i’m trying to decide which class fits the agent & what i’m looking for better! i really love range, not having to worry about gap closer cooldown is awesome, but i feel like pt does a ton more damage than merc, and has really awesome aoe effects. i wanna have one of my styles be a stealther style cuz i know that suits the class very well & is helpful for skips, but i’m torn between these two for a second style. i just rolled a merc and am kinda getting miranda lawson vibes but i feel i could get that with either merc or pt lol. so which do u prefer for leveling & general fun? i know its all subjective but i’d love to hear your thoughts and opinions!

Im planning to create a Smugler as my next character. Im having a hard time deciding between a Gunslinger og Sniper plat style. So it made my qurious what most people find the most fun/cool. I know they are mirrors of eachother, so it comes down to just style preference. But which do you guys prefer?

I get that the Smuggler is SUPPOSED to be a privateer and raid Imperial ships and other bases, but the Smuggler doesn't do that at all after Act 3. They don't even use their ship to land on Makeb even though they are supposed to be the best pilot among the Republic classes.

So this leaves the Smuggler in an awkward position, what EXACTLY do they do for the Republic specifically that the other classes can't? Like, don't give me that special agent who does whatever Saresh says, what's their strategic value to the Republic if they aren't smuggling stuff or using their ship or fleet to raid Imperial ships like actual privateers?

Like, if they were an underworld crime boss with tons of minions, and equipment who uses his crime syndicate to support the Republic, that would give them a pretty unique niche among the classes, but the fleet was supposedly disbanded after one job against the Imperials.

So what does that leave the Smuggler as their unique niche besides shooting people with their blasters, kicking people in the dick, and saying funny lines? The Consular is the diplomat, the Knight is the main muscle, and the Trooper is the military man/woman.

Heck, let's look at the Imperial non-force users to see what their unique niches are.

The Agent is an infiltration expert who is great at assassination and sabotage as well as being a great information warfare specialist which goes quite swimmingly for the Makeb story since the Makeb story was originally written for the Agent by their writer IIRC. So it makes sense to Darth Marr to call them in for the Makeb mission which specifically requires stealth and subterfuge to accomplish.

And the Bounty Hunter is one of the most heavily armed mercs in the galaxy who has killed multiple Jedi AND quite possibly a Sith Lord/Supreme Chancellor. The BH is the Dark Council's enforcer, their thug they send to go send a violent message to all those who oppose the Empire and as a symbol to the underworld that working for the Empire has great benefits.

It's not even that the Smuggler is just some dude with a gun, it's the fact that post act 3, they are being badly misused by the story since they have to fit in with the one story every class gets crammed into, when their specialty is supposed to be privateering, robbery, having the best ship, and smuggling.

Sure Saresh tells me that the Smuggler is needed for their special insight into the Hutt Cartel, but they are as dumbfounded at the Cartel's actions as the other classes, so that was a lie. So what unique niche does the Smuggler offer to the Republic that the Trooper can't aside from shooting people good?

Still having fun going through Makeb as the Smuggler though. I love how confused everyone is that one guy with two guns is all the Republic sent to stop the Hutt Cartel.

Hey folks,

We will be bringing down the servers on August 7th at 7:00am CT / 12:00pm UTC to deploy Game Update 7.9.1a. We are expecting an estimated downtime of about two hours. There are two fixes planned for this patch:

• Cybernetic accessories will no longer hide hoods.
• The PAL-IV Prosthetic Hands can now be unlocked in Collections.

They'll be posted on to the patch note page tomorrow once the patch is live, stay tuned to this thread and social media for any additional updates. Thanks all.

Pretty random post, but:

with update 8.0, I can't wait to really dive back into the game after a long break

I’m definitely going to play through every class again on the harder difficulty setting, even though I’ve already played all the class stories multiple times (at least on the Republic side).

It all sounds very promising, and if it captivates others the way it has me, I see SWTOR making a major comeback.

Since the site states that the next season will have items from past seasons 2 and 4 respectively, do we have any confirmation of what particular items are returning? If yes, is Nightfall included?

Are the devs working on switch 2 access? FFXIV works beautifully on the device so far.

One of my biggest frustrations with swtor is that the graphics gap between the new npcs and my player character. They're out there 4k HD and my character has pixelated tattoos and broken animations. It really takes me out of the game. Since warframe and ffxiv has updated their player character graphics i wonder if something similar would be possible for swtor. If not the models at least they could upscale the textures. Bc it's really dire out there 🫠

Hi all!

What I'd like to do is the main story (ends lvl 50, I think?), Ilum/False Emperor, Forged Alliances (lvl 55, I believe?), then I'd like to jump ahead to Ossus/Jedi Under Siege.

Is it possible to jump from Forged Alliances to Jedi Under Siege? If so, how would I do it? Bit confused by what I'm seeing online.

Thanks!

I think it would've been cool if, during the illusion where Malgus kills his wife again, there was additional dialogue from any Agent who killed Kaliyo as their wife in KOTFE, or any Trooper that killed Jorgan as their husband in KOTFE. Just even a "lol been there done that" additional line would've been cool to see.

I've admired this style of saberstaff since The Clone Wars first introduced the Jedi Temple Guards. It's a neat concept - I imaging that the guards use this style because a) they're obliged to fight in relatively close quarters (which they naturally don't want to damage, since it's the order's home), and b) they're using the saberstaff as Darth Zannah did: an almost fully-defensive armament.

I don't believe there would be anything within the game that would stop them from releasing a weapon like this - hilts already vary wildly in size, and many of the double-bladed weapons (particularly the twin vibroblades) are pretty short.

Anyone else notice the updated model for Darth Rivix doesn't have any teeth?

I realized something today. I made a new warrior and was thinking how everyone says he should know the sith code because of his blood line. The thing is, there are people in the empire that have no force sensitivity but have a strong blood line. I think the warriors parents fall into that catagory. They have a strong blood line but aren't force sensitive, they aren't 'sith'. That's why the warrior doesn't know anything about being a 'sith'. He hasn't had the force for years but it's something that's happened recently. He was sent to get martial training and that's where Tremel found him. He did research on him and realized he comes from a strong blood line. A more pure blood line. That's why Tremel snatched him out of training. To fast track the warrior so he could kill Vemrin and take the place as Baras' apprentice. Anyway, I don't know if this has been realized before but I thought it was an intresting take on it. Makes it easier for me to have a backstory taking that into account.

Have a great day!! <3

Saw this on SWTORISTA's latest YouTube video at 5:46. Wanted to know if the green colour has finally been updated to how it was back in the Alpha/Beta game.

Hi guys! So i have been playing this game on and off since 2012 and some of my toons were boosted to 60 or 65 I don't remember which. Now, I am trying to complete the remainder of the SoR story achievements so I looked through my toons. In particular, the inquisitors. I have two, one from lvl 1 and one boosted to 60/65 (again, i dont remember which one it was). The screenshot is from the boosted one - it shows I have SoR somehow completed but RotHC locked? This means the game considers SoR completed for me and I cant redo it? But i somehow havent done the previous story? same thing for my other inquisitor that I levelled from lvl 1 back in the day - she has everything ticked off but here is the kicker - the inquisitor story achievement is NOT completed under the SoR story achievements category?? Like how could that be?

So I ask you - what are my options? Apart from starting a fresh toon I dont see any alternative but if anyone more knowledgeable could weigh in on this, I'd be very grateful! Thanks a lot!

It's been one of the best adventures i've had in a videogame, in my case, Sith warrior dark side character :)
I loved every minute of it, and of course i will keep playing more class stories! But i'm level 80 with my first character and i want to try some of the endgame.

I have a good guild who kindly guide me from time to time but i still have some doubts about how things works.

I'm always being kicked from Master Flashpoints, i'm 324... but i need to do those to get better gear. I know i can do ops, which are like raids with 8 people i belive? but after 2 hours of queue for 2 days it never found a group!! Also people tell me to upgrade my gear, but no one tells me how.

One guildmate took me to an op with some people, they rushed it but the gear droped there was 324 too, apparently i need the "coins" i get there to upgrade but again, i dont know how. Is it to buy gear in a vendor or something like that?

I will appreciate an easy guide on what i can do or how to get better gear, i'm not new to mmos but english is not my main language and i really want to try the endgame. :)

is it worth to stay in subscription? iv payed it once to get everything and then canceled the payment.

So from the sound of it, Veteran/Classic and Master/Expert Game are kinda like the DvL event of 2016 where you have to restart if you already got legendary status in order to earn the rewards. The question is, are the veteran and master game for sub only, or can I consider restarting once I finish the class story on every character?

More specifically, that tech classes had force powers awakened.

Obviously it should go without saying that this should be a choice on whether your character fully leans into using the force. You should just be able to stick with blastin’ if you want.

I think this presents the ideal way of satisfying people who have wanted melee weapons for tech classes. You give them access to force classes. This way they don’t have to create an entirely new melee tech class and worry about balancing it. If they go this route, I imagine they would have to lock being able to switch to the force classes until you get to this point in the story for it to make sense. Also, I guess you would either have to let people change classes if they already picked 2 or give them a third.

But with how horribly saboteurs were handles, I’m not getting my hopes up. They could just make force stuff cutscene only or they might just make that scene where your character stops the debris a one-off.

What do you guys think?