{"id":48457,"date":"2026-08-10T20:49:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T03:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/?p=48457"},"modified":"2026-08-10T20:49:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T03:49:26","slug":"new-8-0-level-85-abilities-on-pts-for-sniper-gunslinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/new-8-0-level-85-abilities-on-pts-for-sniper-gunslinger\/","title":{"rendered":"New 8.0 level 85 abilities on PTS for Sniper\/Gunslinger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The public test server now has the new abilities and passives Sniper\/Gunslinger, and for these Combat Styles available, with more to come in the future:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/new-8-0-level-85-abilities-on-pts-for-marauder-sentinel-sorcerer-sage-and-powertech-vanguard\/\">Sentinel \/ Marauder<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/new-8-0-level-85-abilities-on-pts-for-marauder-sentinel-sorcerer-sage-and-powertech-vanguard\/\">Vanguard \/ Powertech<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/new-8-0-level-85-abilities-on-pts-for-marauder-sentinel-sorcerer-sage-and-powertech-vanguard\/\">Sage \/ Sorcerer<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Sniper \/ Gunslinger<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forums.swtor.com\/topic\/945133-new-abilitiespassives-feedback-thread\/\">Feedback Thread<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In general, all disciplines will get:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Each Discipline will earn a new ability and passive<\/li>\n<li>New abilities are earned at level 83<\/li>\n<li>New ability will be an upgraded replacement to an existing ability<\/li>\n<li>Upgraded ability will be a shared Combat Style ability<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Sniper\/Gunslinger<\/h2>\n<h3>Engineering\/Saboteur<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>New Level 83 Active: Targeting Systems+\/Target Hack+<br \/>\nIncreases the critical hit chance of your next Explosive Probe\/Explosive Charge by 100% which then summons another Explosive Probe\/Explosive Charge at half strength upon exploding. When Targeting Systems\/Target Hack is utilized it applies Systems Upgrade\/Sequence Break to you for 20 seconds, increasing the damage done by your combat probes\/charges and Incendiary Grenade by 10%.<\/li>\n<li>New Level 83 Passive: Ruthless Interrogation\/Repeated ShocksSeries of Shots\/Speed Shot refreshes Interrogation Probe\/Shock Charge and ticks its damage every time it hits. Electrified Railgun\/Blazing Speed deals 75% more damage.\n<ul>\n<li>Ruthless Interrogation tactical disabled<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/swtorfiles.jedipedia.net\/icons\/56-7-1-1\/tac_ag_op_veiled_strike.png\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Marksmanship\/Sharpshooter<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>New Level 83 Active: Laze Target+\/Smuggler&#8217;s Luck+Increases the critical hit chance of your next Ambush\/Aimed Shot and Followthrough\/Trickshot by 100%. The ability has two charges.<\/li>\n<li>New Level 83 Passive: Corrosive Followthrough\/Vital TrickshotCorrosive Dart\/Vital Shot deals more damage and dealing damage with Followthrough\/Trickshot and Penetrating Blast\/Penetrating Rounds refreshes its bleed effect on its target and ticks its damage.\n<ul>\n<li>Corrosive Followthrough tactical disabled [Typo? Maybe Agitating Energies Tactical?]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/tac_ag_sn_Cull.png\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Virulence\/Dirty Fighting<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>New Level 83 Active: Viral Targeting+\/Blood Sights+Increases the critical hit chance of your next Cull\/Wounding Shots or Takedown\/Quickdraw by 100%. When Viral Targeting\/Blood Sights is utilized it grants Integrated\n<p>Toxins\/Smuggler&#8217;s Chems for 10 seconds, causing your poison\/bleed effects to automatically critically hit and tick twice.<\/li>\n<li>New Level 83 Passive: Exploited Weakness\/Major HemorrhagingWeakening Blast\/Hemorrhaging Blast deals 50% more damage. Dealing damage with Lethal Shot\/Dirty Blast causes the target to take X poison\/bleed damage over Y seconds.\n<ul>\n<li>Exploited Weakness tactical disabled<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/cullingshotstac_agent.png\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The public test server now has the new abilities and passives Sniper\/Gunslinger, and for these Combat Styles available, with more to come in the future: Sentinel \/ Marauder Vanguard \/&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30437,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-update-8-0"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48457","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=48457"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48461,"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48457\/revisions\/48461"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}