AncientPower
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Hall Hood on Valkorion's Power and his Force Storm
I was on Twitter and noticed this conversation:
Valkorion used a focused and controlled Force Storm against Arcann, not an FLS. Hall Hood also professes that he believes Valkorion is equal in power to Dark Empire Palpatine.
Source: https://mobile.twitter.com/hallhood...12928237569?p=v
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Feb 28th, 2017 02:27 AM
Zenwolf
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Of course it was a Force Storm? What else would it be? There was lighting going all over the place. Though he's kinda wrong on the bit about Palps, because he has several instances where he's precise and controlling of his power.
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Feb 28th, 2017 02:32 AM
AncientPower
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He only said it was more destructive and on a mass scale, whereas Valkorion's was a focused and controlled attack on Arcann.
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Feb 28th, 2017 02:35 AM
NewGuy01
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I get the impression he was referring to Palpatine's wormhole, there.
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Feb 28th, 2017 02:38 AM
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quote: (post ) Originally posted by AncientPower
He only said it was more destructive and on a mass scale, whereas Valkorion's was a focused and controlled attack on Arcann.
Valk clearly didn't use the Force Storm Palps did, there's no similarities at all between the two. Valk's attack was more like the Force Storm Lighting, it was nothing close to a wormhole or anything.
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Feb 28th, 2017 02:38 AM
AncientPower
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He makes it clear he's using the same thing as Palpatine, it's just more focused and controlled.
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Feb 28th, 2017 02:40 AM
NewGuy01
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Well, Force Storms are supposed to be an extension of the Force Maelstrom, so it could be a power distantly related lightning/tk. In any case, while they may not have been the same, Palpatine's lightning has never worked on a larger scale than Valkorion's so it wouldn't make sense otherwise either.
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Feb 28th, 2017 02:40 AM
Zenwolf
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quote: (post ) Originally posted by AncientPower
He makes it clear he's using the same thing as Palpatine, it's just more focused and controlled.
It really doesn't appear at all to be the same when you compare the two.
Though as New pointed out, there's similarities with the maelstrom thing and lighting so that could still apply.
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Feb 28th, 2017 02:44 AM
AncientPower
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It's also nice to see the Lead Writer's clear intentions for Valkorion's power, he's the Reborn Palpatine of his era.
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Feb 28th, 2017 02:57 AM
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Uh, tom hall never says its the same power, he just says that the power sids used was more widescale
Feb 28th, 2017 03:00 AM
AncientPower
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Hall Hood*
He says that Sidious' was on a mass scale but Valkorion's variant was controlled and focused by comparison.
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Feb 28th, 2017 03:04 AM
Zenwolf
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Huh...also saying they kept his powers a mystery...for whatever reason, not sure why but ok. I'm not really seeing the mystery aspect of his powers.
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Feb 28th, 2017 03:04 AM
AncientPower
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Because he is not just anothe dark sider, he uses the Force on a whole regardless of the affiliation of his prowess.
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Feb 28th, 2017 03:07 AM
Zenwolf
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quote: (post ) Originally posted by AncientPower
Because he is not just anothe dark sider, he uses the Force on a whole regardless of the affiliation of his prowess.
Ok...but he's still using TK, he's still using Force Lighting, and other powers we already know of. Soo....what's so mysterious about the powers he uses?
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Feb 28th, 2017 03:10 AM
NewGuy01
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EDIT: Actually, it's me who can't read. Hurr-durrrr!
quote: It's also nice to see the Lead Writer's clear intentions for Valkorion's power, he's the Palpatine of his era.
That's obvious, though. He's always been the most blatant copy/paste of Palpatine in the mythos, by far. It'd be strange if this wasn't the intention.
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Feb 28th, 2017 03:15 AM
Zenwolf
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But yeah, it was pretty obvious he was suppose to be Palps for the TOR era.
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Feb 28th, 2017 03:17 AM
AncientPower
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Yes, but now we have confirmation.
So I think my ranking is:
Valkorion = Reborn Palpatine
SWTOR Vitiate = ROTJ Palpatine
Novel Vitiate = Between TPM and ROTS Palpatine.
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Feb 28th, 2017 03:28 AM
Jaggarath
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Damn, so Valk's using wormholes.
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Feb 28th, 2017 03:28 AM
Jaggarath
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I find it great that the writers were considering DE when working on KOTET.
You'd think they'd look past that, but it seems major inspiration came from there.
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Feb 28th, 2017 03:30 AM
Jaggarath
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I think putting DE Palpatine alongside Valkorion only makes sense.
Neither the DE writers nor the SWTOR writers believe Palpatine to be far more powerful than Valkorion, so we're just lying to ourselves if we think Palpatine is untouchable.
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