SWTOR Character Stats Guide

It's essential to know you character's stats and more important, how each stat will boost your character's dps, armor, HP and so on.

A good micro-management of your char's stats is probably the most important char development strategy in a MMORPG and Star Wars: The Old Republic is no different.

If you're a new player in the MMO scene, you need to know there are 2 sets of stats, primary stats (base stats) and secondary stats.

Primary Stats are basically the core of your character, understanding these stats, will help you efficiently increase your character's output (damage, healing) and resistance (armor, HP). Although SWTOR is offering a great deal of customization to your character and its companions, managing your stats is really what makes you different from all other players. So, let's see some stats, shall we?

Primary Stats

Strength - Increases your melee power (damage & healing) and critical hit rate
This is the primary stat of the Jedi Knight and Sith Warrior.

Aim - Increases your ranged power (damage & healing) and critical hit rate
This is the primary stat of the Trooper and Bounty Hunter.

Cunning - Increases your tech power (damage & healing) and critical hit rate
This is the primary statistic of the Imperial Agent and Smuggler.

Willpower - Increases your force power (damage & healing) and critical hit rate
This is the primary stat of the Sith Inquisitor and Jedi Consular.

Endurance - Increases your character's HP

Presence - Boosts your companion's health, dps and healing

Expertise - Increases the amount of damage and healing done as well as reduces the amount of damage you take in PvP combat. This stat appears on every PvP set.


Secondary Stats

Power - Gives melee, force and tech damage & healing

Force/Tech Power - Gives only force or tech power

Alacrity - Increases the haste for ability casting/channeling

Critical Rating - Increases melee, force and tech crit rating

Accuracy - Gives +hit chance. Once you reach the hit cap, accuracy starts reducing enemy defenses (ability to parry/dodge your incoming attack) or resistance to force or tech abilities.

Absorption - Increases the probability of damage absorbed

Surge - Increases the critical hit (damage/healing) bonus

Armor - Reduces physical and kinetic damage (Kinetic=Tech and Force powers)

Defense - Increases Parry/Deflect (Deflect is a ranged parry)

Shield - Increases chance to be shielded on attack

What's important to remember is that any class needs to have is primary stat maxed out. The secondary stats will greatly boost your primary stats but that depends entirely on multiple factors such as level/stat cap. Veteran MMO players know what I'm talking about, bosting a stat beyond capping is a nono aka fail.

Hope you got a general idea about stats in SWTOR, as you've probably figured it out, the stats are fairly simplistic and pretty straightforward.