SWTOR Sith Juggernaut Vengeance PvP Tank Build

PvP Build: http://www.torhead.com/skill-calc#101crZIMbRrhddhRZM.1

This particular build gives you all the needed element of being a good tank in PvP; it gives you a great amount of survivability, High damage output, and overall annoyingness. All of these elements make a great PvP tanking build. ‘

Now let’s take a closer look at each of the talents individually:

SWTOR Sith Juggernaut Vengeance PvP Tank Build Vengeance Talents

Improved Sundering Assault-Causes Sundering Assault to have a 100% chance to apply one additional stack of sunder armor.

Decimate-A great talent that gives a bit more DPS, this will increase the damage dealt by Smash by 30%, also it lowers its cool down by 3 seconds.

Single Saber Mastery-This will increase melee damage by 6% while in Shien Form and Shii-Cho Form. This is another talent you want to pick up for a bit more damage.

Unyielding-A great defensive talent, this will generate 4 rage when you’re stunned, put to sleep or knocked down.

Pooled Hatred-Whenever your movement is impaired you will now gain a 10% bonus to your next melee ability that costs rage. This can stack up to 5 times and it lasts 10 seconds. A very good talent choice for a bit more damage.

Unstoppable-This is an extremely useful defensive talent. This makes Force charge have a 100% chance to grant Unstoppable, reducing all damage taken by 20% and granting immunity to interrupts and all controlling effects for 4 seconds.

Shien Form-Causes you to instantly enter an aggressive light saber form, increasing all of your damage dealt by 6%. In addition all attacks that cost rage will refund 1 rage when used. Also you will regenerate 1 rage when you are attacked, but this effect can only occur every 6 seconds.

Draining Scream-Gives Force Scream a 100% chance to cause the target to bleed for 133 damage over 6 seconds.

Ruin-Very simple and straight forward talent, causes smash to longer cost rage.

Vengeance-A good talent to pick up for more damage, this reduces the cool down of Impale by 6 seconds and Force Scream by 3 seconds.

Eviscerate-Another great damage talent for PvP, It gives impale a 100% chance to cause the target to bleed for 200 internal damage over 6 seconds.

Impale-A huge damage talent, instantly impales the target for 1935 – 2157 weapon damage.

Savagery-Causes impale and Shatter to have a 100% chance to increase the critical hit chance of Force Scream and Vicious Throw by 60% for 9 seconds.

Defeating Defense-This is a great mastery for increasing your overall toughness; It will reduce all damage taken by 4%. Additionally it reduces the cool down of Intimidating Roar by 15 seconds.

Rampage-Gives Impale and Shatter a 30% chance to finish the cool down on ravage. This effect can only occur once every 15 seconds. Another great talent to pick up for some extra damage.

Shatter-This is the final Talent of the Vengeance Talent tree. This talent deals a very large amount of damage. It channels the force into your light saber and crushed your target under its weight, instantly dealing 722-811 internal damage to a target afflicted by Sundering Assault, with a further 1968 internal damage over 12 seconds.

SWTOR Sith Juggernaut Vengeance PvP Tank Build Immortal Talents

Enraged Sunder-Causes sundering assault to build 1 additional rage.

Battle Cry-Force Charge and Obliterate now have a 100.02% chance to make the next Force Scream activated cost no rage.

Intimidation-Reduces the rage cost of Chilling Scream and Backhand by 2. All of these talents are taken for rage cost reduction

SWTOR Sith Juggernaut Vengeance PvP Tank Build Rage Talents

Ravager-The only talent you will be taking out of this tree, this will reduce the cool down of Ravage by 3 seconds and Force Choke by 10 seconds.

SWTOR Sith Juggernaut Vengeance PvP Tank Build­ Wrap-Up

That about sums it up for our build guide, you now have the build to implement on your character as well as some detailed information as to why exactly you choose each talent within the build. It is important that you know just why you pick certain talents as just implementing them and not knowing what they are will not allow you to properly utilize them.

Be sure that you check out some of our other guides that involve builds for other specializations as well as gameplay guides, leveling guides, and plenty of more great tips for being the best you can!

Sith Juggernaut Immortal Tank

PvE Build: http://www.torhead.com/skill-calc#101f0GcurzkuRZhGM.1

This build is everything you need to be a great tank for your team as a Sith Juggernaut. It gives you plenty of toughness, and threat generation, as well as ensuring you to deal some damage on top of being a great tank.

Now let’s take a closer look at each of the talents individually:

Sith Juggernaut Immortal Tank Immortal Talents

Quake-This is a good talent to take for tanking, it gives Smash a 100% chance to lower the accuracy of affected targets by 5% for 18 seconds.

Battle cry-Force Charge and Obliterate now have  100.02% chance to make the next force scream activated cost no rage.

Guard Stance-A great talent for more survivability, this will increase your defense by 6% while in Soresu Form.

Lash Out-This reduces the rage cost of Retaliation by 2 while Soresu form is active.

Blade Barricade-Retaliation now increases melee and ranged defenses by 6% for 6 seconds.

Invincible-A great talent, this reduces all of the damage you take by 40% for 10 seconds.

Heavy Handed-This is a good talent for a bit of extra damage, it will increase the damage dealt by Backhand, Smash, and Sweeping Slash by 15%.

Shield Specialization-Pretty simple and straight forward talent, increases your shield chance by 2%.

Revenge-While in Soresu form, parrying, deflecting, shielding or resisting an attack has a 50% chance to grant Revenge, reducing the rage cost of your next Force Scream of Smash by 1. Lasts 10 seconds and stacks up to 3 times.

Thrown Gauntlet-This reduces the cool down of Threatening Scream and Force Push by 15 seconds.

Force Grip-A good talent to take, it causes Force Choke to no longer be channeled, applying its full effect over 3 seconds.

Backhand-This is a very high damage talent that bashes the target for 1024-1135 kinetic damage, stunning it for 4 seconds. This ability generates a large amount of threat, needed for tanking.

Crash-Pretty simple straight forward talent, Force charge now stuns the target for 2 seconds.

Dark Blood-Increases the duration of endure pain by 5 seconds and increases elemental and internal damage reduction by 4%. A good talent to take for a bit more toughness, something you’re always looking for as a tank.

Sweeping Fury-Increases the frequency at which Soresu Form can generate rage by 3 seconds. In addition, Sweeping Slash and Vicious Slash have a 100.02% chance to reduce the active cool down of Enrage by 3 seconds.

Crushing Blow-This is the final talent of this tree, it’s a very large damage talent and it gives a bit of armor reduction as well.  It crushes the target with a might blow, dealing 118-2099 weapons damage and applying 3 stacks of armor reduction for 15 seconds. Targets affected by 5 stacks of your armor reduction suffer 2355-2625 weapon damage instead.

Sith Juggernaut Immortal Tank Vengeance Talents

Improved Sundering Assault-Sundering assault has a 100% chance to apply one additional stack of sunder armor.

Decimate-Increases the damage dealt by smash by 30% and lowers its cool down by 3 seconds.

Dreadnaught-This simply increases your total strength by 6%.

Accuracy-Increases the accuracy of melee and Force attacks by 3%, good for some extra damage.

SWTOR Sith Juggernaut Immortal Tank Build­ Wrap-Up

That about sums it up for our build guide, you now have the build to implement on your character as well as some detailed information as to why exactly you choose each talent within the build. It is important that you know just why you pick certain talents as just implementing them and not knowing what they are will not allow you to properly utilize them.

Be sure that you check out some of our other guides that involve builds for other specializations as well as gameplay guides, leveling guides, and plenty of more great tips for being the best you can!

SWTOR Sith Juggernaut Rage PvP DPS

PvP Build: http://www.torhead.com/skill-calc#101cRZuZGzRrdrMdGo.1

This build focuses mainly on dealing a lot of damage in PvP, while still keeping up on defensive masteries. It’s a great build for quickly taking down opponents.

Now lets take a closer look at each of the talents individually:

SWTOR Sith Juggernaut Rage PvP DPS Rage Talents

Stagger-We’re only putting 1 point into this talent because you only need the Immobilize effect, you don’t need the longer duration.  This Increases the duration of Force Charge’s Immobilize Effect by 0.5 Seconds.

Malice-This will increase the critical strike chance of your force attacks by 6%.

Ravager-Pretty simple talent useful for maximizing damage, this will reduce the cool down of Ravage by 3 seconds and Force choke by 10 seconds.

Brutality-Another needed talent for pushing DPS, this will increase the critical strike chance of Vicious Slash by 15%.

Endless Rage-You will now generate 1 rage when attacked in Shii-Cho Form. This effect can only occur every 6 seconds. A great talent for keeping up your rage.

Force Alacrity-A simple talent, this will reduce the cool down of all Force abilities while in Shii-Cho Form by 3 seconds.

Strangulate-This removes the pushback suffered while channeling Force Choke. A needed talent for PVP.

Obliterate-Instantly jumps to a target, impaling it for 342-523 weapon damage. If you’re dual wielding it strikes with bother weapons. A great damage talent, must have for PVPing.

Saber Strength-This simply increases the damage dealt by Vicious Slash and Obliterate by 6%, very good talent for increasing overall DPS.

Shockwave-With this talent each tick of Force Choke and Force Crush will grant you Shockwave, increasing your damage your nest Smash deals by 25%. Stacks up to 4 times. This is very large improvement in damage.

Dominate-Force Charge and Obliterate have a 100% chance to make your next Smash used within 15 seconds and automatic critical hit. A great increase in overall damage and useful for securing kills in PVP.

Relentless-Simply causes Enrage to grant 2 additional rage, a good talent for keeping up your rage.

Shii-Cho Mastery-Causes your attacks to ignore 20% of your targets’ armor while in Shii-Cho Form.

Interceptor-Increased movement speed by 40% for 5 seconds after using Obliterate, useful for closing the gap between you and your next enemy, or simply escaping after a kill.

Gravity-This reduces the rage cost of all movement-slowing effects by 1.

Dark Resonance-Pretty Straight forward and useful talent, this will increase the critical strike damage of all force attacks by 30%.

Force Crush-This is the final talent for the Rage talent tree. It’s a very strong talent for PvP, it progressively slows the target from 60% to 10% movement speed over 5 seconds. On top of that it deals 302 kinetic damage each second. As if that was not enough, at the end of the duration the target is crushed and takes an additional 804 kinetic damage.

SWTOR Sith Juggernaut Rage PvP DPS Vengeance Talents

Decimate- This is the only talent out of this Talent tree that we will be taking. It’s very simple but useful for some extra damage. It will increase the damage dealt by Smash by 30% and it will also lower It’s cool down by 3 seconds.

SWTOR Sith Juggernaut Rage PvP DPS Immortal Talents

Enraged Sunder-A useful talent for keeping your rage up, this causes Sundering Assault to build 1 additional rage.

Battle Cry-Force Charge and Obliterate have a 100.02% chance to make the next Force Scream activated cost no rage.

Intimidation-This is where that 1 extra point will go for a bit more rage cost-reduction. This reduces the rage cost of Chilling Cream and Backhand by 1.

SWTOR Sith Juggernaut Rage PvP DPS Build­ Wrap-Up

That about sums it up for our build guide, you now have the build to implement on your character as well as some detailed information as to why exactly you choose each talent within the build. It is important that you know just why you pick certain talents as just implementing them and not knowing what they are will not allow you to properly utilize them.

Be sure that you check out some of our other guides that involve builds for other specializations as well as gameplay guides, leveling guides, and plenty of more great tips for being the best you can!

Sith Marauder Rage Build

PvE Build: http://www.torhead.com/skill-calc#100ZhGbZG0RrdbRdGR.1

This Sith Marauder Rage build, is mainly geared towards DPS and survivability using a mixture of damage and force talents. It’s a great build for whatever you’re looking to do.

Sith Marauder Rage Build Rage Talents

Malice-This talent simply increases the critical strike chance of your force attacks by 6%, pretty straight forward.

Ravager-This is a good talent to take because it helps maximize the amount of damage you can do with your force abilities. It reduces the Cool down of Ravage by 3 seconds, and Force Choke by 10 seconds.

Brutality-A great talent for Increasing your overall damage, this increases the critical strike chance of Vicious Slash by 15%.

Enraged Scream-Pretty simple but needed talent, this reduces the rage cost of Force Scream by 1 second while in Shii-Cho form.

Force Alacrity-A great talent to pick up for force users, this reduces cool down of all of your Force abilities while in Shii-Cho form by 3 seconds.

Strangulate-Another needed talent, this takes away the pushback suffered while channeling force choke.

Obliterate-A great talent for getting to an enemy, this talent instantly jumps to a target, impaling it for 342-523 weapon damage. It will also strike with both weapons if dual wielding.

Saber Strength-Another good talent for bringing up damage output, this will increase the damage dealt by Vicious Slash and Obliterate by 6%.

Unbreakable Rage-Causes ravage to be uninterruptible, pretty plain but necessary talent.

Shockwave-This is a very good talent to pick up, It causes each tick of Force Choke and Force Crush to grant you shockwave, which is increases the damage your next Smash deals by 25%. This can stack up to 4 times.

Dominate-Force Charge and Obliterate have a 100% chance to make your next Smash used within 15 seconds and automatic critical hit. A great talent to ensure a little extra damage.

Shii-Cho Mastery-This talent causes your attacks to ignore 20% of your targets’ armor, a pretty good and straight forward talent.

Interceptor-This is a great talent for closing the gap between a next enemy or simply escaping after getting a kill. This will increase your movement speed by 40% for 5 seconds after using Obliterate.

Gravity-This will reduce the rage cost of all movement-slowing effects by 1, a good talent to keep up your rage when it’s most needed.

Undying-This is a good one to have for some extra survivability, it will increase your overall damage reduction by 2% which may seem like a small number, but it makes more of a difference than you would think. Additionally It will reduce the cool down of Undying Rage by 30 seconds.

Dark Resonance-A very good talent for some extra damage with your force attacks, this increases the critical strike damage of all Force attacks by 30%.

Force Crush-This is one of the core talents to this build, It will progressively slow the target from 60% to 10% movement speed for over 5 seconds while dealing 302 kinetic damage each second. At the end of the duration the target is crushed and takes an additional 804 kinetic damage.

Sith Marauder Rage Build Carnage Talents

Defensive Forms- This talent builds 2 fury when you’re attacked, and increases your damage reduction by 2% when in Shii-Cho Form.  Great talent to keep up your fury, and an interesting defensive addition to this build.

Dual Wield Mastery-Pretty effective talent for a bit of extra damage, this will simply increase the damage dealt with offhand light saber attacks by 36%.

Enraged Charge-Force Charge now has a 100% chance to generate 1 additional rage.

Narrowed Hatred-This will increase melee and Force accuracy by 3%.

SWTOR Sith Marauder Rage Build­ Wrap-Up

That about sums it up for our build guide, you now have the build to implement on your character as well as some detailed information as to why exactly you choose each talent within the build. It is important that you know just why you pick certain talents as just implementing them and not knowing what they are will not allow you to properly utilize them.

Be sure that you check out some of our other guides that involve builds for other specializations as well as gameplay guides, leveling guides, and plenty of more great tips for being the best you can!

Sith Marauder Annihilation PVP Build ­­

PvP Build: http://www.torhead.com/skill-calc#100bIbRrorcGzZhZhr.1

This Build is a high damage PvP build, mainly focusing on taking down people quickly and efficiently. A great build if you’re looking to do a lot of damage and get a good amount of kills in PvP as a Sith Marauder.

Sith Marauder Annihilation PVP Build ­Annihilation Talents

Enraged Slash-With this Talent Vicious Slash, Vicious Throw, Massacre and Annihilate have a 100% chance to refund 1 rage when used. Very simple but useful talent.

Quick Recovery-A great talent to pick up, this will  simply reduce the rage cost of Smash and Sweeping Slash by 2 seconds and reduce the cool down of Smash by 3 seconds.

Hungering-This talent causes critical hit with bleed effects to heal your for 2% of your maximum health, a great PvP talent to pick up for some extra survivability.

Juyo Mastery-Very straight forward talent, this causes your bleed effects chances of critically hitting to go up by 3% per stack of Juyo Form.

Blurred Speed-This simply reduces the cool down of Force Charge by 3 seconds.  A good and simple talent to pick up, due to the other talents affecting Force Charge.

Deadly Saber-An interesting talent, this will Charge your light sabers with deadly energy for 15 seconds, causing your next 3 successful melee attacks to make the target bleed for 402 internal damage over 6 seconds. This is a very high damage talent and very a key part to the build.

Bleed out-This simply increases the critical strike damage of your bleed effects by 30%, a good talent to pick up for some extra damage.

Close quarters-This reduces the minimum range of force charge by 10 meters, useful for initiating fights, or making sure your opponent does not escape.

Deep wound-A very simple and good talent, this increases the direct damage dealt by Rupture by 30%.

Short fuse-This will increase the amount of fury build by 2 when activating abilities that spend rage; also it will reduce the cool down of Frenzy by 30 seconds. A good one to pick up for maximum use of your abilities.

Pulverize-Vicious lash now has a 33% chance and Annihilate has a 66% chance to finish the cool down of rupture.  Very useful for maximizing damage output in PvP.  This can only occur once every 6 seconds.

Ferocity-A good talent to have, this will simply further increase your movement speed by 30% while Predation is active.

Hemorrhage-Another great damage talent, this will increase the damage dealt by your bleed effects by 6%.

Empowerment-Your bleed effects now have a 30% chance when dealing damage to generate 1 rage. Can only occur once every 1.5 second.

Annihilate-This talent is a huge part of your damage and a key element to this build. It strikes the target with both light sabers, instantly dealing 528-808 weapon damage. Each use of this ability will grant Annihilator for 15 seconds, lowering the cool down of your next Annihilate by 1.5 seconds. This can stack up to 3 times.

Sith Marauder Annihilation PVP Build ­Carnage Talents

Dual Wield Mastery- This is the only talent you will really want to pick up out of the Carnage talents, it’s a huge amount of damage though and well worth getting. It will simply increase the damage dealt with offhand light saber attacks by 36%. ­

Sith Marauder Annihilation PVP Build Rage Talents

Stagger-This will increase the duration of Force Charge’s Immobilize effect by 1 second. Useful for securing kills or simply confusing your opponent.

Malice-A very simple talent, this will increase your Force attacks critical strike chance by 6%.

Payback-Gives Unleash a 100% chance to heal you for 10% of your maximum health, great talent to pick up for some extra survivability.

Sith Marauder Annihilation PVP Build ­Wrap-Up

That about sums it up for our build guide, you now have the build to implement on your character as well as some detailed information as to why exactly you choose each talent within the build. It is important that you know just why you pick certain talents as just implementing them and not knowing what they are will not allow you to properly utilize them.

Be sure that you check out some of our other guides that involve builds for other specializations as well as gameplay guides, leveling guides, and plenty of more great tips for being the best you can!

SWTOR Sith Marauder Carnage DPS Build­­

This particular build gives you the ability to do a lot of damage.  Focusing on only damage, a very good build for all you dps addicts, or if you just don’t want to mess around with other things

Now let’s take a closer look into each of the talents taken in this build.

SWTOR Sith Marauder Carnage DPS Build­ ­Carnage Talents

Defensive Forms- This talent builds 2 fury when you’re attacked, and increases your damage reduction by 2% when in Shii-Cho Form.

Dual Wield Mastery- This talent simply increases the damage you deal with your offhand weapon by 36%.

Erupting Fury- This will increase the fury build when you defeat and opponent by 2.

Enraged Charge- This talent will cause your Force Charge to generate 1 additional rage.

Defensive Roll- A useful talent to take, this will reduce the damage taken from AoE attacks by 30%.

Narrow Hatred- Another simple but useful talent, this increases your accuracy with melee and force by 3%.

Ataru Mastery- This will increase the damage deal in your triggered Ataru form by 30%.

Ataru Form- This causes you to enter an acrobatic light saber form,  increasing your accuracy by 3%. Also, your successful melee attacks have a 20% chance to proc a another strike dealing 229 energy damage. The effect can’t occur more than once every 1.5 seconds.

Execute- Causes your Ataru Form hits to have a 30% chance to make your next rage spender deal 10% more damage.

Enraged Assault- This mastery will simply reduce the cool down of Battering Assault by 3 seconds.

Towering Rage- A very nice talent to take, it will increase the critical strike chance of Force Scream by 100% while Blood frenzy is active.

Blood Frenzy-This is a very good talent to take, it causes your hits from Ataru Form to grant Blood Frenzy for 6 seconds.  When Blood Frenzy is over you will generate 1 rage. This can only occur every 6 seconds.

Rattling Voice-Very useful talent, and pretty straight forward. It will reduce Force Scream’s cool down by 3 seconds, and reduce the rage cost by 2. This is useful because of the 100% crit your gain in Blood Form from other masteries taken.

Gore-A high damage talent to pick up, this will instantly Gore the target for 253 – 387 weapon damage, and grant Gore for 6 seconds. Gore will increase your armor penetration by 100%. You need two light sabers to perform this.

Sever-A great talent to take, this simply increases the critical strike damage bonus of Force Scream, Ataru form and Massacre by 30%.

Massacre-This will instantly strike your target with both of your weapons for 247-378 weapon damage, while automatically triggering Ataru Form strike. On top of that, for 6 seconds after you use Massacre, your Ataru form has an extra 30% chance to be triggered. This talent is a must have for DPSing roles.

SWTOR Sith Marauder Carnage DPS Build­ ­Rage Talents

Malice-This will simply increase the critical strike chance of your force attacks by 6%, very straight forward but quite useful.

Ravager- Another very simple but useful talent to pick up, this will reduce the cooldown of your Ravage by 3 seconds and Force Choke by 10 seconds.

SWTOR Sith Marauder Carnage DPS Build­ ­Annihilation Talents

Enraged Slash-Causes your Vicious Slash, Vicious Throw, Massacre and Annihilate to have a 100% chance to refund 1 rage upon use.

Quick Recovery-This will reduce the rage cost of Smash and Sweeping Slash by 2, as well as reducing the cool down of Smash by 3 seconds.

SWTOR Sith Marauder Carnage DPS Build­ Wrap-Up

That about sums it up for our build guide, you now have the build to implement on your character as well as some detailed information as to why exactly you choose each talent within the build. It is important that you know just why you pick certain talents as just implementing them and not knowing what they are will not allow you to properly utilize them.

Be sure that you check out some of our other guides that involve builds for other specializations as well as gameplay guides, leveling guides, and plenty of more great tips for being the best you can!

SWTOR Jedi Guardian Focus Build

PvE Build: http://www.torhead.com/skill-calc#500ZfhMRZG0RrdrodG.1

This particular build focuses a lot of high amounts of damage, it is not a tanking or a healing build, strictly damage. It is very nice for anyone playing the Jedi Guardian build that would like to play a DPS role.

Now lets take a closer look into each of the talents taken in this build.

SWTOR Jedi Guardian Focus Build Focus Talents

Master Focus – This talent will reduce the cooldown of your Master Strike ability by 3 seconds as well as the cooldown of Force Stasis by 10 seconds.

Insight -  This will increase the crit chance of your Force attacks by 6%.

Zephyr – The Zephyr talent will reduce the cooldown of all of your force abilities by 3 seconds while in Shii-Cho Form.

Visionary – You will now generate 1 focus whenever you are attacked while in Shii-Cho form, however, this effect will only occur once per 6 seconds.

Swift Slash – This is a pretty simple yet very effective talent for the SWTOR Jedi Guardian Focus Build. Swift Slash will increase the critical strike chance of Slash by 15%.

Zealous Leap – This ability talent will cause you to leap to your target and stab it for 342 – 523 weapon damage. Keep in mind if you are dual wielding it will cause you to strike with both weapons.

Saber Strength – Increases the damage of your Slash and Zealous Leap abilities by 6%, a solid damage booster.

Felling Blow – Force Leap and Zealous Leap will both have a 100% chance to cause your next Sweep used within 15 seconds of using either of those abilites to be a critical hit.

Unwavering Focus – Causes Master Strike to now be uninterruptible.  This is as much of a straight-forward ability as you’ll ever see.

Shii-Cho Mastery – This is one fantastic talent and a great choice for your SWTOR Jedi Guardian Focus Build, it will cause all of your attacks to ignore 20% of your targets armor while you are in Shii-Cho form, constituting a higher damage output.

Focused Resonance – Increases the critical strike damage of all Force attacks by 30%. Obvious choice for a higher damage output.

Gravity – This talent will reduce the focus cost of all movement slowing effects by 1.

Agility Training – After using Zealous Leap, you will now have increased movement speed by 40% for 5 seconds.

SWTOR Jedi Guardian Focus Build Vigilance Talents

Single Saber Mastery – Increases melee damage by 6% while in Shien or Shii-Cho form.

Perseverance – This talent is an obvious choice and a very nice addition for your character, as it increases your strength by 6%.

Accuracy – Increases the accuracy of melee and force attacks by 3%. As you can see, the talents in the Vigilance Tree are very simple stat boosters which is why it is so useful.

Burning Blade – Causes Blade Storm to inflict 133 damage over 6 seconds.

Jedi Guardian Focus Build Wrap-Up

That about sums it up for our build guide, you now have the build to implement on your character as well as some detailed information as to why exactly you choose each talent within the build. It is important that you know just why you pick certain talents as just implementing them and not knowing what they are will not allow you to properly utilize them.

Be sure that you check out some of our other guides that involve builds for other specializations as well as gameplay guides, leveling guides, and plenty of more great tips for being the best you can!

SWTOR Jedi Shadow Balance Build

PvE Build: http://www.torhead.com/skill-calc#601Mc0MZhZcMfRrMkrfz.1

This build is great for more sustained periodic damage and focuses on a mix of both melee and ranged damage as well as come self healing abilities.

Now, lets take a closer look at these talents individually.

SWTOR Jedi Shadow Balance Build Balance Talents

Force Synergy – Force critical hits will increase your melee crit chance by 9% for 10 seconds.

Force Focus – This talent will increase the damage dealt by Force Technique’s Force Breach effect by 16%.

Upheaval – When you activate Project, you will now have a 45% chance to attack with an additional chunk of debris which deals 50% of normal damage.

Psychokinesis – This is a very nice talent for the SWTOR Jedi Shadow Balance Build as it will reduce the force cost of Double Strike by 2, as well as the force cost of Project by 6.

Adjudication – This talent will increase the crit damage dealt by your Double Strike ability by 50%.

Force in Balance – This talent ability deals 1198-1309 internal damage to up to 3 targets within 8 meters of the targeted area. Additionally, this will heal you for 22 for each target effected by the attack.

Force Strike – Causes melee crits to have a 33% chance to finish the cooldown of your Mind Crush ability as well as cause it to activate instantly and on top of all that it will cost 100% less force! Great ability with a lot of benefits.

Force Suppression – Causes your Force in Balance to suppress resistance to the Force and increase the amount of damage targets suffer from your next 10 periodic damage abilities by 20%. This lasts for 30 seconds.

Mental Scarring -  This talent will increase the crit damage bonus of Force in Balance as well as your periodic damage abilities by 30%. This really amplifies the benefits of the other talents and abilities associated with it.

Psychic Absorption – This talent is really great for survival, it increases the amount of healing generated by your Force in Balance and Focused Insight abilities by 20%.

Twin Disciplines – Causes Project to increase your melee bonus damage by 10% for 20 seconds.

Sever Force -  This is the final talent in the Balance tree for the SWTOR Jedi Shadow Balance Build, it weakens the target which will freeze it in place for 2 seconds and deal 1457 damage over 18 seconds.

SWTOR Jedi Shadow Balance Build Kinetic Combat/Infiltration Talents

Applied Force – Increases the damage of Double Strike, Whirling Blow, and Clairvoyant Strike by 6%. Obviously the Clairvoyant Strike aspect has no effect, but still a good talent regardless.

Technique Mastery – This talent has multiple benefits, for Force Technique it will increase the crit chance by 3% and the duration of Force Technique’s Force Breach by 3 seconds. For Shadow Technique it will increase your armor penetration by 9%, and for Combat Technique it will increase internal and elemental resistance by 9%.

Expertise – Increases damage from techniques by 6%.

Infiltration Tactics – Direct damage attacks will have a 30% chance to “Find Weakness” and cause your next Shadow Strike to ignore 50% of the targets armor and cost 50% less force. This talent cannot proc more than once every 10 seconds.

SWTOR Jedi Shadow Balance Build Wrap-Up

That about sums it up for our build guide, you now have the build to implement on your character as well as some detailed information as to why exactly you choose each talent within the build. It is important that you know just why you pick certain talents as just implementing them and not knowing what they are will not allow you to properly utilize them.

Be sure that you check out some of our other guides that involve builds for other specializations as well as gameplay guides, leveling guides, and plenty of more great tips for being the best you can!

SWTOR Jedi Shadow Kinetic Combat Tanking Build

PvE Build: http://www.torhead.com/skill-calc#601rsrokrskbsZZf0cM.1

This particular build takes all of the necessary damage reduction, threat generating, and general tanking perk talents. When choosing a build for the SWTOR Jedi Shadow Kinetic Combat you need to make sure that every single talent point is being put to its best use, and this build truly does that.

Now, let’s take a closer look at these talents and what makes them so good.

SWTOR Jedi Shadow Kinetic Combat Tanking Build Kinetic Combat Talents

Applied Force – This talent will increase the damage you deal with Double Strike, Whirling Blow, and Clairvoyant Strike by 6%. Great for threat generation and damage, great choice.

Double-bladed Saber Defense -  When you shield, parry, or deflect an attack you will recover 2% of your Force. However, this cannot proc more than once every second. Additionally this talent will increase your melee and ranged defenses by 4%.

Technique Mastery – This talent has multiple benefits, for Force Technique it will increase the crit chance by 3% and the duration of Force Technique’s Force Breach by 3 seconds. For Shadow Technique it will increase your armor penetration by 9%, and for Combat Technique it will increase internal and elemental resistance by 9%.

Kinetic Ward – This causes a kinetic ward to appear with 8 charges, this increases your shield chance by 15% for 20 seconds and each time you successfully shield your kinetic ward will lose one charge.

Mind over Matter – This causes all movement-impairing effects to be removed by activating Force Speed, which is very nice for a tank to get out of situations where they are being Crowd Controlled. Additionally, your resilience will now last 2 seconds longer.

One with the Force – This talent is an obvious choice, not only for a tank but if you were playing as any role, as it increases the rate at which your force will regenerate by 30% making it a fantastic pick for the SWTOR Jedi Shadow Kinetic Combat Build.

Force Pull – This ability will use the force to pull a target to you and generate a very high amount of threat, great for saving an ally with a tough opponent attacking them.

Stasis – This talent will increase armor by 20%, obviously a great choice for a tank.

Bombardment – Another simple yet very obvious choice for a tank, it will increase the threat and damage dealt by project by 15%.

Slow Time – The final talent in the Kinetic Combat tree is Slow Time, it will slow the passage of time for up to 5 targets and deal 574-686 kinetic damage and decrease the damage that all of the targets deal by 5%. This ability also generates very high threat, and lasts for 15 seconds.

SWTOR Jedi Shadow Kinetic Combat Tanking Build Balance Talents

Force Synergy – Causes force critical hits to increase your melee crit chance by 9% for 10 seconds.

Jedi Resistance – Great tanking talent, causes ALL damage taken to be reduced by 2%.

Psychokinesis – Reduces the force cost of Double Strike by 2 and Project by 6. Very nice talent which allows you to preserve more force.

SWTOR Jedi Shadow Kinetic Combat Tanking Build Wrap-Up

That about sums it up for our build guide, you now have the build to implement on your character as well as some detailed information as to why exactly you choose each talent within the build. It is important that you know just why you pick certain talents as just implementing them and not knowing what they are will not allow you to properly utilize them.

Be sure that you check out some of our other guides that involve builds for other specializations as well as gameplay guides, leveling guides, and plenty of more great tips for being the best you can!

SWTOR Jedi Shadow Infiltration Build

PvE Build: http://www.torhead.com/skill-calc#601McZhGMRkGMrtzZc.1

This particular build focuses a lot of high amounts of spike damage, meaning that you will have a lot of high burst, with not quite as much sustained damage. This makes for a great build if you love seeing high amounts of damage in short amounts of time, which in turn will cause a high DPS number, even though the sustained damage isn’t as high.

Now, let’s take a closer look at these talents and what makes them so good.

SWTOR Jedi Shadow Infiltration Build Infiltration Talent Overview

Infiltration Tactics – This is at the bottom of the tree but still serves as a good talent, it causes direct damage attacks to have a 30% chance to proc “Find Weakness” which will cause your next Shadow Strike to ignore 50% of the targets armor as will as cost 50% less force. However, this talent can not proc more than once every 10 seconds.

Shadow Technique – This causes you to assume a shadow technique and give your attacks a 25% chance to deal 229 damage. Keep in mind that this cannot occur more then once every 1.5 seconds and also requires a double-bladed saber.

Circling Shadows – This talent will increase the critical strike damage from Shadow Strike by 30% as well as causing Double Strike and Clairvoyant strike to grant “Circling Shadows” which will reduce the force cost of your next Project by 25% and stacks twice.

Vigor – This is a really nice talent for a SWTOR Jedi Shadow Infiltration Build, it will increase your total Force by 10, which makes for an all around fantastic addition to your character.

Fade – The Fade talent will lower the cooldown of Blackout by 15 seconds as will as the cooldown of Force Cloak by 60 seconds.

Low Slash – This talent ability is a fantastic damage dealer and an obvious choice when going with this talent specialization. It will slash the target dealing 1129-1259 base weapon damage and incapacitating them for 4 seconds. This required a double-bladed saber. This ability is great for crowd control which is useful in many boss fights.

Deep Impact – This will increase the critical strike damage of Force Breach and Project by 50%, an easy choice for damage increase.

Clairvoyant Strike – This is the final talent in the Infiltration Tree and a really nice one at that, it will strike the enemy twice dealing 685 – 764 base weapon damage each strike, additionally, each use of this ability will increase the damage of your next Project by 15% up to 2 stacks.

SWTOR Jedi Shadow Infiltration Build Combat/BalanceTalent Overview

Technique Mastery – This talent has multiple benefits, for Force Technique it will increase the crit chance by 3% and the duration of Force Technique’s Force Breach by 3 seconds. For Shadow Technique it will increase your armor penetration by 9%, and for Combat Technique it will increase internal and elemental resistance by 9%.

Force Synergy – Causes your force critical hits to increase your melee critical chance by 9% for 10 seconds.

SWTOR Jedi Shadow Infiltration Build Wrap-Up

That about sums it up for our build guide, you now have the build to implement on your character as well as some detailed information as to why exactly you choose each talent within the build. It is important that you know just why you pick certain talents as just implementing them and not knowing what they are will not allow you to properly utilize them.

Be sure that you check out some of our other guides that involve builds for other specializations as well as gameplay guides, leveling guides, and plenty of more great tips for being the best you can!