Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27029853-20161129155535/@comment-454133-20171220175417

Total health and the upgrade slots are not the full story. The Jumpmaster's incredible dial and the nasty stuff it could do with the astromech and torp slots also mattered a lot. All its stats combined into a monster. The Alpha-class Star Wing is an excellent ship and rightfully popular, but it's no pre-nerf Jumpmaster. Not by a long shot. Not by an order of magnitude. No ship is.

People misunderstand just how powerful the Jumpmaster was when they try to do a limited comparison, e.g. looking at hull amount and a couple of upgrades. It was more than the sum of its stats. A properly-built Jumpmaster or two or three were so far ahead of anything else on the table, it was amazing it took FFG so long to do this nerf. That said, considering how far they had to go to bring it back into line, I can see why they hesitated and playtested for so long, just to make sure.