Kit Rework: HK-47

"Dagobond;c-1807099" wrote:
I remember seeing another poster write that it is unbelievable that a horribly broken and overpowered leadership like Jedi Knight Revan hasn't been balanced and yet HK's leadership is somehow more of a problem?

Action economy is king.

HK-47 lead interacts with action economy in an outright insane fashion that limits design space.

Revan's lead is not particularly crazy. It's very good, don't get me wrong, but it's the layers of synergy that make Revan the dominant meta right now, not a crazy lead. It does a variety of things, but it's pretty finite and manageable, and it's one of the few good leads that doesn't come with a turn meter engine of any sort.

Revan's lead is actually well-designed. It's an aggressive assists lead, and rewards being good at assists, and lets the faction be good at assists without necessarily breaking. The problem comes not from the lead, but from the confluence of Yoda hitting like a meteor with his own TM engine, Revan's extra life unique combining with Jolee's mass revive on top of his being a brick wall, Bastila's pile o' buffs, and Yoda's ability to proliferate those buffs. It's synergy to an unprecedented degree in the game, but remove either of the linchpins- Jolee or Yoda- and the team isn't really an issue.

A badly designed lead, on the other hand, is one where the faction has to be bad at their gimmick to avoid breaking the game. Droids are not allowed to be good at getting lots of crits because they gain 50% TM per crit. Resistance has to be bad at exposes because they get a total of 175% TM for every bubble popped plus another 55% for every bubble landed and if they can land and pop a bubble every 2-3 turns, they will never stop.

So yes, saying HK-47 lead was a problem but Revan lead was not is a reasonable statement.