Welcome to our build guide for the Jedi Counselor, this particular guide will focus on the SWTOR Sage Seer 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 Sage Seer Build Guide
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SWTOR Sage Seer Build Guide Play Style
With this build you are considered mainly a healer, but you have other benefits. It’s a very all around balanced class, mirrored by the Sith Sorcerer. With this game the healing specs are pretty unique, in that they change greatly thought the leveling process. For example the way you’ll be using benevolence when you first get it at level 14 is going to differ extremely at level 30 and 50.
You want to make sure you’re always paying attention to your whole team and not just your tank, with abilities like Benevolence and Disturbance you can quickly heal up your team members, as well as keep your Force Points. Ideally you want to always keep your Force points above half (250) going below this you’re in the “danger zone” and you should keep an eye on it and use whatever Force Point recovery methods you have.
As well as healing you want to be using your offensive abilities as well because the refund some of your Force Points, abilities like Disturbance and Weaken mind. Another think that is easily forgotten but shouldn’t be is the ability Force Armor, you want to throw this on the tank from time to time, it’s a temporary shield that will not only make your job easier but it will ensure you can keep the tank alive, as well as any other DPSers in the team.
Being a healer you want to always pay attention to where you are in the fight, try to put yourself at a good distance away from the boss if it’s a boss fight, if not try to follow the person farthest away from the tank. You want to stay a good way away from the general fight to make sure you don’t get hit if you do happen to get agro. Always stay close enough to heal though, and try not to panic if you do get hit, keep relaxed and continue to heal.
SWTOR Sage Seer Build Guide Tips/Reminders
Don’t forget you have the ability to put shields on your allies, sometimes it’s easy to just slack off and spam heals, but if you get in a tricky situation you want to make sure you have the Force Points to keep everyone in the team healed, and casting your shields whenever you can is a great way of not only making your job easier, but ensuring you keep a reserve of Force Points.
Remember to communicate with your team to get them to stand in your AoE heal Salvation, this ability is a huge part of your toolset and shouldn’t be neglected.
Always be paying close attention to your Force Points, to ensure you’re not over healing or using to many of your less useful abilities that are not as cost efficient as some of your heals. It’s good to remember that if everyone in your teams health is keeping above about 75% you’re good as far as healing them goes.
SWTOR Sage Seer Build Guide Key Abilities/Talents
Force Armor: This is a pretty key ability for your toolset, weather in PvM or PvP you can always utilize this skill to some advantage. Try to be refreshing this on the tank every twenty seconds, but if you see a DPS in your team getting hit or something like that just throw it on him to ensure he does not die.
Healing Trance: This is a channeled healing spell that heals once a second for 3 seconds, it’s a pretty great heal for keeping people up due to the large amount of crit you can get on it from your other talents. Ideally you should be using this on the tank whenever you can.
Weaken Mind: This is a huge damage ability for this class, It’s a very cost effective ability that does very consistent damage. Not only does it do large amounts of damage but it’s also a small slow, so it’s extremely useful while PvPing, so you should be utilizing it in your rotation as long as it is still relevant.
Salvation: This one is interesting because It’s a large AoE heal, If you coordinate your timing with your team, as well as good communication the results with this heal can be very impressive.
SWTOR Sage Seer Build Guide 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!