Welcome to our build guide for the Jedi Knight, this particular guide will focus on the SWTOR Guardian Vigilance Build. Throughout this guide we will first look at the actual top rated build itself, followed by a brief play style guide, as well as some general tips and reminders to look at, and the we will briefly go over a few of the key talents and abilities for this build. Now let’s get started!

SWTOR Guardian Vigilance Build

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SWTOR Guardian Vigilance Build Overview

The Vigilance build is DPS based for the Guardian, over the course of this guide I will cover a general playstyle/rotation and then I’ll go over some general tips and reminders for playing the build. After that some key abilities will be discussed and then it’s time to put all this good information to use and plug the build in and get to work.

SWTOR Guardian Vigilance Build Playstyle

There’s a little room to mess around with the Vigilance build, you don’t necessarily need to stick to a strict rotation, but in this section I’ll give you some guidelines as to what abilities you should be utilizing as well as a loose rotation. First of all you should know that Shien Form is the form you will be in at all times.

Your main damage ability will be Plasma Brand, it is not so much the base damage that is important, but the after effect damage over time that really works to your advantage. It will deal a moderate ~800 damage directly, but then another ~2k damage over 12 seconds. As soon as that 12 second duration has ended you will want to re-apply this, that is your #1 priority.

After that you’ll want to use Acrobatic Slash as that will inflict another ~2k direct damage. You might wonder why not use Acrobatic Slash first as it deals 2.5x as much direct damage, reason being you need to look at total damage, Plasma Brand will deal almost 3k whereas Acrobatic Slash will not deal much more than 2k. Now, if you’re fighting adds that will most likely die before 6-8 seconds, go ahead and prioritize Acrobatic Slash, but in most cases the fight will last over 12 seconds.

Feel free to throw in some Force Push, Overhead Slash, as well as a Saber Throw to help generate focus. Blade Storm and Dispatch are also both great abilities to utilize especially when Force Rush is active. Force Rush will cause your next Blade Storm and Dispatch abilities to have a 60% increased chance to critically hit after using Overhead Slash or Plasma Brand for 9 seconds. Therefore a good opener would be Plasma Brand, followed by Acrobatic Slash, followed by Blade Storm or Dispatch.

SWTOR Guardian Vigilance Build Tips/Reminders

There’s not a whole lot you need to remember as the Guardian Vigilance build, it’s mainly utilizing your Acrobatic Slash, Plasma Brand, and Overhead Slashes as they will be your main damage inflicting abilities.

One thing you’re going to need to practice is focus management, keep in mind that Saber Throw will deal some moderate damage as well as generate some focus for you. This isn’t going to be very hard but takes a bit of getting used to, once you’ve got it figured out though you will be set. Keep in mind all abilities will refund 1 focus when used in Shien Form.

SWTOR Guardian Vigilance Build Key Abilities

Shien Form: As I stated earlier you will be in this form at all times, now lets talk about what exactly comes with this form. It causes you to enter an offensive lightsaber form which will increase all damage dealt by 6%, that right there is what makes Vigilance a very nice DPS option as well as Shien Form a very nice thing to use. On top of this though, all attacks refund 1 focus when used, fantastic for focus management as stated earlier, although, you won’t be able to use an ability that requires 4 focus when you only have 3, but using one that requires 4 focus when you have 4 focus will leave you with 1 focus left over if that makes sense. This effect cannot occur more than once every 6 seconds, however.

Force Rush: This talent causes your next Blade Storm or Dispatch to have an increased chance to critically hit by 60% for 9 seconds after the use of an Overhead Slash or a Plasma Brand.

Burning Purpose: Causes Overhead Slash to set the target on fire for 6 seconds causing 200 damage over this time period.

Plasma Brand: Strikes your target for 722 – 833 damage and an additional 1968 damage over 12 seconds, very nice damage dealer right here.

SWTOR Guardian Vigilance Build Conclusion

There you have it, everything you’ll need to know to master this build and bring it into the game. Be sure to check out some of our other build guides as well as overall class guides, leveling guides, and much more for SWTOR!