I choose Defense Guardian B, strickly solo questing on Onderon. I have been playing Defense Guardian since game release
Does this feel like a Jedi Guardian? Please explain why or why not.
Overall, yes it feels like a Jedi Guardian. Once noticing the companion only has 20k health, I applied guard to the companion and used Challenging call to grab aggo. on the mobs. At one point I place the comp on passive to see how the defense stats were working on a silver mob, health only dropped about 15% before killing the silver mob. I felt that I could slowly tab target through the mobs to maintain aggro. Overall for solo questing, yes it felt like a tank.
Is there anything that feels missing or out of place in the combat rotation?
In my opinion, no. I did not feel like anything was missing. This maybe because I played guardian tank from launch and in the beginning, there was no abilities like saber reflect, blade blitz. Even in live, I do not rely on those abilities to grab aggro (only use saber reflect after challenging call for mutilple mobs in Ops mostly). I can use the two AOE force abilities (force sweep and slam?) to perform similar function to saber reflect of collecting mobs in ops.
What are your initial thoughts with the effectiveness of the Jedi Guardian against enemies?
Solo wise, I think it is very effective against enemies npcs. Once geared out in 306 with augs, would be good for Heriocs.
How are you enjoying or not enjoying this class?
I have enjoyed this class from the beginning. I am a bit old school in tanking, I could care less about Saber reflect and blade blitz on a defense guardian. While nice to have, not necessary to enjoy the class.
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