How exactly does this work in FaD? I have read bits and pieces that blocking the bolt is through adding to soak and the redirecting of the blaster bolt is done when the attacker rolls a despair or three threats.

But how much damge can be soak with a lightsaber? How many bolts can be blocked and redirected?

Thanks.

There is a Talent called Reflect which lets you, for a cost of 3 Strain, reduce damage taken by a ranged attack by 2+1xRanks.

Then there is another called Improved Reflect which lets you deal damage to a foe if they roll 3 Threats or a Despair on a ranged attack.

EDIT: Misremembered the Reflect value.

The way the Parry (reduce melee damage) and Reflect (reduce ranged damage) talents work is that when you're character is struck by a melee attack or ranged attack and you are wielding the appropriate weapon (any melee weapon for Parry, a lightsaber for Ranged), you can suffer three strain to reduce the incoming damage by an amount equal to 2 plus your ranks in the talent. This damage mitigation is applied prior to Soak Value, so things like Breach and Pierce don't apply against Parry or Reflect.

So if a PC has enough ranks of Parry (say 5 or 6), they could potentially reduce the damage of a basic lightsaber attack down to zero. But that's a lot of ranks of Parry required, and most of the Lightsaber Form specs only offer 2 or 3 ranks (Makashi Duelist offers 5, Shii-Cho Knight offers 4).

Same with Reflect, in that if you have 4 or 5 ranks, you can reduce the damage from a blaster pistol down to an almost negligible amount, particularly if you've also got a decent Soak Value (4 or higher).

To reflect a blaster bolt, you'd need to have the Reflect (Improved) talent, and need to use the Reflect talent as well as requiring that your opponent roll a Despair or 3 Threat, with the damage dealt being equal to how much damage the attacker did to you, though I don't think any weapon qualities (passive or otherwise) would be applicable. Same theory works with the Parry (Improved) talent. So if a bad guy hits your for a lot of damage due to a high number of successes, you can mitigate a portion of it and then force them to choke down that same amount of damage. Nasty surprise for those enemies that focus more on dishing out damage than absorbing it

Thanks.