**Combat Evolved: Forget what you know

QOL:**

• Players should be able to immediately mount when exiting an instance.
• Added ability to toggle space parts for No Sell/Protected for Chassis Dealer

Fixes:

• Fixed some missing collection items with gems and stage projector
• Group Waypoint fix for Destroy Duties

Attributes:

• Base Attributes have been revamped with new and/or modified combat values

• Base Attributes will no longer be gained during the leveling process, leveling will only add to health, health regen, action and action regen

• Critical Hit Reduction now has Diminishing Returns

• Calculated Defensives have been added to the stat page

• We will continue to tweak the stat page over time as we work on a larger revamp

Requirements for Combat Skill Trees:

• All combat skill trees with the exception of Beast Master and Creature Handler will require that you have mastered at least one weapon skill tree

Modifiers:

• Ranged Dodge and Melee Dodge are now obsolete and are just normal dodge (for ranged) and parry (for melee)
• Droid, Creature, NPC (Humanoid) Crit modifiers are obsolete (PvP Crit will remain)
• Weapon Specific Critical Chance modifiers are being discontinued and should use the "wepaon critical" modifiers instead

Procs:

• Proc checks have been moved earlier in the combat system to give a more reliable result

Recourses:

• Force Choke recourse has been revamped to be a heal cut recourse
• Heal Cut Recourse effects the heal cut debuff from Force Choke, Dread Strike, and Bacta Corruption for 24 seconds
• Successful BH Stun, Unhealthy Fixation and False Hope apply stun immunity for 12 seconds

Buffs:

• Powerups should now last 2 hours

• Officer Tac Stims should now last 2 hours

• Meditate Buffs should now last 2 hours

• Banner Buffs should now last 2 hours

• Jedi Stances and Medic Stances can no longer be swapped in Combat

• Advanced Tactics, Focus Fire and Drillmaster no longer proc Inspiration and should no longer be spammed and last 2 hours

• Advanced Tactics, Focus Fire and Drillmaster are now appliable buffs similar to Medic Buffs

• High Yield, Inoculation, Toughen, and Adrenaline now share a buff group with Scatter and Charge to encourage situational usage and less buff bot spam

• We may monitor and reevaluate other buff types that can be combined to simplify buffing and prevent out of control buff wars

• Fixed issue with buffing group members who are off planet

Stat Page:

• Revamps are taking place and added new section for Calculated Stats

Assassin:

• Cheap Shots and Deadly Pistols have been removed
• Cheap Strikes and Close Quarters are now weapon agnostic

Beast Master:

• BM pets should land successful attacks more often
• Reduced XP needed to level pets

Bounty Hunter:

• Investigation Skills have been moved to Novice Bounty Hunter

• The shield line is now tied to Duelist Stance

• Cripple has been moved from Marksman back to Bounty Hunter

• Venous Ploy and its line of attacks have been moved to Bounty Hunter

• Gained the Preparation Ability

• Master Bounty Hunters now have the Reveal Bounty ability

• Reveal Bounty will bring hidden player targets out of hiding

Commando:

• Novice Commando now grants the Position Secured Ability and 3 further points into Novice Commmando include improved position secured
• Removed Devastation from Burst Fire and added a base 20% chance of Devestation to Novice Commmando
• Burst Fire Proc has been relocated to On Target
• Supressing Fire Debuff has been moved to Heavy Weapon Specialist
• Pinpoint Shielding now grants 1750 Innate Armor per tick and overwrites Armor Protections from Equipped Armor
• Dodge Chance has been added to Deflective Armor
• Evasion Chance and Evasion Value has been added to Blast Resistance
• Cannot train Teras Kasi boxes if you have any Commando boxes (This is an intentional change to reflect Teras Kasi being a “Melee tank” version of Commando)

Combat Medic:

• Fixed the DOT increases from the Combat Stance
• Purge can no longer be used on other players
• Commando/HeavyWeapon DOTs are now increased by Combat Stance

Creature Handler:

• Revive will now Area Revive your fallen pets
• All pet commands should now work even if one of the pets are dead
• Made some improvements to the Tame ability
• Creature Handlers can now convert certain creatures to Mounts
• Mustafar Creatures can now be tamed correctly (does not fix existing broken tames)
• Enhanced Stats of Creature Handler Pets
• Reduced XP needed to level pets

Doctor:

• Doctor Stance now has an added a 40% damage output reduction when active

Grenadier:

• Stun Grenade has been moved to Marksman
• Novice Grenadier has been reworked and moved to Marksman
• Strong Arm and Packed Explosives have moved to Marksman
• Gained the High Explosives, Explosives Expert and Surgical Demolition Lines
• Gained Core Bomb, Dioxis Grenade, Artillery and Superior Firepower Abilities
• The Hellstorm Jewelry Set will now require Master Grenadier

Marksman:

• Moved Cripple back to Bounty Hunter
• Moved Ambush to Rifleman
• Stun Grenade has been moved from Grenadier
• Novice Grenadier has been reworked and moved to Marksman
• Strong Arm and Packed Explosives have moved to Marksman

Medic

• Stasis now requires Master Medic

Rifleman:

• Gained the Ambush ability
• Removed Master Rifleman dependency on Sniper Shot

Smuggler:

• Impossible Odds now has a chance to bypass all defensive rolls
• Loaded Chance Cubes will make an attacker under the effects of Impossible Odds less likely to land a crit or strikethrough
• Blaster at your side can now have up to 4 pts
• Sly Lie and Fast Talk Skill lines have been incorporated into Novice Smuggler
• Lucky Break has been incorporated into Feeling Lucky
• Lucky Break now requires Master Smuggler
• Feeling Lucky and Card up your sleeve has been reworked to have a guaranteed hit chance while active
• Summon Smuggler and Summon Medic have been incorporated into Off The Books
• Master Smuggler can now inherently craft spice
• Master Smugglers will now possess the Cover Fire ability
• Spot a Sucker Debuff will now apply a -300 precision debuff
• Reworked Skullduggery's calculations
• Skullduggery now effects AOE attacks

Squad Leader:

• Leadership line of skills that affect buff durations is now included in Novice Squad Leader
• Moved several skills to Grenadier
• Rally Points are now granted with Master Squad Leader
• Innate armor boxes are now combined into one box (similar to medic)
• All (row 5) expertise boxes now require Master Squad Leader
• Last Words is now inheritly built into Master Squad Leader
• GA Set should now proc the standard heal for swift heals

Teras Kasi:

• Evasion Chance and Evasion Value in the "Critical Hit Reduction" Expertise has been replaced with Block Chance and Block Value
• Dodge Chance has been removed from the "Damage Reduction" Expertise, Parry Chance has been increased
• Ranged Defense has been removed from Teras Kasi Expertise Page
• Melee Defense now includes Parry
• Cannot train any Commando boxes if you have any Teras Kasi Boxes (This is an intentional change to reflect Commando being a “ranged tank” version of Teras Kasi)
• Fixed an issue with Annulling not properly applying enhanced versions of Void Dance

Jedi:

• New Expertise Boxes for Force Choke that are dedicated to the strength of the heal cut
• New Expertise Boxes for Forsake Fear cool down
• New Expertise Boxes for Hermetic Touch cool down
• New Expertise Boxes to add a minimal action drain to Force Drain
• New Menu Selection for Jedi Meditate Buffs
• Lightning and Maelstrom fast attack resets are no longer linked