Star Wars: The Old Republic

[Arakkis]

Originally Posted by Caliane

Imperial agent.
Covert sniper for Sith.
(Pretty much confirmed. A number of art assests, etc have been uncovered)

Jedi "caster"
And Sith "Caster"

Links.

[Caliane]

Originally Posted by Arakkis

Links.

Well, you would have to go through all the forum threads looking for the good posts. And I'm not going to.
But a quick look for.
most recent Time line vid.
"orcestrated by imperial agents" "just as deadly as their sith superiors"
Star Wars: The Old Republic | Timeline

Art asset for the next class forum icon:
http://www.swtor.com/sites/all/theme...s/forum_76.png
A hooded figure holding a sniper rifle.

Movie of course showed an Sith twil'lek that acted alot like a smuggler.

Evidence for the last 2 being another force class is there as well. But harder to find atm.

[machineman]

Originally Posted by Caliane

Imperial agent.
Covert sniper for Sith.
(Pretty much confirmed. A number of art assests, etc have been uncovered)

Jedi "caster"
And Sith "Caster"

Dude they are FAR from confirmed... any of those graphics (and there's only 1) are pure speculation on the community's part as to what it might be.

They see a little section of what MIGHT be a rifle, and automatically it's a Sith Sniper?

Come on man.

[machineman]

Originally Posted by Caliane

Evidence for the last 2 being another force class is there as well. But harder to find atm.

No, no there isn't evidence. It's hard to find because there is none to find.

[Zerai]

Originally Posted by machineman

Dude they are FAR from confirmed... any of those graphics (and there's only 1) are pure speculation on the community's part as to what it might be.

They see a little section of what MIGHT be a rifle, and automatically it's a Sith Sniper?

Come on man.

It's sorta obvious though. There currently is no balance to the smuggler on Sith. And while an HK could work in that role, I doubt they'd do it. Why? Think of character customization and potential for girls/casuals to play an HK vs a humanoid character. I know a ton of people here want to play an HK, but we're not talking about here, we're talking Bioware/EA will want to compete with the WoW market. I thought this was obvious to everyone?

As for the caster style force user, this is from KoTOR. Where you had Guardian, Sentinel and uh..what was the last one? Adept? Anyway, you had your caster, hybrid, melee. There will be probably the caster one here. The Hybrid wasn't really that differentiated enough to warrant a class. Maybe an expansion class.

I see HK as a companion.

[Caliane]

The preview vid had a fast and really blurry screen cap of a sample script, with dialogue between an npc and the possible res ponces from the player characters.
It was super blurry, but you could see all 8 class names. Actually reading the unknown was nearly impossible, but using deduction you could get a good idea.
Jedi clearly seemed to be listed twice. One of the names, was very close to Imperial agent. At the time, it couldn't be read clearly, it was just a long name, with a 5 letter word.
Sith warrior and jedi knight were clearly readable, prior to their announcement.
The other Jedi seemed to be Jedi Master. As odd of a term that would be. Could still be a working name, and they might name it something different for release.

If you don't want to put the pieces together, fine don't.

Droids are companions/pets. that's been expressly stated.

[spentmotiff]

Originally Posted by Caliane

The preview vid had a fast and really blurry screen cap of a sample script, with dialogue between an npc and the possible res ponces from the player characters.
It was super blurry, but you could see all 8 class names. Actually reading the unknown was nearly impossible, but using deduction you could get a good idea.
Jedi clearly seemed to be listed twice. One of the names, was very close to Imperial agent. At the time, it couldn't be read clearly, it was just a long name, with a 5 letter word.
Sith warrior and jedi knight were clearly readable, prior to their announcement.
The other Jedi seemed to be Jedi Master. As odd of a term that would be. Could still be a working name, and they might name it something different for release.

If you don't want to put the pieces together, fine don't.

Droids are companions/pets. that's been expressly stated.

They had better make Jedi/Sith classes that are healers or else they will have a problem with class balance. Between a choice of a Jedi Knight for a tank and a Doctor for a healer, I'm betting not that many people would go for the Doctor.

Personally, I'm hoping that the "healer" role will be something like the Warrior Priest in WAR, except using Jedi/Sith and "The force" as the mana that builds or some shit like that.

[Zerai]

Honestly I hope there is no "Healer" and they do something creative.

By that I don't mean no heals, but no one dedicated class for healing.

[Zaphid]

Originally Posted by Zerai

Honestly I hope there is no "Healer" and they do something creative.

By that I don't mean no heals, but no one dedicated class for healing.

This. The trinity should finally die and that will do more for differentiating it from wow gameplay-wise than anything else.

[spentmotiff]

Originally Posted by Zaphid

This. The trinity should finally die and that will do more for differentiating it from wow gameplay-wise than anything else.

One can hope.

Personally, I would just be happy if they made healing more combat-focused then the typical "Sit back, throw out heals, mana-up, repeat." Not that I'm against healing and usually play healing classes in MMOs, it just doesn't seem Star Wars-y to have a dedicated healing class.

I mean, I know they have to bang around the IP some to fit it into the MMO mold, but the only healing I remember was either replacing hacked off limbs with robotic parts or that gigantic tank that Luke was in after that Hoth monster attack.

Hm. Maybe that's what SWTOR will do for a healer: the healing class will be a gigantic walking tank of that stuff, kinda of like the Kool Aid man. "Oh yeah! Jump in my magic force water for some heals! Oh yeah!"

[chthonic-anemos]

Healing could be replaced easily with force casters styled after the controller & dominator classes from City of Heroes|Villains.

[Aesti_kun]

I forget the book (I, Jedi maybe?) but there was mention of specialized Jedi using force power's to heal. I think it was removing some crazy poison from Mon'Mothma, or something along that line.

[Gauss]

Originally Posted by Aesti_kun

I forget the book (I, Jedi maybe?) but there was mention of specialized Jedi using force power's to heal. I think it was removing some crazy poison from Mon'Mothma, or something along that line.

I think I actually read that book because I definitely remember that as well. Some guy poisoned a drink and somebody used their force powers to get the poison out drip by drip. Kind of fucked up that I remember that specific part of that book after not having bought one of those things in ~10 years.

[Palum]

Well, they could add healing but not make it retarded spam heal while tank takes spam damage thing. Keep the focus on the combat instead of the bars.

[Arakkis]

It's probably not going to happen, but I would love to see the Jedi 'healer' as more of a damage mitigation class. Buff the shit out of your party to prevent damage, and maybe have a HoT or something, along with some of the controlling chthonic-anemos mentioned. The Sith I can see being heal by leeching. Like a shadow priest on crank. Both would fit well with the lore, but would be mechanistically more difficult than casting the spell that summons green numbers over and over again.