Chris Higgins - Jedi Consular: Beta Impressions

"The Consular class does not focus on lightsabers like a Jedi Knight.  You use telekinesis and throw objects at your opponents.  One of the attacks you get pulls objects from under the ground and hurls them at your enemy.  The objects vary and can be anything from droid bodies to boulders.  Consular also uses also stun attacks for which work well for mob control while fighting. 

Once you get to level ten you can choose a specialization and can be a Sage or Shadow consular.  Shadow seemed to have stealth capabilities which allowed you avoid combat.  However I chose Sage for healing.  Sage's have force healing which can be used on you or other players.   It was very easy to find a group when being a healing sage.  The great thing was while I was the normally the groups healer I could still fight while healing so I did not feel like I was just there to keep people alive. 

Reading in game chat there were ways to use Sage as a DPS class but I did not explore this option so this class seems to be very versatile for any game play style.  I was bummed Sages got one-handed lightsabers while Shadow Consular's got double-bladed lightsabers but it does make sense based on the specialization descriptions. "

Read more of Chris Higgins' Jedi Consular beta impressions from MMORPG.com here!