{"id":9895,"date":"2020-08-14T10:51:32","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T14:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/?p=9895"},"modified":"2022-09-26T19:24:09","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T02:24:09","slug":"smuggler-gunslinger-sharpshooter-basics-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/smuggler-gunslinger-sharpshooter-basics-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharpshooter Gunslinger Basics Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Armed with the steely fortitude required to set up the perfect shot, the Sharpshooter is the Gunslinger at its most devious. Aiming from distant cover, the Sharpshooter goes for a devestating opening salvo, following up with vicious trick shots and penetrating rounds, putting a definitive end to the fight they started.<\/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\" src=\"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/icon-double-pistols.png\" \/>Weapon: Double Blaster Pistols<\/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>Sharpshooter for New Players<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/showcover.png\" \/> Sharpshooter has you <strong>take cover and not move<\/strong>. Cover makes Sharpshooter 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\/uploads\/2020\/08\/abl_sm_gs_penetrating_rounds.png\" \/> Sharpshooter 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\" \/> Sharpshooter is the <strong>simplest of the three Gunslinger disciplines<\/strong> &#8211; using a very basic move set, you can get away with using only 4 abilities if you aren&#8217;t worried about doing max damage.<\/li>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/abl_sm_gu_BurstVolley.png\" \/> I was originally intimidated by the number of abilities Sharpshooter 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<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armed with the steely fortitude required to set up the perfect shot, the Sharpshooter is the Gunslinger at its most devious. Aiming from distant cover, the Sharpshooter goes for a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":23281,"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-9895","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\/9895","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=9895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}