6.0 Operative Changes, Set Bonuses and Tactical Items

Listing of all the Set Bonuses and Tacticals Items available for Operatives.

Updated for Onslaught.

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• New Ability
• Utility Changes
• Tacticals
• Gear and Set Bonuses
• Charges

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New Ability

Tactical Overdrive – Tactical Overdrive resets the cooldown of Stim Boost, Recuperative Nanotech, Volatile Substance, Lethal Strike, and Shield Probe and increases your Mastery by 20% for 15 seconds. You will get this ability at level 72.

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New Utility Changes

Instead of 4 Tiers, Utilities are now divided into 3 Tiers (Skillful, Masterful and Heroic) and there are now a total of 9 points to spend. You have to spend at least 3 points to access the next Tier up. To access the Masterful Tier you have to spend 3 points in Skillful. To access the Heroic Tier you have to spend 6 points in Skillful and/or Masterful. There are 8 Utilities in each Tier.

Skillful

UTILITY	DESCRIPTION
Nanotech Suit	Reduces all area of effect damage taken by 30%.
Chem-resistant Inlays	Increases damage reduction by 5%.
Imperial Weaponry	Noxious Knives deals 25% more damage.
Hit and Run	Striking a target with Shiv or Veild Strike grants Hit and Run, increasing your movement speed by 50% for 3 seconds.
Slip Away	Reduces the cooldown of Debilitate by 15 seconds.
Infiltrator	Increases movement speed by 15% and effective stealth level by 3.
Curbing Strategies	Overlaod Shot and Noxious Knives reduce the movement speed of targets they damage by 40% for 6 seconds. In addition, when Flash Bang ends it leaves behind Flash Powder that reduces the targets accuracy by 20% for 8 seconds.
Precision Instruments	Reduces the energy cost of Debilitate and Sever Tendon by 5 and makes Sever Tendon immobilize the target for 2 seconds.

Masterful

UTILITY	DESCRIPTION
Advanced Cloaking	Reduces the cooldown of Cloaking Screen by 30 seconds and activating Cloaking Screen increases movement speed by 50% for 6 seconds.
Med Shield	Your Shield Probe heals you for 5% of your maximum health when it collapses.
Endorphin Rush	Adrenaline Probe now immediately restores 15 additional energy.
Fortified Kolto	While your Kolto Probe is active on yourself, your damage reduction is increased by 3% per stack.
Imperial Tactics	Sever Tendon will now grant a Tactical Advantage.
Evasive Screen	When activated, Cloaking Screen grants 2 seconds of Evasion.
Cunning  Competencies	Countermeasures purges all movement-impairing effects when activated. Additioanlly, when Sleep Dart wears off, the target is struck by Sedatives, reducing all damage dealt by 50% for the next 10 seconds.
Jarring Strike	When used from stealth, Backstab and Lethal Strike interrupt and knock down the target for 3 seconds. Player targets are immobilised for 3 seconds, rather than being knocked down.

Heroic

UTILITY	DESCRIPTION
Evasive Imperative	Every time you get attacked, the active cooldown of your Evasion is reduced by 3 seconds. This effect cannot occur more than once every 1.5 seconds.
Escape Plan	Reduces the cooldown of Escape by 30 seconds, Shield Probe by 5 seconds, and infiltrate by 60 seconds.
Circumvention	Reduces the cooldown of holotraverse by 10 seconds and allows it to be used while immobilized. When activated it purges movement-impairing effects and grants a Tactical Advantage.
Mobile Strategies	Exfiltrate grants a charge of Mobile Strategies, reducing the energy cost of your next Overload Shot by 100%, increasing its maximum range by 20 meters, and making it knock the target back. Each use of Overlaod Shot consumes a charge of Mobile Strategies and grants 10 energy.
Revitalizers	Stim Boost now additionally grants Revitalizers, restoring 5% of your total health every 3 seconds and reducing damage recieved by 20% for the duration.
Curative Agent	Countermeasures grants Curative Agent, causing your next Kolto Probe on a new target to immdeiately grant two stacks. Additionally, Countermeasures heals you for 1% of your maximum health every second for 10 seconds and Kolto Infusion now initially restores  x – x health and then additionally restores x health over 9 seconds.
Augmented Shields	Increases the amount of damage absorbed by Shield Probe by 30%.
Blow for Blow	Activating Evasion grants Blow for Blow, returning 150% of direct single target tech and force  damage taken back to the attacker while Evasion is active.

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Tacticals

Medicine (Heals)

TACTICAL	DESCRIPTION	SOURCE
Critical Surgery	Surgical Probe always critically hits on targets below 50% health	Operation Bosses
Diagnostic Probes	Activating Surgical Probe reduces the cast time of your next Kolto Injection by .25 seconds. At 3 stacks, Kolto Injection can be cast instantly and consumes all stacks	Flashpoint Bosses
Regenerative Waves	Kolto Waves consumes a Tactical Advantage and heals 20% more per tick	Flashpoints Bosses

Concealment

TACTICAL	DESCRIPTION	SOURCES
Acid Lash	Laceration damage triggers Acid Blade damage and refreshes its duration. Acid Blade does 100% more damage	Flashpoint Bosses
Explosive Cells	When Volatile Substance triggers, it deals damage to all enemies around the primary target and spreads its effects	Flashpoint Bosses
Volatile Strike	Veiled Strike automatically critically hits targets affected by your unexploded Volatile Substance and triggers it immediately. Dealing damage this way causes your next Backstab to critically hit	Operation Bosses

Lethality

TACTICAL	DESCRIPTION	SOURCE
Catalyzed Toxins	Toxic Blast finishes all your poison effects on the target and deals their remaining damage immediately. Toxic Blast’s cooldown is extended by 9 seconds	Flashpoint Bosses
Synox Shots	Toxic Blast does 100% more damage. Whenever a Toxic Blast critically hits, it restores 2 energy	Flashpoint Bosses
Viral Elements	Toxic Haze spreads Toxic Blast’s effect and Lethal Strike does additional damage to all nearby targets affected by Toxic Haze	Operation Bosses

All Operative Specs

TACTICAL	DESCRIPTION	SOURCE
Artistic Insights	Tactical Overdrive gives you a Tactical Advantage	Daily/Weekly Mission Crates
Augmented Holocomm	Holotraverse gains an additional charge	PvP Crates
Combat Medic Training	Resuscitation Probe becomes an instant cast and Kolto Infusion can be cast while moving	Crafted – Armstech
Surgical Shiv	Half of Shiv’s damage heals you	Conquest Crates

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Gear Sets and Bonuses

Imperial Agent

GEAR	2 SET	4 SET	6 SET
The Slow Road	Master +2%	Frag Grenade slows its primary target and all targets around it by 30% for 6 seconds
Quick Thinker	Master +2%	Any enemy who attacks you during Adrenaline Probe is stunned for 2 seconds
Probe Tech	Endurance +2%	Shield Probe creates a small shield around surrounding allies
Escape Artist	Alacrity +2%	Flash Bang now heals any allies nearby for a small amount and resets the cooldown of countermeasures

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Operatives

GEAR	2 SET	4 SET	6 SET
Aggressive Treatment	Alacrity +2%	Toxic Haze refunds all its energy	Toxic Haze heals any allies standing inside it by a minor amount
Name of Authority	Mastery +2%	Toxic Haze refunds a Tactical Advantage	Activating Noxious Knives reduces the cooldown of Toxic Haze by 3 seconds. Every enemy affected by Toxic Haze takes 20% more damage from Noxious Knives
Debilitator	Mastery +2%	Exfiltrate’s cooldown is reduced by 2 seconds	Debilitate gets two ability charges
Tacticians	Mastery +2%	Tactical Overdrive additionally resets the cooldown of Backstab, Sever Tendon, and Toxic Scan. Gaining a Tactical Advantage increases your Critical Chance by 15% for 10 seconds. Can only happen once every 10 seconds	Tactical Advantage gets an additional stack. Having a Tactical Advantage increases your damage and healing by 5%

Sources

Where to get the new Set Bonuses (besides Vendors).

NAME	SPEC	SOURCE
Aggressive Treatment	Operative	Operation Bosses
Debilitator	Operative	PvP Crates
Escape Artist	Imperial Agent	Crafted – Armourmech
Name of Authority	Operative	Dxun Operation Bosses
Probe Tech	Imperial Agent	Daily/Weekly Mission Crates
Quick Thinker	Imperial Agent	PvP Crates
Tacticians	Operative	Conquest Crates
The Slow Road	Imperial Agent	Conquest Crates

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Charges

Charges basically allow you to use select Abilities more than once, depending on the number of Charges they have. For example, if an ability has 2 charges on it, you can use the Ability twice. 
You have to have at least 1 Charge to be able to use an Ability with Charges.

When you use an Ability with a Charge once, it uses up one Charge and the Charge timer goes on ‘cooldown’. When the cooldown timer is up, you will gain another ‘Charge’. If you use all the Charges the Ability has, you have to wait for the cooldown timer to complete to be able to use the Ability again.

Operatives have an Ability and Set Bonus with Charges.

CLASS	ABILITY/SET BONUS/TACTICAL	CHARGES	BASE COOLDOWN
Operative	Ability – Exfiltrate	2	10 seconds
Operative	4 Set Bonus – Debilitator (Exfiltrate)	2	6 seconds
Operative	6 Set Bonus – Debilitator (Debilitate)	2	45 seconds

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Special Thanks

I’d like to thank Andynul for helping me gather all the info to put into this Guide.