When inside you get a damage reduction buff of 20% for 15 seconds, it’s a great help to your team especially in team ranked. Ballistic Shield: Ballistic Shield is an aoe shield of about 10m.If a sniper uses diversion on another sniper, it rips them out of cover as well. IF specced into it, Diversion can also slow for 50%. Diversion when used can cause enemies to miss Taunts, Stuns, and Heavy Damage dealing abilities. It is a 75% accuracy debuff and ever since 3.0 they changed accuracy to directly effect force/tech damage. Diversion: Diversion is probably the most frustrating ability to deal with.Not only does it give you 100% chance, but it also gives you 75% chance in resist tech and force attacks as well (In the Marksman Tree). Evasion: Evasion is a 3 second 100% chance to dodge all ranged and melee attacks.Use your shield probe off cooldown just to mitigate some damage. It will absorb around 4.5k-6k damage which is nothing. Shield Probe: Your shield probe is honestly one of the most useless defensive cooldowns known to Swtor.A good example of such mitigation would be when a Powertech throws his Thermal Detonator on you (during a powertech’s rotation, they would usually Thermal Det, then gut, magnetic blast/rocket punch, then railshot, followed by an autocrit energy burst.) at the very last second of the Thermal Det before it explodes you want to roll, in hope to not only mitigate their Thermal det, but their Energy burst or railshot as well. 5 seconds after you land, therefor you must time it perfect to mitigate as much damage as possible. Covered Escape: Your roll will resist any damage while in the animation of it and.As a sniper one thing you will need to master is positioning which I will go over in a detailed explanation later in the guide. The thing with sniper DCDs are that you need to know the best time to use them. When you’re in cover you are uninterruptable and when you have entrench activated you cannot be stunned. A sniper should always be in cover, no matter what.
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As a sniper with high damage comes some squishy draw backs.