Classes
Most Operators take one of the eight standard Specializations, and a secondary unlocks around the middle of the campaign. A few Operators cannot: they carry an exotic class instead, which is fixed and cannot be swapped.
There are 8 standard Specializations and 4 exotic classes. Any Operator can take any of the eight, and none of them is locked to a weapon. The exotic classes work differently: they belong to a specific character or kind of Operator, cannot be changed, and rule out the standard eight for whoever has one.
Mobile flanker that opens with an eleven-metre charge, pushes enemies off ledges, and sweeps groups with a disorienting cone.
close · medium range
Attack-stacking damage dealer whose damage climbs +1 per shot each turn and whose Quick Draw refunds its own Action Point on a kill.
close · medium range
Tank with flat damage reduction whose ordinary shots taunt on hit, and whose Bulwark taunts an area while making it immune to status effects.
close · medium range
Healer with a free med pack, a Combat Stim that grants damage and temporary health, and a Morale Boost that heals the squad for ten turns.
close · medium range
Crit enabler that ignores four points of enemy Defense, forces guaranteed criticals with Identify Weakness, and rides ally attacks through Easy Mark.
close · medium range
Advantage battery and accuracy enabler: it banks one Advantage per enemy scanned, deletes range and smoke penalties, and converts the whole pool into one enormous hit.
close · medium · long range
Reliable long-range damage: +10% innate hit chance, a self-buff worth +40% hit and +24% crit, and an Ultimate that never misses.
long range
All-round damage with a stunning melee strike, a long grenade arm, and Rocket Strike — the most destructive area attack in the game.
close · medium range
Exotic classes
Each belongs to one character or one kind of Operator and cannot be swapped. Taking that Operator spends the slot on this kit — no amount of re-specialising turns it into one of the eight.
Non-combatant force multiplier that carries more equipment and hands Action Points to the Operators that spend them best.
Astromechs use this class and cannot take a standard Specialization, as a primary or a secondary. Unlike the other two it is not tied to one named character — any astromech has it.
Close-range battlefield control through Force displacement and lightsaber deflection.
Exclusive to Tel-Rea Vokoss. None of the eight standard Specializations is ever offered to her — not as a primary, and not as a secondary — and no other Operator can take hers. She is not short of a second Specialization, though: the game gives her one and padlocks it, so both of hers are fixed rather than chosen.
Highly mobile close-to-medium attacker that repositions by jetpack and scatters enemies on landing.
Exclusive to Cly Kullervo as a primary, and she cannot change it — 'gunslinger' in her official description is flavour, not a Specialization. She can add any of the eight as a secondary once dual Specializations unlock.
A fourth exotic class is confirmed to exist and has not been named. It has no entry here rather than a placeholder — nobody has described a single thing it does, and an empty page invites exactly the guesswork this site exists to avoid.
Points the shipped game has not yet answered for us, or that need a controlled comparison to state as fact — recorded rather than guessed at.