Agent Class Info

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This info is shamelessly stolen via Tex's great find in the Star Wars  The Old Replublic Forum, original post and kudos goes to  TheShadowedTruth:

General

• Holonet Page
  
• Starting Location: Hutta
  
• Combat Type: Ranged
• Combat Mechanic: Energy
• Utilizes the Cover System
• Utilizes the Stealth Mechanic (Operative Only)

Weapons

• Sniper Rifles
  
• Energy Knife (changed from vibroblade via the statement by Georg Zoeller. Reposted here.)
  
• Gadgets

Armor

• High Grade Armor Mesh

Concept Art 1 (Trenchcoat Style)
 Concept Art 2 (Traditional Hooded Rogue Style)
 Concept Art 3 (Hi-tech Armor Style)
 Concept Art Board
 Concept Art Board 2
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Advance Classes Holonet


 Operative
ʉۢBlaster Rifle / Energy Blade
ʉۢStealth
 Roles: Close to Mid Range Damage Dealing and/or Healing.
Concealment
 The classic rogue tree; stealth and daggers. Get close without being seen, then stay there until your target is dead.
Example Abilities:
 Waylay
 Passive
 Backstab no longer has an energy cost.

 Slice
 Passive
 Sever Tendon has a 100% chance to root targets for 2 seconds.
Medic
 Heals allies with probes and bacta syringe guns while hiding on the edges of battle.
Example Abilities:
 Advanced Toxin Removal
 Passive
 Toxin Scan now removes mental debuffs, and heals for a small amount.

 Reactive Healing
 Passive
 Critical direct heals now refund 2% energy.

 Kolto Probe PCGamer
 UNKNOWN
 Sends healing droid to target and stacks up to three times.

"The Operative has received a number of updates aimed at providing an  alternative, less cover dependent gameplay option if skilled  accordingly. Operatives are now more viable in mid and close range  combat, using their stealth field generator to approach the enemy unseen  before delivering heavy burst damage with their energy blade." -Dev Blog

 Sniper
ʉۢSniper Rifle
ʉۢCover, Ambush, Orbital Strikes
 NOTE: At this time, does not get stealth.
 Role: Mid to Long Range Damage Dealing
Marksmanship
 Marksmanship is the sniper tree: entrench yourself in cover and take out your enemies from a safe distance.
Example Abilities:
 Reactive Shots
 Passive
 Series of Shots and Snipe critical hits have a 100% chance to make your next Ambush instant.

 Cover Screen
 Passive
 100% chance to recieve a brief defensive bonus whenever you leave cover.

 Snap Shot PCGamer
 Passive (Assumed)
 Rolling into cover makes your next snipe instant cast.
Engineering
 Don't get your hands dirty; sit back and let little robots fight for you. This one's all about controlling pet probes.
Example Abilities:
 Cluster Bombs
 Passive
 After Explosive Probe is detonated, it drops an additional 3 cluster  bombs on the target. When the target takes ranged damage, one cluster  bomb explodes.

 Sharp Burst
 Passive
 When you hit a target affected by Interrogation Probe with Takedown,  there is a 100% chance a shrapnel burst occurs dealing damage to enemies  within 8 meters of the target.

 Detonate probes PCGamer
 UNKNOWN
 Blows up all probes.
"The Sniper’s entire skill tree has been reworked to include PvP  feedback from internal and external tests. The Sniper is now able to  entrench himself, providing a viable initial counter against attacks  that would previously knock him out of cover. The Sniper also gained  Cover Pulse, a player triggered pulse mine that can knock an  unsuspecting attacker away from the Sniper." -Dev Blog

 Shared
Lethality
 Add deadly venoms to your melee and blaster attacks, and exploit poisoned targets to further weaken them.
Example Abilities:
 Improvise
 Passive
 Critical Poison damage has a 50% to cause your next Snipe to be usable  out of cover. The cost of your next Snipe is also reduced by 100%.

 Corrosive Rounds
 Passive
 Weakening Blast has a 100% to refresh active Poison effects on the target when the target is below 30% health.

 Seeker ProbesPCGamer
 UNKNOWN
 Sends out probes to target, poisoning everyone around them.
Races
 Confirmed thus far.

• Human
• Chiss Holonet
  

[KKND]

                         Abilities (Gamescom 2010 Build as reported By Darth Hater.) (Information from SWTOR-STATION on 8/23/10.) (Additional PAX Prime 2010 info from Darth Hater used to confirm ranks, levels and costs versus SWTOR-STATION on 9/9/10.)
 I would like to point out that these can/will change in the coming  months. The information gathered in this section is denoted as being  from the build of a certain event. It also here to give you an idea  about some of the abilities of the Imperial Agent.

 Out of Cover Abilities

 Rifle Shot
 Level: 1
 Credits: Starting Skill
 Cast Time: Instant
 Range: 30m
 Details: Fire two quick shots causing medium damage.

 Take Cover
 Level: 1
 Credits: Starting Skill
 Cast Time: Instant
 Details: Evasion increases against targets in your cone of cover while taking cover.

 Shiv (Rank 1)
 Level: 1
 Credits: Starting Skill
 Energy: 40
 Cast Time: Instant
 Range: 4m
 Details: Stab the target with your energy blade for moderate damage, and light damage over 3 seconds.

 Shiv (Rank 2)
 Level: 8
 Credits 220
 Energy: 40
 Cast Time: Instant
 Range: 4m
 Details: Stab the target with your energy blade for moderate damage, and light damage over 3 seconds.

 Shiv (Rank 5) DH
 Level: UNKNOWN
 Credits UNKNOWN
 Energy: 15
 Cast Time: Instant
 Cooldown: 6 seconds
 Range: 4m
 Details: Stab the target for 422 kinetic damage.

 Recuperate
 Level:1
 Credits: Starting Skill
 Cast Time: Channeled 15 seconds
 Cooldown: 1 minute
 Details: Catch your breaht, recovering your Health and Energy over 15 seconds. This is only usable out of combat.
 - I believe the following is Recuperate (Note: SPECULATION)Screenshot
 -It also appears in the Flash play of the Imperial Agent Holonet

 Show Cover Locations
 Level:1
 Credits: Starting Passive Skill
 Cast Time: Passive/Instant
 Details: Ability that allows you to toggle the option to view Cover Positions.


 In Cover Abilities

 Rifle Shot (same as out of cover)
 Level: 1
 Credits: Starting Skill
 Cast Time: Instant
 Range: 30m
 Details: Fire two quick shots causing medium damage.

 Snipe
 Level: 1
 Credits: Starting Skill
 Energy: 15/50
 Range: 30m
 Cast Time: Channeled 1 second
 Details: Rifle shot that deals high damage. Only usable in cover.
 Sniper (Rank 5) DH
 Level: UNKOWN
 Credits: UNKNOWN
 Energy: 20
 Cast Time: 1.5 seconds
 Cooldown: 6 seconds
 Range: 35m (I believe that is, if spec'd Sniper).
 Details: Shoots a target for 567 weapon damage. Can only be used from cover.

 Coordination
 Level: 1
 Credits: Starting Skill
 Energy: UNKOWN
 Range: UNKOWN
 Cast Time: UNKOWN
 Details: Single target buff that can be cast on yourself and party  members that increases the likelihood of landing a critical hit.

 Overload Shot
 Usable In and Out of Cover
 Level: 1
 Credits: Starting Skill
 Energy: UNKOWN
 Range: UNKOWN
 Cast Time: UNKOWN
 Details: UNKOWN

 Explosive Probe TOROZ
 Level: 6
 Credits: 160
 Energy: 20
 Cast Time: Instant
 Cooldown: 30s
 Range: 5-30m
 Details: Deploy an explosive probe that travels to the primary target.  The probe will arm after 3 seconds. Once armed the probe will  automatically explode soon after the target takes damage. The explosion  causes moderate damage in a 5m radius to up to 5 targets. The effect  expires after 20 seconds. The explosive probe can only be used from  cover.

 Unspecified Abilities

 Flashbang (Rank 1)
 Level: 2-6
 Credits: 660
 Energy: 20
 Cast Time: Instant
 Cooldown: 1 minute
 Range: 5m
 Details: Detonates a Flash Bang at your current position, blinding all  enemies with 5 meters for 8 seconds. Blindness ends prematurely if an  affected target is damaged. Affects a maximum of 6 targets.

 Toxic Dart (Rank 1)
 Level: 6
 Credits: 160
 Energy: 25
 Cast Time: Instant
 Range: 30m
 Details: Fire a toxic dart out of your bracer at the target causing  damage over 5 sec. At the end of the effect, the target takes extra  damage.

 Toxic Dart (Rank 4) DH
 Level: UNKNOWN
 Credits: UNKNOWN
 Energy: 15
 Cast Time: Instant
 Range: 30m
 Details: Fire a toxic dart out of your bracer at the target causing  1080-1378 internal damage over 15 sec. At the end of the effect, the  target takes extra damage.

 Suppressing Fire
 Level: 2-6
 Credits: UNKOWN
 Energy: UNKOWN
 Cast Time: Channeled
 Cooldown: UNKOWN
 Range: UNKOWN
 Details: Damages and slows the target.

 Take Portable Cover DH
 Level: 8
 Credits: UNKOWN
 Energy: UNKOWN
 Cast Time: Instant
 Cooldown: 6 seconds
 Range: Self
 Details: Drops a portable cover generator, increasing your defense  against targets in your cone of cover. Lasts 10 minutes. (Deactivates if  the player moves).

 Laze Target
 Sniper Only
 Level: 10
 Energy: 10
 Cast Time: Instant
 Cooldown: 20s/30s
 Range: 30m
 Duration: 20s/30s
 Must be in cover
 Details: Designates a target, increasing all damage dealt to the target by 20%/80%.

 Ambush
 Sniper Only
 Level: 10
 Energy: UNKNOWN
 Cast Time: UNKNOWN
 Cooldown: UNKNOW
 Range: UNKOWN
 Duration: UNKOWN
 Details: High Damage attack made from cover.
 Must be in cover

 Entrench
 Sniper Only
 Level: UNKOWN (High levels according to DH)
 Energy: UNKNOWN
 Cast Time: UNKOWN
 Cooldown: UNKOWN
 Range: UNKOWN
 Duration: UNKNOWN
 Details: UNKOWN

 Cover Pulse
 Sniper Only
 Level: UNKOWN (High levels according to DH)
 Energy: UNKNOWN
 Cast Time: UNKOWN
 Cooldown: UNKOWN
 Range: UNKOWN
 Duration: UNKNOWN
 Details: UNKOWN

 Kolto Injection (Rank 1)
 Level: UNKNOWN
 Credits: 220
 Energy: 25
 Cast Time: 0.5s
 Range: 30m
 Details: Fire a kolto dart out of your bracer at the friendly target healing them for moderate amount.

 Adrenaline Probe (Rank 1)
 Level: 14
 Credits: 380
 Cast Time: Instant
 Cooldown: 2 minutes
 Details: Summons a droid that injects the Agent with adrenaline boosting energy recovering for 4 seconds.

 Escape (Rank 1)
 Level: 18
 Credits: 500
 Cast Time: Instant
 Cooldown: 1m30s
 Details: Removes the Agent from any stun, fear or movement impairing effects.

 Boost (Rank 1)
 Level: 20
 Credits: 560
 Energy: 15
 Cast Time: Instant
 Cooldown: 2 minutes
 Details: Increases movement speed by 50% for 15 seconds. Does not break stealth.

 Orbital Bombardment (Rank 1)
 Level: 36
 Credits: 1000
 Energy: 70 / 30
 Cast Time: 2 seconds
 Cooldown: 2 minutes
 Range: 10-30m
 Details: The Agent calls a strike down from orbiting vessels, knocking  down and causing massive damage to all enemies within a 10 meter radius  of the target.

 Sonic Probe (Rank 1)
 Level: 40
 Credits: 1120
 Energy: 30
 Cast Time: Instant
 Cooldown: 45 seconds
 Range: 30m
 Details: Summons a droid that will silence the target for 6 seconds.

 Evasion (Rank 1)
 Level: 42
 Credits: 1160
 Energy: 15
 Cast Time: Instant
 Cooldown: 3 minutes
 Details: Increase the Agent's armor rating by 25% for 30 seconds.

 Plasma Probe (Rank 1)
 Level: 46
 Credits: 1280
 Energy: 35
 Cast Time: Instant
 Cooldown: 1 minute
 Range: 25m
 Details: The Agent uses this probe to do area of effect damage to enemies.


 Quick Travel
 Level: Starting
 Cast Time: 10 seconds
 Cooldown: 30 minutes
 Range: Self
 Details: Takes you to your current bind point. Not usable in combat. You are currently bound to "XXXXX".

 Revive
 Level: Starting (Assumed)
 Cast Time: UNKNOWN
 Cooldown: UNKNOWN
 Range: UNKNOWN
 Details: Revives a fallen comrade. Can only be used out of combat.

 Lacerating Shot DH
 Level: UNKOWN
 Credits: UNKNOWN
 Energy: 17
 Cast Time: Instant
 Range: 10m
 Details: Blasts the target at close range for 253-285 damage. Reduces all active knife cooldowns by 1 second.

 Backstab (Rank 3) DH
 Level: UNKOWN
 Credits: UNKNOWN
 Energy: None
 Cast Time: Instant
 Cooldown: 30 seconds
 Range: 4m
 Details: Ambushes an enemy for 614-632 kinetic damage. Only usable while behind the target.

 Interrogation Probe DH
 Level: UNKOWN
 Credits: UNKNOWN
 Energy: 25
 Cast Time: Instant
 Range: 30m
 Details: Summons an interrogation probe which hovers around the target  doing X damage over X seconds. (Appears the tooltip was broken).

 Takedown (Rank 2) DH
 Level: UNKOWN
 Credits: UNKNOWN
 Energy: None Listed
 Cast Time: Instant
 Cooldown: 12 seconds
 Range: 35m (I believe that is, if spec'd Sniper).
 Details: Fires a shot at the target's head that deals 265-287 weapon  damage. Only works against a vulnerable [blinded/stunned] target.

 Corrosive Grenade
 Level: UNKOWN
 Cast Time: UNKNOWN
 Cooldown: UNKOWN
 Range: UNKNOWN
 Details: Covers the target with an acidic green sludge that damages them over time. Tatooine Video

 Currently Not In Game Abilities (Previous Builds)
 Sleep Dart (Rank 1)
 Level: UNKOWN
 Credits: 100
 Energy: 15
 Cast Time: Instant
 Cooldown: 20s
 Range: 30m
 Details: Fire a sleep toxin dart out of your bracer at the target putting them to sleep for 10 seconds. Does not break stealth.

 Notes On Abilities Involving Movement: (As reported by Darth Hater)

• Keeping shift pressed brings up cover points, same as show cover ability.
• Can use Rifle Shot and Shiv while moving. Cannot use Take Cover, Call Shuttle, or Recuperate while moving.
• Using Shiv while moving stops you for a second. Rifle Shot doesn't.
• No Sprint ability. Middle mouse moves backwards, num-lock enables autorun, and you can press both mouse buttons to walk.

Starting Stats (As reported by Darth Hater)

• Armor Proficiency: Medium
• Weapon Proficiency: Rifle
• Weapon Proficiency: Vibroknife
• Armor Proficiency: Light

Story

• Recieve your mission, via Holographic Communication, with your handler, known simply as "Keeper". GS
  
• Your mission is to gain the support of the Hutt, Nemro. Utilizing a  cover ID as the mysterious and rarely-seen crime lord, The Red Blade. GS
  
• You infiltrate the graces of the Hutt, through combat on the streets, and smoothtalking. You are shown to your quarters. GS
  
• There you get to participate in a minigame involving the planting of listening devices. GS
  
• Some of the Imperial Agent story will take place on Balmorra Holonet
  

Starship
 The X-70b Phantom-Class Prototype

 Companions
 Kaliyo Djannis
 SCORPIO (E3 2011 revealed Droid companion)

 Additional

 The Awesome Class Trailer
 The Ascendancy Intelligence Division (The AID)
 TORWARS.COM YouTube Gameplay
 Nite's E3 Impressions The Follow Up
 Darth Hater's Imperial Agent Lore Update
 A PAX2010 Personal Review of the Agent Demo by Raelimar
 Short Gameplay Video with a Bounty Hunter
 Developer Blog
 Arnie Jorgensen Talks about IA concepting (3rd Question) via Darth Hater
 Original Confirmed Facts                   

[Grimnar]

As you progress in Star Warsâ,,¢: The Old Republicâ,,¢, your character will gain experience, growing more powerful and discovering new skills while also acquiring more advanced gear.
Through cunning, stealth, and ruthless tactics, the Imperial Agent has no shortage of ways to complete his objectives. Even so, as the complexity and importance of his missions increase, the Agent will have to acquire new skills and equipment to help him combat the ever-growing threat to the Empire.  This video shows you a sampling of the many different armors and abilities the Imperial Agent can obtain as he travels the galaxy.

[video=youtube;2xnOK9bue4w]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xnOK9bue4w[/video]



The newest video about an imperial agent

[vladic]

should point out i really hope things dont die as easy as shown in trailers

[TeaLeaf]

With my very limited knowledge of abilities or in-game experience of their usefulness, I thought I'd put an Imperial Agent Sniper build together:

http://www.torhead.com/calculator/skill#400rcrbbMcRgzZbcbZh.1

No idea if 31/7/3 will actually turn out to be the way the tree develops in the live game, but it was fun to think through and it gives you an idea of where the game will head as you level up in the Sniper class.   The extra 6% crit from the Lethality tree should be a godsend for Marksmen abilities; the 7 points in Engineering providing a boost to energy & cunning together with an improved Snipe uptime.   I tended to avoid knockback skills, but in practice these might be quite useful whilst levelling, but we'll see I guess.  An interesting exercise - anyone else thought through their likely builds yet?

[BrotherTobious]

Nice work mate

[JanuZ]

Looks nice TL. Only thing I was wondering is if Diversion would be worth it while leveling. If it works on bosses it would be great and should be amazing against any hard hitting target. No idea where the extra point should come from though, maybe one of the Pillbox Sniper points.
Based on the other class trees I have looked at, it seems that 31/7/3 is the default build for most classes.

[TeaLeaf]

Looks nice TL. Only thing I was wondering is if Diversion would be worth it while leveling.

Aye I puzzled on that question for a while.  In the end I decided from the damage I was seeing from Snipe in the videos of beta that I'd rather have that uptime to brute force through a foe and get it done quicker.  Whether or not that will work is yet to be seen!   I think as we play through we'll quickly get an idea of which will prove more useful.

Interesting comment about the 31/7/3 talent builds across all classes - I'd not noticed that yet, it was a 'clean room' build so I'd not looked elsewhere for guidance or what others had done.  Nice to know I am more or less on the right track (I hope!).

See you on Teamspeak a bit later this afternoon for the Beta!

[TeaLeaf]

Well, I finished my play this weekend on about L16 or 17, can't remember which I was when I logged out.  

Here's the feedback on the Imperial Agent Sniper:

-energy starvation is a major problem
-multiple mobs are a problem, you feel like you end up grenade spamming which is on a CD and does not a lot of damage
-companion control is difficult (at least, I found it difficult)
-companion threat on multiple mobs is very poor despite AOE abilities (frag grenade)
-no healing from companion, limited tanking ability due to high damage abilities easily pulling aggro
-takes way too long to get into high dps due to best abilities only being available from cover
-LOS from cover is truly HORRIBLE.  So many time you spot an enemy, roll to cover and then have no LOS despite the game being the one to decide where the cover is!
-has some very high damage attacks that work from long range, where you can limit your energy use *and* you have something else tanking the mobs then you can do some very good damage
-found range of abilities tricky to ge ton top of, I'm sure familiarity would help, but the way available abilities are displayed in combo with the CD and GCD makes it very tricky to see what is coming up as available for your next shot.

Specific Abilities
Orbital Strikes - did not get to see orbital strike at my level
NOTE: At this time, does not get stealth - this is a big loss as so many others get it and using cover all the time is just nasty
Marksmanship is the sniper tree: entrench yourself in cover and take out your enemies from a safe distance. - at distance is the only way to play this class as it is horrible in melee range or with multiple mobs, it operates best with no aggro and from 35 yds away.
Series of Shots and Snipe critical hits have a 100% chance to make your next Ambush instant - nice but you get energy starved so quickly if you use these high damage attacks when their CD is up, so you end up not using them, or having a prolonged period of just the non-auto 'auto-fire' ability as you can't do anything else at all
Rolling into cover makes your next snipe instant cast - this is pain in the ass, everyone else has been attacking the mob for 3 seconds before you get to do a single shot and the roll often pulls aggro itself (so you end up in the middle of melee mobs) or points you away from the mob so you have no clue what you are firing at and can;t retarget quickly when the first target is dead.  Major major issue with this class atm.

General
Also had some major lag issues mid way through scenes or when looting (10-30 second lag type events)
Companion pathing is plain nasty at the moment, especially around the oft-used lifts.  Also had some wierd targeting moments from the companion where they went off to some other mob.
I found it difficult to get the UI working in a way that I could see all my abilities, their CD and get access to them quickly enough to use them fluidly.  They need some added bar customisation options imo.

Summary
So that's my feedback at the moment.  Having spent some time in the game this weekend I'm seriously reconsidering the class I chose as it was nowhere near as good at levelling as others.

[TeaLeaf]

Update:
After a very disappointing experience in beta on the Imperial Agent Sniper, I have found the live version much improved.  It seems to have more CC, more instant damage and do a lot more damage overall from ranged shots.   The companion also seems to have gotten an upgrade and now holds threat and can survive a mob which the old one struggled to do consistently.  

So far so good.