{"id":9901,"date":"2020-08-14T10:55:18","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T14:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/?p=9901"},"modified":"2022-12-01T12:59:27","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T20:59:27","slug":"bounty-hunter-mercenary-bodyguard-basics-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/bounty-hunter-mercenary-bodyguard-basics-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Bodyguard Mercenary Basics Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bodyguard Mercenary specializes in personal-security services, positioning themselves as the best protection credits can buy. A varied array of kolto dispersement instruments provide the Bodyguard\u2019s targets with protective shells and time-release infusions, offering safe haven in even the most hostile environments.<\/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-double-pistols.png\" \/>Weapon: 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>Bodyguard for New Players<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-content\/themes\/blankslate\/icons\/healingscan.png\" \/> Bodyguard is a <strong>healer<\/strong> discipline, 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\/themes\/blankslate\/icons\/rapidscan.png\" \/> Most 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\/themes\/blankslate\/icons\/abl_bh_me_progressive_scan.png\" \/> All three healer styles are <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\" src=\"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-content\/themes\/blankslate\/icons\/diagnosticscan.png\" \/>\u00a0 Bodyguard has an <strong>easy to use free heal <\/strong>and all the abilities are <strong>clickable right away<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-content\/themes\/blankslate\/icons\/armament3.png\" \/> But it can be <strong>harder to learn to keep your energy up<\/strong> compared to other healing disciplines<\/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\/2022\/04\/abl_bh_me_kolto_shot.png\" \/> Bodyguards are the <strong>most flexible<\/strong> type of healer, great for healing groups or single characters.<\/li>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-content\/themes\/blankslate\/icons\/koltodart.png\" \/> <strong>Kolto Shot,<\/strong> fun easy free heal<\/li>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-content\/themes\/blankslate\/icons\/sonicmissle.png\" \/> <strong>Kolto Missile,<\/strong> giant green healing splat on the ground<\/li>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-content\/themes\/blankslate\/icons\/abl_bh_responsive_obviation.png\" \/>\u00a0<strong>Responsive Safeguards<\/strong>, reflective super shield with a heal (optional)<\/li>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-content\/themes\/blankslate\/icons\/merc_rocket_out.png\" \/>\u00a0<strong>Rocket Out,<\/strong> jump backwards quickly<\/li>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-content\/themes\/blankslate\/icons\/jetBoost.png\" \/>\u00a0<strong>Jet Boost,<\/strong> push enemies back<\/li>\n<li><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/concussionmissiles.png\" \/>Concussive Missile,<\/strong> knock an enemy out of the fight<\/li>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-content\/themes\/blankslate\/icons\/deflection.png\" \/>\u00a0<strong>Hydraulic Overrides,<\/strong>\u00a0fast movement speed and immunity to knockbacks (optional)<\/li>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-content\/themes\/blankslate\/icons\/taserjolt.png\" \/>\u00a0<strong>Electrodart,<\/strong> short stun (optional)<\/li>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/probedroid.png\" \/> <strong>Stealth Scan,<\/strong> find hidden enemies (optional)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bodyguard Mercenary specializes in personal-security services, positioning themselves as the best protection credits can buy. A varied array of kolto dispersement instruments provide the Bodyguard\u2019s targets with protective shells&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":8174,"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-9901","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\/9901","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=9901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}