That would be a bad idea just so we can see all of the TOR characters/wanked EU (Nihilus, Vitiate, Bane, Revan,) and their associated characters top the list via mob voting.
No thank you.
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Which is sad because the other posters i,e not the TOR/Bane/EU cult have at least a general sense of what characters out or might belong in terms of feats/skill
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Maybe we should make multiple tier ranking lists. For example; we could make a tier list for dueling abilities, a list for the force using abilities, the most knowledgeable force users, etc. My reasoning behind this is that it's hard to combine raw power, dueling skill, feats, and implied power and get a clear result. we could still keep a fairly short list of the tiers when they're all combined, but we should break them down into categories.
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On the flipside, sometimes the whole is different than the sum of the parts. Some duelists are only good, but also skilled at including quick force attacks that themselves aren't overwhelming, and combine well for good effect.
While other people have good force and good dueling, but are pretty darn poor at using both at the same time.
For the record, Luke kind of has that 'strong as he needs to be' thing going on. If some writer thinks it'd be good drama to have him struggle with an encounter he should curbstomp, then so be it.
The comic book subforum had a ranking/tier system, this should still be undertaken so we can avoid needless reporting of posters to Badabing for laughable claims of making "spite threads". Please no fanboys though this has the potential to be a useful exercise
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Last edited by carthage on Dec 15th, 2014 at 05:03 AM
Having a tier 10-1 system would be pretty solid IMO. Luke being tier 10, Bane being tier 1, for example. And we can have different tiers for different aspects of combat, i.e Dueling tiers, Force tiers, all out tiers.
So Kenobi could be a tier 8 duelist but tier 7 all out because of his lack of Force power, for example. We had something akin to this on CV that might have worked out alright if it had been maintained. I kind of want to re-establish it.
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The Tier system should work if we can make out who to place where based on their strengths, you hit the nail on the head with the example of Kenobi. If we could work it out, we'd have no more issues with "spite threads" or "mismatches". I don't know I liked the idea of a tier system based on an groupings of force/dueling skill as opposed to different ones.
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Neither do I but a lot of people look at it that way sometimes. I think looking at a characters dueling skill and Force separately is more reliable than meshing the two together, too many variables.
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It could work for either granted, dueling might be the most difficult due to lack of feats for various EU eras.
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Nov 2nd, 2014 06:44 AM
