will always be strong in the meta, but they aren't near as powerful as they have been in the past, which i think is a testament to the V-set design teams.

From what I understand, the main problem with the Klat Assassin isn't it's power level--it's the fact that it dominates its point range. Almost nothing close to it in points even stands a chance.

I'd also be in favor of a cost bump.

No, changes were not made to GOWK. The change was to Soresu Style Mastery, and only for competitive play. And even that was only temporary as the V-sets eventually opened up the meta to the point where the ability was no longer an NPE Gatekeeper.

so wizards made a change, and the v-sets unchanged the change, so they undid something that wizards did.

and we can all agree that soresu mastery was changed due to GoWK.

and the moment GOWK was changed back... he won gencon, so maybe it was not balanced and ready for it.

I get the feeling this thread is kinda off topic. It reads a lot like another one I was just looking at and I'm pretty sure we don't need two threads saying the same stuff.

As for the Klat Assassins, I think they are very powerful, but I don't see them tearing up the tournament tables. If there was to be a change, I don't think it needs to be too drastic. I quite like Jim's ideas and maybe they warrant some further investigation.