When you join up with other players, your choice of class will also define the role you play in the group dynamic. This only affects your abilities and combat roles, the overall class story will remain unchanged. To further distinguish your play style, you’ll be asked to choose an Advanced Class when creating your character. This is the single most important choice that you will ever make in Star Wars™: The Old Republic™, as your Class not only determines your combat style and how to play, but it also determines which of the unique stories you will experience! You can read more about each Class by clicking on the link here. If you choose to play as a Jedi Knight, you’ll be playing through a Jedi Knight storyline, you will fight your enemies with a Lightsaber and by using the Force.Įach Class is represented with a visual icon at the bottom of your game window.
When you’re playing alone, the role you select will determine the entire experience. Each of these character classes features its own fully-realized interactive story and a style of play that is unique to that class.
To create your hero in Star Wars: The Old Republic, you will start with one of the eight iconic class archetypes.
