Kotor Jedi class

[SimpleCourage47]

Just started playing Kotor again on the pc. I'm at dantooine, and I'm choosing my jedi class. I was thinking of going the sentinel route with my scout but have heard bad things about sentinels. I want force and combat so sentinel makes sense. I don't want a consular that cant fight or a guardian that cant cast. Any advice ?

[Armfelt]

Sentinels are . You should probably go for a soldier/consular combo if you want that.

[SimpleCourage47]

Thanks. I will if i start a new game, i cba with taris all over again right now.

[The Dude]

Sentinels are fine. I've done plenty runs as sentinel. Good part is that you keep up a nice amount of well developed skills so you can get around fights through overloading terminals and hacking patrol droids etc. It's a sort of continuation of the Scoundrel class, so I'd say that Sentinel is a good pick as Jedi if you started out as Scoundrel or as Scout.

Otherwise, not so much.

[Inhuman One]

I personly cant resist the lure of force jump. Its the only lightsaber move that looks impressive. Furthermore it looks like a duel of a new hope.

[SimpleCourage47]

Yea I really like force jump, but I've played guardians loads of times and want to try out the force alot more, but I don't fancy just being force reliant. None the less I'm giving the consular a go, see what its like. Thanks for replies.

[The Dude]

The consular is immense, even more so if you don't level past two (since you need to level to two to be able to leave the ship with Carth at the beginning) and save all your levelups for Dantooine. Force power galore!

Awesome class. Especially as a light side consular, since quite a bunch of light side items give +wisdom too.

[SimpleCourage47]

Hmm I thinking of starting a new game going as a solider consular or redoing my current scout/Consular because I levelled to level 8 as a scout but the advantage was the implants. So if I start again (i'll have to force my way through boring taris, glad it got bombed lol) what should I start as ? and what level should I cut off at and save for dantooine ?

[gambit]

soldiers are good because they get so many of those tasty tasty feats, then I'd choose a jedi class with more force oriented growth to balance it out.

or you could just go full soldier/guardian and be a beast of war

[SimpleCourage47]

Yea i was thinking of just doing a Soldier/Consular so i get some good fighting feats and then go all force powers with the consular. Enjoyed the 'beast of war' Soldier/Guardian class before in many games but meh they are boring now.

[The Dude]

I'd advise either Soldier/Consular or Scoundrel/Consular. The former because the consular class is really gimped for feats, and the latter because the consular class is really gimped for skills. The consular class is already strong forcewise, but with some extra feats or skills (I'd go for feats, thus soldier, myself) you can turn a strong class into an amazing class.

Since I believe soldiers get to pick a feat every second level I'd level up to four as a soldier and then do the remaining sixteen levels as consular.

[SimpleCourage47]

Thanks for the advice i will do the soldier consular. What attributes should i focus on ? wisdom, charisma and dexterity ?

[The Dude]

Wisdom and Charisma are pretty essential for a consular. Dexterity you could do, but I'd go for Constitution instead.

[SimpleCourage47]

Cheers

[Adrian]

for Kotor I think the class for RP purposes that fits best is jedi consular Revan was always the tactician he was not really the front line guy now Malak was a vicious fighter but revan had style and charisma he manipulated people so I always play consular f or m consular suits revan best.

[The Dude]

Yeah grats on spoiling the story for someone who plays this for the first time. Mind using spoiler tags?

[SimpleCourage47]

I get bored with combat focused classes. I played guardian when i first played kotor and kotor 2.

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I always saw revan as the consular and malak as a guardian, cause malak is just brutal combat focused really, where as like you say revan was always the tactician the less rash one.