Originally posted by AncientPower
Have anything else to 'contribute'?
Yes. Taking MMO boss mechanics at face value is cancer.
But sure let's go with it.
It took a strike team of 8 to kill a single rancor and 2 hutt bodyguards. So Malgus = 1/2 rancor or 1 hutt bodyguard.
Vader can oneshot rancors. Vader godstomps Malgus.
Zoltan, what a strawman you have there, negating all of his feats as MMO mechanics is pathetic and completely misinformed.
The Malgus storyline plays out where he uses the Imperial protags as a means to gain assets that he uses when he declares himself Emperor. Malgus faces the same strike team he has been using that whole time, he even openly mocks and thanks them for how they had helped him. This includes the Foundry which he takes technology from for his Fortress, something openly stated in the flashpoint.
Trying to handwave that as 'herp derp MMO mechanics' is laughable, this isn't like the Dread War where it's just a massive strike team of heroes.
For one, there's a distinction with what Revan did (dominating NPCs), and with what Malgus and friends did (dominating PCs). I see no reason to believe why the former shouldn't be taken seriously, since it's all scripted and not player-based like the PC interactions. In regards to Malgus, we see him doing the lightning and telekinesis feat in the cutscene anyway. He's immensely powerful, but Vader's better. The notion Vader rapes someone he has pictures of in his bedroom is hilarious though. Vader's never raped anyone of note, nor really anyone not of note either.