{"id":49371,"date":"2026-09-15T22:36:36","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T05:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/?p=49371"},"modified":"2026-09-15T22:36:36","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T05:36:36","slug":"swtor-smuggler-classic-venture-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/swtor-smuggler-classic-venture-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"SWTOR Smuggler Classic Venture Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Smuggler Classic Venture in Star Wars: The Old Republic is a fun, challenging, long-term way of playing the game and exploring all its facets while levelling up a brand new Smuggler from level 1 on Ord Mantell, all the way up to level 50 on Ilum. You’ll be expected to fight, explore, gear up, and hunt down unique foes, all while taking extra damage during fights and levelling up at a pace that’s more in line with levelling up at the launch of the game. This mode also introduces a bunch of new special items you’ll pick up off of glowing golden enemies that will give you special boosts or temporary challenges as you play in Classic mode, and of course has unique rewards just for the Imperial Agent.<\/p>\n

All of this information is from the Public Test Server. There is a good chance much of it may change before the Classic Ventures system is released in 8.0 which the developers are aiming to release at the end of 2026! Many of the screenshots are also from the unfinished Public Test Server – you can see many unfinished graphics, labels, and objectives there. My favorite is the pie image placeholders.<\/em><\/p>\n

How to Start<\/h2>\n

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To start a new Classic Venture, choose Classic<\/strong> when you go to create a character (rather than the Full Campaign, which is what you would pick for a normal new character.)<\/p>\n

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Ventures are only available to subscribers,<\/strong> and that includes the Smuggler Classic Venture. Free-to-play players will not be able to start venture characters, and preferred players will not be able to continue playing any venture characters they have made until they re-subscribe.<\/p>\n

Choose a Combat Style<\/h2>\n

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When you go to create a Classic Venture Imperial Agent, you will notice that you only have two options for your Combat Style – the Scoundrel<\/strong> or the Gunslinger.<\/strong> In the normal game, you have a lot more options, but these were the two options available at the launch of the game, and during a Classic Venture, you’ll only be able to pick between these two styles. This means you can not play a Smuggler as an Operative, Sniper, Vanguard, Commando, Mercenary or Powertech while playing a classic venture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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