Shield Tech Powertech Tank Bounty Hunter Class Guide (SWTOR 6.0)

The Shield Tech Powertech Tank’s role is to keep themselves and their group alive through technology-based shields a healthy use of their flamethrower. As a tank, the Powertech tank will constantly want to keep their enemies’ attention, by using their taunt abilities, Neural Dart and Sonic Missile, and by turning up the heat by using their attack abilities that generate threat.

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Single-Target Priority System / Rotation

Always - Affliction Lvl 16+ Affliction is not part of your priority abilities, but your target should always be afflicted. As long as you are keeping up with your Crushing Darkness and Chain Lightning abilities, your enemy will stay afflicted without you having to re-cast Affliction on them.

0 - Shoulder Cannon - Your Shoulder Cannon is a special type of attack that gradually loads 4 missiles on your back over time. Once you've got a missile loaded, you can launch a missile off of the global cooldown - this means you can use shoulder cannon even when all your other abilities are not available, and you can use it immediately before or after your other abilities. You can even use Shoulder Canon while you are stunned! Shoulder canon should be used as often as possibly, especially when you have Explosive Fuel up, as it increases ranged and tech critical hit chance by 25%.

0 - Heat Blast - Heat blast is another ability you can use immediately before or after any ability and should be used as often as possible - it's best to use it when you are expecting a major spike of damage. Heat Blast is only useable when you have 3 stacks of Heat Screen, earned by shielding an attack, or by using your Rocket Punch, Rail Shot or Rapid Shots abilities. You'll be using Rail Shot and Rocket Punch to build it up yourself, and hoping it will also passively build up as you shield attacks. As a bonus, building Heat Screens also reduces the cooldown of Heat Blast by a second.

1 - Firestorm (not sparkling) - Firestorm is your ability that does the most damage. One of your passive abilities called Flame Engine has a 50% chance to cause Firestorm's cooldown to be reset if you do direct damage: so you can use an unsparkling Firestorm, then use Rocket Punch and Rail Shot which will hopefully trigger that chance, and if it does you can use Firestorm again much faster than you could normally plus get the bonus from it sparkling! This won’t happen often, usually just in the opener and after some downtime. Rotationally, this will occur very rarely.

2 - Rail Shot (when useable) - Rail Shot is a powerful ability , but can only be used on enemies who are incapacitated targets or who are suffering from periodic damage, which you can cause by using Rocket Punch, which will shock your target for six seconds. It also gives you a stack of Heat Screen you'll be stacking up so you can use Heat Blast, and then a stack of Shield Enhancer, which will increase your defense.

3 - Rocket Punch - Rocket Punch deals a hard hit to your enemy. It also gives you a stack of Shield Enhancer and a stack of Heat Screen.

4 - Firestorm (if sparkling) - Firestorm is your ability that does the most damage, and when it's sparkling, it costs no heat, and deals 40% more damage!

5 - Flame Burst (if sparkling) - Flame burst is your filler attack ability and you'll be using it a lot. Ideally, you'll want to use it after you use Jet Charge, because Jet Charge grants you the ability to use Flame Burst twice without spending heat. You'll know if Flame Burst is free if it's sparkling on your quickbars.

6 - Jet Charge - If none of the above are available, you can also do a quick runaway from the boss and Jet Charge back in to give yourself two free Flame Burst attacks.

7 - Flame Burst - But, if you can't do that, you can still use Flame Burst as your filler attack, it will just cost heat.

8 - Rapid Shots - And last on the priority list is, Rapid Shots, your basic attack that helps you manage your available heat when you are running low, as it does not cost heat.

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