{"id":49567,"date":"2026-10-01T11:21:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T18:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/?p=49567"},"modified":"2026-10-01T11:21:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T18:21:15","slug":"new-8-0-level-85-abilities-on-pts-for-mercenary-commando","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/new-8-0-level-85-abilities-on-pts-for-mercenary-commando\/","title":{"rendered":"New 8.0 level 85 abilities on PTS for Mercenary  \/ Commando"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The public test server now has the new abilities and passives Mercenary \/ Commando, 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><a href=\"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/new-8-0-level-85-abilities-on-pts-for-sniper-gunslinger\/\">Sniper \/ Gunslinger<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/new-8-0-level-85-abilities-on-pts-for-guardian-juggernaut-and-operative\/\">Guardian\/Juggernaut<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/new-8-0-level-85-abilities-on-pts-for-guardian-juggernaut-and-operative\/\">Operative<\/a> \/ Scoundrel<\/li>\n<li>Mercenary \/ Commando<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forums.swtor.com\/topic\/945801-mercenary-and-commando-feedback-thread\/?do=getNewComment\">Feedback Thread<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"panel panel-info forums\"><div class=\"panel-body\">\n<p>Changelist as of 10\/1\/26<\/p>\n<p><u>Arsenal Mercenary\/Gunnery Commando<\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Level 83 Active Ability\n<ul>\n<li>Vent Heat+\/Recharge Cells+, 120s cd<\/li>\n<li>Your next ability generates no heat\/depletes no energy cells and vents 25 heat\/recharges 25 energy cells, and you vent 50 heat\/recharge 50 energy cells over 6 after using it. While venting heat\/recharging cells you benefit from the effect of High Velocity Supercharged Gas\/High Velocity Supercharged Cell.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Level 83 Passive Ability: Burning Shot\/Burning Bolt\n<ul>\n<li>Priming Shot\/Vortex Bolt causes its target to burn. Blazing Bolts\/Boltstorm, Heatseeker Missiles\/Demolition Round, and Tracer Missile\/Grav Round all tick its damage.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><u>Innovative Ordnance Mercenary\/Assault Specialist Commando<\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Level 83 Active Ability: Vent Heat+\/Recharge Cells+, 120s cd\n<ul>\n<li>Your next ability generates no heat\/depletes no energy cells and vents 25 heat\/recharges 25 energy cells, and you vent 50 heat\/recharge 50 energy cells over 6 after using it. While venting heat\/recharging cells you benefit from the effect of Supercharged Gas\/Supercharged Cell.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Level 83 Passive Ability: Energizer\n<ul>\n<li>The durations of Innovative Ordnance&#8217;s\/Assault Specialist&#8217;s Supercharged Gas\/Supercharged Cell and Supercharged Burn are doubled, and their effectiveness is improved.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><u>Bodyguard Mercenary\/Combat Medic Commando<\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Level 83 Active Ability: Vent Heat+\/Recharge Cells+, 120s cd\n<ul>\n<li>Your next ability generates no heat\/depletes no energy cells and vents 25 heat\/recharges 25 energy cells, and you vent 50 heat\/recharge 50 energy cells over 6 after using it. While venting heat\/recharging cells you benefit from the effect of Supercharged Kolto Gas\/Supercharged Kolto Cell.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Level 83 Passive Ability: Running Restoration\n<ul>\n<li>Healing Scan\/Advanced Medical Probe can be activated while moving and heals for an additional 15%.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><u>Virulence Sniper\/Dirty Fighting Gunslinger<\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Changed level 83 Active Ability: Viral Targeting+\/Blood Sights+\n<ul>\n<li>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 Toxins\/Smuggler&#8217;s Chems for 10 seconds, causing your poison\/bleed effects to automatically critically hit and deal 25% more damage.<\/li>\n<li>Changed from Grants Integrated Toxins\/Smuggler&#8217;s Chems for 10 seconds, causing your poison\/bleed effects to automatically critically hit and tick twice.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The public test server now has the new abilities and passives Mercenary \/ Commando, and for these Combat Styles available, with more to come in the future: Sentinel \/ Marauder&#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-49567","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\/49567","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=49567"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49576,"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49567\/revisions\/49576"}],"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=49567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}