As you adventure through the galaxy, you will come across loot and other rewards that can help give you an edge when you are up against tough enemies. To make the best use of the loot, it's good to know the basics of how each character attribute affects your character. Here, we have a have a look at character attribute, what they mean and how to make the best of them. Characteristics In game, you can open your character sheet by pressing "C". When you do, you'll see the first page of your character sheet that has your character's attributes (The "Status" tab). Character Attributes Health

• This bar is your Total Health Points. It represents how much damage you can take before your character is incapacitated. When your character has zero health, you character will be incapacitated. When this happens, you will see a "Weakness Timer" appear on your display. If you are incapacitated twice within 1 minute, you will be cloned.

• Health is the red bar on your display.
• The number displayed on your character sheet is: Current Health Points / Total Health Points.

Action

• This bar is your Total Action Points . It represents how many special abilities you will be able to do. This bar recharges on its own, but if you do several high-action cost attacks, you can run out of Action Points and have to wait a short time before you can execute another attack.
• Action is the green bar on your display.
• The number displayed on your character sheet is: Current Action Points / Total Action Points.

All of the following attributes are displayed as zero. As you equip weapons, armor, modified clothing and consume buffs, this number will change. These attributes will show up on your character sheer as your total current bonuses. Strength : This attribute affects your offensive melee attacks . Constitution : This attribute affects your health and action bars. You can use items and buffs to a dd up to 8 points to your Health Bar and 2 points to your Action bar for every 1 point of Constitution.   Stamina : This attribute affects your action and health bars. You can use items and buffs to a dd up to 8 points to your Action Bar and 2 points to your Health bar for every 1 point of Stamina. Precision : This attribute affects your offensive ranged attacks . The higher this number is, the better a bonus you have to hitting a target with ranged attacks. Agility: This attribute affects your defensive abilities . The higher this number is, the better a binue you will have at surviving enemy attacks. Luck: Luck is a special attribute that can have a surprise affect on your game play. For instance, if you see the message <<Lucky!!>>, then you might have recieved an experience bonus or it could be a non-combat bonus too. For instance, it can increase your "sell rate" when selling items to a Junk Dealer. When this happens, you will get a bonus payout by getting a higher price for goods sold to Fences or Junk Dealers. Green Attribute: If you notice that you have an attribute listed in green, that means that it is currently being increased by a buff. Offense / Defense : On the right side of your display, there is a listing for Offence and Defense. These will list the total amount of active bonuses your character has as a result from buffs. Offense and Defense are never increased with items. They are only increased with Buffs. Items indirectly give offensive or defensive boosts by boosting Strength, Precision or Agility. Buffs directly give offensive or defensive bonuses by increasing Offense or Defense. Protections: This is a list of special attacks in the game that your character can find special protections for. As you equip items that may increase your special protections, the total amount will be listed here.   Using Loot Buffs There are many items in the game that can be used to boost or "buff" the attributes of your character. Some can be found as loot, some can be earned as quest rewards and others are earned by playing your character and earning level rewards. Here are a few tips on understanding how to get the most out of your items. Below is an "Improved Dexterity Stim". It is a commonly found loot reward that can be used to boost your agility. You can find out the stats for this item by using the radial menu to examine it in your inventory. It will show you the level your character needs to be able to use the buff, the amount of time you have to wait before you can consume another of the same or similar buffs and the name of the effect.

You can activate the buff by double-clicking it from your inventory, using the radial menu or drop-and-dragging it to your Toolbar. Once it is on your toolbar, you can queue up the item and click the right mouse button to activate the buff. When you activate the buff, you will see a buff icon on under your name. The icon will be displayed for the duration of the buff. The icon will blink shortly before the buff ends and is removed from your character.   You can find even more details about the buff by moving your mouse cursor over the buff icon. The buff display looks like this:

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Give your character more depth with the Expertise system. Profession Expertise is a new feature that will let you develop your character by improving existing abilities as well as unlocking new ones for you to try out. Expertise information listed below:

• What are Expertise Points?
• How will I know I've earned Expertise Points?
• Expertise Trees
• How to allocate Expertise Points
• What does each Expertise Ability do?
• Expertise Ability Pre-requisites
• Which Professions will have Expertise Abilities?
• Re-Allocating your Expertise Points

  What are Expertise Points? Starting at level 10 and continuing as you advance in levels, you will earn Expertise Points. You can spend these points on specialized Expertise Abilities. At level 10, you will be awarded 5 points, and you will continue to earn an additional 1 point at every even level until you reach level 90. At level 90, you will have earned a total of 45 Expertise points.   How will I know I've earned Expertise Points? You will get a pop-up window that says:

  Expertise Trees Each profession will start off with two available Expertise trees. You will see the tabs for each tree at the top of the Expertise window. Each profession has one general Expertise tree and a profession-specific tree as well. Once all professions have their Expertise abilities available, a third Galactic Civil War Expertise tree will be introduced. Once your profession has Expertise abilities available, you can open your Expertise window in-game through the main game menu. Look for the menu item, "Expertise."

Press ESC or use your mouse to click on the button in the bottom right of your screen.

Once you've opened your Expertise window, you'll be able to see the Expertise abilities and switch between the trees by using the "General" and "Path" tabs at the top of the window.

 

How to allocate expertise points As you earn Expertise points, you spend them toward abilities specific to your profession. Different abilities require different numbers of Expertise Points so you may need to save your points for an ability that costs more points. Also, you may increase your rank in some Abilities by spending more points. Your rank in each Ability is noted in the side-bar description of it. Selecting which ability you purchase is simple:

• Left-clicking on the ability's icon allows you to select that ability.

• If after you click on a box you decide you would prefer a different ability, simply right-click on the box you just chose, and your choice will be cancelled.

You may select and un-select skills in this manner UNTIL you press the Train button in the bottom right hand side of the Expertise window.   Once you Train your skill, you will have purchased any ability selected during that session. We'll discuss how to re-allocate your Expertise Points later on in the article.   What does each Expertise Ability do? Moving your mouse cursor over an expertise box displays general information about the skill in a pop-up box. More in-depth information will appear in the side-bar of the Expertise window.

Expertise Ability Prerequisites

Tier Prerequisites Each profession's Expertise tree is divided into tiers. You must spend a certain number of points in each tier before being able to spend points in the next tier. For example, a Tier 2 Expertise requires that at least 4 points have been spent in that tree along with any other pre-requisites specific to that Expertise. Previous Expertise Prerequisites In addition to tier prerequisites, a specific Expertise Ability may require that you have acquired an ability that precedes it in the tree. These required prerequisite abilities must be fully purchased (i.e. all ranks in that Ability must be purchased) to unlock the following Expertise Ability. For example, the Force Run Expertise (a tier 3 expertise) has Heightened Speed (a tier 2 Expertise with 3 ranks) as a pre-requisite. You will have had to have purchased all three Heightened Speed Abilities to unlock the Force Run Ability.

Reallocating your Expertise points If you train some Expertise abilities and find that you don't like your choices, you can reallocate your Expertise Points. Simply head to your nearest Profession Counselor, click on her, and she will reset your Expertise Points. You can reallocate your Expertise Points the first 5 times for FREE! However, a fee will be charged for any further reallocation of Expertise Points.  The "Profession Counselor" can be found in these city locations right by the starports:

• Tatooine in Mos Eisley
• Coronet in Corellia
• Theed in Naboo

Expanding the possibilities in Star Wars Galaxies to make your character special and unique is the profession Expertise System. Here we have the Expertise charts for Jedi expertise.

For a basic guide on understanding how to use experience points, click here to read the guide Introduction to Profession Expertise.

At a glance:

• What is the Expertise System?
• General Expertise
• Path Expertise

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What is the Expertise System? The overall goal of the system is to offer new and exciting choices for players to make about the development of their characters. These choices offer players the chance to further customize their character creating more diversity between characters of the same profession and give the player an additional goal when leveling. At level 10, a player earns five Expertise points and then earns 1 point every two levels up to a maximum of forty-five points at level 90. Once a player reaches level 10, they can activate the Expertise interface (it will appear on the Main Menu) and begin allocating their points over the two trees available to their profession. Allocating Expertise points will do one of two things for a character. They will either modify an existing ability, such as increasing damage done, or they will unlock new abilities or series of abilities.

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The two Jedi trees are General and Path. The General tree provides a variety of choices designed to enhance aspects that all Jedi share. The Path tree provides choices between the light and dark side that give appropriately themed abilities. Jedi Expertise: General

Tier	Name	Description	Points	Effect	Requirements
1	Enhanced Strength	Strength Increase	2	25/point	None
1	Enhanced Constitution	Constitution Increase	2	25/point	None
1	Enhanced Agility	Agility Increase	2	25/point	None
1	Enhanced Stamina	Stamina Increase	2	25/point	None
2	Improved Force Throw	Force Throw +Damage%	2	5%/point	4 points in General
2	Alacrity	Glancing Blow Increase	4	2%/point	4 points in General
3	Heightened Speed	Force Run Speed Increase	4	10%/point	8 points in General
3	Improved Crippling Accuracy	Force Throw Snare Duration Increase	3	2s/point	2 points in Improved Force Throw; 8 points in General
3	Exacting Strikes	Strike/Sweep +Damage%	4	2%/point	8 points in General
3	Force Cloak	Invisibility	1	-	4 points in Alacrity; 8 points in General
4	Second Wind	Force Run Duration increase	2	2s/point	4 points in Heightened Speed; 12 points in General
4	Incisiveness	Critical Strike% Bonus	4	1%/point	4 points in Exacting Strikes; 12 points in General
4	Defensive Fighting	Increase chance to parry by 10%	1	-	12 points in General
4	Improved Saber Block	Increases the chance to parry an attack while saber block is active	3	5%/point	1 point in Defensive Fighting; 12 points in General
5	Fidelity	Damage% (All) Increase	4	1%/point	4 points in Incisiveness; 16 points in General
5	Improved Force Cloak	Invisibility escapes combat	1	-	1 point in Force Cloak; 16 points in General
5	Force Shockwave	Grants the Force Shockwave attack	1	-	16 points in General
5	Improved Force Shockwave	Force Shockwave damage increase	3	2%/point	1 point in Force Shockwave; 16 points in General

 

Jedi Expertise: Path The left side of the Path expertise tree represents the light side of the Force and the right side of the tree embodies the dark side. The light side centers on calm and forethought to improve defensive capabilities, while the fury and passion of the dark side focuses on offensive powers. A Jedi stance is required for abilities on the left side of the tree, and a Jedi focus is required to use the abilities on the right side of the tree.

Tier	Name	Description	Points	Effect	Requirements	Path
1	Remorseless Nature	Stamina bonus while using a Focus	4	10/point	None	Dark
2	Brutality	+Critical% bonus for Focus	4	1%/point	4 points in Path; 4 points in Remorseless Nature	Dark
2	Ruthless Precision	Increases damage	4	2%/point	4 points in Path; 4 points in Remorseless Nature	Dark
3	Tempt Hatred	Gains action from inflicting damage	2	2%/point	4 points in Remorseless Nature; 8 points in path	Dark
3	Dark Lightning	Grants the Force Lightning series	1	-	4 points in Brutality; 8 points in Path	Dark
3	Force Choke	Grants the Force Choke attack	1	-	4 points in Remorseless Nature ; 8 points in Path	Dark
4	Maelstrom	Grants Maelstrom, which is an area effect attack	1	-	1 point in Dark Lightning; 12 points in path	Dark
4	Force Drain	Drain health from an opponent	1	-	2 points in Tempt Hatred; 12 points in Path	Dark
4	Improved Force Choke	Increase damage of Force Choke and increase damage over time	2	10%/point	1 point in Force Choke; 12 points in Path	Dark
5	Wracking Energy	Increases Force Lightning, Force Maelstrom, and Force Drain armor penetration; adds a snare to Force Lightning and increases duration of the snare	4	25%/point; 2s/point	1 point in Maelstrom; 16 points in Path	Dark
5	Improved Force Drain	Improves health returned on successful Force Drain	3	33%/point	1 point in Force Drain; 16 points in Path	Dark
5	Strangulation	Reduces target's damage output	2	5%/point	2 points in Improved Force Choke; 16 points in Path	Dark
1	Cautious Nature	Constitution bonus while using a Stance; Glancing Blow bonus	4	10/point; 1%/point	None	Light
2	Saber Shackle	Adds a chance to snare and a change to root with Saber Throw	4	25%/point; 2%/point	4 points in Cautious Nature; 4 points in Path	Light
2	Perceptive Sentinel	Increase critical hit defense and additional critical hit defense for PvP	4	1%/point; 1%/point	4 points in Cautious Nature; 4 points in Path	Light
3	Reactive Response	Damage taken is added to action	2	2%/point	4 points in Saber Shackle; 8 points in path	Light
3	Riposte	Chance to counterattack a melee or ranged attack when opponent misses within 5m	2	25%/point	4 points in Cautious Nature; 8 points in Path	Light
3	Forsake Fear	Action for the party is regenerated per 1s of meditation up to 10s	1	6%	4 points in Perceptive Sentinel; 8 points in Path	Light
4	Force Clarity	Chance for a second strike with a lightsaber	1	5%	2 points in Reactive Response; 12 points in Path	Light
4	Saber Reflect	Reflect melee and ranged attacks partially back on the attacker when parried within a 64m range	1	-	2 points in Riposte; 12 points in Path	Light
4	Hermetic Touch	Self heals cure and temporarily become immue to all DoT attacks	1	-	1 point in Forsake Fear; 12 points in Path	Light
5	Anticipate Aggression	All damage dealt to the Jedi is reduced	2	4%/point	1 point in Force Clarity; 16 points in Path	Light
5	Improved Saber Reflect	Increases Saber Reflect damage and a chance for Force Alacrity to activate	3	33%/point; 16%/point	1 point in Saber Reflect; 16 points in Path	Light
5	Soothing Aura	Self heals are increased	4	25%/point	1 point in Hermetic Touch; 16 points in Path	Light
3	Cloud Minds	Mind Trick ability	1	-	8 points in Path	Neutral
4	Expansive Trickery	Increase Cloud Minds effect radius	3	2 meters/point	1 point in Cloud Minds; 12 points in Path	Neutral
5	Lethargy	Duration of Mind Trick and Cloud Mind increased	4	2s/point	3 points in Expansive Trickery; 16 points in Path	Neutral

Expanding the possibilities in Star Wars Galaxies to make your character special and unique is the profession Expertise System. Here we have the Expertise charts for Bounty Hunter expertise.

For a basic guide on understanding how to use experience points, click here to read the guide Introduction to Profession Expertise.

At a glance:

• What is the Expertise System?
• Bounty Specialization
• Bounty Hunting

 

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What is the Expertise System? The overall goal of the system is to offer new and exciting choices for players to make about the development of their characters. These choices offer players the chance to further customize their character creating more diversity between characters of the same profession and give the player an additional goal when leveling. At level 10, a player earns five Expertise points and then earns 1 point every two levels up to a maximum of forty-five points at level 90. Once a player reaches level 10, they can activate the Expertise interface (it will appear on the Main Menu) and begin allocating their points over the two trees available to their profession. Allocating Expertise points will do one of two things for a character. They will either modify an existing ability, such as increasing damage done, or they will unlock new abilities or series of abilities.

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The Bounty Hunter Expertise Trees The two Bounty Hunter trees are Bounty Hunting and Bounty Specializations. The Bounty Specializations tree emphasizes benefits to the Bounty Hunter wearing assault armor and using carbines and/or rifles as weapons of choice. The Bounty Hunting tree focuses on allowing the Bounty Hunter to enhance or focus on specific areas of actually hunting targets by offering new abilities and improvements to existing trap and ambush abilities. Bounty Specialization

Tier	Name	Description	Points	Effect	Requirements
1	Endurance	Increases stamina	4	Up to +50 CON	-
1	Marksmanship	Increases precision	4	Up to +50 PRE	-
1	Evasion	Increases agility	4	Up to +50 AGI	-
1	Pain Tolerance	Increases constitution	4	Up to +50 CON	-
2	Carbine Efficiency	Reduces action cost while using carbines	4	Action cost reduction up to 15%	4 points in Bounty Specialization
2	Rifle Efficiency	Reduces action cost while using rifles	4	Action cost reduction up to 15%	4 points in Bounty Specialization
3	Carbine Accuracy	Increases damage while using carbines	2	Up to 5%	8 points in Bounty Specialization
3	Rifle Marksmanship	Increases damage while using rifles	2	Up to 5%	8 points in Bounty Specialization
3	Kinetic Armor	Increases kinetic protection while wearing full set of Assault Armor	4	250/point	8 points in Bounty Specialization
3	Energy Armor	Increases energy protection while wearing full set of Assault Armor	4	500/point	8 points in Bounty Specialization
4	Deadly Strikes	Critical hit bonus and range bonus while using carbines	1	10%/point; 10m/point	2 points in Carbine Accuracy; 12 points in Bounty Specialization
4	Sniper Shot	High damage attack from prone position	1	-	2 points in Rifle Marksmanship; 12 points in Bounty Specialization
4	Melee Defense	Increases block against melee attacks while wearing full set of Assault Armor	3	1%/point	12 points in Bounty Specialization
4	Ranged Defense	Increases dodge against ranged attacks while wearing full set of Assault Armor	3	1%/point	12 points in Bounty Specialization
5	Relentless Onslaught	Action costs are reduced or elimated	1	-	1 point in Deadly Strikes; 16 points in Bounty Specialization
5	Take Cover	Increases defense against ranged attacks and grants invisibility on radar	1	-	1 point in Sniper Shot; 16 points in Bounty Specialization
5	Power Sprint	Increases run speed and prevents/removes snare effect	1	-	3 points in Melee Defense; 16 points in Bounty Specialization
5	Duelist Stance	Receive reactive heals while wounded	1	-	3 points in Ranged Defense; 16 points in Bounty Specialization

 

Bounty Hunting

Tier	Name	Description	Points	Effect	Requirements
1	Assault Efficiency	Reduces action cost of assault special attacks	4	5%/point	-
1	Absorption	Increases kinetic protection	4	125/point	-
1	Ambush Efficiency	Reduces action cost of ambush special attacks	4	5%/point	-
1	Lethality	Increases damage of cripple special attacks	4	5%/point
2	Intense Assault	Increases damage of assault specials	3	Up to 10%	4 points in Bounty Hunting
2	Return Fire	Automatically retaliate against attacks	1	-	1 point in Intense Assault; 4 points in Bounty Hunting
2	Ambush Intensity	Increases damage of ambush specials	3	Up to 10%	4 points in Bounty Hunting
2	Trap Extension	Increases radius of Razor Net and Tangle Bomb	2	1m/point	4 points in Bounty Hunting
3	Rapid Assault	Reduces cooldown of assault specials	2	Up to 1 second	8 points in Bounty Hunting
3	Antagonize	Attack intended to goad the opponent	1	-	8 points in Bounty Hunting
3	Deflection	Increases energy protection	4	250/point	4 points in Absorption;8 points in Bounty Hunting
3	Swift Ambush	Reduces cooldown time of Ambush	2	Up to 2 seconds	8 points in Bounty Hunting
3	Cruelty	Increases snare duration of Cripple, Razor Net, and Tangle Bomb	3	1s/point	8 points in Bounty Hunting
4	Fumble	Causes opponents to be more likely to make ineffective attacks	1	-	1 point in Antagonize; 12 points in Bounty Hunting
4	Advanced Ambush	Attacks that increase critical attacks and lowers target's armor rating	1	-	2 points in Swift Ambush; 12 points in Bounty Hunting
4	Intimidating Strike	Attack against opponent's action pool	1	-	3 points in Cruelty; 12 points in Bounty Hunting
5	Innate Assault	Chance that using a special from the Assault like will cost 0 action	1	-	2 points in Rapid Assault; 16 points in Bounty Hunting
5	Stun	Briefly knocks the opponent senseless	1	-	1 point in Fumble; 16 points in Bounty Hunting
5	Shields	Dramatically increase kinetic and energy protection	1	-	4 points in Deflection; 16 points in Bounty Hunting
5	Man Hunter	Critical hit bonus versus humanoids	4	Up to 5% critical hit chance vs. NPCs and players	16 points in Bounty Hunting
5	Dread Strike	Reduces opponent's damage output and ability to heal	1	-	1 point in Dread Strike; 16 points in Bounty Hunting

The independent federation of civilian travelers is proud to present the latest Star Charts. Our survey crews have investigated hyperspace routes, planetary systems and known resources locations and uncovering all the information you'll need to have the next time you venture across the galaxy.

Corellia	Dantooine	Dathomir
Endor	Karthakk Serving Lok	Kashyyyk
Naboo-Rori	Tatoo	Yavin 4
Deep Space		Kessel

Major Points of Interest Each Star Chart has a basic description of the system you are planning to travel to. We've listed all of the main space stations, all known battle stations, hyperspace routes, general points of interest, security bulletins, mining stations and mining surveys. The locations listed here in these star charts can be easily accessed in your ship. Access your datapad and click the "POI" tab on your interface. All of the major points will be listed. You can either activate your waypoint and travel to your desired destination or open your zone map (Press the "N" key or type /zonemap into your spatial chat window) and set your autopilot by right-clicking on your destination point. Here's a description of the various destination types: Main Space Station: Here, you will find access to planet starports, get repairs for your ship and take space missions. Some station missions have tier requirements and faction limitations. Hyperspace Routes: Hyperspace routes are open areas of space where ships travel.  At each of these locations, you can see ships traveling and in some cases, hostile forces will be in waiting to catch unsuspecting travelers off guard!

• You can open up your hyperspace map in space by pressing "H".
• You will see all of the planets listed. Right-click on any of the the planets to choose which hyperspace point you want to travel to.

Battle Stations: Battle stations are space stations you can travel to to declare yourself to take part in player-versus-player (PvP) space combat. If you declare for PvP in space, it is for space only. Mining Stations: Mining stations are where you can go to sell ore mined from asteroids. Different mining stations will purchase different asteroid minerals at different rates.