
In the past two weeks we talked about both the Light and Dark side templates. It is obvious that the devs have created a bit more variety in the style of play for jedi with these revamps. But alot of people wonder about grey siders. For you grey siders, here are some things to keep in mind.
Stance and Focus
Only one or the other will be active at a time, and allow access to the moves for that side. Stance is for Light side moves, and focus allows force attacks. The main reason to keep this in mind is lightning, choke or saber reflect will all need either the stance or focus to work. The up side is that the stance or focus will remain in effect until you turn it off.
This creates a situation of having or needing to rely on the general expertise to supplement attacks if one does not want a full darkside tree. Greysiders can also use the force throw snare, and shockwave damage if they onl want to be lightside in heal, but to get the 10k heal you will have to spend some points as it has been moved down the line now.
The general point to keep in mind is that jedi have been balanced back in line with the other professions. Not all of us will have access to a 10k heal, and we will have to supplement that in other ways if we sacrifice it for attacks. Those that do have it, will have to make sure they are supplementing their offense capabilities through heroics, gen 5’s and such to keep up with the Dark side burst DPS.
Darksiders similarly are not locked into having to take drain. A full DS template would have drain to supllement as a heal, as well as the modifiers to power up drain. Having nothing but lightning, shockwave, force throw and cloak may reduce your overall burst damage, but would allow for a decent pve template with escape potential and a variety of attacks. Mititgate the loss of the 10k heal and you’re back in the game.
Simply put, If BH’s, Commandos and spies can survive with less than a 10k heal surely the jedi of this game can adapt!