{"id":5979,"date":"2020-04-04T22:19:55","date_gmt":"2020-04-05T02:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/?p=5979"},"modified":"2023-08-14T10:37:32","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T17:37:32","slug":"smuggler-scoundrel-sawbones-basics-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/smuggler-scoundrel-sawbones-basics-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Sawbones Scoundrel Basics Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As an Underworld figure armored with the latest advances in medical technology, the Sawbones Scoundrel is a crucial ally. From healing a single target to many at once, distributing emergency medpacs and clouds of healing kolto, the Sawbones ensures that their crew will endure throughout the heat of battle.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/icon-healer.png\" \/>Role: Healer<\/li>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/icon-single-pistol.png\" \/> Weapon: Blaster Pistol<\/li>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/icon-long-range.png\" \/>Distance: Long Range<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Sawbones for New Players<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/underworldmedicine.png\" \/> Sawbones is a <strong>healer<\/strong>\u00a0style, which makes it harder to learn than a damage class for most new players<\/li>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/blackmarketstimpak.png\" \/>\u00a0Most players recommend to level as a damage discipline, then <strong>switch to healer<\/strong>\u00a0when you are ready for group content<\/li>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/koltoinfusion.png\" \/> All three healer styles are\u00a0<strong>not too hard<\/strong>\u00a0to start healing with, just select a player and heal with a green ability<\/li>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20313\" src=\"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/overcome.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"56\" height=\"56\" \/> However Scoundrel Heals has a second resource to manage called <strong>Upper Hand,<\/strong> which makes it slightly trickier to start with<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Cool Abilities<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/uti_imp_rep_crit_chance_raid_buff.png\" \/> <strong>Sawbones<\/strong> focuses heavily on <strong>healing-over-time<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong> Sawbones excel at <strong>group healing.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/abl_sm_sc_kolto_waves.png\" \/> <strong>Kolto Waves,<\/strong> large group heal<\/li>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/slowreleasestimpak.png\" \/>\u00a0<strong>Slow-release Medpack,<\/strong> heals your target over time and can be used on any number of targets<\/li>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/recuperativenanotech.png\" \/>\u00a0<strong>Kolto Cloud,<\/strong> heals your target and additional targets nearby<\/li>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/stealth.png\" \/> <strong>Stealth,<\/strong> to sneak past enemies, the only healer with stealth available<\/li>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/abl_sm_sc_Smuggle.png\" \/> <strong>Smuggle,<\/strong> group stealth (optional)<\/li>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20312\" src=\"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/dirtyKick.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"56\" height=\"56\" \/> <strong>Dirty Kick,<\/strong> short stun (optional)<\/li>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/newrollscoundrel.png\" \/> <strong>Scamper,<\/strong> roll forwards quickly<\/li>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/scound_trick_move.png\" \/> <strong>Trick Move,<\/strong> jump to an enemy (optional)<\/li>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/flashGrenade.png\" \/> <strong>Flash Grenade,<\/strong> group stun\/distraction (optional)<\/li>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/surrender.png\" \/> <strong>Surrender,<\/strong> drop all your money and lose enemies&#8217; attention<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As an Underworld figure armored with the latest advances in medical technology, the Sawbones Scoundrel is a crucial ally. From healing a single target to many at once, distributing emergency&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":8086,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"post-about-discipline-2.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,65,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-class-guides","category-featured","category-swtor"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5979","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}