SWTOR Kinetic Combat/Darkness Assassin PvP Guide 7.4 (Abilities and Utilities Translated)
Timestamps:
Tacticals 0:00 - 2:24
Abilities 2:25 - 9:03
Builds 9:04 - 15:57
Utilities and Combos 15:58 - End
You can always use pull plus a hardstun to bait inpatient players into using their movement abilities or breakers, or do the reverse and use hardstuns to bait breaker then pull. Could also try pull then double slow then hardstun, just vary it by player instead of letting people figure out what you’re gonna do EVERY single time.
Special note for cleave/swaps build health upkeep: Project/Shock and Slow Time/Wither build your stacks of ?/Harnessed Darkness, buffing your Cascading Debris/Deprading Volts. During your AoE taunt use Debris/Volts on cooldown for self heals!
Utilities:
23: Chained Cascade/Chained Volts (Cleave) or personal preference for swaps
27: Spinning Kick/Spike for TT and Cleave or Energized Project/Energized Shock for swaps
39: Gloom ward for cleave/swaps or Dusk Ward for TT
43: Light Forces/Dark Forces (self heals during taunts for damaging taunted targets)
51: Sturdiness/Dark Stability (cc immunity)
64: Force Phase (Force Speed and Shadow Stride/Phantom Stride movement cleanse/immunity)
68: Force Lift/Whirlwind for Cleave/Swaps or Force Wave/Overload for TT
73: Celerity/Avoidance for Cleave/Swaps and Cloak of Resilience/Shroud of Madness for TT
Abilities Transcribed on the button they’re on, Shadow on the left Assassin on the right:
1: Saber Strike (both)
2: Double Strike/Thrash (Trauma Debuff)
3: Project/Shock (builds stacks of Harnessed Shadows/Harnessed Darkness whether procced or not, melee critical chance increased)
4: Slow Time/Wither (AoE slow 30% for 10 seconds, builds stacks of Harnessed Shadows/Harnessed Darkness)
5: Whirling Blow/Lacerate (Aoe Trauma debuff)
6: Force Stun/Electrocute (Hardstun)
7: Force Speed (both)
8: Spinning Strike/Assassinate (execute below 30%)
10: Force of Will/Unbreakable Will (Breaker)
Shift 1: Force Pull
Shift 2: Shadow Strike/Maul (Next Project/Shock is auto crit and costs no force)
Shift 3: Force Breach/Discharge (unsteady debuff)
Shift 4: Force Potency/Recklessness (2 crit stacks)
Shift 5: Cascading Debris/Deprading Volts (consumes stacks of ?/Harnessed Darkness)
Shift 6: Force Slow
Shift 7: ShadowStride/Phantom Stride (leap, use in stealth on tank tunnel build)
Num + (11) : Force Cloak (both)
Shift 10: Warzone Medpac
Alt 1: Kinetic Ward/Dark Ward (Shield Chance, affects tacticals for cleave/swaps build)
Alt 2: Deflection (both, 50% white damage defense chance)
Alt 3: Resilience/Force Shroud (Yellow damage 200% resist)
Alt 4: Mind Snap/Jolt (Interrupt)
Alt 5: Force Wave/Overload (Knockback, tank tunnel build)
Alt 6: Spinning Kick/Spike (1 gcd hardstun, Cleave Build)
Alt 7: Warzone Adrenal
Alt 10: Mass Mind Control (AoE taunt)
Alt 11: Mind Control (Single Taunt)
Alt 12: Force Lift/Whirlwind (Single Target soft stun 8 seconds, Cleave/Swaps build)
Num - (12) : Guard
Alt 8: Stealth
Alt 9: Mind Maze/Mind Trap (Stealth Sap)
I do not currently have any gameplay for this class, but I will try to get some as soon as possible, recording in regs, where this class is more optimal, has become quite difficult as my pc has gotten older, so most likely gameplay will be from arenas if I can find a healer to heal me 😂
If you’d like to learn the other tank specs here are some guides by myself, Cease, and Ivano.
Jugg tank:
Myself - • SWTOR Immortal Juggernaut/Defense Guardian...
Cease - • Defense & Immortal Quick Guide for PvP - S...
Here’s some of my best gameplay for jugg tank (my main spec)
• How to use focus target for guardswap and ...
• SWTOR Defense Guardian Arena PvP: Games at...
• SWTOR Immortal Juggernaut Arena PvP: How t...
• SWTOR Defense Guardian Arena PvP: Double t...
• SWTOR Defense Guardian Arena PvP: The dirt...
PT Tank (Ivano)
Part 1 (build) • Immortal Meat Shield: Shield Tech / Shield...
Part 2 (gameplay) • SHIELD TECH PVP GUIDE - PART 2 (How to pla...
Here’s a general PvP guide that covers about 90% of knowledge you’ll need to know:
• SWTOR Arena PvP and UI Guide/Tips