What made them less playable? I think that for the Unique Jedi, overcosting and only one attack. This has been slightly remedied by the V-Sets, however.

The original intent of the Vset project was to bring balance to the factions as well as prevent the game from becoming static and dying due to a lack of new characters. We've had 5 sets released so far, and it looks like we're pretty close to being able to take any faction to a regional/national win. Republic won GenCon last year, and Old Republic the year before that.

One thing I've always said was that, while parity is important, that concept should not be limited to factions, but also WotC characters vs Vset characters. One thing Billiv said during the creation of the first set was that if a player who hadn't heard of Vsets showed up at a tournament with all WotC pieces, he should still be able to have success running them. We had 2 regional winners run all WotC squads last year, as well as the runner up at GenCon. This year Jason finished in the top 4 of the Pa regional running an all WotC Seperatist build.

There has also been an effort to address RPG and mass battle/scenario interests. While many Vset pieces have been created with the competitive game in mind, not all are intentioned for the tournament circuit.

Does the OP have access to getting the Vsets?

champions of the force altered a lot with the introduction of the Jedi Weapons Master that was about 8-10 points cheaper than it should have been.

After that many jedi came through which were adjusted to the JWM set point that obselted almost every jedi previous to it (with rare exceptions).

Yodabuck, GOWK and Lancer then pushed the boundaries further, the power of which the Vsets have been trying to emulate since.

The JWM was a good obsoleting though as before him, the power gap between melee and shooters was so large that most melee units were nothing more than damage sinks.

Another thing to note is that there were a great deal of minis that were bad out of the box, like the Klatoonian Enforcer, Bail Organa, or the Arcona Smuggler. They out numbered the good minis by a rather large ratio and were among the first people stopped using (if ever) when the new sets came out.

For minis that were high-top tier that faded into the mists as new releases came out however, the list is rather small. Most minis that were good in the old sets remain so today. Some may have lost their power, but are still quite feasible.

Here is my advice. I have the entire collection and I am always looking for new interesting ways of using what I have. First you have to evaluate what type of games or scenarios that you play. For instance at GenCon this year the organizers have put together tournaments that only RS through TFU are legal. Then another where on The last 6 or so sets from WOTC are legal.

Then you never know what the v-set are going to bring to the table. For a long time Geonisis Drone were not worth playing. Add one v-set character and now they are very playable. Who knows what will come out in the future that will make older pieces playable. Just think if ARC troopers were able to get greater mobile and Twin. Something like that would make them very playable.

With all that I would keep your old stuff.

This, definitely this. Most of the Clone Strike Jedi were almost completely worthless.

i think this is spot on. The earlier pieces in many cases have been outshined over the years. Thats the way the game progressed. but overall it shows that the vset teams have not actually upped the power near as much in comparison. The4 fact that many of these pieces are still useful and competitive is amazing and shows how they wish to keep the integrity of the game.

Not over powering with the amount of Disruption and Advanced Battle Meditation. Yes they are good to piece to build around.

For me they aren't over powered (and I exclusivly play house games because im the ONLY player in florida) but they are VERY strong and VERY annoying. They are so good often its hard to not take them in a squad, but because my play group consists of 3 people, when one of picks a character we like and uses him in more than 2 battles it gets stale. So I try to avoid him more on the repetitive POV. Its only so fun facing the same squad, or same squad idea a few times.

I'm going to say COtF not just because of JWM. This was the set that raised the bar and power levels on almost everyone. Just look at ROtS Mace windu compared to General Windu, It added the JWM one of the best peices for his cost as well as an almost auto inclusion in Republic squads, it gave us Super Stealth on republic (which only Vong had before) along with the best peices to expliot it the Republic commandos AND it gave us the two most expenisve peices as well as best (at the time) Darth Bane and Exar Kun. This is also around the time everyone started geting force renewal (Which I personally like). After that crazy boost the following sets had to keep up, and keep upping the anti and the older sets were rendered obselete bar a few exceptions Darth Vader Jedi Hunter, CS Yoda, At-Rts, Thrawn to name a few.