If the character is only engaged with one target, can Sarlacc Sweep be used to hit the target twice?

Yes

See, the phrasing of that talent's description seems to tell me that you can't. I understand it as "you try to hit the hardest target with +1 difficulty, and for each 2 Advantages, you get to hit a different guy you're engaged with, until you've hit them all". It's a sweep, after all, so hitting the same target twice seems counter-intuitive.

Fairly certain that Sarlacc Sweep's full description in the Talents chapter outright states that the additional hits generated can't be applied to the same target more than once. It's effectively a limited form of the Autofire quality.

So in a one-on-one fight, Sarlacc Sweep isn't much use, but it can be very effective at tackling multiple foes, such as whittling down multiple minion groups at once.

Which makes sense, as in the lore Shii-Cho was noted to be rather lacking in single-opponent duels, leading to the development of Makashi as a dueling-based Form (which itself in turn isn't so great at dealing with multiple foes and flat out stinks in dealing with ranged attackers).

This is a good dev question, me thinks.

My question is if it applies to all enemies in engaged RANGE or just enemies you’re currently fighting? Could you, for example, use this and tag everyone that’s also fighting your friends if you’re all in engaged range of each other?

27 minutes ago, Haleron said:

My question is if it applies to all enemies in engaged RANGE or just enemies you’re currently fighting?

Definitely the former. If you're surrounded, you can hit everyone surrounding you with Sarlacc Sweep, but it doesn't allow you to bounce around all over the place.

The way I've always viewed this talent is that you make a wide, horizontal slash with your lightsaber that catches everyone you're currently Engaged with. If there's only one target you only his that one target once. And the talent description specifies that he can do this "once per engaged target". So, no lightsaber auto-fire.

On 12/27/2017 at 1:11 PM, Donovan Morningfire said:

Which makes sense, as in the lore Shii-Cho was noted to be rather lacking in single-opponent duels, leading to the development of Makashi as a dueling-based Form (which itself in turn isn't so great at dealing with multiple foes and flat out stinks in dealing with ranged attackers ).

QFT.

I started with a Makashi that multi'd into Arbiter as I was immediately handed all social interaction responsibility for the group when I joined (I had presence 4, next highest was 2...). The absolute best I can hope for in a blaster fight is disarming the biggest foe first, then running for heavy cover. I mean, I love the idea of Makashi style, but hot **** does the game really force the specialisation...