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Fooly82's avatar
7 years ago

Imperial cleanser, yay or nay?

I do not know about anyone else, but i would like to see an imperial cleanser in the game, maybe like ackbar´s special ability, but without a doubt like rex´s special ability.

I know we have thrawn´s special and leadership, but for raids and TB and TW, only 1 cleanser for the entire empire faction is not good in my opinion, because if you use thrawn in one phase, but need another empire cleanser for another phase, you have already used him. (I focus on faction synergies).

Rebels have so many cleansers and/or healers, like ackbar, chirrut, kanan, hera, lobot & CH Solo (r2d2 through zeta unique), and empire? They have 2, thrawn cleanse and shoretrooper heal. I was excited when i heard that the imperial troopers were getting starck, a support... that can not cleanse. :/

The dark side in general does not have many cleansers, sure they have some healers and buff givers/removers, but very few cleansers (team cleansers). It feels like the rebel faction alone has as many cleansers/healers, as all the dark side factions combined (look it up online, i am almost right about that).

Starck was in my opinion the perfect opportunity to introduce a new cleanser into the game, but no, just another buffer and support in name only.

I know that the rebel faction is much larger than empire faction, so it can be argued that it is natural they have more cleansers/healers, but still, so few dark side cleansers compared to light side (and rebels as well)?

What do you guys think?
  • 100% Agree.
    DS falls too much behind in defensive(buff) aspects, especially cleanse and heal, compared to LS.
    If it's just because 'DS is all about harming others, not about caring their teammates', I'd say they can do it when that act suits their selfish goals, just like LS can harm enemies when that act suits the divine selfless purpose of keeping the galaxy in peace or whatever.
  • Agree with you @Anakin_Skywalker and @Migux7 . But right now i am hoping that they tweak Starck a bit, to include cleanse in his buff special ability, or maybe his unique like barris (before her zeta upgrade).

    If anyone remembers, they tweaked chopper a bit not long ago, so hopefully they will do the same for starck. A cleanse through him like described above, would make him and imperial troopers so much better.

    #LoveTheEmpire
  • I know i should not double post, but i would like the devs to know, that there are people who would like to see starck tweaked, to add a team cleanse in either his buff ability or his unique.

    Does anyone else agree with this?
  • It doesn't make much sense for the factions to be debuffs VS cleanses because... you know... cleanses will always win. Especially with ones as ridiculous as R2's, where just a crit is enough to cleanse everything on you.

    If they give DS a more consistent cleanser, I hope it's something that fits into the gameplay theme of DS. So, like, you cleanse your team, but it also puts the debuffs onto the enemy team. Or it cleanses 4 members of your team and gives them tons of buffs, but moves all the debuffs onto the last member.
  • I agree that the game really is biased towards light side, and for the people out there who say that it makes sense for the empire to lack empathy (or wahtever) towards their own soldiers "we only care about results", name 1 war that was won (by anyone) without some sort of medical treatment for their soldiers at the front line.

    Even if you disagree with that, then how about this:

    "Anakin_Skywalker;c-1385410" wrote:

    If it's just because 'DS is all about harming others, not about caring their teammates', I'd say they can do it when that act suits their selfish goals, just like LS can harm enemies when that act suits the divine selfless purpose of keeping the galaxy in peace or whatever.


    You need the manpower required to get the job done, that goes for light side and dark side alike, you can´t get the job done if your soldiers drop like flies and the enemy is fine.