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    Hybrid build

    in Sentinel / Marauder

    Posted

    Just trying to stay constructive here, but how do you see an average rotation going with this spec? because i imagine you'll have focus management issues. Besides, you already have 2 roots + leap. why need another closer?

    Hybrid build

    in Sentinel / Marauder

    Posted · Edited by Stealios

    Combat already is an anti-kite build. Not sure what you're trying to achieve by this one.

     

    - You didn't take defensive roll, so you'll die alot quicker by aoe dmg.

    - Didn't take 30% crit dmg on blade storm, so it won't hit really hard.

    - Didn't take 'Blade rush' so no guaranteed proc of ataru form.

    - You don't have focused slash, so focus management will be horrible

     

    - You took insight, which is pointless since your only 'regularly used' force attack is bladestorm which should only be used with combat trance active so it's auto crit

    - Took swelling winds to do what?

     

    - You took zealous leap which is a nice gap closer, hits nice but costs focus as well.

     

    So essentially you lost 4 good things and only got 1 decent thing back.

     

    EDIT: also noticed you didn't take reduced cooldown on zealous strike. So I imagine this build doesn't really work

    Got my Sentinel on the PTS, so ask anything about new changes

    in Sentinel / Marauder

    Posted · Edited by Stealios

    Are the EWH weapons seriously as suck as they appear on Dulfy? The expertise is the same and they want us to take poorly optimized weapons over our min/maxed ones for an increase of 5-10 in str and end?

     

    Sadly: Yes. While I personally believe that there should be no more expertise added to new tiers of gear, it's just ridiculous how the sentinel weapons are all accuracy + critical rating.

    The power surge enhancement that we need is in the Vindicator (Guardian) offhand & it's not even possible to get the ideal mod since there is none of those with strength atm.

    Best option IMO is to just take the hilts and see if the mods/enhancements are an upgrade to another armor piece.

     

    However, I think somewhere was mentioned that the new PvP gear will come with the new wz, so hopefully that will come soon and make it slightly more acceptable.

    Buffs to Focus at last, but something is still missing

    in Combat Styles

    Posted

    Bad idea. That would mean that if someone would stun a mob/player that you would want to hit, that there would be 0 damage on your biggest hitter.

    Now I get what you mean, but I can't remember the last time that I couldn't use sweep during FP/Ops since our CC'ed mobs are either away from the fight or I position myself so I don't accicdentally hit close CC'ed enemies.

     

    If they apply the change you suggest it will just be 'dumb-mode' for people that think they have to stand still during a fight

    Got my Sentinel on the PTS, so ask anything about new changes

    in Sentinel / Marauder

    Posted · Edited by Stealios

    With that many changes to focus, what does ur rotation as focus sentinel look like now if u could execute it in an *ideal* way to get the most out of it? And how do ur 1vs1 fights end up with other sents/maras from other specs if u have gotten the chance? (if u noticed any different things fighting other strong classes like powertechs/vanguards, any input is also very welcomed)

     

    Oh and btw, if ur the Stelios from Red Eclipse, hello dude :) hope ull have much fun testing now, am really looking forward to test my home spec by myself.

     

    Yeah, that's me :).

    Ideal rotation would be very similar to: force leap>force exhaustian>zealous strike> force sweep> bladestorm>slash>slash>stasis>zealous leap> sweep.

    Something like that. It comes down to some luck with crits on your abilities to lower CD on force sweep + depending on zen you don't need to build focus really.

     

    In 1 vs 1 so far i've noticed that you can pull off a lot more sweeps than usual, however most sentinels seem to be focus so haven't played against a watchman or combat yet.

    Against PT's you still have to be quick, but if you manage to hit them with 2 sweeps they're usually gone.

     

    I asked this in the other thread, but probably better here.

    Can you give more details on this:

     

    Basically Zen builds 12 focus over 3 seconds now. I've tried activating it at different times, but any time i had more than 3 focus it was nearly impossible to drop it before zen filled bar completely. It also makes force sweep free if specced into 'singularity'.

    If you want to really burst it's going to be leap+zen>sweep>bladestorm>force exhaustian>slash>slash>zealous leap> force sweep. Which can be done in approx. 12 seconds.

     

    I wonder if Force Sweep now executes better. Before your damage could be very delayed but it seems to have been corrected - confirm?

     

    Also, i would like to think what you think of Focus in general now. I for one am pretty keen on leaving Watchman for Focus if it's indeed a better tree now.

     

    Yes, it executes a lot better. Animation is still the same (as far as I could tell), but it's sped up. So if you really have bad luck it will still be late, but it activates closer to start of GCD than to the end of it (like it is atm).

     

    If you have a good healer on your team I'd definitely suggest focus. I wasn't having any focus management issues.

    The change to lower cost of force sweep by 1 from each stack of singularity is amazing.

    However I'm afraid that they will change some things again before this comes actually to the live servers.

    Got my Sentinel on the PTS, so ask anything about new changes

    in Sentinel / Marauder

    Posted

    As visible in the title, my sentinel is on the PTS so if there are any thing's you'd like to know I'll try and answer them as well as possible (keep in mind I live in Europe so Americans might be unlucky and have to wait a while before I log on)

     

    Here are the changes that affect us:

     

    General

     

    Force Sweep's timing has been adjusted; the ability now executes more quickly.

    Force Stasis has a new animation.

     

    Sentinel

     

    Guarded by the Force now lasts 4 seconds (down from 5 seconds).

    Zen (Shii-Cho Form) has been redesigned. Now, while Shii-Cho Form is active, using Zen consumes 1 charge every .5 seconds, generating 2 Focus for each charge consumed.

    Valorous Call can no longer be activated when you already have 30 stacks of Centering

     

    Focus (Sentinel)

    Zephyrean Slash has been redesigned. It now gives Strike, Zealous Strike, Slash, Blade Storm, and Dispatch a 50% chance per point to reduce the active cooldown of Force Sweep and Zealous Leap by .5 seconds per point.

    Swift Slash now additionally affects Dispatch.

    Saber Strength now additionally affects Dispatch.

    Singularity: Stacks of Singularity now additionally reduce the Focus cost of Force Sweep by 12.5% per point per stack.

    Shii-Cho Mastery's armor penetration has been increased to 15% per point.

    Sentinels not affected by 1.4?

    in Sentinel / Marauder

    Posted

    General

     

    Force Sweep's timing has been adjusted; the ability now executes more quickly.

    Force Stasis has a new animation.

     

     

     

    Sentinel

     

    Guarded by the Force now lasts 4 seconds (down from 5 seconds).

    Zen (Shii-Cho Form) has been redesigned. Now, while Shii-Cho Form is active, using Zen consumes 1 charge every .5 seconds, generating 2 Focus for each charge consumed.

    Valorous Call can no longer be activated when you already have 30 stacks of Centering

     

    Focus (Sentinel)

    Zephyrean Slash has been redesigned. It now gives Strike, Zealous Strike, Slash, Blade Storm, and Dispatch a 50% chance per point to reduce the active cooldown of Force Sweep and Zealous Leap by .5 seconds per point.

    Swift Slash now additionally affects Dispatch.

    Saber Strength now additionally affects Dispatch.

    Singularity: Stacks of Singularity now additionally reduce the Focus cost of Force Sweep by 12.5% per point per stack.

    Shii-Cho Mastery's armor penetration has been increased to 15% per point.

     

    So yeah, it appears there will be 1 really bad change & a lot of good.

    How I see it:

    -1 sec off GbtF = really really annoying, but nothing impossible to adapt to.

     

    I've played around with 3/7/31 focus build on PTS and IT. IS. AWESOME!

    I've been sweeping people every 6/8 seconds, sweep animation is sped up so much less delay. 10% more armor pen. than we originally had. I'd say it is borderline OP (not tried against really organized teams yet)

    PvP - WH Vind Set - Min\Max *Help Pls*

    in Sentinel / Marauder

    Posted · Edited by Stealios

    Very little crit, it isn't worth it. And I never once said that sentinels used tech. Reading comprehension isn't exactly one of your strong suits I gather. I simply stated that power increased all 3 of these damage types while strength increased only one. And hopefully you do realize that we do use force. So no the difference isnt just 5 points on the primary, it affects each type of attack while strength only affects melee. Sounds to me like you've got some reading up to do. ;)

     

    Strength for sentinels adds to both melee & force bonus damage.

    Also getting all 14 available augments slots with strenght instead of power will give you a netto loss of 5 bonus damage & a netto gain of 1.2% critical chance.

     

    You tell me what's better. I'm betting on the side of mathemetics and say 1.2% crit chance is better than 5 bonus damage

     

    Sounds like you've got some reading up to do.

    Sentinels not affected by 1.4?

    in Sentinel / Marauder

    Posted

    What nerfs are you talking about?

    Other than a few stuns getting 10m instead of 30m range, most of those changes (notice I say 'most' not 'all') are positive for those classes.

     

    I don't think we'll see any changes. At least not to damage output. They would have changed that in 1.3 if they thought it was needed.

     

    Not sure how the resolve thing will work out, but that's going to be the same for everyone I guess.

    PvP - WH Vind Set - Min\Max *Help Pls*

    in Sentinel / Marauder

    Posted

    Use overkill augments over strength. Other than that your stats are pretty solid.

     

    Don't listen to him. If you want to optimize it's strength augments all the way.

     

    What i did with enhancements & mods was swap everything with high endurance for the version with low endurance to get more power/crit in.

    Once I had that done I changed around some stats (dont remember what exactly), but I'm fairly sure i dropped an accuracy enhancement to get more surge.

    Optimizing the WH gear

    in Sentinel / Marauder

    Posted

    Sorry I'm too lazy and at work atm to look up all specifics, but i started by swapping all mods & enhancement that have high endurance/low power by ones with low endurance/high power by getting either another piece of sentinel or guardian dps gear. Think at some point i bought some sage gear for enhancements as well.

     

    Also: don't wear blackhole mods. without expertise you will crumble in pvp (or at least 1.2k expertise as some people see that as magic number)

    Pommel Strike / PvP

    in Combat Styles

    Posted

    Have you run up against a fully aug WH? I have been hit by 5-6k shots many times.

     

    I am full aug WH myself and there's plenty of full aug WH players that still do less damage than a normal mob.

    Ofcourse there are good players as well, just saying the majority couldn't make a tear in a paperbag even with all their powers

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