{"id":9431,"date":"2020-08-07T17:51:04","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T21:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/?p=9431"},"modified":"2022-09-26T19:24:33","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T02:24:33","slug":"imperial-agent-sniper-marksmanship-basics-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/imperial-agent-sniper-marksmanship-basics-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Marksmanship Sniper Basics Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One perfect shot has the potential to change everything, and no one is more precise than the marksmanship Sniper. From the safety of cover, the Marksmanship Sniper ambushes the enemy and follows up with an encore of penetrating blasts that make extra sure the Sniper\u2019s job is done.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6912\" src=\"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/icon-damage.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" \/>Role: Damage<\/li>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/icon-burst.png\" \/>Type: Burst Damage<\/li>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6996\" src=\"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/icon-sniper-rifle.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" \/> Weapon: Sniper Rifle<\/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>Marksmanship for New Players<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/showcover.png\" \/> Marksmanship requires that you <strong>take cover and not move<\/strong> for many of your abilities to work. Cover makes Marksmanship a <strong>very difficult<\/strong> class for newer gamers to learn, as many fights require moving around.<\/li>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-content\/themes\/blankslate\/icons\/abl_ag_sn_penetrating_blast.png\" \/>\u00a0Marksmanship is <strong>long range<\/strong> &#8211; if you can handle the cover mechanic, you can hit targets very, very far away compared to most classes which makes it easier to find targets to hit than short-range classes.<\/li>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/ambush.png\" \/> Marksmanship is the <strong>simplest of the three Sniper disciplines<\/strong> &#8211; using a very basic move set, you can get away with using only five abilities if you aren&#8217;t worried about doing max damage.<\/li>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-content\/themes\/blankslate\/icons\/abl_ag_sn_SniperVolley.png\" \/>\u00a0I was originally intimidated by the number of abilities Marksmanship had, but found it <strong>very easy and intuitive<\/strong> to play once I read a guide and it felt there was less to memorize than many other disciplines.<\/li>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-content\/themes\/blankslate\/icons\/followthrough.png\" \/> Once you know how to play Marksmanship, you <strong>don&#8217;t ever have to worry about running out of energy\u00a0<\/strong>which makes playing this class easier.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Cool Abilities<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-content\/themes\/blankslate\/icons\/snipe.png\" \/>Marksmanship focuses on <strong>long range Sniper Rifle attacks<\/strong>, taking advantage of a <strong>free attack available after every main attack,<\/strong> and taking advantage of their <strong>large number of buffs.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/entrench.png\" \/> <strong>Entrench,<\/strong> become immoveable<\/li>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-content\/themes\/blankslate\/icons\/disengagesniper.png\" \/> <strong>Covered Escape,<\/strong> roll and go into cover<\/li>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9372\" src=\"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/concussionmissiles-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"56\" height=\"56\" \/> <strong>Cover Pulse,<\/strong> knock everyone away form you while in cover<\/li>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-content\/themes\/blankslate\/icons\/ballisticshield.png\" \/>\u00a0<strong>Ballistic Shield,<\/strong> large group shield (optional)<\/li>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-content\/themes\/blankslate\/icons\/orbitalbombardment.png\" \/>\u00a0<strong>Orbital Strike,<\/strong> your ship attacks for you (optional)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One perfect shot has the potential to change everything, and no one is more precise than the marksmanship Sniper. From the safety of cover, the Marksmanship Sniper ambushes the enemy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":8125,"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-9431","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\/9431","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=9431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}