Advanced Classes Are...

Advanced Classes are specialized careers that your characters can
choose in Star Wars™: The Old Republic™. As your character becomes more
seasoned through adventure, you will be given the opportunity to
undertake one of two Advanced Classes. This decision is equally as
important as when you originally created your character. This is because
your choice will not only make your character more distinct and
powerful, but it will also help further define the role you wish to play
in The Old Republic.
In addition to your Class-specific Skills and Abilities, your
chosen Advanced Class will grant you access to role-defining Abilities
that represent additional areas of expertise and some may even grant new
weapon and armor types. Additionally, each Advanced Class will also
have three sets of Skills available to further customize your character.



The chart above is not representative of any of the current Advanced
Class Skill Sets, nor does it show exactly how many Skills you may
potentially access. It is included to provide an example of how a
character, in this case a Sith Warrior, may look as he progresses
through one Advanced Class (note that the other Advanced Class Skill
Sets are disabled and cannot be trained).
As mentioned above, each Advanced Class opens up three Skill Sets
with a variety of Skills in each. Unlike selecting an Advanced Class,
these Skill Sets are less restrictive and your character can obtain
Skills from any set or from all of them!

Shared Skill Set

While the first two Skill Sets include Skills entirely unique to the
chosen Advanced Classes, the third Skill Set consists of a shared set of
Skills which expand upon the core Skills of the Class itself.
One thing to note is that you use the same pool of points when
training your Advanced Classes Skills, so spend your points wisely!

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The main goal of the Advanced Class System is to allow you to customize
your characters according to your play style. For example, some Sith
Warrior players will want to charge into the fight and take the full
heat of the enemies’ aggression. Others will want to execute their
maneuvers more strategically, focused on channeling all their rage to
destroy their enemies as quickly as possible. The Advanced Class System
gives you these kinds of choices and more.