SWTOR Vigilance Guardian Best Solo Build

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This guide explains the best Vigilance Guardian Solo Build, optimized to perform extremely well in solo content. It enables you to have a far more enjoyable experience fighting trash mobs than you would with a sustained DPS build since you’ll be utilizing effects designed specifically for use against trash mobs!

00:00 - Start
00:20 - Skill Tree and Gearing
01:11 - Ability Priorities

Cut to Pieces, Branding Burst, and Blade Burst are the biggest parts of this build though because they enable you to do a ton of direct AoE damage while spreading your DoTs with ease.

Searing Meditation, in conjunction with the Champion’s Precision implant and the Preparation combat style passive, makes your DoTs have a 100% chance to crit and the buff will have practically 100% uptime thanks to the cooldown reset and long duration.

Saber Reflect is not as useful in solo content as Vigilance. Most adds get stunned by Vigilant Thrust and don’t even hit very hard in the first place, but the damage can be enough to prevent you from DoT spreading. Blade Blitz offers a nice boost of mobility and extra AoE attack.

This is the general priority system you’ll be using your abilities in against each group of trash in order to maximize your damage output.

Your first objective is to leap to the enemy with the highest HP and apply Shatter along with possibly Overhead Slash. Typically, Overhead Slash is excessive unless there is a Strong or Elite enemy in the group.

Technically, Vigilant Thrust will spread Blade Storm’s DoT, but because Blade Storm is an AoE, there isn’t really a need to do that. You do need to aim Blade Storm if you need to use AoE. The cone originates from your target rather than your character's mouth, so you can think of the target acting as a prism turning the single target attack into a cone behind them.

Doing Blade Storm after Vigilant Thrust also means everything will have its armor reduced before getting hit by Blade Storm while reducing the chance that the target you’re trying to spread to gets defeated before getting a chance to spread.

Overhead Slash, Whirling Blade, additional Vigilant Thrusts, and to a lesser extent, Blade Barrage, all work well as single-target finishers if the initial barrage wasn’t enough.

In heroics, you may need to do another round of DoT spreading with Shatter, Vigilant Thrust, and Blade Storm or use more than just Whirling Blade and Overhead Slash to finish off the healthiest target. It’s fine to use Vigilant Thrust against a single target, and if that isn’t enough you also have Blade Barrage.

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