New GL ideas

Considering we just got Jabba, it's probably not a good idea to make another Hutt Cartel + Bounty Hunter GL?

I am glad players do not design the game.

There aren't many GL worthy characters lying around.

I mean, Darth Krayt, maybe? He's certainly legendary to a certain non-human population of the galaxy.

The Great Old Mothers triumvirate? (I mean, if they can release that huge Jabba, they can release a single character that's actually 3 toons standing close to each other.) They probably have power worthy of it, but I doubt that they're "legendary" beyond the NS faction.

GL Mace Windu? I mean, yeah, kinda? JMK is based on Kenobi **after** Mace is killed, so there's room, I guess. But he'd be the 2nd Republic GL and that doesn't really work.

GL Ahsoka? I mean, no. She's awesome and I love her to death, but she's not JML and she's not supposed to be. I guess in theory we could see her gain in power but still decline to be a Jedi. That might explain the lack of Jedi in the timeline when JML is organizing his school and during the sequel trilogy. But we haven't seen that power level out of her yet. And if we did, what faction would she lead?

There's room for a LS Droid GL, but the only one who makes sense in lore is R2, and... what would you base his skill set on? In theory they could come up with a droid we've never heard of and make that our new LS Droid GL. I'm not actually excited about the idea.

The High Republic is a time period I know nothing about, so there might be legendary personalities from that time (I mean, logically there WOULD be legendary personalities from that time) but I don't know them and I'm a pretty big SW fan. Not obsessive, I'll grant you, but pretty big. That means that they might justify the GL tag in theory, but they wouldn't *feel* justified to the majority of fans who play this game. (At least if I am representative.)

All in all, I see GLs as mostly played out, now that we have Leia.

We will still need new super-characters, of course.

But
1) Omicrons allow the creation of a character that can be a super-character for a specific purpose, like in a raid or on a new Conquest planet or whatever, without actually being a GL or GL equivalent.
2) We don't have to call them GLs. Pick some High Republic toons that are worthy of being minor gods in the game and call them "High Legends" or whatever. Or "Historic Heroes". I mean, anything works.

We had legendaries and hero's journey and galactic confrontation characters before we ever had GLs. CG didn't just keep adding the most powerful toons to the old most powerful category. They created new categories.

Retire the GL category. Create something new. Constantly trying to come up with toons that are equal in galactic historical importance Lord Vader just cheapens the category.

These toons are what they are, and they're harvested primarily from the movies we have loved. Other toons can come along and be powerful in the game without being equated to Leia and Luke and Vader.

"MasterSeedy;c-2444681" wrote:
Retire the GL category. Create something new. Constantly trying to come up with toons that are equal in galactic historical importance Lord Vader just cheapens the category.

Hear hear. Once we start creeping nearer to ten Galactic Legends, it’s just undervaluing what a Legend should be. There’s loads of creative ways that CG could add some new spice to the game without increasingly tenuous GLs. I know it’s been mooted before but it really is high time we had beasts in the game as playable assets. You could imagine the introduction of key beasts that could be stalked, trained, powered up etc that would super empower their associated toon in an appropriate way. Spirit beasts boost mastery; mount beasts boost speed; fighting beasts boost damage; tracker beasts boost potency or accuracy etc. it could be a lot of fun

Ahsoka and Thrawn have the most potential of the modern era characters but neither is GL-worthy yet. Perhaps after the Ahsoka / Mandalorian story arc has played out they will be.

I can see both Darth Bane and Grey/neutral Revan being GL worthy.

In the lore, the powers assigned to Darth Bane and neutral Revan may very well be on a power level with Jedi Master Luke or some other GL.

In terms of love from the fandom, the characters from the movies will always have more love across the globe than Bane or Revan. They just don't compare in that way.

2023 was the anniversary of "Return of the Jedi"
We got 2 GL's from that movie: Jabba and Leia
2024 will be the anniversary of "The Phantom Menace"
Pick 2 GL's (1 dark side and 1 light side) from that movie.
Jar Jar Binks is a good contender.
Sade and Queen Padme Amidala.
Qui Gon Jinn
Nute Gunray is dark side and Darth Maul also dark side.

"SidVicious444;c-2443000" wrote:
2023 was the anniversary of "Return of the Jedi"
We got 2 GL's from that movie: Jabba and Leia
2024 will be the anniversary of "The Phantom Menace"
Pick 2 GL's (1 dark side and 1 light side) from that movie.
Jar Jar Binks is a good contender.
Chancellor Palp is another good contender.
Count Dooku is also dark side.

Maybe not a GL but Yaddle would be a good edition!

Or perhaps they will save new GLs for Acolyte and add High republic characters/faction that would be pretty sweet.