Final two SWTOR classes revealed

By Oli Welsh Published 24 November, 2009

Another Jedi, another Sith.

The wraps have been torn off the final two character classes in BioWare's MMO, Star Wars: The Old Republic. They are the Jedi Consular and Sith Inquisitor.

The classes made their first appearance in German magazine PC Games, as scanned by StarWarsMMO.net, translated by an official site forumite, and confirmed by BioWare's Sean Dahlberg.

They're the second Jedi and Sith to be added to The Old Republic's line-up - the Jedi Knight and Sith Warrior have already been revealed - meaning that four of the game's eight classes wield the Force. The others are the Trooper and Smuggler on the Republic side, and the Bounty Hunter and Imperial Agent for the Empire.

The Consular and Inquisitor are more focused on long-range combat than the Knight and Warrior, who are essentially melee fighters - although they do wield lightsabers, too. The Consular can heal or do damage, while the Inquisitor is more of a straight damage-dealer with Force lightning powers, and both have crowd-control abilities.

The new classes were shown to press at a recent EA event at which Eurogamer was present. Unlike the magazines, we're still under embargo, but we can reveal that LucasArts described the Consular and Inquisitor as Yoda and Emperor archetypes (as opposed to the Knight's Obi-Wan and Warrior's Darth Vader).

We got an extensive hands-on with the Inquisitor at the event, so look out for our impressions soon.

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Comments (15) Latest comment 2 years ago

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  • RexRunti #1 2 years ago

    I was hoping for only one force class per faction, but I suppose this means there will be plenty of people playing each class. Trying to decide between Jedi Knight and Imperial agent myself.

  • rayscoota #2 2 years ago

    No Trader Classes then? pfft

  • ZuluHero #3 2 years ago

    Well its set durng a time when Jedi were rife, so it doesn't suprise me at all. The Force is the primary focus of the lore so its no surpise that so many classes use it.

    It doesn't bother me really as i'm more of a Han Solo person anyway, so i'll be playing Smugglar :)

  • AHiFi #4 2 years ago

    Och ffs, not more lightsabers... Guess I'll do what I did in SWG and go a bounty hunter to kill all the Jedi n00bs.

  • hiddenranbir #5 2 years ago

    Two types of force classes? Weak. You'd think that would be a sub-class sort of thing.

  • varsas #6 2 years ago

    @hiddenranbir: Does having more than one class use magic in WoW make that game weak too?

  • skullstorm #7 2 years ago

    My issue isn't with more jedi classes, it's with the fewer 'normal' classes.

    Sure theres gonna be fuckloads of jedi, but theres also gonna be fuckloads of smugglers (etc) too because theres less diversity.

  • orakio #8 2 years ago

    This, the total amount and variation between classes, is very dissapointing to me...
    I will play and enjoy this game, but it surprises me that SWG's old concept of many different professions and subclasses is left untouched.
    I guess TOR will be more about the storyline and questline that BioWare will create for the community (which will undoubtedly be excellent) rather than the community creating the content and atmosphere within the game. I was hoping for the latter...

    We'll see :-)

  • Rubarack #9 2 years ago

    Given how popular the force classes are going to be it makes sense to have 4 of them. If they stuck with two you'd get serious server imbalances.

  • iokthemonkey #10 2 years ago

    I think a lot of people are expecting SWG + content.

    A lot of people are going to be disappointed...!

  • Orange #11 2 years ago

    They should have had Droids or something unique instead of the Trooper / Imperial Agent class.

    I have no issue with 2 different Jedi classes, I think Bounty Hunters and Smugglers are perfect and will have lots of players, but the other class seems completely bland in comparison.

  • skullstorm #12 2 years ago

    You only really need two jedi classes imo. Just have the two but with different possible specs to fill the roles the current 4 jedi classes cover. After all, all 4 are jedi and recieve the same kind of jedi training they just specialise in different areas.

    I just think expecting an actual mmorpg out of this is gonna leave people disappointed. Not saying the game wont be good, it probably will be a great game. Just not a true mmo.
    Edited by 1 at 24/11/09 @ 14:57

  • YourMessageHere #13 2 years ago

    Um, don't they mean Consul? A consul works in a consulate and does consular things. An adjective is not a noun.

  • growleroo #14 2 years ago

    @YourMessageHere

    Nouning is the new awesome.

    In other news, also disappointedly limited class selection, the game is getting more WoW than SWG each peek. Shame.

  • hiddenranbir #15 2 years ago

    @varsas - Yes!