- Proposal
- Make all melee attacks on brawler, advanced, and hybrid professions be usable with a lightsaber.
- Justification
- All other melee weapons using general melee skill can be used interchangeably with each other as long as you know the skill, besides lightsabers (except on the rare occasional skill like Ambush, Last Ditch, or Lucky Attack).
- Motivation
- This would encourage more hybrid play with players who want to engage in jedi lightsaber combat, but not necessarily want to go full Obi-Wan to pair with force powers. Hybrid trees that provide generic melee skills like reckless hit, or even advanced brawler trees to give more specialized skills could make lightsaber melee combat more engaging and viable while also encouraging build variety and being more lore friendly. Risk of overpowered gimmicks would be offset by the overall reduced skill modifiers gained as they don't stack. All those one-handed bonuses in the Fencer trees won't help a saber wielder, but having Scatter Hit and using Soresu Form abilities could add a new element to PvP.
Cal Kestis, Kanan Jarrus, Ezra Bridger, Kyle Katarn, Luke Skywalker. These characters all existed during this era and learned to hide their jedi abilities when necessary to prevent the Empire's attention. They weren't afraid to use blasters, but when the sabers came out, they could pair them to their survival skills for new and varied forms of combat. The game's current design essentially requires you go all-in or nothing on jedi disciplines which is traditionally where a jedi would want to grow to (à la Luke), but is not necessarily indicative of interactive survival in this era.
