The upcoming SWTOR Expansion – ‘Onslaught’ – will introduce a many changes for each Class in the game. Players will among other things experience new abilities, Set Bonuses, and Tactical items.To help explain it all, The developers over at BioWare are releasing a series of articles featuring each Advanced Class’s new ability, as well as new Set Bonuses and Tactical items. They will also present various combat scenarios to show how these changes will mesh together just like in our previous article covering Operative and Scoundrel In today’s article they are showcasing the Sniper and Gunslinger Advanced Classes! Make sure to check out Bobergarms.com – Reviews of Holsters, Gun Safes, Rifles and more for some more interesting information Sniper Let’s take a look at the new ability for Snipers! Holo-Locate – Activating this ability marks your current location for 10 minutes. When this ability is activated again, if you are within 60 meters of the marked…
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A Day in the Life of Operatives and Scoundrels: The 6.0 Experience Explained
The upcoming SWTOR Expansion – ‘Onslaught’ – will introduce a many changes for each Class in the game. Players will among other things experience new abilities, Set Bonuses, and Tactical items.To help explain it all, The developers over at BioWare are releasing a series of articles featuring each Advanced Class’s new ability, as well as new Set Bonuses and Tactical items. They will also present various combat scenarios to show how these changes will mesh together just like in our previous article covering Powertechs and Vanguards In today’s article they are showcasing the Operative and Scoundrel Advanced Classes! Operative Let’s take a look at the new ability for Operatives! Tactical Overdrive – Resets the cooldown of Stim Boost, Recuperative Nanotech, Volatile Substance, Lethal Strike, and Shield Probe and increases your Mastery by 20% for 15 seconds. Alongside a new ability, Operatives will receive a bevy of Set Bonuses and Tactical items. Set Bonuses are…
SWTOR Class Changes: Medicine Operative / Sawbones Scoundrel
Below you will find the upcoming changes for Medicine and Sawbones coming in Game Update 5.5: Note: All changes below are currently in development and are subject to change before being released. Operative Kolto Infusion no longer applies a heal over time; instead, the initial heal now heals for 44.51% more Curative Agent now changes Kolto Infusion back to its heal over time version, and the rest of Curative Agent’s effects are unchanged Medicine Each tick of Recuperative Nanotech now heals for 12% less The critical chance bonus given to Diagnostic Scan by Prognosis: Critical is now 10% Accomplished Doctor no longer affects Surgical Probe, and the critical healing bonus it grants to Kolto Injection and Kolto Infusion is now 10%, while its other effect remains unchanged Medical Therapy no longer increases the healing done by periodic effects, but its other effects remain unchanged Durable Meds no longer increases the…
SWTOR Class Changes: Marksmanship Sniper / Sharpshooter Gunslinger
Below you will find the upcoming changes for Marksmanship and Sharpshooter in Game Update 5.5. Note: All changes below are currently in development and are subject to change before being released. Sniper Marksmanship Honed Shots now grants a 3% bonus to critical hit chance and damage done by Snipe per stack, down from 5% Gunslinger Sharpshooter Honed Shots now grants a 3% bonus to critical hit chance and damage done by Charged Burst per stack, down from 5% DevNotes: Marksmanship / Gunslinger Sharpshooter was slightly overperforming, so we reduced the critical hit chance and damage of Snipe / Charged Burst by a small amount through a passive, which brought the discipline in line with its DPS target.
STAR WARS: The Old Republic – Class Changes: Concealment Operative / Scrapper Scoundrel
Eric Musco just updated the community about the upcoming changes for Carnage and Combat coming in Game Update 5.4. Note: All changes below are currently in development and are subject to change before being released. Operative Concealment Acid Blade’s damage has been reduced by 27.78% Collateral Strike’s damage has been reduced by 27.68% Scoundrel Scrapper Flechette Round’s damage has been reduced by 27.78% Flying Fists’ damage has been reduced by 27.68% DevNotes: The Concealment / Scrapper discipline was dealing more DPS than intended, so we made a couple changes to shrink it down a bit. These changes allow the Concealment Operative / Scrapper Scoundrel to still deal decent burst damage while having their sustained damage output brought in line with the DPS target.
SWTOR Class Changes: Lethality Operative / Ruffian Scoundrel
Below are the upcoming changes for Lethality and Ruffian along with the notes from the SWTOR dev team on why they are occurring. Note: All changes below are currently in development and are subject to change before being released. Operative Lethality Corrosive Assault weapon damage has been increased by 13.97% but it no longer triggers Toxic Blast damage Corrosive Assault no longer deals additional damage per poison effect. Instead, Corrosive Assault weapon damage now triggers additional damage from your periodic poison effects Toxic Blast now costs 10 Energy and deals 14.29% more damage Scoundrel Ruffian Brutal Shots weapon damage has been increased by 13.97% but it no longer triggers Sanguinary Shot damage Brutal Shots no longer deals additional damage per bleed effect. Instead, Brutal Shots weapon damage now triggers additional damage from your periodic bleed effects Sanguinary Shot now costs 10 Energy and deals 14.29% more damage DevNotes: The Lethality…
SWTOR: Class Changes: Virulence Sniper/Dirty Fighting Gunslinger
Eric Musco from Bioware has posted a list of the planned changes for Virulence Sniper and Dirty Fightingr coming in Patch 5.3. Class Changes: Virulence Sniper/ Dirty Fighting Gunslinger | 06.23.2017, 07:11 PM Note: All changes below are currently in development and are subject to change before being released. Sniper Virulence Cull deals 25% less damage Weakening Blast deals 11% more damage, costs 5 energy, and is no longer triggered by weapon damage from Cull Increased Lethal Shot weapon damage by 13% and reduced its poison damage by 35% Toxic Surge deals 20% more damage In addition to its previous effects, Lethal Takedown now also reduces the energy cost of Takedown by 3 Gunslinger Dirty Fighting Wounding Shots deals 25% less damage Hemorrhaging Blast deals 11% more damage, costs 5 energy, and is no longer triggered by weapon damage from Wounding Shots Increased Dirty Blast weapon damage by 13% and…
Agent / Smuggler Class Changes in SWTOR KOTET
Here are the Class Changes in KOTET for the Agent / Smuggler Classes: Along with the 5 new levels coming in Eternal Throne, each of the Classes are receiving changes including new abilities, new utilities, and more. For this post, let’s talk about the Imperial Agent and Smuggler. This is just a sampling of the changes that are coming with Eternal Throne and are subject to change. Imperial Agent Operative Operatives will notice that some cunning new tricks have been added to their repertoire with Knights of the Eternal Throne. When used under the right circumstances, these new skills and abilities can certainly give the Operative a tactical advantage and make them a dangerous opponent on the battlefield. Here are some of those changes: Toxic Haze: New ability for all Operatives. Execute your Tactical Advantage to drop a canister at your feet which will do persistent AoE damage for 6 seconds. The…
Imperial Agent Class Story Summary
BioWare posted a Developer Blog yesterday named Hidden Enemies. What you are about to read is an excerpt from the official Star Wars™: The Old Republic™ Encyclopedia. It will describe an overview of all 3 Acts of the Imperial Agent Class story. Although we try to avoid them wherever possible, this excerpt will contain spoilers. Please read at your own risk… Prologue After excelling in initial training, a freshly-recruited Imperial Agent is dispatched to the planet Hutta to manipulate a powerful Hutt crime lord named Suudaa Nem’ro into supporting the Empire. Infiltrating Nem’ro’s organization, the agent carries out a series of operations against the Hutt’s top rival, Fa’athra, to earn his trust. The agent then slowly convinces Nem’ro that the Republic is damaging his interests. Despite a series of challenges from suspicious rivals and merciless enemies, the agent succeeds in persuading Nem’ro, winning his support for the Empire. On returning…
SWToR Community delivers once more; Sniper’s PVE guide!
It’s always great to see certain members of the SWToR community coming forward and sharing their knowledge of the game. The latest example is, SWToR forum member “DieGhostDie” who posted a very interesting PVE Marksmanship guide for the Imperial Sniper. He is currently part of the 8-man progression group in the Intrepid guild of the Harbinger server and he decided to share his experience and expertise with the rest of the community. Even though he admits the guide is work in progress, his work starts with the basics, and expands to key abilities and rotations among other things.
Updates on 2.10 Engineering Sniper / Saboteur Gunslinger Changes
Rob Hinkle have been active on the forums, updating players about Engineering Sniper and Saboteur Gunslinger Changes, comming in game update 2.10 Here is a consolidated list from the forums: Post #1 Focused Feedback Discussion: Engineering Sniper / Saboteur Gunslinger | 08.21.2014, 09:37 AM Hey Gang,Back from vacation and the first thing I see is a big mess I made before I left. I just wanted to hop in here really fast to make a comment on the Plasma Probe damage adjustment from testing versus the patch note. The short answer is: I screwed up the patch note and the 22% was from a previous iteration of changes that we were testing and decided we didn’t like. The values you guys are seeing on PTS is what our current target is, so let’s move forward with the discussion based on that number being the “real” number and talk about any further…
SWTOR Imperial Agent Operative Leveling Build
Imperial Agents in SWTOR can become one of two advanced classes at level 10, an Operative (DPS / Healing Class) or a Sniper (Ranged DPS). The Operative is a ranged DPS/Healing class with light armor. Operatives have three trees to choose talents from: Medicine (Healing tree), Concealment (DPS tree) and Lethality (a shared DPS tree shared with the Sniper Class). Below Is a new build from www.swtorsavior.com as well as some rotations that you can use while leveling. First off here is how you allocate the points for the build: 3/3 Lethality 2/2 Deadly Directive 2/2 Hit and Run 2/2 Slip Away 1/1 Lethal Injectors 2/2 Corrosive Microbes 2/2 Combat Stims 1/1 Corrosive Grenade 2/2 Cut Down 2/2 Escape Plan 1/1 Lethal Dose 2/2 Lethal Purpose 1/1 Cull 2/2 License To Kill 2/2 Counter Strike 3/3 Devouring Microbes 1/1 Toxic Regulators 1/1 Lingering Toxics 3/3 Fatality 1/1 Weakening Blast 3/3 Imperial Brew 2/2…
SWTOR Imperial Agent Sniper Leveling Build For 2.1
Here we are again with a build from www.swtorsavior.com and this time they have bought us an Imperial Agent Sniper build for leveling. The Imperial Agent Sniper is basically a pure DPS spec class and cunning will be your main stat that you should aim for on all your gear. However if you have just started the game and you are looking for a strong leveling build for the Sniper this should help you out! Also you will get the point allocation and the rotations that you need: Build 3/3 Marksmanship 2/2 Ballistic Dampers 2/2 Steady Shots 2/2 Precision Ambush 1/1 Heavy Shot 2/2 Zeroing Shots 2/2 Snapshot 1/1 Diversion 1/1 Snipers Nest 1/1 Sector Ranger 1/1 Rapid Fire 2/2 Between The Eyes 1/1 Followthrough 2/2 Recoil Control 2/2 Seek Cover 2/2 Pillbox Sniper 3/3 Imperial Assassin 2/2 Siege Bunker 1/1 Muzzle Fluting 1/1 Headshot 1/1 Portable Bunker 1/1 Sniper Volley 3/3 Gearhead…
Imperial Agent Class Changes in RotHC
Smugglers are not the only class that got some BioWare attention today. Just like the Smuggler class, BioWare Senior Designer, Austin Peckenpaugh breaks down all the Imperial Agent class changes that comes with Star Wars: The old republic – Rise of the Hutt Cartel. Check it out over at the official SWTOR Website, or check it out below: If you missed any of the other class updates posted this week, you can check the out here: Smuggler Class Changes in RotHC Imperial Agent Class Changes in RotHC Jedi Knight Class Changes in RotHC Sith Warrior Class Changes in RotHC Trooper Class Changes in RotHC Bounty Hunter Class Changes in RotHC Hello everyone. My name is Austin Peckenpaugh, and I’m a Senior Designer onStar Wars™: The Old Republic™, responsible for class design and combat systems. As such, I’m here to shed some light on the changes to the Imperial Agent class in…
SWTOR Imperial Agent Sniper 1.5 Leveling PVE Build
This post will give you a decent leveling build for the Agent in SWTOR and we are covering the Sniper advanced class. The build is optimized for patch 1.5 and we will give you step by step point allocation as well as some rotations that you can use while leveling. SWTOR Imperial Agent Sniper 1.5 Leveling PVE Build 10 – 11: Energy Tanks 2/2 12 – 14: Gearhead 3/3 15 – 17: Explosive Engineering 3/3 18 – 19: Engineer’s Tool Belt 2/2 20: Interrogation Probe 1/1 21 – 22: Efficient Engineering 2/2 23 – 24: Cluster Bombs 2/2 25: Imperial Methodology 1/1 26 – 27: Experimental Explosives 2/2 28 – 29: Calculated Pursuit 2/2 30: EMP Discharge 1/1 31 – 32: Energy Overrides 2/2 33 – 34: Augmented Shields 2/2 35 – 37: Electrified Railgun 3/3 38 – 39: Deployed Shields 2/2 40: Plasma Probe 1/1 41 – 43: Lethality…
SWTOR Level 50 Gear (Screenshots)
Not everyone got far enough into the beta testing/ game testing of SWTOR to be able to see level 50 gear. You may not have ever even seen a level 50, much less achieved the level cap for yourself. Here are some screenshots of the different classes with level 50 gear so you can see what it all looks like. The poster says: “High settings but with no AA forced on. Male human body type 2.Keep in mind this is just the gear available at vendors in the fleet, there’s still tons of other gear styles out there such as boss loot, quest rewards and crafting. So if you’re thinking oh man thats ugly, never fear, there shall be alternatives. Also: mod system!Apologies for no Republic stuff” So here you go! Have a look and let us know what you think. Bounty Hunter Sith Inquisitor Imperial Agent Sith Warrior…
Friday update – Choose Your Side: Imperial Agent vs. Jedi Consular
This Friday’s Update brings us a new Choose Your Side video featuring the Consular vs. the Agent, and a Pre-Order Announcement for Razer’s Old Republic Peripherals. The Agent vs. Consular video contains footage of the many abilities available to each class, along with testimonials from members of the Bioware team like Alexander Freed, and Jo Berry stating their cases on who’d win. Lisa already covered the Razer story yesterday, so I won’t get any more into that one, but enjoy the movie below: From the moment we announced the eight classes in Star Wars™: The Old Republic™, fans have been pitting them against each other, arguing who would have the advantage in a one-on-one fight. The hallways of BioWare echo this debate, with the writers, combat designers and other developers all chiming in on which class they feel reigns supreme. In the latest entry of our series “Choose Your Side,”…
TOR TV: Imperial Agent starting zone playthrough – Part 1
TotalBiscuit begins a playthrough of the Hutta Origin world, which is the starting zone for both the Bounty Hunter and Imperial Agent Sith classes
Friday Update: Imperial Agent Progression Video
It’s progression video time as the folks from Bioware give us a glimpse into the progression of an Imperial Agent. In this video we are being shown both the differences in equipment and abilities players can expect as they level up as one of the subtle hands of the Sith Empire’s will. As players grow in power, they can either take the route of the stealthy and aggressive Operative or the resourceful ranged Sniper. As you progress in Star Wars™: The Old Republic™, your character will gain experience, growing more powerful and discovering new skills while also acquiring more advanced gear. Through cunning, stealth, and ruthless tactics, the Imperial Agent has no shortage of ways to complete his objectives. Even so, as the complexity and importance of his missions increase, the Agent will have to acquire new skills and equipment to help him combat the ever-growing threat to the Empire….
Intergalactic Intel: Imperial Agent
Image by Tony Vassallo “Your article on the consular is on Reddit.” I turned to my brother with awe. I had posted the blog before; only to have it downvoted into oblivion. “What are they saying?” My curiosity had been grabbed. “They want the Imperial Agent.” “Didn’t I specifically say that was next week’s article?” Welcome back to this week’s Intergalactic Intel on the Imperial Agent. Before we begin I’d like to make a few disclaimers I didn’t put in last week’s article. As anjunaxbeats from reddit stated, “Take every review you read with a truck load of salt.” I’m only allowed to discuss the classes from 1-16, the classes will play very differently at max level and change from build to build. With that being said let’s get into it the Imperial Agent. Story: Intergalactic Intel: Imperial Agent Thus you use trickery, lies and a few well placed blaster rounds…
Tatooine Imperial Agent / Bounty Hunter video
Warning, lots of flaming incoming, This guy was complainin over at betacake that he couldn’t find any republic at 11am on a beta server, your discretion is advised.
SWTOR Unofficial Imperial Agent Trailer
EvadableMoxie from Reddit created his own Unofficial Imperial Agent Traile. I have to say that this is the most epic fan made SWTOR movie I have seen so far. My only complaint is occasionally it was hard to hear the voices over the music, but again, it’s not made by a pro. Check it out below:
SWTOR Sith sniper Tree
We got more Imperial argent goodies for you today. Not only we able to show you the Sith Assassin Tree earlier today, but thanks to AlterSwtor we now also got the Sniper tree. Once again the tree is presented via a video, but you can also click the images below the video and check it all out one by one – very image heavy though. Hope you enjoy! video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player
(Amateur) Statistical Analysis: Class/Faction Popularity by Amount of Discussion on Official Forums
Here is an interesting post we found on Reddit where an amateur statistic analysis is done based on class and faction popularity according to discussion from the official forums. A lot of people have been talking about who will play which side and which classes as well as how this will affect the balance of the game. Here are the highlights from his findings: OVERALL Republic classes are being discussed more than Sith classes. On average, the Jedi Knight is the most discussed class (though the Bounty Hunter technically has the most # of threads). The Imperial Agent is the least discussed class. AMONG REPUBLIC CLASSES: Jedi Knight is the most discussed. Smuggler is the least discussed. AMONG SITH CLASSES: Bounty Hunter is the most discussed. Imperial Agent is least discussed. Check it all out for yourself and let us know if you think he’s on the right track…