I just realized something. What if Esege and Shara switched abilities?

Esege's ability is generally better than Shara's, because through Recon spec and other more janky methods he can get two focus tokens. Taking one from him doesn't necessarily nerf his own attack, and focus on defense isn't that great anyway with 1 agility.

However, the K-wing is not a formation flyer (except for opening exchange with Biggs perhaps) and Esege's ability is not especially useful when building him out as a bomber or missle carrier. If you're taking actions to drop bombs, you're not focusing.

BUT, if he had Shara's ability, he could take LRS, and set up a target lock for an ally without being nearby. He could then use actions to bomb and slam while still getting use out of the ability (although you'd be missing out on advanced slam).

Shara could take rec spec, or Rey, or Jyn, and have plenty of focus tokens to spend for allies. And she could take actions to boost her own attack.

I'm not saying either one would be top tier competitive, but I think they'd be better. Thoughts?

they'd be the same honestly. Neither ability is at all good when you're giving up modifiers from a 28 point minimum ship (as opposed to like a sh*tty headhunter, where it would make more sense)

maybe if they had unlimited range?

Oh right, I forgot Shara's ability has a range restriction. That's really unfortunate...

I feel like the "when attacking at range 1-2" restriction on Shara's ability is a lazy copy/paste job from Esege. It'd be so much better and nowhere near broken without the restriction.