It is not impossible just whatever you make will most likely not be as good as her. She may not be "Vital" but she is the best melee option the old republic have by a LONG shot, and it will be hard to replace her as that goto melee piece in the old republic... maybe not one on one but in squad building for her cost you can just add to much other stuff to your squad by using her over one of the other high costing melee pieces in the faction.

I guess we will just disagree forever lol.

I've read this whole thread, and you've brought up this issue ad nauseum. I have just one question: Why do you think we'd try to replace her? She's a good piece, and dynamite for her faction. The designers made her that way on purpose, and I think it was a good decision. Part of the thinking in creating her that way was so that they would not have to replace her. So why do you think we'd try to replace her?

Republic has not tried to replace R2. He's the most cost-effective movement-breaker in the game. Republic has added other movement-breaking options (Panaka, Foul, etc), but has never tried to replace him.

NR has not tried to replace Mara Jade Jedi. There are other cost-effective pieces in that price range (with more coming), but none are intended to replace her. Heck, even the most recent version (58pts) is way different from MJJ.

I could go on, but I'm not sure it would help. My point is that just because a piece is aggressively costed does not mean that all future pieces, even future pieces in that faction, will adopt that piece's costing scheme. As an example, I'm on the V-Set 5 Design Team. A number of times, as we're tossing ideas around, we've said, "But this piece can't compete with Jaq, who is 36pts"...to which the response has invariably been, "That's fine, we're not wanting this piece to compete with Jaq."

It's okay if some pieces stand out from the rest as dynamite, powerful, aggressively-costed pieces. It's okay, it really is!

I really HATE that phrasing.

Lets see less UNDERCOSTED minis and more APPROPRIATELY costed minis.

For the record, nope. Not here. I think the v-sets have got about 99.5% of things spot on, and the meta they've created is vastly superior to what WotC came up with.

Costing is more art than science. Nickname mentioned a 5 pt leeway, that if a figure fell into, that the figure is probably okay. Agressively costed just means the cost toward the lower end of the point range a figure would fall into.

And that is okay. We can't please everyone. I have no problem hearing complaints, and can even understand some (the BX stuff still confuses me).

I sincerely hope I don't offend anyone or anything like that. Maybe I should just let it go... I just can't... lol.
The BX sniper/spotter droids used to make me mad and I thought they were undercosted, but just the other day I ran rebel squad with the new Han, Yoda, Leia, and luke rebel commando against 4 snipers and 4 spotters with double attack and I still won, it just takes some playing against them and they are not as bad as I thought. I still think they are good and will see some play, and I think that the spotter will be the one that will stand the test of time more due to improved spotter and energy shield.

I dont really understand this.... I would think that Han Smuggler, Reikan, Commandos, Crix Madine are some of the best pieces in the Rebel Faction... The Naboos are just an oversight of the Vset desginers/play testers and never should have made it out the way they are.
I think this is where people lose me... I think that you have to look at pieces in Squad formats only, I care nothing about individual pieces and what the piece does by itself... So to me the most powerful piece in a faction is the Piece that is the best overall in squad formats. I think the best squad format for republic is the Mace/GOWK/Rex build. Just like I think the best Old Republic build is Weeks, Bastilla, Atton, Carth, Satele squad.

To elaborate.... When I say starting with the most powerful pieces, that Solely depends on YOUR individual play style, take me for example, I am a huge fan of Solo Charge so when I look at New Republic I almost always start with Han Galactic Hero, Anakin Solo, etc. (This is purely for example, since Mace has basically killed my desire to run solo charge since Mara Jade, Jedi is so raped by him.) Daniel May prefer to play a squad with someone Like Corran Horn, which is where he starts when he builds a squad, Some people prefer things like Black and Blue and Start with Thrawn, Palleon, Act Control, Mas Ameda, then add in what they think the best damage dealing piece is in that faction, some people choose Lord Vader, other like a combo of Scourge of the Jedi with Cad or Arica. But if you start with something like... I don't know.... Logray, or The Imperial Sentinel chances are you are not running the best squad you could. Sometimes though, in Factions there are obvious choices for what the best squad in that faction is. See Sith with Revan Atton Kaan.

Yes and then probably one of the Top 5 most powerful pieces of the Wizards era was released (Reikan) and that changed what was the best in that faction which is almost exactly my point, a lot of the pieces in the Vset are so good at so many different things that it is hard to make a tech style piece that suddenly makes another piece a better option then they are already. You could do exactly what Wizards did and release a cheap piece that grants Evade and Mobile Attack Boardwide to allies, but lets face it, that is way to good and would be a horrible idea.

For instance Atton Rand, the designers have already stated that well compared to him this piece is not so good, but that is okay we are not trying to replace him.... why because to replace him the piece would have to be broken (I say this because most people say Atton is a piece that changed where the bar is for designing pieces and to replace him it would have to shatter that bar.) I mean I guess you could grant every old republic ally Assassin, Override, and Avoid Defeat and then heck even Atton would be replaced... but it would be amazingly dumb (I know this is an huge overstatement, and the designers would never do this but it is to prove a point.)