Star Wars: The Old Republic Nerfs Two Class Specs
Update 5.3 for The Star Wars: The Old Republic is set to come out on July 11, bringing with it significant changes to the mirrored Assault Specialist Commando and the Innovative Ordnance Mercenary specs and reducing their overall DPS. BioWare explains on the SWTOR official forums:
“We adjusted Ordnance Expert / Assault Trooper to reduce the burst damage potential of the discipline, which also lowered its overall DPS. However, that change alone was not enough to bring the discipline down to its target DPS, so we reduced the periodic damage of two key abilities as well. The cumulative effect of these changes is that both the burst damage potential and sustained damage potential for Innovative Ordnance Mercenaries / Assault Specialist Commandos have been reduced by a fair amount to bring them down to their target DPS.”
The update will reduce the Ordnance Expert and Assault Trooper critical bonus damage from 30% down to 15%, Incendiary Missile and Incendiary Round burn by 10%, and Serrated Shot and Serrated Bolt by 12%.
Star Wars: The Old Republic is also running the Nar Shadaa Nightlife Festival all summer-long so head over to the Smuggler’s Moon to join the festivities. Check out the festival launch cinematic after the break.
