{"id":44480,"date":"2025-12-09T21:23:48","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T05:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/?p=44480"},"modified":"2026-01-02T21:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T05:24:09","slug":"update-7-8-class-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/update-7-8-class-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Update 7.8 Class Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Class Balance Changes<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mercenary\/Commando\n<ul>\n<li>All Disciplines\n<ul>\n<li>Hydraulic Overrides\/Hold the Line duration increased from 6s to 8s and movement speed increased from 30% to 40% and cooldown decreased to 40s.<\/li>\n<li>Chaff Flare\/Diversion now has a 35% AoE DR<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Arsenal\/Gunnery:\n<ul>\n<li>Heatseeking Missiles\/Demolition Round damage increased 5%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Powertech\/Vanguard\n<ul>\n<li>All Disciplines\n<ul>\n<li>Hydraulic Overrides\/Hold the Line cooldown increased from 35s to 40s and duration lowered from 10s to 8s.<\/li>\n<li>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%.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Sniper\/Gunslinger\n<ul>\n<li>Marksmanship\/Sharpshooter\n<ul>\n<li>Honed Shots now grants 4% crit chance and crit damage per stack<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Sorcerer\/Sage\n<ul>\n<li>Lightning\/Telekinetics\n<ul>\n<li>Halted Offense\/Power of the Force damage increased 7%<\/li>\n<li>Thundering Blast\/Turbulence damage increased 5%<\/li>\n<li>Lightning Flash\/Telekinetic Gust damage increased 10%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Madness\/Balance\n<ul>\n<li>Creeping Terror\/Sever Force damage increased 5%<\/li>\n<li>Force Leech\/Force Serenity damage increased 10%, lifesteal lowered from 40% to 35%<\/li>\n<li>Demolish\/Vanquish dot damage increased 10%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Juggernaut\/Guardian\n<ul>\n<li>All\n<ul>\n<li>Vicious Slash\/Slash non weapon damage increased by 3%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Marauder\/Sentinel\n<ul>\n<li>All\n<ul>\n<li>Vicious Slash\/Slash non weapon damage increased by 3%<\/li>\n<li>Dual Saber Throw\/Twin Saber Throw non weapon damage increased by 3%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Annihilation\/Watchman\n<ul>\n<li>Berserk\/Zen healing reduced from 1% max health to 0.75%, AoE effect range added to tooltip, range unchanged<\/li>\n<li>Tier One ability modifier Draining Center\/Melting Center now deals 3x initial damage up from 2x<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Carnage\/Combat:\n<ul>\n<li>Massacre\/Blade Rush damage increased 5%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Deception\/Infiltration:\n<ul>\n<li>Voltaic Slash\/Clairvoyant Strike damage increased 4%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Items<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tacticals\n<ul>\n<li>Cut to Pieces now has an internal cooldown between procs of 2s and reduces the cooldown of Vengeful Slam\/Vengeful Thrust by1.5s<\/li>\n<li>Neural Trigger no longer ignores Resolve in PvP<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Legendary Implants\n<ul>\n<li>Aggressive Treatment is now only useable by Medicine Operatives and Sawbones Scoundrels<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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