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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arkhandus" data-source="post: 3652225" data-attributes="member: 13966">Anyway, the general opinion and information I've seen here and on RPGnet is that overall, each class has certain things it does well, and even better if they specialize in it, but other classes can do those things similarly well.Jedi are best at melee combat and dueling, but a similarly well-built Soldier can also excel at melee (doing a bit more damage but with a bit less defense, IIRC), so of course a Jedi who learns the right talents or feats is going to rock at handling one enemy mano-a-mano, or a small group of mooks.  Thus large groups of ranged attackers are their foil.Soldiers on the other hand are best at ranged combat and armor use, so a Soldier can gun down lots of enemies quickly and take a lot of punishment himself.  They can do well at melee if they specialize in it, but they're the best at ranged combat and any Soldier can probably do fine with a gun even if he chose to specialize in melee, whereas a Jedi has to spend a feat on ranged weaponry if he's going to be similarly decent at it to a melee-specialized Soldier.  Other classes, like Jedi, can do well at ranged combat but it's just easier and more effective a choice for Soldiers.  A melee-specialized Jedi or Soldier may be the foil to a single, typical, ranged-combat-specialized Soldier.Etc.</blockquote>