Dooku and Barriss endgame? Viability?

Despite the conventional advice I am continuing to build Barriss. If nothing else, she is extremely useful in Galactic War, really has no replacement.

Like what the other players have mentioned, there's no fix answer. It really depends on what you want and what your team needs. I found myself not using dooku anymore but I am using Barriss however.

Are you get higher up, you start to find characters that can apply status effects much more important than pure damage or pure heals...

That's the problem with Dooku and Barriss... They're kinda one trick ponies, they do one and one thing alone... Although Dooku does bring something in the way of anti-jedi ability and the off chance of a stun, but it often pales to other characters that can apply upteen effects on you...

Don't get me wrong Barriss is still a very good healer and is perfectly viable for that purpose, but in a way she can be exploited like Talia... bring her health down and when she uses her heal, she actually damages her team due to the equalisation. then you just pick off the biggest threat or secondary healer before focusing her down before her heal comes back up

Dooku also can be countered just by applying an offense down on him, and a defense up on your team, his counter attacks no longer bothers whoever he is attacking anymore. In fact in most cases you find people replacing him quite quickly with characters like Sidious, Luke, Lando etc because they bring a heck of a lot more to the table than Dooku

However Dooku still retains some use against AOE teams, usually in the form of Ima-Gun Di counter attacking teams...

So all in all it depends where you want to go...

In a way you can't really make a bad decision in who to level up.. which is a really good thing!

Thanks Keaven (love your NS build by the way--who's your fav leader for PVP?) , Qeltar, ZarAzi and Skye for all these great answers. Very very much appreciated!

God bless ya one n all~

Barriss is actually not a one-trick pony.
1. Her basic heal is unique, bypasses healing immunity and is immensely useful in combination with taunters. Most players will try to focus down one character at a time, and no other healer can bring a near-dead character back to full health in one shot. Chewie+Barriss is MUCH better than Chewie and anyone else.
2. Her passive health regen leadership ability is incredibly useful in both PvP and especially GW.
3. Same for her regular attack ability. I now get 1200+ health for every team member when it procs, and it's basically free.
Will I keep using her at level 60? I don't know. But I'm level 53 now and she still anchors my team. My guess is we will all be using different characters once new ones are introduced anyway. In the meatime she (and Asajj) have allowed me to be competitive on my server.

Both nice characters and super strong at lower levels. I'm not finding them as useful at 60 when DPS starts to catch up.

Too bad this is my first post but what I have to say about Dooku is f*** him. I'm level 40 and seem to be the only player left in the universe that doesn't have him. So I get to watch him single-handedly dismantle my entire team by 1) Always going first with a f***ing lightning strike to my Jedi Consular (usually stuns), then 100% counter attack with additional bonus attacks on the f***ing counters, and then just his normal turn which also features bonus attacks! I swear sometimes I watch him go 3 to 4 times in a row.

I honestly don't mind losing and I've had my share of losses. But it's sort of ridiculous how much damage he does alone with a 40% higher attack rate then the rest of the team.

Yes rant reply here. I know, I need better toons, higher levels, more gear, etc. I'm fully geared to level 5 and promoted Chewey and Talia up 1 star. F2P so far following WhipIT's (and other's) advice on leveling and gearing. I feel like I'm doing well and have a solid team but damn if Dooku doesn't sh*t on me every time. I guess I wouldn't be so crossed about it if everyone didn't somehow already have him.

almost every player has some utility at endgame, whether it be in PVP or GW, or the LS/DS, as long you try and synergize your teams strengths it should be fine. That being said, done expect to get a top ranking in PVP unless youre forking over some cash

"WWJDl;1678" wrote:
I see many posts on the forums stating both sided. I am through and through completely at a loss.
Are Dooku and Barriss not good end game heroes, or is it that they are simply harder to level?

They are just harder to level.

"Time;11590" wrote:
Still amazes me that people think bariss is better then luminara. Dooku is a pain, but once you get some better heros you can kill him very easy. Even then you will get fights where he opens with a double stuns and will still be difficult. The good thing is dookus regular attacks do half what other dpsers do.

I use both Barriss and Luminara. They have different strengths.

Everyone bashes Dooku but he's much more useful and can wreak a lot more havoc than many other characters that are considered top notch. Especially Darth Maul, who IMO is incredibly overrated (and is lucky if he gets even one basic attack in any match I fight against him before he dies).

Can he be killed? Sure. But not easily, not when he is well-geared. I keep wanting to take him out in favor of someone else... but I keep not doing it because he is so useful. Especially against all the Jedi healer teams (just fought one with 3 healers, all with huge hit bars, and the stuns are very important).