I’m not going to give specific ways or combinations of enhancements and mods to exactly hit the stat breakpoints because the DPS increase from using 3 power more or less is pretty close to irrelevant especially in level-70 content where mastery, power and endurance are capped. Fairly weakĬompared to abilites like Force Shroud from the Shadow or Saber Reflect from Guardian.Īdditionally, Vanguard is one of the two classes that has no ability to cleanse itself from debuffs. Is Reactive Shield which gives you only 25% damage reduction. Weaker defensive CDs than almost every other class. You basically have 3 AoE abilities that deal only mediocre damage and not evenĪll of them can be incorporated in your rotation.Īlso, while Vanguard is quite tanky he has WeaknessesĪs I said in the previous section, Vanguard isĮxcellent at single-target damage, but he lacks the tools to be an AoE threat. Another advantage comes from gearing: Both Vanguard DPS specs use the exact same set bonus, stats and amplifiers. With Sonic Defense and the chance to passively absorb incoming damage added to that, the Vanguard has quite some survivability.įurthermore, Vanguard can bring one of the most useful tools in the game to every raid, the Sonic Rebounder (more to that in 4.4). Vanguard is a melee class with heavy armor and AoE damage reduction which will make you take less damage than your fellow raid members.

Will boost your output a lot for a short time. Offensive CDs as well as off-GCD Shoulder Cannons and a lot of passive damage Is a burn phase, you want to have a Tactics Vanguard in your raid. Tactics Vanguard is the class with the strongest Listed below are some of the abbreviations I’m going to use in this guide:įirst, let’s look at what makes Vanguard as I would never claim to know everything there is about Vanguard and that my way is 100% the one to go. Please be aware that this guide describes my way of playing Vanguard DPS and can be used as a recommendation to build your Vanguard, not as a rule. Useful class in every kind of PvE content because it does quite a lot of damage Tactics Vanguard is currently an incredibly How is the Class and Spec changing with SWTOR 7.0.

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