What do you need extra focus for with this build? The only 2 abilities you'll be using that cost focus are Overhead Strike and Riposte, and I feel like I have plenty of focus to manage these two abilities every time they're up. On the rare occasion that Blade Storm costs focus we have Combat Focus.

I'm looking for opinions on this build from Guardians currently clearing Operations content. http://www.torhead.com/skill-calc#500f0G0uZhGrMMhdzMM.1 What this build gains: Commanding Awe Unless I'm reading it wrong or the tooltip is wacky, this is a straight 4% damage reduction. That's good. Unremitting/Protector Leaping around is super fun and extremely good mitigation. Perma-crit/Perma-free Blade Storm With a hybrid build you're leaping around anyway, so Blade Storm is almost always free (hence why I saw fit to trade Victory Rush to get 3/3 Momentum). It's timed perfectly with Overhead Slash so after every one you just throw out a free crit Blade Storm (which also applies a mediocre dot). Threat city. When it's time to Blade Storm but you don't have a leap up pop Combat Focus. For me this seems to be in the ballpark of 2-3x more damage over deep Defense or more traditional Vig/hybrid build. Warding Call / Blade Barricade My 2 favorite Defense tree talents - you don't lose them with this build. What this build loses: Command This is the biggie imo. I feel like the added threat should be able to make up for a longer time in between Challenging Calls, but I dunno - I could be wrong. Blade Barrier This seems to be a pretty decent talent. I simply don't think it's worth giving up Commanding Awe and all of the added threat you get by investing more in Vigilance. Again, I could be wrong. Hilt Strike / Guardian Slash Defense tree's threat abilities. I just don't see either of these generating more threat and certainly not more damage than Overhead Slash / perma-crit Blade Storm.

If SWTOR copied virtually every aspect of vanilla WoW why would they take the end-game model (ie. same content different difficulties) from Wrath/Cata? Where's my vanilla WoW end-game to match the rest of my vanilla WoW clone? I've loved this game so far, but the Wrath style end-game will likely keep me from subscribing when my time is up.

Good guide. I'm a 39 prot spec Guardian and usually finish bgs with 7-9 medals and ballpark of 40-50k protection. Decent damage and even some heals (I guess from blade barrier) too. People don't respect the PeePS (so don't expect many MVP votes) but it does win bgs.