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Darlex82
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9 years ago

Character Idea: Sith Emperor/Emperor Valkorian

Following on the ideas posted by Zagric in his threads for KoToR characters like (Darth Nihilus, Darth Sion, Delta Squad and General Grievous reworked I decided to post up an idea I had worked out a while ago for the Sith Emperor from the Old Republic. It will be better to have this here than to leave it in a word doc on my desktop anyhow.

Sith Emperor/Emperor Valkorian

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"Darth Vitiate, also known as The Sith Emperor and to the Eternal Empire as Valkorion, was a Dark Lord of the Sith who reconstituted the Sith Empire after the Great Hyperspace War and went on to rule it for more than a millennium. He is the main antagonist of the Jedi Knight Storyline and the overall primary antagonist of Star Wars: The Old Republic.

According to legend, he was born under the name Tenebrae, the illegitimate son of Lord Dramath of Medriaas and a poor farm woman. After killing them both, he was granted the title of Lord Vitiate by the then-reigning Dark Lord of the Sith, Marka Ragnos."

Lightning Blast – Deal physical damage to target with a %40 chance to inflict tenacity down and a %10 chance to expose.

Force Storm – Deal AOE damage to all enemies, doing special damage.  This attack deals an additional %50 crit damage on critical hit.  For the first enemy crit grant offense up for 2 turns, for the second grand crit damage up for 2 turns, for the third grant speed up for 2 turns. 5 Turn Cooldown.

Force Drain – Deal special damage to target enemy, inflict speed down & defense down for 2 turns, and remove %60 turn meter from target.  The emperor regains %60 of his health from this attack. 4 (3?) Turn Cooldown.

Unique – Whenever the Emperor uses a special ability he gains protection up equal to %20 of his Max Health

Leader –All sith allies gain +%35 offense, all others gain half that.  All sith allies gain a %5 chance on basic attack to gain any of the following, offense up, crit chance up or foresight.

Valkorian would be a support character with the Dark Side and Sith tags.

Considering that the Sith Emperor was the unseen Antagonist for all of the Kotor games and for the Old Republic MMO I would think him a significant character to add from that era. He could be realistically as powerful as you wanted to make him (he literal absorbed all of the life & force from an entire planet into himself to essentially make himself immortal) but for gameplay purposes I thought it would be best to focus on his overwhelming power with the force to drive his enemies down while enhancing himself.

Let me know what you guys think.

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  • Xx7MeLo7xX's avatar
    Xx7MeLo7xX
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    9 years ago
    No. When they start adding noncanon toons player base will shrink. Only a small portion even know who all the noncanon toons are. I have at least watched Clone Wars and Rebels, so I know most characters, but no new players will want to play if most of the characters in the game are unknown to them

    In my opinion HK47 shouldn't be in the game either
  • Darlex82's avatar
    Darlex82
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    9 years ago
    "hnewton;783690" wrote:
    No. When they start adding noncanon toons player base will shrink. Only a small portion even know who all the noncanon toons are. I have at least watched Clone Wars and Rebels, so I know most characters, but no new players will want to play if most of the characters in the game are unknown to them

    In my opinion HK47 shouldn't be in the game either


    What are you basing this off of if I might ask? It seems to be a pretty strong stance that including non-canon characters will kill the game but what are you basing that off of? I honestly dont believe they will add many non-canon characters to the game anyways, there are just too many characters from the movies/tv series for them to still add. But it can still be fun to through out ideas of potential characters, particularly influential characters from non-canon IP that is still currently alive and thriving.

    I guess I dont understand the point of saying "dont you dare suggest any characters that I dont approve of" is all.
  • Non canon is totally fine. I and many others would personally love KOTOR characters, BUT we need essential trilogy toons first like Padme, R2, C3PO, Jango, Jedi Luke, etc first.
  • cerealian's avatar
    cerealian
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    9 years ago
    Oh God no please don't the emperor of the eternal was way toooo over bloated... there is a reason the game failed and went f2p after 3 months you know.... just so so poorly made

    And yes I think KOTOR was the best game ever like definitely in my top 10 so i do like well made games

    Would like Raven added - the one from the book not the game :D
  • I agree mostly with the idea, but I'd make a couple notable changes.

    First off, he needs some sort of mental domination ability. During his time as Sith Emperor, he dominated the minds of multiple powerful force users and turned them into his servants. He was much more known for that sort of force power as opposed to lightning which was always more Palpatine's thing.

    Secondly, I'd make him specifically Valkorian and create a Zakuulan tag, then switch all his Sith synergies to Zakuulan ones. There are a ton of other Sith lords in the old canon to boost the Sith roster, so he's not really needed there if they start adding more old canon stuff. Also, Zakuul has a bunch of other things that could be added as characters for the tag (it was made in an MMO, so there's lots of enemy types from Zakuul). The Knights, Archons, Skytroopers, Arcann, Thexan, Vaylin, etc.

    The one thing I'm not sure about for a Zakuulan tag would be how it would be received by the player-base. I'd imagine there'd be a fair bit of 'who's that' going on, but I also think there's a lot of opportunity there to create a fair few interesting characters.
  • Darlex82's avatar
    Darlex82
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    9 years ago
    "CerealKiller;783924" wrote:
    Oh God no please don't the emperor of the eternal was way toooo over bloated... there is a reason the game failed and went f2p after 3 months you know.... just so so poorly made

    And yes I think KOTOR was the best game ever like definitely in my top 10 so i do like well made games

    Would like Raven added - the one from the book not the game :D


    It's funny when you see people with opinions like this and then you look at EA's revenues last year and SWTOR was its second best grossing game. Almost like some persons personal opinion of a game doesn't actually always play out in its success or profitability or something.
  • 2010vass's avatar
    2010vass
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    9 years ago
    I love the SWTOR MMO just started the Knights of the fallen empire and i love the story arc so far. But it does come with some cons but i play it for Star wars fix i need since Ea wants to take forever to release a Story based Star wars game. So yea id be down for some of the Toons/companions in the game HK-55 please and Jeasa.

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