7.1.1 Update: Saber Strike will no longer tick DoTs, so the advice to spam it instead of Thrash is no longer valid. We return to the balancing act of Thrash to tick damage vs Saber Strike to recover force
I love the Hatred/Madness specs on Sins and Sorcs, but primarily use Deception/Lightning on dailies and most times outside of Operations because I feel Hatred etc is just slow and boring, yes it's top tier for damage, but for survivability and quicker put downs I have to pretty much run Deception etc to get through stuff quicker and actually survive, but I love your guides and inputs on the classes regardless :D
Try it with the Quick Escalation tactical and set Eradicate to be used in 1 sec with double Death Field - both of which reset on any enemy's death. In connection with Stealth/Phantom Stride forced crits for 6 secs (from the Shadow craft implant) the single burst gets close to Deception's and the mass destruction is far better imho. =D
Love to see my main spec being given some attention. You got most of it right, but I would change a few things. Firstly I'd take Death Focus instead of Deadly Field, this works really nicely in sync with Maliciousness to reduce that Recklessness cooldown even further. It's not a huge amount of difference in terms of dps, but it is more. It's higher dps single target for PVE and is better also in PVP as the cooldown is reduced even further for every target hit. So say you're on a door in Voidstar doing some sweet cleave, you will essentially have a Recklessness available for every Death Field. Generally speaking also you want your Death Marks to be spent on Creeping Terror and Discharge, less so on Eradicate, but this is often hard to control. For PVP of course since you're on the go a lot, applying dots back to back is often what you do, but in PVE it's good practice to keep the dots separated by 3 GCDs to keep the rotation smooth, and with Discharge first for the earlier Eradicate proc. Love the content man.
deadly field parses higher than death focus by quite a bit, so its definitly not better in single target. i personally have noticed a increase from 26k to 29k dps since switching to deadly field. But what you said about eradicate is definetly true, deathmarks are better for the other dots
@@nasswtor hmm could've sworn I was doing more with the other but ill give the double death field a go, at least in pve anyway, I feel in pvp death focus will still be better, at least in warzones.
I’ve also noticed better dps with deadly field. Getting to use Death field every 6th move in the rotation seems to yield the highest single target dps.
@@sdpearshaped831 I used to use death focus, but once I did more testing, it did seem deadly field yielded more dps. Makes a lot of sense when you think about it because it gives you more uptime on death marks.
For pve deadly field is definetly better, but you‘ll have to switch from the old rotation with the spaced dots to a new one revolving around 100% uptime on eradicate. Parses around 31k
Hatred is one of the best single-target PvE specs ATM, and the aoe is off the rails too. The catch is that if there's downtime in the fight, you can lose maliciousness and be on CD for recklessness. I would begin with eradicate, then do death field and dots. That way maliciousness resets your CD on eradicate meaning you can can cast it again immediately after its DoT finishes. Death focus isn't necessary for 100% uptime on maliciousness. But, it helps keep it up if you have to stop dps momentarily for whatever reason, though. Ultimately I get the best single target damage out of pervasive death. Switching away from deadly field doesn't take away your 2nd stack of death field, so you can enter combat with 2 stacks and pervasive death/death focus which is a slight dps increase. In aoe situations, you can alternate the target of your eradicate so multiple targets benefit from befall at the same time.
the recklessness implant isn't very useful as people think it is at least in PVE except for raids cause the cooldown gets reset once you're out of combat and for the boss fights they usually don't last more then a min let alone trash mobs if your team knows what they are doing so I would go with the one that increases your crit hit chance by 5% when your health is below 50%
At first I was very sceptical with 7.0. Minimizing every specs toolkit in a way and "dumping them down" seemed bad to me, so I quit. Watching your guides it seems to be more good than bad. Looks like 7.0 gave Hatred and Rage purpose again and there are less Conc. OPs running around. Very refreshing. May actually come back during the year :)
It's currently bugged so stealthing out mid combat and using phantom stride won't give you shadowcraft (the crit buff) so it's a 1 time use thing. I'm still using it on my deception though.
i like this approach its probably the best in terms of sustained dots,, but i choose a different way,, im running the quick escalation tactical and spamming autocrit leeching strikes after the dot applications. literally devastating
Now that Two Time Trouble is pretty much pointless after nerfs "100% chance for Assassinate, 60% chance to trigger for NON BASIC melee attacks" (saber strike no longer triggers it) and I dont see any other melee attacks in the rotation that will trigger it and outside of Operations Assassinate is mainly only used once and it's usually a kill anyway. So what is the alternative now? The general offense tactical (stacking damage)?
Hatred is the absolute go-to for daily areas/heroics solo play for melee force users atm. I spec a bit different for that purpose and for FP/Ops like you discribe here. Hatred is the Swiss army nuke-knife for solo players with a boat load of usefull ability. Assassin is the first class to level up for new players for that reason imho. It's a maybe tad easier to level through Deception for single target burst - but daily earning runs at engame level are so much faster with Hatred than everything else ... I feel the major nerf coming on shortly , because Bioware.
negative, with much research, going to have to revert using pervasive death instead of deadly field on the lvl 23 skill tree. Meaning you can't spam death fields. Instead you have juggle between using thrash and saber strike.
It's definitely better now in PvP, and with the right player it can pull massive numbers, but I would say it isn't the greatest for bursting down, unlike it's cousin Madness. For unranked warzones it's pretty good, not so much in ranked.
Its not Ideal spec for PvP. If you're absolutely are stuck on playing an Assassin and want to PvP, Deception would yield better results. However, its hard to justify even then with Concealment doing everything Deception does but better right now. Hatred got some help in 7.1 and now tops the boards, might be worth trying in PvP now.
New headphones?? Nice. Also thanks for the guide, when will the shadow equivalent come out? Edit: was also wondering how you get the stims that I see you use in your videos and other pvpers use.
On the character page, click on the Stats button on the left hand side (under the damage, defense, support numbers) You'll see a list of your stat counts, and scrolling down you'll see the resulting percentages
@@Biggsgaming can you make a 7.1 pvp guide for Hatred? i would totally sponge all that info. to this day i still use the 2x trouble hatred spec but i also been diving into Quick Escalation for pvp. i wanna out burn the others with a smaller rotation but i refuse to make a deception build. Are you up to the challenge????
My problem with SWTOR is that I have a difficult time tracking my dots/ debuffs on the target in PVP. There is so many icons and they move around. Any tips to help with this?
If you go into your interface editor and click on the target's bar, there should be an option to like "highlight my buffs" or something similar (I forget what it's called) that will turn your buffs gold and keep them pinned to the front of the debuff tray.
7.1.1 Update: Saber Strike will no longer tick DoTs, so the advice to spam it instead of Thrash is no longer valid.
We return to the balancing act of Thrash to tick damage vs Saber Strike to recover force
Thank you for these guides. I find the lack of build sites/guides a little lacking. These have helped me a ton
Mark! I have to say... your the best!! These guides are really helpful and your awesome for making them 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
I've honestly been patiently waiting for you to break this one down & knew you would soon. Ty Sir for another great tutorial!
yey another guide. thx for that there's never enough of those
I love the Hatred/Madness specs on Sins and Sorcs, but primarily use Deception/Lightning on dailies and most times outside of Operations because I feel Hatred etc is just slow and boring, yes it's top tier for damage, but for survivability and quicker put downs I have to pretty much run Deception etc to get through stuff quicker and actually survive, but I love your guides and inputs on the classes regardless :D
Try it with the Quick Escalation tactical and set Eradicate to be used in 1 sec with double Death Field - both of which reset on any enemy's death. In connection with Stealth/Phantom Stride forced crits for 6 secs (from the Shadow craft implant) the single burst gets close to Deception's and the mass destruction is far better imho. =D
@@69quato A shame shadowcraft no longer works
Love to see my main spec being given some attention. You got most of it right, but I would change a few things. Firstly I'd take Death Focus instead of Deadly Field, this works really nicely in sync with Maliciousness to reduce that Recklessness cooldown even further. It's not a huge amount of difference in terms of dps, but it is more. It's higher dps single target for PVE and is better also in PVP as the cooldown is reduced even further for every target hit. So say you're on a door in Voidstar doing some sweet cleave, you will essentially have a Recklessness available for every Death Field. Generally speaking also you want your Death Marks to be spent on Creeping Terror and Discharge, less so on Eradicate, but this is often hard to control. For PVP of course since you're on the go a lot, applying dots back to back is often what you do, but in PVE it's good practice to keep the dots separated by 3 GCDs to keep the rotation smooth, and with Discharge first for the earlier Eradicate proc. Love the content man.
deadly field parses higher than death focus by quite a bit, so its definitly not better in single target. i personally have noticed a increase from 26k to 29k dps since switching to deadly field. But what you said about eradicate is definetly true, deathmarks are better for the other dots
@@nasswtor hmm could've sworn I was doing more with the other but ill give the double death field a go, at least in pve anyway, I feel in pvp death focus will still be better, at least in warzones.
I’ve also noticed better dps with deadly field. Getting to use Death field every 6th move in the rotation seems to yield the highest single target dps.
@@sdpearshaped831 I used to use death focus, but once I did more testing, it did seem deadly field yielded more dps. Makes a lot of sense when you think about it because it gives you more uptime on death marks.
For pve deadly field is definetly better, but you‘ll have to switch from the old rotation with the spaced dots to a new one revolving around 100% uptime on eradicate. Parses around 31k
Hatred is one of the best single-target PvE specs ATM, and the aoe is off the rails too. The catch is that if there's downtime in the fight, you can lose maliciousness and be on CD for recklessness.
I would begin with eradicate, then do death field and dots. That way maliciousness resets your CD on eradicate meaning you can can cast it again immediately after its DoT finishes.
Death focus isn't necessary for 100% uptime on maliciousness. But, it helps keep it up if you have to stop dps momentarily for whatever reason, though. Ultimately I get the best single target damage out of pervasive death.
Switching away from deadly field doesn't take away your 2nd stack of death field, so you can enter combat with 2 stacks and pervasive death/death focus which is a slight dps increase.
In aoe situations, you can alternate the target of your eradicate so multiple targets benefit from befall at the same time.
Watching this guide makes me wanna play SWTOR again!😊
the recklessness implant isn't very useful as people think it is at least in PVE except for raids cause the cooldown gets reset once you're out of combat and for the boss fights they usually don't last more then a min let alone trash mobs if your team knows what they are doing so I would go with the one that increases your crit hit chance by 5% when your health is below 50%
At first I was very sceptical with 7.0. Minimizing every specs toolkit in a way and "dumping them down" seemed bad to me, so I quit.
Watching your guides it seems to be more good than bad.
Looks like 7.0 gave Hatred and Rage purpose again and there are less Conc. OPs running around. Very refreshing. May actually come back during the year :)
What about using the other tactical that increases your crit chances by 100% if phantom stride is used from stealth?
It's currently bugged so stealthing out mid combat and using phantom stride won't give you shadowcraft (the crit buff) so it's a 1 time use thing. I'm still using it on my deception though.
That's from the legendary implant , not the tactical and it works just fine for daily use.
@@69quato oh yeah sorry, my brain always mixes these up xD
@@CaptainMetal92 no worries - I just mentioned it for other people reading the comments. Confusing times =D
i like this approach its probably the best in terms of sustained dots,, but i choose a different way,, im running the quick escalation tactical and spamming autocrit leeching strikes after the dot applications. literally devastating
Dude, your videos are so helpful. Thank you very much for helping!
Now that Two Time Trouble is pretty much pointless after nerfs "100% chance for Assassinate, 60% chance to trigger for NON BASIC melee attacks" (saber strike no longer triggers it) and I dont see any other melee attacks in the rotation that will trigger it and outside of Operations Assassinate is mainly only used once and it's usually a kill anyway. So what is the alternative now? The general offense tactical (stacking damage)?
Will you be covering the tank specs too?
Are there any writeups for these guides? maybe some fan who has mad some based on the videos? I like having a page up to constantly refer to.
Is inquisator/consular still needed for the specific legendarys with 7.2 or can i use them as a worrior?
Deception/ Infiltration coming soon?
Great guide. Thanks a lot. Will you show some action with Hatred Assassin?
Hatred is the absolute go-to for daily areas/heroics solo play for melee force users atm. I spec a bit different for that purpose and for FP/Ops like you discribe here.
Hatred is the Swiss army nuke-knife for solo players with a boat load of usefull ability. Assassin is the first class to level up for new players for that reason imho. It's a maybe tad easier to level through Deception for single target burst - but daily earning runs at engame level are so much faster with Hatred than everything else ... I feel the major nerf coming on shortly , because Bioware.
You are so no0b friendly, thanks man.
Does the recent change of saber strike not triggering the tactical change any of the information in this video?
negative, with much research, going to have to revert using pervasive death instead of deadly field on the lvl 23 skill tree. Meaning you can't spam death fields. Instead you have juggle between using thrash and saber strike.
Do you do a lethality operative guide?
One last question - how does this spec burst in pvp? How does the spec work in pvp? In the past it was weak.
It's definitely better now in PvP, and with the right player it can pull massive numbers, but I would say it isn't the greatest for bursting down, unlike it's cousin Madness. For unranked warzones it's pretty good, not so much in ranked.
Its not Ideal spec for PvP. If you're absolutely are stuck on playing an Assassin and want to PvP, Deception would yield better results. However, its hard to justify even then with Concealment doing everything Deception does but better right now. Hatred got some help in 7.1 and now tops the boards, might be worth trying in PvP now.
How to get those legendary implants?
New headphones?? Nice. Also thanks for the guide, when will the shadow equivalent come out?
Edit: was also wondering how you get the stims that I see you use in your videos and other pvpers use.
Shadow guide coming soon! You can grab those drums from the PvP vendor on fleet, the vendor in spawn in war zones and by opening PvP boxes.
@Divyze RL Thanks! That would be the furious mystics set from ranked pvp with a purple/black dye. It's one of my favorite sets in the game.
They changed the tactical to 60% and for non basic melee attacks, is it still worth it?
Deception next please.
Have they changed the stats needs for alacrity and crit for the 7.2 update ?
Nope, stat thresholds remain the same
um doesn't deathfield spread your dots or is it just balance/madness that happens
in hatred you spread dots with lacerate, not deathfield
Hey Mark, when you say 7.2% alacrity are you assuming 5% of that is coming from Zeal perk?
No, zeal perk doesn't apply for high end content, so that's 7.2% without it. (~2100 alacrity)
Thanks Biggs!
I don't understand what percentages mean and how you tell what they are for accuracy and alacrity
On the character page, click on the Stats button on the left hand side (under the damage, defense, support numbers)
You'll see a list of your stat counts, and scrolling down you'll see the resulting percentages
what stats you reccommend to use this build?
110% accuracy (but you can dump your accuracy to 0 if playing PvP), 7.2% alacrity, rest into crit.
@@Biggsgaming can you make a 7.1 pvp guide for Hatred? i would totally sponge all that info. to this day i still use the 2x trouble hatred spec but i also been diving into Quick Escalation for pvp. i wanna out burn the others with a smaller rotation but i refuse to make a deception build. Are you up to the challenge????
My problem with SWTOR is that I have a difficult time tracking my dots/ debuffs on the target in PVP. There is so many icons and they move around. Any tips to help with this?
If you go into your interface editor and click on the target's bar, there should be an option to like "highlight my buffs" or something similar (I forget what it's called) that will turn your buffs gold and keep them pinned to the front of the debuff tray.
@@Biggsgaming Thank you sir! Go Cubs!!!!
Also to add on Biggs, there is also an option to organize your personal debuffs to be the top most row.
@@loganmarcillac7200 Thank you
Hatred also has a static rotation that you can use and skip this issue.
What is the outfit you are wearing?
That would be the furious mystics with a purple black dye
Is force capping not a concern with this spec/ class?
Assassin doesn't use the focus/rage mechanic. That's Sentinel/Marauder or Guardian/Juggernaut
I meant force
What cosmetics are those
Great guide! Whats that drip tho
I don't remember the name but it's 100k ranked pvp tokens to buy it from pvp vendor on fleet
@@bricks4150 thanks!
Deception next
Not lightning sorc :(
Playing Hatred with QE in solos, getting dumped on by engies 😭
This spec might have more damage than Deception but Deception is much more fun.