{"id":9897,"date":"2020-08-14T10:52:42","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T14:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/?p=9897"},"modified":"2022-09-26T19:24:07","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T02:24:07","slug":"smuggler-gunslinger-saboteur-basics-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/smuggler-gunslinger-saboteur-basics-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Saboteur Gunslinger Basics Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the perks of being a Saboteur is access to all the latest tools of any trade \u2013 including the many high-tech charges and grenades in the Saboteur Gunslinger\u2019s arsenal. Able to wreak havoc on their intended target from a safe distance, the Saboteur is a craft, resourceful and incendiary master of mayhem.<\/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\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6916\" src=\"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/icon-dot.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" \/>Type: Damage Over Time<\/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>Saboteur for New Players<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/showcover.png\" \/> Saboteur has you <strong>take cover and not move<\/strong>. Cover makes Saboteur 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_extra_shrapnel.png\" \/> Saboteur\u00a0is <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\/themes\/blankslate\/icons\/chargedburst.png\" \/> When I was learning Saboteur, I found it was easy to learn the basics of, but harder to fully learn than the other two Gunslinger disciplines.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the perks of being a Saboteur is access to all the latest tools of any trade \u2013 including the many high-tech charges and grenades in the Saboteur Gunslinger\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":8078,"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-9897","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\/9897","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=9897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}