Welcome to our build guide for the Jedi Knight, this particular guide will focus on the SWTOR Sentinel Watchman 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 Sentinel Watchman Build

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SWTOR Sentinel Watchman Build Playstyle

So now that you’ve got the build you’re probably going to want to know just how exactly to put it to use, I’ll cover a general playstyle in this section as far as rotations go and then follow up with some tips and reminders before going into the key abilities and then it’s time to try it out in-game! So lets get started.

Now, as a Jedi Knight you have focus as a resource, therefore when trying to come up with a solid rotation you’ll need to split it up slightly because for portions of the fight you’ll have high amounts of focus whereas other parts you’ll need to regenerate that focus. I’ll start of with a rotation/priority list for when you have focus: You’ll want to use force leap to jump into the fight, immediately after you’ll want to put up overload saber to increase damage from following attacks.

After this you’ll want to use a zealous strike, followed by a cauterize, and then either a Blade storm or a Merciless Slash. At this point if you are needing focus start using some regenerative abilities or abilities that will not cost you any focus to allow you to regenerate, otherwise repeat starting with force leap.

Now, force leap and zealous strike both will generate some focus for you and generally this will be enough to keep that solid rotation going, but if for whatever reason you end up running out of focus try going with a rotation that is something along the lines of: force leap followed by a force spender such as cauterize and then zealous strike right after and then another force spender and then another force leap until you’ve regenerated enough focus to use a lot of abilities in a row.

It really takes a little getting used to and a lot of tweaking even with each different boss fight as some will have more downtime then others, so feel free to really mess around with it. This is a pretty loose guideline but still works great for something to build off of and really any type of similar rotation and playstyle in regards to this while using this build is going to be effective.

SWTOR Sentinel Watchman Build Tips/Reminders

One thing you should really practice is making sure that all of your damage over time effects are going at the same time while keeping your Merciless buff rolling, at the same time you also want to be watching that Cauterize cooldown. This does take quite a bit of getting used to and you’ll need to pay attention to a lot of different things.

If you are having a lot of trouble keeping track of all of this, don’t worry about it as much for now, try working on it somewhere other than progression raids because you don’t want to get so distracted paying attention to your DoTs, buffs, and cooldowns you can lose concentration on whats going on in the fight and will likely die.

SWTOR Sentinel Watchman Build Key Abilities

Overload Saber: I touched on this ability a tad bit earlier, as I said it will increase the damage on your next three attacks, specifically it will make the next three attacks burn the target for 402 damage over 6 seconds. This effect will stack up to three times so you shouldn’t worry about attacking once, waiting 6 seconds and then attacking again. However this effect does last for 15 seconds so it doesn’t need to be utilized right away, also, it cannot stack more then once every 1.5 seconds.

Repelling Blows: This is an honorable mention talent, it really isn’t anything complicated but I like to point on something nice when it is there, it will increase the direct damage from Cauterize by 30%, just something to keep in mind when considering which abilities are more important than others.

Plasma Blades: Increases the damage from your burn effects by 6%, keep this in mind when thinking about your burn damage over time abilities which are pretty relevant for the Watchman build, just know that they are a little more significant to keep on your target because of this talent.

Merciless Slash: A really cool ability right here, Merciless Slash will strike the target with both lightsabers for 528 – 808 weapon damage. But that’s not all, each time you use this ability you will be given a Merciless Buff, this buff will last for 15 seconds, lowering the cooldown of your next Merciless Slash by 1.5 seconds and stacking up to 3 times, this means you want to make sure you are using Merciless Slash regularly to ensure that it reaches 3 stacks of Merciless and that those stacks stay on.

Force Leap: I mentioned this ability earlier on, it will cause you to jump to a target dealing 1347 – 1437 damage and immobilizing the target for 2 seconds if possible as well as interrupting their current action if possible. On top of that it will build 3 focus, which is why you should be utilizing it pretty often because it builds force and deals decent damage and serves as an interrupt!

SWTOR Sentinel Watchman 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!