What follows is a list of our character's equipped attack abilities (we were informed that the characters created for the press event possessed even more skills that had not been loaded into the game's hotkey banks). Ladies and gentlemen…welcome to Alderaan.Īside from resolve, our Jedi sentinel came specialized with tons of offensive abilities, several of which require points of "focus"-a character-specific value that gets built up in combat only after performing certain basic attacks.
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When characters use their resolve ability, they can immediately break free of any negative effects that are currently limiting their mobility, which can mean the difference between life and death in some cases, but this powerful ability also has a lengthy "cooldown" timer, so it can't be quickly reused. This is why the game will have a PVP-only skill called "resolve," which works for any profession and can be triggered after a character has been zapped by enough negative effects to fill up a special onscreen resolve meter.
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The character we ended up with was a mid-20s-level sentinel-specialized Jedi knight who was focused almost entirely on offense, with extremely limited ability to control the battlefield and no real defensive options beyond The Old Republic's new PVP concept of "resolve." The PVE game has many powerful character abilities that can subdue enemies by electrically stunning them, pelting them with gravel, or using a ton of other methods, but enabling all these abilities to have their full effect in PVP would make for a frustrating experience, since organized players could presumably lock down an enemy character with debilitating effects for far too long. We played with characters that had been preloaded by the developers with skill trees that had already been preset. In the case of the Jedi knight, which is the Republic's frontline warrior profession, the character can take either the guardian specialization, which focuses on soaking up damage (known by online game veterans as the "tank" role), or the sentinel profession, which focuses on dealing damage (known by online game veterans as the "damage-per-second" or "DPS" role). To clarify, all characters in The Old Republic can pick one of two specializations upon reaching level 10.
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To be fair, this was our very first shot at PVP, and the same went for most of our teammates-which is why our character, a Jedi knight, didn't flourish in those particular battles. We didn't walk away with much of a ranking from our warzone session, which pitted a Republic team (which we joined) against an Empire team (which wiped the floor with us).
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