Update 7.8 Class Changes

Class Balance Changes

• Mercenary/Commando
  • All Disciplines
    • Hydraulic Overrides/Hold the Line duration increased from 6s to 8s and movement speed increased from 30% to 40% and cooldown decreased to 40s.
    • Chaff Flare/Diversion now has a 35% AoE DR
  • Arsenal/Gunnery:
    • Heatseeking Missiles/Demolition Round damage increased 5%
• Powertech/Vanguard
  • All Disciplines
    • Hydraulic Overrides/Hold the Line cooldown increased from 35s to 40s and duration lowered from 10s to 8s.
    • Advanced Terminator Droid/Suppression Droid cooldown increased from 20s to 45s, Range decreased from 30m to 10m, AoE size decreased from 6m to 5m. Accuracy Debuff lowered from 20% to 10%.
• Sniper/Gunslinger
  • Marksmanship/Sharpshooter
    • Honed Shots now grants 4% crit chance and crit damage per stack
• Sorcerer/Sage
  • Lightning/Telekinetics
    • Halted Offense/Power of the Force damage increased 7%
    • Thundering Blast/Turbulence damage increased 5%
    • Lightning Flash/Telekinetic Gust damage increased 10%
  • Madness/Balance
    • Creeping Terror/Sever Force damage increased 5%
    • Force Leech/Force Serenity damage increased 10%, lifesteal lowered from 40% to 35%
    • Demolish/Vanquish dot damage increased 10%
• Juggernaut/Guardian
  • All
    • Vicious Slash/Slash non weapon damage increased by 3%
• Marauder/Sentinel
  • All
    • Vicious Slash/Slash non weapon damage increased by 3%
    • Dual Saber Throw/Twin Saber Throw non weapon damage increased by 3%
  • Annihilation/Watchman
    • Berserk/Zen healing reduced from 1% max health to 0.75%, AoE effect range added to tooltip, range unchanged
    • Tier One ability modifier Draining Center/Melting Center now deals 3x initial damage up from 2x
  • Carnage/Combat:
    • Massacre/Blade Rush damage increased 5%
  • Deception/Infiltration:
    • Voltaic Slash/Clairvoyant Strike damage increased 4%

Items

• Tacticals
  • Cut to Pieces now has an internal cooldown between procs of 2s and reduces the cooldown of Vengeful Slam/Vengeful Thrust by1.5s
  • Neural Trigger no longer ignores Resolve in PvP
• Legendary Implants
  • Aggressive Treatment is now only useable by Medicine Operatives and Sawbones Scoundrels