Why isn't everybody using Nightsister Initiate?

She's better than Acolyte and Talia and Ventress, but still sucks. Tons of HP, but her special #1 only does around 6-7k damage (which is bad because she is slow). Her special #2 doesn't stick very often, and is useless because she's slow.

Isn't she really hard to farm purple gear for? That plus being a nightsister seems to put a lot of people off on using her.

I have her maxed. Fine in nighsister team in GW and DS missions. But too weak in arena imho. Severing strike (buff immunity) is RNG dependent and still can be resisted if procs. If it was 100% it would be a different story, but still not that great with such a low speed. Her crit is not that impressive - cool, but long cd, GS crits more often with his regular attacks. And her basic is quite weak tbh. The only good thing is loads of hp, protection and easy way to GIX. Having said that, I want to try NI in a combo wih Fives, RG, Old Ben in a team with perma stralthed Leia. Might buy some time.

I have the toon at 7* - more because I had tried to farm units from arena and GW and cantina points that weren't farmable otherwise, not because I saw a need at the time. But it does seem to be a good unit from my limited use in GW, and it is also one of the units that you can complete all tier 8 gear without guild special equipment (everything is available from LS/DS fights).