<\/i><\/a>Watch Video<\/a><\/div>\nHello all! I know combat styles is really confusing mainly because of the way they focused on weapons in the description in the livestream. I hope this video explains it a lot better, all the info is directly from watching, re-watching and analyzing what was said in the livestream and the swtor.com post, without any wishful thinking involved LOL. Lots of sources included from the stream. I also made my own charts to better show the new options. Sorry there is no written version (I free-talked this one), but there is the automatic transcript – click the symbol of three little dots … to open it, under the video, it’s pretty decent. I have also included my transcript from the video below. We will be getting more info on MONDAY with the public test server.<\/em><\/p>\n hello everyone with the awesome A Sniper rifle on a Trooper? An Assault cannon on a Smuggler?!?! Introducing Combat Styles! Players can now separate their Class Story from gameplay style for an even greater customization…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18764,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-swtor"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nannouncement that we will be getting
\nupdate 7.0 a new expansion called Legacy of the Sith
\nin the holidays of 2021.
\nI wanted to explain to you all in depth
\nabout how the new
\ncombat style system works because it
\nseems to be something that is stumping a
\nlot of players
\nand it’s just absolutely insane new
\nsystem that’s being added to the game
\nand i’m
\nso excited to start exploring this so
\nhere is my very thorough breakdown
\nbased on what the developers of the game
\nsaid in the live stream
\nnow let’s get into combat styles an
\nannouncement that completely blindsided
\nthe entire star wars the old republic
\ncommunity and we’re just
\ncompletely abuzz about and asking a
\nmillion questions about
\nplayers thought it was pretty safe to
\nassume we’d probably get an expansion
\nwith the game’s 10th anniversary
\nwhat exactly we get in the expansion
\nwould probably get some new planets some
\nnew story new operation new flashpoint
\nit’s pretty standard we didn’t think the
\nentire way that we’d be able to choose
\nadvanced classes would change however
\nso here’s what the developers had to say
\nabout it introducing combat styles
\nplayers can now separate their class
\nstory from gameplay style for an even
\ngreater customization experience
\nthis frees up advanced class options as
\ncharacters can choose any advanced class
\nwithin the tech or force play style
\nplay as a trooper wielding a sniper
\nrifle or sit
\ninquisitor with a lightsaber in each
\nhand or even secretly
\nuse dark side powers while posing as a
\nmember of the Jedi order
\nloadouts will increase your ability to
\ncustomize allowing you to swap between
\nplay styles and gear with a click
\nthey used very similar phrasing when
\nthey are doing the developer live stream
\nannouncement and this made players go
\ncrazy
\nplayers have a huge imagination when it
\ncomes to their
\ncharacters and how they think they might
\nbe able to play the game and how they
\nrole play and imagine the game in their
\nhead
\nand although this is an extremely cool
\nannouncement i’m so excited to show you
\nhow it works
\ndon’t get too ahead of yourself make
\nsure you understand how it works before
\nyou get too excited because there’s some
\nreally cool stuff you can do
\nbut it may not mean exactly what you
\nthink and i really appreciate if you
\nhelp
\nshare and correct players to help temper
\ntheir expectations
\ni know it’s just such a wonderful thing
\nto imagine about the game
\nbut not everything being said about it
\nor guessed about it is true
\nwe’ll also be getting a public test
\nserver coming up very soon probably very
\nshortly after i release this video
\nand we’ll be able to actually test this
\nout in action
\nso first off how does star wars the old
\nrepublic work right
\nnow first you pick your class there is
\neight classes
\nto pick from my favorite is the trooper
\nthe class that you choose determines
\nwhich
\nstoryline you play so if i choose the
\ntrooper i’ll be able to play the trooper
\nstoryline
\nas part of the republic military if i
\nwanted to play the Sith inquisitor
\nstoryline
\ni had to play the Sith inquisitor once
\nyou choose the trooper
\nyou then must choose between two
\nadvanced class
\nin the past you got to wait till like
\nlevel 10 or so to choose
\nthese days you choose write a character
\ncreation making it very clear
\nwhich of the classes you’re going to
\nplay and then which advanced class
\nyou’re going to play
\nthe trooper can choose between the
\nvanguard which is what i usually play
\nwith my tank
\nor you can choose the commando which is
\nthe one with a really big assault gun
\ncombat styles is going to open up those
\noptions
\nsubstantially with combat styles
\nthis changes drastically this is a major
\nchange to the game and how you get to
\nchoose your class in advanced class
\nso before when you chose the trooper you
\ncould then choose the advanced class of
\neither the
\nvanguard or the commando you had to pick
\none
\nyou could not then change between them
\nnow with the new combat styles that are
\nbeing introduced in update
\n7.0 the next expansion legacy of the
\nSith
\nin holidays 2021 the trooper will be
\nable to choose from the vanguard
\nthe commando but also on the imperial
\nside
\nthe power tech and the mercenary as well
\nas
\nall the other tech users advanced
\nclasses the scoundrel
\nthe gunslinger the operative and the
\nsniper
\nany advance class that’s on the tech
\nside currently will be a combat style
\navailable to you
\nas a trooper
\nwhat that means now your your trooper
\ncould be a sniper
\nyour trooper could be a gunslinger so
\nthe idea is that you are still a trooper
\nyou are still a trooper in the storyline
\nyou will always be a trooper
\nbut you are no longer locked into just
\nthe trooper’s advanced classes
\nyou can instead choose from any of the
\ntech
\nadvanced classes at its heart what is
\nthis doing it’s separating your class
\nstory choice
\nfrom your game so you can become a
\ntrooper sniper
\na trooper scoundrel or if you really
\nlove your original advanced class you
\ncan just
\nstick with a trooper vanguard or
\ncommando i’m not judging you
\nif they stick with the phrasing that
\nthey use in the developer live stream
\nyou
\nshould also be able to switch
\nbetween these eight choices right here
\nso
\nmaybe if i’m a trooper right now i could
\nswitch between a commando and a vanguard
\nor i could switch between a scoundrel
\nand a sniper
\nand a commando loadouts now the name
\npretty much tells you what it is but
\nuh something we’ve been wanting to do
\nfor a very long time because you know
\nchanging all your gear around when
\nyou’re going between different
\ndisciplines or
\nthis is absolutely insane it’s just so
\nincredibly different and such a
\nreally big question of how difficult is
\nit to switch
\nand how much cost or is there a time
\nlimit between switches
\nthis we do not have any information
\nabout and have a feeling that won’t be
\nfully finalized until the actual
\nexpansion comes out as they’ll be
\ntesting and getting feedback on that
\nso as i’m sure you’re starting to think
\nit’s not just the trooper that’s going
\nto have this
\noption so the all the tech classes the
\nagent
\nthe trooper the smuggler and the bounty
\nhunter can
\nall go into specializing into
\nany of these eight different advanced
\nclasses which are now technically called
\ncombat styles so you can become a
\nsmuggler power tech
\nyou can become an imperial agent
\nvanguard you can become a bounty hunter
\ngunslinger
\nall the tech classes can play all the
\ndifferent tech
\nadvanced classes now so this is where
\nplayers imagination starts to go
\ncrazy and i wanted to clarify exactly
\nhow it works
\nbased on the wording that developers use
\nin
\nthe developer live stream so first off i
\nplay a vanguard
\ni use a blaster rifle that’s pretty much
\nthe only weapon that i can wield
\ni play a commando let’s say i’m a
\ncommando healer i use a big old assault
\ncannon and i use my green beam of love
\nto heal people
\nnow in this new system i can become
\na trooper gunslinger now imagine i’m
\nplaying on my character that was a
\ncommando a pure commando
\nwith its green beam of love and its
\nassault cannon players ask
\nokay if i choose the gunslinger with the
\nnew
\ncombat styles system does that mean
\ni can still be my commando healer but i
\nget to use
\ntwo weapons two blaster pistols like the
\ngunslinger and i can still shoot my
\ngreen beam of love with a whole like
\nmaybe
\na whole double beans of a green beam of
\nlove wouldn’t that be
\nso cool yes that would be so cool but
\nthat would require
\nhundreds and possibly up to thousands of
\nanimations added to the game because
\nyou’d need to add like a sniper rifle
\ngreen beam of love
\ndouble blasters green beam of love
\nsingle blaster green beam of love
\nblaster rifle green beam of love
\nand we already have the commando assault
\nweapon green beam of love so this is
\nnot how it works players then ask okay
\nif i’m gonna become
\ni was playing my commando before can i
\nbecome a trooper
\ngunslinger keep my giant assault weapon
\nbut use the abilities that the
\ngunslinger has like lots of all kinds of
\npew-pew stuff that the gunslinger can
\nuse the answer is no
\nyou must wield the weapon of the
\nadvanced class that you’re choosing
\nso no you cannot be a trooper a sniper
\nand have giant green beam of love coming
\nout of your sniper rifle either
\nyou can either be a trooper commando and
\nuse your assault cannon
\nthat is tied to the commando and the
\ncommandos abilities or
\nif you wanted to wield a sniper rifle
\nyou could become a sniper
\nwield a sniper rifle and use the
\nsniper’s abilities there is no
\ncross hatching there’s no special trees
\nwhere you can put two points in commando
\ntwo points is a sniper
\nyou can’t crossbreed the weapons or
\nanything like that
\nyou simply choose a new advanced class
\nbut keep your main class which is
\nmainly tied to your story i know you’re
\ngoing
\ncrazy and just thinking of all the
\nthings you can do with your Jedi on the
\nSith but before we go
\nso the tech classes are the imperial
\nagent
\nthe trooper the bounty hunter and the
\nsmuggler
\nand all of those four tech classes
\nwithout restrictions
\ncan become either a vanguard commando
\npowertech mercenary scoundrel
\ngunslinger operative or sniper when they
\nchoose one of those eight advanced
\nclasses
\nthey get the weapons as well as the
\nability set
\nof that advanced classes now called
\ncombat styles
\nnow let’s talk about force users they
\nare slightly different but work in a
\nvery
\nsimilar way so the force users in the
\ngame as i’m sure you’re kind of familiar
\nwith them right now they’re some of the
\nfavorites in the game
\nthere’s the Sith inquisitor the Sith
\nwarrior
\nthe Jedi Consular and the Jedi knight
\nthese four classes which will have their
\nstory tied to them so you can only do
\nthe Sith inquisitor story as a Sith
\ninquisitor
\nthese four classes can become one of the
\neight different advanced classes that
\nare normally tied to specific
\nforce users so for example a Jedi
\nConsular can become a Jedi Consular
\nguardian
\nsentinel sage shadow
\njuggernaut marauder sorcerer or
\nassassin and get the weapons and skill
\nset
\nassociated with that advanced class now
\nhere’s where it gets a bit trickier and
\nthis is fairly
\nstrongly focused in the lore of star
\nwars the old republic
\nplayers very strongly feel that light
\nside and dark side choices
\nshould matter and your character’s
\nalignment of light and dark should have
\na strong
\nimpact on the way you play as
\nparticularly as a as a force user
\nat the moment in the game when you make
\na dark side
\nor light side choice in the game this
\nwill have a huge impact on your story
\ndepending on what the actual choice you
\nmade
\nis it will sometimes even have
\nconsequences
\nway down the road some choices are minor
\ndo you send someone to jail or do you
\nlet them go
\nother choices can be huge like choosing
\nto even kill
\nor save your companion however when it
\ncomes to your character’s overall
\nalignment
\nyou get dark and light side points like
\ncandy they can rack up really fast due
\nto a new system called dark versus light
\nnot super important but your actual
\nalignment in-game
\napart from the choices you make within
\nthe story has very little consequence
\nthis is going to drastically change with
\nthis new update as well
\nwhich advanced classes you can use as a
\nforce user will now be heavily
\ntied to your alignment so let’s say you
\nare playing a
\nlight side character it doesn’t matter
\nif it’s a Jedi knight
\nor if you’re playing a light side Sith
\ninquisitor
\nyou will be tied to choosing advanced
\nclasses
\nthat are able to use light side powers
\nfor so for example if you’re playing a
\nJedi Consular and you make a brand new
\nJedi Consular they’re they’re neutral
\nyou haven’t even gained any dark side or
\nlight side points at this point
\nthey’ll be have to use the ones that are
\nthe default so the light side ones
\nif you are a light side Jedi Consular
\nno problem you can choose the guardian
\nsentinel stage or shadow
\nbut you will be locked out of the dark
\nside
\nadvanced classes like i said this does
\nnot matter
\nwhich faction you’re on so if you are a
\nSith inquisitor kind of
\nde-corrupting the empire from the inside
\nyou will
\nalso be stuck to using these light
\nside powers so the guardian the sentinel
\nthe sage
\nand the shadow if you are playing a very
\ntraditional Sith
\nsorcerer lightning type character
\nbut you’re actually playing them on the
\nlight side of the force
\nit sounds like you may have to use these
\nsages abilities
\nwhich are like telekinetic bursts
\ninstead of lightning
\nforce classes will have a dark light
\nrequirement so
\nyou can’t make a level one Jedi knight
\nand immediately be shooting force
\nlightning that wouldn’t really make
\nsense um
\nbut you can be a Jedi knight that shoots
\nforce lightning eventually
\neventually dark side choices through the
\nstory hopefully they’re going to clarify
\nsome of this stuff
\nas we go but they did talk a bit about
\nthis it doesn’t sound like you’ll be
\nable to be playing a
\nuh like a a light side Jedi knight and
\nbe using force
\nchoke and like slashing people with your
\nred lightsaber and your
\nmarauder moves it doesn’t sound like
\nit’s gonna work like that i’m wondering
\nif they might allow you to still use
\nyour original classes moves even if you
\ndon’t fit the alignment that they were
\noriginally aimed for
\ni feel like players might revolt if they
\ncan no longer be Sith sorcerer lightning
\nif they were for years and years
\neven though they were on the light side
\nof things so
\nsame thing if you’re on the dark side of
\nthe force regardless of your class
\nyou will be able to play the juggernaut
\nmarauder
\nsorcerer or assassin as your choices for
\nyour advanced class which are now going
\nto be known as combat styles
\nif you haven’t figured it out yet the
\nforce users and the tech users are going
\nto be completely separated
\nwhen it comes to which advanced classes
\nor combat styles that they can choose
\nfrom
\nso you cannot become a trooper sage or a
\ntrooper guardian or anything crazy like
\nthat
\nno your trooper can’t use the force at
\nleast not when it comes to advanced
\nclasses
\nand no your Jedi Consular cannot
\nsuddenly become
\na sniper another thing they touched on
\nis what happens when you make a brand
\nnew level one you are a neutral
\ncharacter and i assume that this will
\nalso apply to what if my character’s a
\nneutral character which ones can i
\nchoose
\nit sounds like you will get the default
\nchoice
\nfor your your class that your class
\nwould normally have so a Sith inquisitor
\ncould normally choose
\nthings on the dark side but over time
\nas you change your alignment maybe you
\nstart going towards the light side of
\nthe force
\neither as a brand new Jedi Consular or
\nas a
\nbrand new Sith inquisitor you start
\nmoving towards the light side of the
\nforce you can start using those
\nlight side options now here’s where
\nplayers i’ve seen
\nso many questions and imaginations about
\nthis okay okay
\ni’m a marauder i normally do wield two
\nlightsabers one in each hand i love the
\nmarauder i love murdering things
\ni love smashing the ground i love all
\nthe animations but i also
\nlove darth maul can i become
\na Sith marauder not change any of my
\nabilities or play style
\nbut start wielding a double-bladed
\nlightsaber and still smashing everything
\nwith it
\nno that’s not how it works if you will
\nhave to choose which is more important
\nto you weapons or play style this is
\nkind of a
\nchoice we’ve been making this whole time
\nyou know if you want to play the
\nmarauder play style
\nyou must choose the marauder advance
\nclass if you want a double bladed
\nlightsaber
\nyou must choose the assassin or i guess
\ntechnically you could choose the
\nJedi shadow you must choose an advanced
\nclass that wields a double-bladed
\nlightsaber so in this case you’d
\nprobably choose the assassin
\nbut then you’d be an assassin you
\nwouldn’t be a marauder you’d still be a
\nSith warrior you’d be a sit warrior
\nassassin which is pretty freaking cool
\nbut you’d be an assassin and you’d have
\nthe assassin abilities like hitting
\nthings from behind and being stealthy
\ninstead of smashing things wantonly with
\nyour lightsaber like a Sith marauder
\ni’ve also seen another misconception
\nthat it sounds like you can mix and
\nmatch all your abilities all these crazy
\nplay styles all together
\ncan i be a Sith assassin and also
\npick some abilities from my marauder
\ntree and also can i also throw some
\nsome Sith lightning in there too no you
\nhave to pick
\none one advanced class and the skill
\nsets that come with it
\nreally that’s the probably the simplest
\nway to understand it is expanding which
\nadvanced classes are now
\ncomment styles are available to which
\nstorylines
\nthe only thing that is changing is that
\nfor example the Sith inquisitor
\nis no longer tied to only the Sith
\nsorcerer
\nor the Sith assassin
\nand you should be able to choose between
\nthese uh
\nwhereas you couldn’t before once you
\npicked one you’re tied to it from level
\non for the rest of the game
\nthe way you play a two pistol trooper
\nyou know depending on if you pick
\ngunslinger or
\nuh or merc right um it’ll still play the
\nway those advanced classes roughly do
\ntoday
\nlike i said i’m incredibly excited about
\nthese changes
\nit may not be exactly what all players
\nwere looking for i know a bunch of you
\nare excited for them to go create
\nhundreds or thousands of new animations
\nfor every different weapon and every
\ndifferent
\nclass ability in the game but that would
\nbe a little ridiculous
\nthis however gives us a whole new style
\nplay that we didn’t have before
\nfor example right now the Sith warrior
\nhas literally no way to heal
\nat all if you play a Sith warrior you
\ncannot be a healer
\nthis changes completely you can now
\nbecome a bunch of different
\nstyles of healer all three depending on
\nyour alignment
\nsame with the smuggler the smuggler has
\nno way to tank right now but now they
\ncan choose between
\nbeing a vanguard tank while still being
\na smuggler
\nin addition to these huge changes we’ll
\nalso be getting something that benefits
\neven players who have no
\ninterest in changing their advanced
\nclass and it especially benefits players
\nwho do plan on switching around
\nloadouts now the name pretty much tells
\nyou what it is but
\nuh something we’ve been wanting to do
\nfor a very long time because you know
\nchanging all your gear around when
\nyou’re going between different
\ndisciplines or
\nyou know maybe let’s say you were going
\nbetween different combat styles even
\nuh you’ve got gear you’ve got abilities
\nyou’ve got a lot of things in your ui
\nthat you’ll want to move around quickly
\nloadouts will let you do that you can
\nyou know stamp a variety of things
\nto one preset click your gear your
\nabilities utilities even your outfitter
\nprofiles
\nso you can switch much more easily than
\nyou could
\ntoday very very excited about that as
\nwell
\nand this is called loadouts loadouts
\nwill be able to quickly save
\nand change and switch between your
\nsaved presets for your gear your
\nabilities
\nyour utilities and your they called it
\nsomething weird outfitter
\nsettings so i’m assuming that means like
\nyour your
\noutfit and maybe your maybe we’ll get
\nlucky and get weapons in the outfit
\ndesigner i don’t know we don’t have a
\nlot of details about this
\nbut it should allow you to quickly
\nchange without having to go
\nput all your abilities back in the right
\nspot have to re-choose all your
\nutilities and stuff like that and
\nre-re-choose your gear so even veteran
\nplayers should be looking forward to
\nthis loadout
\nchange especially i hope you enjoyed
\nthis really thorough breakdown of
\neverything i know
\nabout the combat styles as i said we’re
\ngoing to get it on the public test
\nserver coming up soon
\nand we’ll be able to find out a little
\nmore and actually see what it looks like<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"