Empire needs more healers/cleansers!

Imperial Shock Trooper would be cool to have added.

Imperial Shock Trooper
Dark Side, Empire, Imperial Trooper, Attacker

Protective Blast (Basic)
Deal physical damage to target enemy and grant protection up (15%) to a random Imperial Trooper ally.

Electro-Staff Shock (Special) 3 turn CD
Deal special damage to target enemy with a 15% chance to stun for two turns for every active Imperial Trooper ally.

For the Empire (Unique)
For every stun Shock Trooper inflicts, gain a bonus 5% turn meter (stacking) until the end of the encounter.

As long as Shock Trooper is active, all imperial allies have +15% defense penetration.

Is anyone else over the assumption that Empire is just automatically supposed to be the most powerful faction in the game?

Empire needs nothing. If anything, what Empire "needs" is a nerf to its out-of-control OPeror turn meter synergy.

Empire turn meter manipulation can be easily overcome so I don’t see why they’d need a nerf...

"CommanderRacheon;c-1650037" wrote:
I feel like Empire does not need more healers/cleansers because 1. They do a lot of damage fast and shut down the other team. That's just their strategy. 2. Empire is a lot like Sith where they don't care about one another they only care about themselves. And 3. Empire is one of the best factions already.

I mean for the sake of diversity and because there are still some major characters still missing, they do.

Point taken. And as you just mentioned, they are two of the best healers in the game. As stated before, that’s goes back to the issue at heart, being that the empire doesn’t have that luxury

Why you want a "healer" so bad? There are so many ways to survive.
Someone kills the enemies quickly, some provide teamwide sustain as a leader (gar saxon, thrawn..etc), and finally someone heals.
And a char dont needs to be a "healer" to have the abilitie(s) above.

We already discussed your latter statement, courtesy YaeVizsla. And why? I feel by your statement, you don’t use your empire in arena on a competitive shard. Tb, where one uses Gar, troops etc., is not the same. Again it is quite possible as I do it everyday, but it is the difference between using a hammer vs. a nail gun to build. Efficiency and ease of use.