SWTOR Stat Breakdown | Star Wars: The Old Republic

The SWTOR Primary stats affect the effectiveness of your character, and your class determines how the different stats affect your hero. In other words, your primary stat is the most important stat that you need to focus on for your class. Also, certain advanced classes can get additional bonus effects from each primary stat and maybe this is something to think about also.

There are 6 primary stats in SWTOR: Aim, Cunning, Endurance, Presence, Strength and Willpower.

Aim: This is a stat for Ranged DPS characters. It increases the ranged damage you will be able to deal to opponents and also increases the ranged critical hit chance with ranged weapons. This is one that the Bounty Hunters and Troopers should focus on as their main primary stat.

Cunning: This affects abilities when using technology. It increases the range damage, ranged critical chance, technological damage and technological critical hit chance. This is a primary stat for Smugglers and Imperial Agents, with advanced classes Scoundrels and Operatives receiving healing power effects as a bonus with this stat.

Endurance: This primary stat increases the amount of damage you can endure (which is effectively your maximum health gauge), and also how quickly your health can regenerate after sustaining damage.

Presence: This stat is perfect for solo sets because it affects the health, healing and damage of your companions.

Strength: This is a stat for Melee DPS characters. It increases the damage that you are able to deal in close-range melee attacks. It also increases the critical hit chance that you get with melee weapons and attacks. This is a primary stat for Jedi Knights and Sith Warriors to focus on.

Willpower: This stat affects the damage and healing of characters that have Force-related abilities, also increasing the critical hit rate of force attacks. The Jedi Consulars and Sith Inquisitors will want to pay attention to this one! The advanced classes Jedi Sage and Sith Sorcerer also get healing power effects as a bonus with this stat.

The way the SWTOR stats work is that you will effectively have your class primary stat and endurance within your leveling gear. However, as you start leveling higher and gain access to high quality gear, you start to encounter more stats - these are called Secondary stats.

The SWTOR Secondary Stats include the following:

Absorption: This strengthens your shield so that it can withstand a higher amount of damage.

Accuracy: This makes you more accurate with attacks on your opponents. This is an interesting one because when you get your accuracy above 100%, then your opponents' ability to block or avoid your attacks will be reduced. Effectively, any extra above 100% is converted to penetrative ability against your opponent.

Alacrity: This is similar to the "haste" rating you may have seen in other MMORPGs. It reduces the activation time as well as the global cooldown (GCD) on certain channeled skills and abilities, although it doesn't seem to do much for instant attacks.

Armor: This is a dynamic stat which increases your resistance to kinetic (melee attacks and Jedi force abilities) and energy (force lightning attacks and fire blasts) offensive attacks, but has no effect on internal or elemental damage.

Critical Rating: This increases how likely you are to register critical hits with all attacks and heals.

Defense Rating: This stat increases your ability to dodge, deflect ranged attacks or parry melee ones.

Force Power: This increases the strength and magnitude of force abilities (relating to both offensive and healing abilities).

Healing Power: This stat increases how much healing you get from all your healing abilities. The game splits this into "Healing Power: Force" and "Healing Power: Tech", but they're pretty much the same thing.

Power: This simply relates to the amount of damage or healing that can be obtained from all abilities.

Shield Rating: This increases the ability of shields to absorb any damage inflicted by opponents.

Surge: This increases your critical hit bonus, meaning that you will be able to deal more damage than normal from crit hits - I believe this is 50% more damage or healing on a crit compared to normal. This is useful for PvP where burst damage is invaluable against your opponents.

Tech Power: This increases the strength and magnitude of tech abilities (relating to both offensive and healing abilities).