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Message: <blockquote data-quote="daddystabz" data-source="post: 4471699" data-attributes="member: 54231">You are dead wrong here. The force is actually WAY more efficient for killing people than a lightsaber in Saga Edition. Lightsabers do 2d8 dmg and you get to add half your heroic lvl to the dmg and also your Str mod or Str mod doubled if you are wielding the saber 2 handed. So with my 7th. lvl jedi I would do 2d8+5 with my saber wielding it 1-handed (with 1/2 my heroic lvl rounded down) or 2d8+7 wielding it 2-handed (with 1/2 my heroic lvl rounded down). With Use the Force, most jedi have VERY large Use the Force bonuses since you automatically get a +5 for it if this skill is trained and you get another +5 for having Skill Focus (Use the Force), this is +10 already! Then you can also add in your Charisma mod and half your heroic lvl for skill rolls and it is easy to see that a jedi's Use the Force Bonus is insanely high. At lvl 7 my Use the Force bonus is +16 and I can boost it to +21 when I kick in Fool's Luck.  Why is this important and what does it have to do with doing damage with the force? Because in Saga Edition when you use a force power from your suite of powers you use your Use the Force skill vs. the Damage Threshold or Will Defense or Reflex Defense or Fortitude Defense of your opponent. With such high use the Force bonuses that almost all jedi have, it makes it VERY easy to beat your opponent's defenses and do damage on the order of 6d6 or even 8d6 with powers like Force Slam and Move Object. Both these powers can do insane damage and you can spend a force point when using them to increase the damage a tad more. This damage EASILY beats what a jedi can do with a lightsaber.</blockquote>

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