As many of you may already have noticed, details on the second class have officially been released on the Old Republic website – the Trooper.
The Troopers are the elite of the Galactic Republic’s military, trained to fight side-by-side with the Jedi to one day take on the Sith; these guys aren’t to be messed with.
This is the first class officially announced for the Galactic Republic and it gives a really positive impression of the things to come from SWTOR.
One thing that I originally thought would make or break this game was going to be how Bioware dealt with the classes that cant use the force, and it seems they have done this by giving Troopers some interesting ranged abilities. Among these are the basic Rifle, a Grenade Launcher and most notably Sitcky bombs! (“Bet you can’t stick ‘em!”)
Whether these abilities are going to bring enough balance to a class that can’t shoot electricity out of their hands, or force-push you off a cliff is yet to be seen, but it’s positive so far.
Source: http://www.swtor.com/info/classes/trooper
Tags: class, galactic republic, trooper
It’s going to be very interesting when they start annoucing force user classes.
I’ve always though they might go the final fantasy route with advanced jobs.
For example, every character starts as a basic class, possibly bounty hunter and trooper. Then lets say you reach level 40 or something. you open up a quest which lets you do a force quest and depending on how you finish it, you become a Sith or a Jedi.
After becoming either of the 2, you still retain your old skills but open up a new skills window, which allows the training of Good / Bad force skills.