How useless is JC these days?

His Omega on heal should be 0 cooldown. Then he'd be really great for GW.

I got him up to 6* when he was still quite viable for me (around player level 60). Now at L80, I use him in the first few nodes of GW with my developing heroes, where his heal brings them to full health. He's also useful as part of a suicide squad to keep them going a bit longer, but otherwise he's benched for the middle and end battles.

If his heal Omega did a lot more healing, or it removed a random negative effect on each hero, I might reconsider him. But as it stands "+25% to get 25% TM" is among the worst omega abilities in the game.

Jean-Claude was a steping stone to Yoda, give him that much

I use him in 6 / 12 GW nodes, then he's riding the pine. I don't have him past level 60 something. You're better off running Lumi / Barriss / Daka or some combo of them.

"WhiskeyPug;464857" wrote:
I feel like if he was all omega'd out he would be interesting in GW and even raids but for the investment it's probably not worth it, he still has low health. Best case scenario he's prob just mediocre but hey, we might see a legit arena team getting heals non stop and we think twice

Me, for example. With my ST Han, he is healing so often. Also, Ackbar does his job great ;) Works good in Raids, too. Not as good as the Ewok-Team, but its great! :D

He has his place. Toons will come in and out of favor the longer you play. He is still highly recommended for a new player (especially a F2P).

Switch his place he will servivue at least 6-8 nods some times up to 10
Try Barris lead with other 3 heavy hitters and JC he will do his job

I remember being a little disappointed when I first got the JC and found out he didn't have a Forcequake ability, if you get that reference. At least we wasn't flinging pebbles at people. ; )

Despite this, the JC was pretty useful until I got Lumi and Bariss. He still had a place on my secondary GW team and could hold is own then.

He seems to have become a liabilty now that they've added the protection mechanic and the game's current state. It feels like his surviveability took a hit, his heal isn't as potent, and his damage went from low-medium to just low.

This is based off of empirical observation from GW exclusively. I have my JC at 7*, G8, abilities all Lv7, and Lv70 during both pre and post changes. Nodes that had teams in the lvl 55-70 range would take 4-6 hits to knock out my JC. Now they do it in 3-4.

I still like the JC but won't be investing any more time or resources into the character unless he sees some buffs in future patches.

He's fairly meh as he has not kept up well with the new gear and his abilities are still somewhat busted (his special has a chance to ignore armor which it already did since armor doesn't protect against specials) and his basic attack is really weak. I sometimes use him in GW towards the end if I need that bit more of a heal but he's otherwise sits on the bench.