Ive been wanting to make up a force toon for awhile now but have been reluctant to do so since it seems very weak overall. This seems especially true with Force Cascade, which requires an enrgy form to use. I know field sure is an energy form, but has a 90 second cool down which only lets you use your best attack once every 90 seconds. Im not sure when the fix is coming or what it will be, but I think personal force field or whatever the passive is called should be made into an energy form.

Force cascade is the best move in the force framework. Only other attack really worth using is force eruption for an anti-melee knockback.

As for the balance pass, no information has been announced, all they did was start a suggestions thread on it and we haven't heard anything since.

The usual way to use Force Cascade is to either take an out-of-set energy form or to use the 3 point advantage on your energy builder that procs an energy form.

Did you take this advantage on Force Bolts? Cause if you didn't, Force Cascade is pretty much gonna be rather hellish to use, unless you abuse certain mechanics.

the 3 pt advantage really makes using force cascade that much easier.. or you can just take an energy form and run in guardian or avenger mode, but force doesn't have one so you'll have to pick one from another set.

I don't find foce to be all that weak.. but then I never have run a pure force toon. I tend to mix other powers with it..

Force bolts (with advantage)
Force Shield (with force sheath)
Force eruption
Force Cascade
Force Blast (what ever the t0 power is)

then I'll grab Lightning arc just because a) its a maintain and b) uses the opposite hand from force blast which for appearances make a neat looking 1-2 punch

PFF is garbage, really, get a different defensive passive if you want to go that route personally I like regen for soloing my Force/x toon is con/rec SS'd with end being built up with equipment has tons of HP, tons of energy, and soloed SL his first time through.

Actually the adv on kinetic bolts is very very good for this, it buffs damage and provides an energy form to burn :D And on the bonus side, although slower than force bolts, this can happen every 30 seconds :)

My toon is force / telekinetic and works very well in pvp. The only downside to them is that off doesnt start at full shield when you respawn or enter a zone, making it near useless in short fights, and only just usable in pvp if you have field surge.

heres what i want

GREATER FORCE FIELD
20 Energy Initial Targets Allies
20 Energy per sec 20 foot sphere
0.83 activate (8 max) 15 sec recharge
Channel your energy into a large protective dome to protect you and your allies.
Creates a large dome which will absorb any damage done to allies within.
(up to a maximum of 10000 shared total damage)
(Amount absorbed scales with your Endurance)

Like an ego storm that protects allies?

That sounds awesome! Although that looks a bit beyond the tech of champions, im sure the devs could work magic like make it constantly refresh a protection field on allies within the attack.