“Jedi. Their order is a fading light in the dark. Corrupt and arrogant. They must be punished. The Jedi shall fall!”

Updated for Game Update 2.0!

Welcome to our tanking tree. The Darkness Assassin is the most offence-oriented of the three tank styles available in the Old Republic. We possess a mix of battlefield control, mobility and range that makes the playstyle a blast. The bulk of its survivability is defined by its high blocking chance, while it has moderate avoidance, stable mitigation, and the unique ability among tanks to self-heal.

Stat Priority

Absorption (60%) = Shield (65%) > Defence (20%) >= Endurance > Willpower >= Accuracy (110%)

Skill Tree

• 3/3 Charge Mastery
• 2/2 Lightning Reflexes
• 2/2 Lightning Recovery
• 2/2 Swelling Shadows
• 2/3 Electric Execution
• 1/1 Dark Ward
• 1/1 Energize
• 2/2 Premonition
• 1/1 Disjunction
• 3/3 Blood of Sith
• 2/2 Hollow
• 2/2 Electrify
• 1/1 Force Pull
• 2/2 Dark Bulwark
• 3/3 Mounting Darkness
• 2/2 Harnessed Darkness
• 2/2 Assassins Shelter
• 2/2 Conspirators Cloak
• 1/1 Wither
• 3/3 Chain Shock
• 2/2 Avoidance
• 2/2 Sith Defiance
• 2/2 Torment
• 1/3 Exploitive Strikes

Single Target Priority

• Dark Ward > force Lightning > Wither > Discharge > Shock > Assassinate >Thrash > Saber Strike
• Try and maintain Dark Ward at all times.
• Use Saber Strike if you fall below 20 force.
• Try and keep the debuffs active from Wither and Discharge

Multiple Target Priority

Wither >Discharge > Overload > Lacerate

Survivability Options

• Overcharge Saber
• Force Cloak
• Deflection
• Unbreakable Will
• Phase Walk

Armor Sets

 

Arkanian Ultimate

Arkanian Elite

Videos

In this video, you see all of the classes but skip to 3:28 to see the Assassin Phase Walk.

• Eye of the Storm no longer prevents Whirlwind from breaking on damage and making its target take less damage.

Companions

Companions now respect “hide helmet” settings in cinematics and when speaking.

• Xalek: The “Unify Color” option now works with Xalek’s Pants in combination with Neophyte Robe.

• Force Cloak now has a 2 minute cooldown.

Darkness

• Lightning Recovery has been redesigned. It now requires Lightning Reflexes and increases the Force recovered by Lightning Reflexes. Successful shielding, parries, and deflects now reduce the active cooldown of Force Shroud by .5 second per point. This effect cannot occur more than once every second.

Deception

• Duplicity: When Exploit Weakness activates, your next Maul deals 30% more damage and costs 75% less Force. This cannot occur more than once every 15 seconds, but each rank after the first reduces this rate limit by 3 seconds.
• Avoidance now additionally reduces the cooldown of Force Speed by 2.5 seconds per point.
• Darkswell now additionally finishes the cooldown of Blackout when you exit stealth. In addition, Darkswell causes Dark Embrace to reduce all damage taken by 25% while active.
• Fade now additionally reduces the damage taken from area effects by 15% per point and reduces the cooldown of Force Cloak by 15 seconds per point (down from 30 seconds per point). Entropic Field no longer provides this effect.
• Entropic Field has been redesigned. Critical hits now cause you to build an Entropic Field, increasing damage reduction by 1% per point per stack. This effect stacks up to 3 times. This skill is now located in tier 5 of the skill tree.
• Resourcefulness is now located in tier 6 of the skill tree.
• Cracking Blasts is now a 2-point skill with the same overall effect.
• Magnetism is a new 1-point skill in tier 6 of the skill tree. It causes the target of your Spike to be slowed by 70% for 3 seconds when the knockdown effect ends. It requires Static Cling.
• Voltaic Slash: Using Shock no longer consumes the buff provided by this ability. This change was made to better synergize with Assassinate during execute phases.
• Static Charges now correctly refers to the damage dealt by your next Surging Charge’s Discharge.
• Voltaic Slash now correctly increases Shock’s damage with 1 stack.

General

Darkness

Lightning Recovery has been redesigned. It now requires Lightning Reflexes and increases the Force recovered by Lightning Reflexes. Successful shielding, parries, and deflects now reduce the active cooldown of Force Shroud by .5 second per point. This effect cannot occur more than once every second.

Deception

Seaichfilms new psychological Star Wars fan film “Shadows of Corruption”. The film is based off the expanded Star Wars Universe of the game series Knights of the Old Republic. ”Shadows of Corruption” is a new kind of ‘Fan Film’. Yes folks, a fan film. Its darker and grittier than the fan films you’ve probably grown use to.

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• Synthweaving Leveling Guide 1 through 400

See which crew skills are pertinent to Assassins here.