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New Specials: New specials will be created as time permits. The types and amount of abilities will be prioritized so that we get the most impact from each additional ability. The highest priority ability type to add is abilities, which are counters to existing abilities. These abilities will add a d...

Special Ability Balance: Professions are defined by their abilities. Differing Skill mod values and weapon stats are important but without interesting and different special abilities all combat professions would be just slight variations of each other. Some, but not all combat professions currently ...

Weapon HAM Costs: Weapon HAM costs will need to be evaluated and adjusted as needed. The new HAM system will allow for a much higher general cost and should be reflected accordingly in the weapon stats. Because changes to these numbers will require mass changes existing weapons we will try to keep t...

The Armor System document contains much more information regarding this change. The removal of Armor Piercing as a classification will need to be taken into consideration when changing the weapon stats as many current weapons are balanced based on the presence of their Armor Piercing rating. Weapon ...

Finally while not a major impact on balance, weapon ranges will be more strongly delineated to assist in the separation of player roles. Maximum combat range is currently set at 64m leaving not much space to differentiate the weapon range categories. We will be pushing that maximum range out as far ...

Here we go all the rest of the document. CORE SYSTEM CHANGES There are many core systems within the Star Wars Galaxies combat system. Many of these must be revised as part of our overall Combat Upgrade, and in this document we give details on some core system changes and our thinking behind these ch...

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**note** the links provided seem at least from my computer to be dead... BALANCE DIAGRAM: With the core combat changes finalized we only had one last critical issue to resolve. Since we had decided on emphasizing the specific role abilities of each profession we needed to narrow down what those role...

We are not saying that the combat upgrade is going to solve everything or that it will be perfect the day it's released. But it will get us most of the way there and most importantly it will set the groundwork to allow for faster balance adjustments and future additions to the combat system. CORE CO...