Building a Jedi

[StriderIV]

Hi all!

 

I’m going to role play a Jedi hero with some buddies of mine, and I’d love to pick the communities brains on options for a Jedi hero!

 

First up: ARCHETYPE 

 

My immediate thought is Scrapper. Jedi’s just feel like Scrappers to me. Stalkers could be an option, I just don’t care for hiding. Anyone feel that they should be a Brute or Tanker instead?

 

Second: KATANA OR DUAL BLADES

 

I understand that Jedi could use either (too bad they don’t have an option for this on Staff!) as many Jedi used different styles. In  your opinion though,  which set FEELS more like a Jedi based on their animations/powers?

 

Lastly: SECONDARY

 

This is where it gets spicy, since one could argue a lot of options.

 

Bio Armor and Rad Armor both have a ton of effects, but with the right colorization and minimal effects, they can definitely be pulled off as Force powers.

 

Stone Armor… love the set, but I feel that even with minimal effects it may stand out too much.

 

Energy Aura is a Scrapper favorite, and could just be “Force Energy.” I don’t particularly care for how one of the powers basically makes you invisible though, although it could be thematic for a Jedi.

 

Willpower and Super Reflexes both have minimal effects and can be very thematic of Jedi. How do either of these perform for endgame content? Willpower can be using the Force to push through, while we all know Jedi have great reflexes haha.

 

Ninjitsu is a lovely set… I just have one buddy who runs a Kat/Nin and another DB/Nin, so I’m just trying to not repeat.

 

All that being said: what are your thoughts? How would YOU make a Jedi hero? Also, I’m pumped for the Kenobi series coming at the end of May 😂

[PeregrineFalcon]

A friend of mine made his Jedi as a Psionic/Ninja Blaster. He used the Talsorian Vanguard Sword as his Ninjato, of course.

 

A Kat/SR or Kat/WP Scrapper would be perfect if only there were a Psionic Epic Power Pool for Scrappers.

[StriderIV]

28 minutes ago, PeregrineFalcon said:

A friend of mine made his Jedi as a Psionic/Ninja Blaster. He used the Talsorian Vanguard Sword as his Ninjato, of course.

 

A Kat/SR or Kat/WP Scrapper would be perfect if only there were a Psionic Epic Power Pool for Scrappers.

Agreed! The best option might be the Mu Patron for Zapp/Ball Lightning 

[Arcadian-Prime]

Cool concept. I've kicked around the idea myself. Kat and DB both seem to fit on a Scrapper. I'm not sure what would be min-maxing though for a Jedi.

 

[StriderIV]

Someone also mentioned Elec Armor for a Brute mixed with Katana. Could be good. Kat seems better on a Scrapper though, and Elec Armor better on a Brute.

[Jiro Ito]

Sounds fun, I kind of want one!

 

Blaster

Electric, energy or psychic blaster paired with ninja 

 

Scrapper

Dual blades or katana depending on your preference, paired with energy or super reflexes

 

Controller

Mind or gravity control, secondary would be kind of a stretch for kin, time, emp, force field

 

Dominator

Too Sithy?  Mind or gravity with electric, energy or psi assault

 

 

[StriderIV]

12 minutes ago, Jiro Ito said:

Sounds fun, I kind of want one!

 

Blaster

Electric, energy or psychic blaster paired with ninja 

 

Scrapper

Dual blades or katana depending on your preference, paired with energy or super reflexes

 

Controller

Mind or gravity control, secondary would be kind of a stretch for kin, time, emp, force field

 

Dominator

Too Sithy?  Mind or gravity with electric, energy or psi assault

 

 

I love all these. Energy Aura and SR are both front runners, probably with WP and Bio. All IO'd out endgame, which do you think is the strongest?

[Onlyasandwich]

Electric/nin sentinel and go all force lightning all day. 🙂

 

I feel like a Jedi demands a little more of a bag of active tools than SR or WP offers. If going melee, my vote is DB/EA. I get what you mean with the invis power though. For what it's worth, this is a very powerful combo with many great builds already explored in the scrapper forum.

 

Edited April 19, 2022 by Onlyasandwich

[StriderIV]

11 minutes ago, Onlyasandwich said:

Electric/nin sentinel and go all force lightning all day. 🙂

 

I feel like a Jedi demands a little more of a bag of active tools than SR or WP offers. If going melee, my vote is DB/EA. I get what you mean with the invis power though. For what it's worth, this is a very powerful combo with many great builds already explored in the scrapper forum.

 

DB/EnA is actually one of the ways I'm leaning. The free recharge from EnA fits nicely. I'm guessing the "invis" power from Energy Aura drops once in combat? Not the stats I mean, but the invisibility part?

[Onlyasandwich]

37 minutes ago, StriderIV said:

invisibility part

I'd have to login to see for sure if the visual dissipates. I think it does.

[Without_Pause]

We all know the Invis aspect just means that you are not the Jedi they are looking for.

[StriderIV]

3 hours ago, Without_Pause said:

We all know the Invis aspect just means that you are not the Jedi they are looking for.

You Legend 😂

 

I’ve narrowed it down to Kat/Rad or Kat/EnA. Both seem very synergistic.

 

EnA can basically be “Force Shields”, has an invis and brings a heal (Force healing) which is nice.

 

Rad can be colored to look like Force Aura, and it’s 2 AOE’s that can act as Force “powers.” It’s T9 Meltdown is also kind of like Battlemind, if anyone is familiar with that power from SW lore.

[Gobbledygook]

There are a few  /ea builds floating around that skip the invis power and still manage to get softcap.

I believe @Linea  posted theirs.

I'll see if I can find the thread.

[Gobbledygook]

It seems I am unable to find the thread I was remembering. 

I did find the builds Linea posted, but they have Energy Cloak still.

This is one that I took from them, and just swapped out Energy Cloak for Weave.

I'm going to bow out of the conversation now though, as I don't want to cause any confusion.

 

This Villain build was built using Mids Reborn 3.1.2.5
https://github.com/LoadedCamel/MidsReborn

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Level 50 Magic Brute
Primary Power Set: Energy Melee
Secondary Power Set: Energy Aura
Power Pool: Fighting
Power Pool: Leadership
Power Pool: Speed
Power Pool: Sorcery
Ancillary Pool: Soul Mastery

Villain Profile:
Level 1: Energy Punch -- SprBlsCol-Acc/Dmg(A), SprBlsCol-Dmg/EndRdx(3), SprBlsCol-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(3), SprBlsCol-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(5), SprBlsCol-Dmg/EndRdx/Acc/Rchg(5), SprBlsCol-Rchg/HoldProc(7)
Level 1: Kinetic Shield -- ShlWal-Def/EndRdx(A), ShlWal-Def(7), ShlWal-ResDam/Re TP(9), Ksm-ToHit+(9), LucoftheG-Def/Rchg+(11)
Level 2: Bone Smasher -- SprBrtFur-Acc/Dmg(A), SprBrtFur-Dmg/Rchg(23), SprBrtFur-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(23), SprBrtFur-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(36), SprBrtFur-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(36), SprBrtFur-Rech/Fury%(36)
Level 4: Power Shield -- Rct-Def(A), Rct-Def/EndRdx(19), Rct-ResDam%(19), LucoftheG-Def/Rchg+(21)
Level 6: Build Up -- RechRdx-I(A), GssSynFr--Build%(21)
Level 8: Dampening Field -- RctArm-ResDam(A), RctArm-ResDam/EndRdx(15), RctArm-ResDam/Rchg(15), StdPrt-ResDam/Def+(17), RctArm-ResDam/EndRdx/Rchg(17), ImpArm-ResPsi(40)
Level 10: Entropic Aura -- EndRdx-I(A)
Level 12: Boxing -- Acc-I(A)
Level 14: Tough -- GldArm-End/Res(A), GldArm-ResDam(25), GldArm-3defTpProc(25), ImpArm-ResPsi(50)
Level 16: Energy Protection -- RctArm-ResDam(A), RctArm-ResDam/EndRdx(27), RctArm-ResDam/Rchg(27), RctArm-ResDam/EndRdx/Rchg(29), ImpArm-ResPsi(46)
Level 18: Total Focus -- SprUnrFur-Acc/Dmg(A), SprUnrFur-Dmg/Rchg(29), SprUnrFur-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(31), SprUnrFur-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(31), SprUnrFur-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(31), SprUnrFur-Rchg/+Regen/+End(33)
Level 20: Weave -- Rct-Def(A), Rct-Def/EndRdx(33), LucoftheG-Def/Rchg+(33)
Level 22: Maneuvers -- RedFrt-Def/EndRdx(A), RedFrt-Def(34), LucoftheG-Def/Rchg+(34)
Level 24: Hasten -- RechRdx-I(A), RechRdx-I(34)
Level 26: Tactics -- AdjTrg-ToHit/EndRdx(A), AdjTrg-ToHit(45)
Level 28: Energy Drain -- RedFrt-Def/Rchg(A), Rct-Def/Rchg(37), LucoftheG-Def/Rchg(37)
Level 30: Mystic Flight -- BlsoftheZ-ResKB(A)
Level 32: Energy Transfer -- Hct-Dmg/Rchg(A), Hct-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(37), Hct-Acc/Rchg(39), Hct-Dmg/EndRdx(39), Hct-Dam%(39)
Level 35: Energize -- Pnc-Heal/EndRedux(A), Pnc-EndRdx/Rchg(40), Pnc-Heal/Rchg(40), Pnc-Heal/EndRedux/Rchg(42), Pnc-Heal(42)
Level 38: Gloom -- SprWntBit-Acc/Dmg(A), SprWntBit-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(42), SprWntBit-Dmg/Rchg(43), SprWntBit-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(43), SprWntBit-Dmg/EndRdx/Acc/Rchg(43), SprWntBit-Rchg/SlowProc(45)
Level 41: Darkest Night -- DarWtcDsp-ToHitDeb/EndRdx(A), DarWtcDsp-ToHitDeb(45), DarWtcDsp-ToHitdeb/Rchg/EndRdx(46), DarWtcDsp-Rchg/EndRdx(46)
Level 44: Spirit Ward -- Prv-Absorb%(A)
Level 47: Rune of Protection -- Ags-ResDam/EndRdx(A), Ags-ResDam/Rchg(48), Ags-ResDam(48), Ags-Psi/Status(48)
Level 49: Overload -- RechRdx-I(A), RechRdx-I(50), LucoftheG-Def/Rchg+(50)
Level 1: Fury 
Level 1: Brawl -- Acc-I(A)
Level 1: Sprint -- Clr-Stlth(A)
Level 2: Rest -- Heal-I(A)
Level 1: Swift -- Run-I(A)
Level 1: Hurdle -- Jump-I(A)
Level 1: Health -- Mrc-Rcvry+(A), Pnc-Heal/+End(11), NmnCnv-Regen/Rcvry+(13)
Level 1: Stamina -- PrfShf-End%(A), PrfShf-EndMod(13)
Level 1: Energy Focus 
Level 50: Ageless Radial Epiphany 
Level 50: Agility Core Paragon 
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[Bionic_Flea]

I was thinking of making a Dark Armor/DB tank to be a Sith!

 

Edited April 20, 2022 by Bionic_Flea

[PeregrineFalcon]

3 minutes ago, Bionic_Flea said:

I was thinking of making a Dark Armor/DB tank to be a Sith!

Peace is a lie. There is only Dark Armor!   😁

[kelika2]

earth/nin blaster.  a little consulary from swtor but hey, its that or kinetic melee/sr

[TygerDarkstorm]

On 4/19/2022 at 1:25 PM, StriderIV said:

Hi all!

 

I’m going to role play a Jedi hero with some buddies of mine, and I’d love to pick the communities brains on options for a Jedi hero!

 

First up: ARCHETYPE 

 

My immediate thought is Scrapper. Jedi’s just feel like Scrappers to me. Stalkers could be an option, I just don’t care for hiding. Anyone feel that they should be a Brute or Tanker instead?

 

Second: KATANA OR DUAL BLADES

 

I understand that Jedi could use either (too bad they don’t have an option for this on Staff!) as many Jedi used different styles. In  your opinion though,  which set FEELS more like a Jedi based on their animations/powers?

 

Lastly: SECONDARY

 

This is where it gets spicy, since one could argue a lot of options.

 

Bio Armor and Rad Armor both have a ton of effects, but with the right colorization and minimal effects, they can definitely be pulled off as Force powers.

 

Stone Armor… love the set, but I feel that even with minimal effects it may stand out too much.

 

Energy Aura is a Scrapper favorite, and could just be “Force Energy.” I don’t particularly care for how one of the powers basically makes you invisible though, although it could be thematic for a Jedi.

 

Willpower and Super Reflexes both have minimal effects and can be very thematic of Jedi. How do either of these perform for endgame content? Willpower can be using the Force to push through, while we all know Jedi have great reflexes haha.

 

Ninjitsu is a lovely set… I just have one buddy who runs a Kat/Nin and another DB/Nin, so I’m just trying to not repeat.

 

All that being said: what are your thoughts? How would YOU make a Jedi hero? Also, I’m pumped for the Kenobi series coming at the end of May 😂

Roll an Electric/Nin Blaster and embrace the dark side

[Crysis]

These -ARE- the droids you were looking for....

 

 

Some great builds and clever use of the P2W powers included.  I was pretty happy with how mine turned out.

[aviyes]

Finally, if you chose Katana or Dual Blades, don't forget the lightsaber SFX mod.

[StriderIV]

1 hour ago, aviyes said:

Finally, if you chose Katana or Dual Blades, don't forget the lightsaber SFX mod

Do you have a link to this mod? Does it work on Mac?

[biostem]

I would go with a katana/super reflexes scrapper, perhaps with medicine and body mastery (light side) or Mu mastery (dark side) later on.

[aviyes]

1 hour ago, StriderIV said:

Do you have a link to this mod? Does it work on Mac?

 

[StriderIV]

1 hour ago, aviyes said:

 

Does this work on a Mac? I’m not sure it has an install directory like this. The list of changes seem AWESOME.

[kelika2]

On 5/7/2022 at 10:09 PM, kelika2 said:

earth/nin blaster.  a little consulary from swtor but hey, its that or kinetic melee/sr

I been screwing around with earth/nin for a few days.  Feels very jedi consular-like minus the footstomp.  dark consumption animation when

infiltration to mimic force speed

combat teleport to get in and out of melee quickly

 

i tried kinetic melee/sr scrapper.  torrent felt very force pushy, other attacks leaned on the Teras Kasi side of things

 

Hell and depending on what era of Star Wars was your favorite a Pistol/Martial blaster can work.  remember Mira, Disciple and Bao from KOTOR2?  Force speed, dual pistols and enough DEX to land hits and it was a flurry of blaster bolts.  [Burst of Speed], some melee, ki push