Is the difference for balance between running with the 30 percent crit vs stacking power and foregoing crit significant?

 

What do you recommend for relics? Wh pvp relic + matrix shard, or perhaps 2 pvp relics (wh power and bm power?)

It's not gamebreaking but it is noticeable because the spec needs stability for it's upkeep. Sure you may do better in a 1v1 situation, but Balance is meant to be ongoing regardless. So I recommend the 30% crit. I run around with 40% actually, but that's ridiculous.

WH Power PvP Relic + Matrix Cube.

thx shin what do u think about theses stats

 

Balance:

Melee

Accuracy 95.34%

Critical Chance 30.31%

 

Inf/kc dps :

Melee

Accuracy 95.34%

Critical Chance 17.30%

 

is the accuracy and crit enough in each spec ?

I really need to know your other stats. This isn't enough information for me to make a judgement because obviously INF/KC seems to be losing here.

What is your Power/Exp etc?

ok i did write the complete stats list for both specs and i clicked back page by mistake *face palm*

here are the links from mr. robot for my future shadow gearing for both specs inf and balance i hope u can check it

inf:

http://swtor.askmrrobot.com/character/e57bad61-d070-4851-afca-4c67ebe4faea

balance :

http://swtor.askmrrobot.com/character/8aaf8a38-899e-44fe-bfdc-84b618a59762

ill be grateful if you tell me your opinion on each stats for both spec's that need to be corrected if its more/less than enough cuz i guess am gonna gear for both specs i hate to stay at one play style and i dont wanna reach at this gearing point which will take sometimes and then realize that i did a big mistake.

or you can build both spec gearing and share it with us .

i know am asking too much you already did a great work with your vids and tips

Thank you...

ok i did write the complete stats list for both specs and i clicked back page by mistake *face palm*

 

here are the links from mr. robot for my future shadow gearing for both specs inf and balance i hope u can check it

 

inf:

http://swtor.askmrrobot.com/character/e57bad61-d070-4851-afca-4c67ebe4faea

balance :

http://swtor.askmrrobot.com/character/8aaf8a38-899e-44fe-bfdc-84b618a59762

 

ill be grateful if you tell me your opinion on each stats for both spec's that need to be corrected if its more/less than enough cuz i guess am gonna gear for both specs i hate to stay at one play style and i dont wanna reach at this gearing point which will take sometimes and then realize that i did a big mistake.

or you can build both spec gearing and share it with us .

 

i know am asking too much you already did a great work with your vids and tips

 

Thank you...

This is a great balance between both specs. Well done.

I would suggest bumping your crit on infil to at least 20%, but this isn't a gamebreaking change and you can remain with your current setup as is.

I tend to favour stupendous crit for Balance, but 30% is all you need in reality.

Accuracy seems to be fine, though I would hang out at 97% to assure safety.

Looks good.

Really enjoy your videos and I've found your advice on specs and stats to be very helpful. A few questions:

1. Are you using orange augmented gear and forgoing set bonuses? If so what augments are you using?

2. I noticed you are either using the expertise adrenal or warzone expertise buffs that spawn in almost all of your fights. What relic(s) are you slotting?

3. You inspired me to switch to balance from Infil and I am loving it! My own hangup is when to activate Force Potency, what do you suggest? Ive been popping my relic+potency before using FiB and then using Project but Im wondering if I should follow FIB with a telekinetic throw while I have potency up. Your thoughts?

Youtube:

 

Watchmen

The Corsair

Jedi Shadow/Sith Assassin Guide

 

The ultimate Jedi Shadow/ Sith Assassin guide to PvP. Updated for 1.2, this segment is jam-packed with information to cover almost every aspect of this class. From learning to spec to understanding how to use your abilities, this montage sees to it that you perform at the top notch of your ability. Hope you enjoy the education and find the material useful. Stay tuned!

 

00:19-00:39 : Ability Codex

00:40-01:33 : Kinetic Combat Introduction, Rotation, Tips, Focus and Gear

01:34-02:09 : Infiltration Introduction, Rotation, Tips, Focus and Gear

02:10-02:45 : Balance Introduction, Rotation, Tips, Focus and Gear

02:47-03:15 : Gear Setup for All Specs

03:16-04:57 : Example Fights for All Specs

04:58-05:16 : Example Specs for All Specs

 

Produced by PSI.

Edited by Shinarika.

Filmed by Shinarika.

 

Balance: http://www.torhead.com/skill-calc#601McZRZfMfRrMkrfz.1

Infiltration: http://www.torhead.com/skill-calc#6010MZhGbRkGMbtzZf0c.1

Kinetic: http://www.torhead.com/skill-calc#601rcrozrskrsZZf0cM.1

 

Additional

Ability Descriptions: http://jedi.well-of-souls.com/abilities_consular.html

Gear/Character Check: http://swtor.askmrrobot.com/

Nice video as always, and I must say that i've learned a lot from you regarding "rotation/priority" etc. The only thing I disagree with on this though is the spec that you use for Inf. Like you I stared using the 2/31/8 spec from the beginning, and I absolutely loved the burst potential that it has.

My problem with it though is when setting up for burst. I essentially have a 45% chance to do an extra 2-2.5k damage every 10 seconds due to upheaval. Instead of putting my points into upheaval I did this spec:

http://www.torhead.com/skill-calc#601McMZhGrRkhMbtzZc.1

What i've found out by using that spec instead is that I lose the burst potential (yes I know burst is king in PVP) with the extra rock, I gain though about 4-500 extra white damage per CS. In that same cool down time of 10 seconds I'm not doing about 2.6k-3.3k of guaranteed damage. I also gained additional survivability by the decrease in cool downs for resilience and force speed. Against tank armor that i'm trying to chew threw like vanguards/KC shadows i'm hitting much harder and its almost a winable scenerio for me.

Now, my gear is no where near what yours is, i'm just BM with a the Force Healer earpiece. I would imagine with your gear levels you would do even more and it would make the numbers even better. Here is my gearing below for your comparison.

http://swtor.askmrrobot.com/character/749a9239-675e-4f1f-805a-91419afaebe7

If you could give it a try and let me know your thoughts on it i'd appreciate it.

Nice video as always, and I must say that i've learned a lot from you regarding "rotation/priority" etc. The only thing I disagree with on this though is the spec that you use for Inf. Like you I stared using the 2/31/8 spec from the beginning, and I absolutely loved the burst potential that it has.

 

My problem with it though is when setting up for burst. I essentially have a 45% chance to do an extra 2-2.5k damage every 10 seconds due to upheaval. Instead of putting my points into upheaval I did this spec:

 

http://www.torhead.com/skill-calc#601McMZhGrRkhMbtzZc.1

 

What i've found out by using that spec instead is that I lose the burst potential (yes I know burst is king in PVP) with the extra rock, I gain though about 4-500 extra white damage per CS. In that same cool down time of 10 seconds I'm not doing about 2.6k-3.3k of guaranteed damage. I also gained additional survivability by the decrease in cool downs for resilience and force speed. Against tank armor that i'm trying to chew threw like vanguards/KC shadows i'm hitting much harder and its almost a winable scenerio for me.

 

Now, my gear is no where near what yours is, i'm just BM with a the Force Healer earpiece. I would imagine with your gear levels you would do even more and it would make the numbers even better. Here is my gearing below for your comparison.

 

http://swtor.askmrrobot.com/character/749a9239-675e-4f1f-805a-91419afaebe7

 

If you could give it a try and let me know your thoughts on it i'd appreciate it.

That's exactly my spec too expect I put the points in expertise and not force speed. I noticed a 200dps increase thanks to combat log parsing and what not.

Sustained > Chance

that's why at the very start I with willpower- power > crit.

Sustain will always trump chance.

Nice video as always, and I must say that i've learned a lot from you regarding "rotation/priority" etc. The only thing I disagree with on this though is the spec that you use for Inf. Like you I stared using the 2/31/8 spec from the beginning, and I absolutely loved the burst potential that it has.

 

My problem with it though is when setting up for burst. I essentially have a 45% chance to do an extra 2-2.5k damage every 10 seconds due to upheaval. Instead of putting my points into upheaval I did this spec:

 

http://www.torhead.com/skill-calc#601McMZhGrRkhMbtzZc.1

 

What i've found out by using that spec instead is that I lose the burst potential (yes I know burst is king in PVP) with the extra rock, I gain though about 4-500 extra white damage per CS. In that same cool down time of 10 seconds I'm not doing about 2.6k-3.3k of guaranteed damage. I also gained additional survivability by the decrease in cool downs for resilience and force speed. Against tank armor that i'm trying to chew threw like vanguards/KC shadows i'm hitting much harder and its almost a winable scenerio for me.

 

Now, my gear is no where near what yours is, i'm just BM with a the Force Healer earpiece. I would imagine with your gear levels you would do even more and it would make the numbers even better. Here is my gearing below for your comparison.

 

http://swtor.askmrrobot.com/character/749a9239-675e-4f1f-805a-91419afaebe7

 

If you could give it a try and let me know your thoughts on it i'd appreciate it.

I am in a similar boat. I focus mainly on pve currently with my INF and find the 10 second reduction in speed is huge for boss mechanics (our only darn gap closer) and 15 off resilience is invaluable. If DPS is a wash between 7/31/3 and 2/31/8 my decision is easy...but I have yet to see a definitive comparison.

Also, if you don't mind expanding on your omission of security breach that would be awesome. I know it's a debatable topic and I'd love to hear your opinion

Thanks!!!

Sorry to double post but 1 more thing...

I experimented with only 2 points in Infiltration Tactics and am finding my proc availability is unchanged. The result? A free point in shadowy veil. Not exactly epic but it's free

Anyone else try this and like it? Still somewhat undecided...

This is a great balance between both specs. Well done.

 

I would suggest bumping your crit on infil to at least 20%, but this isn't a gamebreaking change and you can remain with your current setup as is.

 

I tend to favour stupendous crit for Balance, but 30% is all you need in reality.

 

Accuracy seems to be fine, though I would hang out at 97% to assure safety.

 

Looks good.

thank you shin

i updated the stats for both spec i guess its slightly better now

balance crit at 35.26% (raplaced 2x power mod / 3x power/surge enhancment with 2xcrit mod/ 3x crit/surge enhancment)

inf/kc crit at 20.50% (Replaced the the bracres to stalker and the belt to force masters)

both accuracy at 96.90% (Replaced power/surge enhancment with power/accuracy)

both spec surge droped to 75.77%

inf/kc:

http://swtor.askmrrobot.com/character/757d85a2-e1a8-4004-ba2d-3d88ffdf2ab0

Balance:

http://swtor.askmrrobot.com/character/a1b60bff-6853-45ed-a05b-1f2ac78380c5

hope these links will help others too

thank you shin

 

i updated the stats for both spec i guess its slightly better now

 

balance crit at 35.26% (raplaced 2x power mod / 3x power/surge enhancment with 2xcrit mod/ 3x crit/surge enhancment)

inf/kc crit at 20.50% (Replaced the the bracres to stalker and the belt to force masters)

 

both accuracy at 96.90% (Replaced power/surge enhancment with power/accuracy)

 

both spec surge droped to 75.77%

 

inf/kc:

http://swtor.askmrrobot.com/character/757d85a2-e1a8-4004-ba2d-3d88ffdf2ab0

Balance:

http://swtor.askmrrobot.com/character/a1b60bff-6853-45ed-a05b-1f2ac78380c5

 

hope these links will help others too

It will take some time to min/max gear but I'm telling you guys that we have it good this round .

I gained 138+ Power today and went Infil.

5408 crit on a Kinetic Tank.

It will take some time to min/max gear but I'm telling you guys that we have it good this round .

I gained 138+ Power today and went Infil.

 

5408 crit on a Kinetic Tank.

How are you getting crits like this? I see them in videos and whatnot and people touting them in forums, but I can never get past at the most 4k w/ relics and even adrenal. I've got full 1.2 BM with purple resolve augments on everything except the lightsaber, a +41 exp crystal in the lightsaber, and the rotation down fairly solidly. Can't even get that high against the PvP dummy.

How are you getting crits like this? I see them in videos and whatnot and people touting them in forums, but I can never get past at the most 4k w/ relics and even adrenal. I've got full 1.2 BM with purple resolve augments on everything except the lightsaber, a +41 exp crystal in the lightsaber, and the rotation down fairly solidly. Can't even get that high against the PvP dummy.

I'm currently at almost 830 Power (Rakata Stim Buffed), 75% Crit Multiplier, 1533 Willpower and 933 Expertise. Highest Crit so far in this new 1.2 Patch: 6400 with Project. Yesterday I got an 5900 Crit with Force Breach against an T3 (with few T4 Items) Marauder. Burst in infiltration is still very nice But your survivalbility is even worse, too. Especially in Huttball, you will recognize that a 4s CC where you have no break ready is your guaranteed death

How are you getting crits like this? I see them in videos and whatnot and people touting them in forums, but I can never get past at the most 4k w/ relics and even adrenal. I've got full 1.2 BM with purple resolve augments on everything except the lightsaber, a +41 exp crystal in the lightsaber, and the rotation down fairly solidly. Can't even get that high against the PvP dummy.

This very thread is about how I can achieve that damage.

Here's the link again:

I'm currently at almost 830 Power (Rakata Stim Buffed), 75% Crit Multiplier, 1533 Willpower and 933 Expertise. Highest Crit so far in this new 1.2 Patch: 6400 with Project. Yesterday I got an 5900 Crit with Force Breach against an T3 (with few T4 Items) Marauder. Burst in infiltration is still very nice But your survivalbility is even worse, too. Especially in Huttball, you will recognize that a 4s CC where you have no break ready is your guaranteed death

I can possibly see Infil being slightly more viable due to raw burst damage, but I need more time to see how things play out. As it stands, I'm just constantly doing 4.5-5.4ks without cds. With CDs... well .

Really enjoy your videos and I've found your advice on specs and stats to be very helpful. A few questions:

 

1. Are you using orange augmented gear and forgoing set bonuses? If so what augments are you using?

2. I noticed you are either using the expertise adrenal or warzone expertise buffs that spawn in almost all of your fights. What relic(s) are you slotting?

3. You inspired me to switch to balance from Infil and I am loving it! My own hangup is when to activate Force Potency, what do you suggest? Ive been popping my relic+potency before using FiB and then using Project but Im wondering if I should follow FIB with a telekinetic throw while I have potency up. Your thoughts?

I think you missed my earlier post, thanks again for all your info!

Of course, these numbers are with CD's up. Currently, I buy the warzone expertise adrenals from other players because of their expense (okay, they dropped the price yesterday, but you need the commendations for other things currently).

In addition, I got this sweet thing few days ago:

http://www.torhead.com/item/3reRa9f/black-hole-strikers-mk-1-generator

Cost: 50 Black Hole Commendations

In comparison to the PvP (Force-Master) Offhand, it's really cheap and easy to get. Nice bonus to power / willpower.

Of course, these numbers are with CD's up. Currently, I buy the warzone expertise adrenals from other players because of their expense (okay, they dropped the price yesterday, but you need the commendations for other things currently).

 

In addition, I got this sweet thing few days ago:

 

http://www.torhead.com/item/3reRa9f/black-hole-strikers-mk-1-generator

Cost: 50 Black Hole Commendations

 

In comparison to the PvP (Force-Master) Offhand, it's really cheap and easy to get. Nice bonus to power / willpower.

Wow excellent idea! Will be working on getting that now!

Umm, that thing is garbage if those stats are exact. It's lacking 600ish Force Power to be any good.

On top of 82 (IIRC) expertise.

On top of 82 (IIRC) expertise.

Well, that was a given, since it's pve acquired. I do suspect there's some Force power on it. At least I hope so.

Umm, that thing is garbage if those stats are exact. It's lacking 600ish Force Power to be any good.

That's because TORHEAD has mostly wrong stats Go to the vendor and look. These are the stat's currently equipped on my character (live server):

http://www.abload.de/image.php?img=screenshot_2012-04-25uak1a.jpg

Umm, that thing is garbage if those stats are exact. It's lacking 600ish Force Power to be any good.

It has 649 FP. That site is showing the wrong stats.

On top of 82 (IIRC) expertise.

1100 is the new exp soft cap. You can easily get over 1240+ with WH gear.

My questions keep getting buried .

1. Are you using orange augmented gear and forgoing set bonuses? If so what augments are you using?

2. I noticed you are either using the expertise adrenal or warzone expertise buffs that spawn in almost all of your fights. What relic(s) are you slotting?

3. You inspired me to switch to balance from Infil and I am loving it! My only hangup is when to activate Force Potency, what do you suggest? Ive been popping my relic+potency before using FiB and then using Project but Im wondering if I should follow FIB with a telekinetic throw while I have potency up. Your thoughts?

My questions keep getting buried .

 

1. Are you using orange augmented gear and forgoing set bonuses? If so what augments are you using?

2. I noticed you are either using the expertise adrenal or warzone expertise buffs that spawn in almost all of your fights. What relic(s) are you slotting?

3. You inspired me to switch to balance from Infil and I am loving it! My only hangup is when to activate Force Potency, what do you suggest? Ive been popping my relic+potency before using FiB and then using Project but Im wondering if I should follow FIB with a telekinetic throw while I have potency up. Your thoughts?

I'm really sorry about that.

1- No, I'm transferring set bonuses from WH gear. I get my bonuses.

2- Matrix Cube M7-R3 and BM Power Relic (Soon to be WH).

3- I suggest using it for FiB+Project combo. FP isn't as useful as it is compared to infil or KC, but still isn't bad. TK isn't a bad idea either, but I'd do FiB+Project for burst.