Suggestions for dps?

By CharismaticMechanic, in Star Wars: Edge of the Empire RPG

How are your players getting their

1 hour ago, Kilcannon said:

Have a player now who does a lot of damage as a jedi. Only has a soak of 13. If he doesn't take them out quickly he uses the most med packs. Walks around with a critical half the time. As a GM I living vicariously thru the character and player.

Only a soak of 13?!? Or are you referring to wound threshold? Because 13 is pretty high.

Oops I meant wound threshold lol. Yes a soak of 13 would be great. But the tank sniper had like a 12 soak and 20+ wounds

Honestly this system is so broken when it comes to combat, you can break the game with 3 dozen different types of builds that the Dm needs to give NPCs 50 health to survive the first round. I overhual most of the system to balance it out so it come out fair however almost all of my players do the rule of cool and even then with only 35 xp, the tank can take a full blaster volley from stormtroppers and shrug it off like they were throwing plastic spoons at him.

Edited by Samuel Richard
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with only 35 xp, the tank can take a full blaster volley from stormtroppers and shrug it off like they were throwing plastic spoons at him.

How?

1 hour ago, Paris Teta said:

How?

with 6 soak, 2 ranged defense, and 15 wounds. Only way I can pin him down for a while are these electric shield enemies that give strain out like candy that can match him in melee if theres enough of them.

A minion group of half a dozen stromtroopers with just blaster rifles is YYYGGB v RangeSS. Hardly a tough shot and with a rock bottom 10 damage, and 11-13ish damage probably the average, he's hardly in a position to shrug that off for any extended fight.

16 hours ago, Samuel Richard said:

with 6 soak, 2 ranged defense, and 15 wounds. Only way I can pin him down for a while are these electric shield enemies that give strain out like candy that can match him in melee if theres enough of them.

Also, why does he have those stats? You might be too generous with gear and credits

21 minutes ago, Rimsen said:

Also, why does he have those stats? You might be too generous with gear and credits

That is true