So in the novel, we have the following situation set up:
- Vitiate, hissing in hatred, begins charging up his energy to kill Revan.
- Revan, recognizing Vitiate's plan, also begins charging up his energy.
Thus, not only is this a fair comparison to make since their power is going to collide with it all properly unleashed, but both intend to use their power to its fullest.
However, recognize two advantages Vitiate has in this situation:
- Vitiate is on a dark side nexus, which benefits him and hinders Revan.
- Vitiate begins channeling and harnessing his energy before Revan does.
That being established, Revan absorbs so much of Vitiate's lightning it goes from being "infinitely" beyond incinerating Darth Nyriss to giving second-degree burns.
ChaosTheory123 has done an excellent calculation expressing the amount of energy Revan would have absorbed:
This is actually nearly identical to the number I merely guessed and used in debates here and there as well.
Thus, we have Revan above 97% of Vitiate's power, considering the lightning was, again, "infinitely" superior to the calculation.
When factoring in the nexus and Vitiate's start advantage, I'd say it's fair to conclude Revan's a direct equal with Vitiate on neutral ground.
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Last edited by Jaggarath on Oct 19th, 2016 at 11:42 PM
It clearly isn't the intent of Vitiate's character for him to merely be on Revan's level, but Drew's writing mess-ups have indeed led to this being a legitimate case.
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Very good, this is pretty much what I thought anyway; though with Vitiate being maybe slightly superior than Revan (but only marginally.) This evidence is enough to solidify that Revan and Vitiate were equals (as of the novel) in my eyes. Wonder how close SoR Revan is to Vanilla SWTOR Vitiate, I'd think that's pretty close as well.
Sounds legit. Scourge's seeing outcomes where Revan/Vitiate is the victor at the end corroborates this. Battle could've gone either way. Not to mention all the trauma of being drugged and having just regained his memories. I imagine a fully rested and relaxed Revan would've performed much better. At very least, we would have seen more of his tactical genius.
Now that I think about it, I agree with this, That being said, author's intent seems to get rejected here in general, thus by KMC standards, you can make the case that Revan = Vitiate.
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The Force washed over him like a wave, and a million different possible futures flickered through his mind simultaneously. In some, the Emperor was no more. In others, he had transformed the entire galaxy into an empty wasteland. He saw both Revan’s triumph and defeat in the throne room. He saw variations of his own life and death, played out over and over in every concievable way, shape and form.
And, given that it's showing FUTURE possibilities, and that he saw these visions when he was with Revan and Meetra against The Emperor...you don't think that was obviously referring to the trio's victory over Vitiate?
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