Thursday 9 February 2012

The SWTOR Sniper Guide

One of the advanced classes of the Imperial agent characters that you can play in Star Wars: The Old Republic is the SWTOR sniper. As the name suggests, these units use long rifles and recon to eliminate enemies. You would also think that because the SWTOR sniper is a Sith agent that they work best in legions of troops. In fact, the sniper is best for one-on-one confrontations and undertaking covert operations using stealth and cunning, which is in stark contrast to other Sith agents. We'll take a look at some of the abilities that the sniper has got to offer below.



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The SWTOR sniper has 3 skill trees and they are:

Marksmanship: This teaches the sniper to take down targets from long range and to strike enemies while in cover

Engineering: This allows the sniper's probes and droids to weaken enemy units

Lethality: This is a shared skill tree with the Operative advanced class and utilizes toxins and poisons to do damage to enemies over time

Some of the abilities that you can learn when you choose to specialize as the SWTOR sniper are:

Ambush: This ability deals a large amount of damage, but only when you're in cover

Portable cover: This ability deploys a shield when you have no cover

Leg shot: This skill immobilizes a target. If the target is damaged after 2 seconds, the stun effect will be neutralized

Entrench: This ability entrenches you into cover and you will become immune to any controlling effects. You must be in cover to use this ability and Entrench will end if you exit cover too early. This ability lasts 20 seconds

Cover Pulse: This skill detonates an emergency pulse that knocks back all nearby targets by a distance and stuns them for 5 seconds. If the target is damaged after 2 seconds, the stun effect will be neutralized

Takedown: This ability attempts to destroy a target at range and is only useable when the target is at or below 30% health

Probably the best 2 skills mentioned is Entrench, because it can allow you to use Ambush while you're invulnerable to being controlled and Cover Pulse, which is pretty useful when you're being outnumbered and need to escape somehow.

The SWTOR sniper can move fairly quickly, even though they wear heavy and durable armor. The best weapon to equip the sniper is a long range blaster and the best strategy to use is to eliminate enemies whilst in cover.

The sniper can also participate in orbital strikes and ambushes and also ranged DPS, which makes the SWTOR sniper a fairly dynamic character to play in PvP and PvE modes of play.

The SWTOR sniper is the specialist of the non-Force Imperial Agent class charged with taking down enemy units. Learn how to take down your opponents with this SWTOR guide here.

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