First off I want to post her stats Cost 37
100 Unique Melee Double Attack
19 Cunning Attack
12 Intuition
20 Bodyguard
Mettle
Parry
Force 2 Renewal 1 MoTF 2
Absorb Energy
Force Leao
Lightsaber Assault
Force Push 2

I am wondering how many people find this to be a balanced fairly well costed piece.... I know I know people are probably tired of hearing from me for all the mace crap, but oh well. I won't offer my opinion yet I just want to see other people's comments about this piece first.

I play-tested her; originally she was 41 points, and was similar to her finished form but missing Cunning Attack and Force Push. After play-testing her a few times, I thought she was a useful piece, but I didn't think she was quite strong enough to warrant much play. So I was impressed when I saw the finished version and she'd got more attacking punch and a slightly lower cost. I think she's one of the best pieces in the set with those changes, but I think she fills a nice gap for the Old Republic - they needed someone who could stand up to big melee threats. Also, I don't think Cunning is super useful in some ways as Carth Onasi Old Republic Soldier, who is another Old Republic Tier 1 piece, also has it.

I actually played her official version for the first time yesterday. She was on fire with the dice - she made almost every single save she rolled, only needing one reroll - but even then she wasn't too hard to kill eventually. I was playing her with Carth, and Carth was doing the heavy damage at the top of the round (with a Senator), so she ended up being more of an interference piece. Absorb Energy costs 2 points, and once she's out of Force Points she has no other defense against shooters, so once she ran out she got shot to pieces pretty fast.

I like her - I think she's just what the Old Republic need. She is competitively costed, but she's the marquee piece from The Old Republic game, so I think she deserved to be competitively costed.

Remember, a lot of complaints about the OR stuff, even what was made for the Vsets, weren't that great. Yes, she is the midrange beat to support those figs. Still, I think some of the stuff is overlooked by people. Honestly, the problem with the big OR figs, is that they lack the support. You can look at it as obsoleting those figures, or you can see it as support for those figures.

And I think Kaan is better than Satele. Really, nasty damage output that makes the opponent worried about basing him.

So OR can't get good pieces? Again, she is good. But I don't see having her in to help compensate for some of the bigger OR guys hurts them. They do have a lot of interesting tricks that Satele, as good as she is, does not. It isn't as if you can't use pieces other than her. If that was the case, Jaq would prevent Satele's use. Having a piece to put pressure on while you set up some of the other tricks OR can do isn't an option?

Of course it is an option, I would say it is not the best option, but an option... As far as for tournaments, I feel the best squad old republic can run is Bastila, Satele, Aton, Carth, Klatonian Captain, Senator, filler... What I am saying is that why give it to the old republic now? Did they need her... nope, they are already doing fine with what they have, it just seems to be a trend that old republic get a lot of the most competitively priced pieces in the game in every single set.

I do think that her lack of Force Points keeps her under control quite a bit - mettle + absorb energy + motf2 is powerful, but she can only pull that off a couple of times per game, since Absorb Energy costs 2 points.

I don't think that she has enough Force points to play a fully offensive role and a fully defensive role in the same game - she's potentially a deadly assassin piece since she has Force Leap and can do 80 damage (assuming she has Bastila activated) on the move at the top of a round, while she's obviously hard to kill with Parry and MotF2. But if she spends her Force Points on offense, she's going to roll over pretty easily.

I think she's a tier 1 piece - I really like that she's strong as an offensive piece or a defensive piece depending on the situation - but I've found her pretty fair in the (admittedly just one) game I played with her.

Also, I think the best comparison for Satele is Jarael. Before Satele was released, I would have seriously considered Jarael as my melee interference piece in a Bastila/Carth/Jaq squad, since she was just about the only option with Parry. Satele is obviously more powerful, since she has a bunch of extra abilities, Force Renewal, and +10 damage (although I'd rather have Evade than Absorb Energy), but she isn't fringe and costs an extra 14 points.

Given all of her goodies this is clearly the case and in a recent session she felt an awful lot like GOWK, minus the nonmelee defense. Probably not what the OR needed at this point IMO.

All I can say is, V5 for certain is different. Some designers have seriously taken notice of the effects of certain design decisions. It's an ongoing process.

I just want to add that i don't mind terribly about it. She is certainly a great tool for the OR and The_Hutts points are not lost. She is limited by force and so i don't think she is broken. I think her and Bastilla set a strong tone across the meta but not unbeatable.

She is certainly a piece to consider carefully in future design also.

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