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Kinetic Combat Shadow Guide<\/h2>\n

The Shadow\u2019s dual-bladed Lightsaber flashes with deadly precision to provide a relentless offense and when necessary, a formidable defense.<\/p>\n

In this guide we\u2019ll be going over how to play a Jedi Consular Shadow Tank including when and how each ability should be used, tips and tricks, and some basics about gearing up. The shadow tank is the most involved of the three republic tanks, and requires a constant upkeep of a ward fueled by the Shadow’s connection to the force, and a creative use of telekinetic abilities channeled to reduce the damage you take as a tank.<\/p>\n

This guide has not been translated from Imperial to Republic yet! There are many terms that still refer to the Imperial Darkness Assassin Tank.
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\"\"<\/a>Abilities<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n
\"\"<\/a>Rotation<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n
\"\"<\/a>Utilities<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n
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Abilities<\/h2>\n

The Kinetic Combat Shadow uses a combination of useful mechanic abilities, defensive abilities, and damage abilities to keep themselves and their team alive.<\/p>\n

Mechanical Abilities<\/h3>\n

The Shadow tank\u2019s job in a fight is to stay alive through dark sith sorcery, and to keep their teammates alive long enough to for them to take down their enemies. Apart from their defensive force abilities, they have some clever tricks to help keep themselves and their group alive.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s start by going over the Shadow tank\u2019s mechanical abilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
Icon<\/th>Ability Name<\/th>Level<\/th>Type<\/th>Description<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
<\/td>Force of Valor<\/td>1<\/td>Class Buff<\/td>Force of Valor is your class buff \u2013 its gives an hour long boost to damage to your group or to any other character you cast it on.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Meditation<\/td>1<\/td>Regen<\/td>If you're low on health between fights, you can use Meditation to regenerate health - but it only works outside of combat.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Force Wave<\/td>3<\/td>Push<\/td>Force Wave is your push. A knockback can be useful when you\u2019re playing solo as it can keep melee enemies away from you if you\u2019re taking too much damage, or you can use it to push enemies off of cliffs. As fun as it is, don\u2019t use it in group fights \u2013 this often frustrates other players who are trying to group enemies up to take them down faster.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Force Stun<\/td>5<\/td>Hard Stun<\/td>Force Stun is your short 4-second hard stun \u2013 you can use it on weaker enemies to stop them from running around, from casting abilities, or just to keep them out of the fight in general.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Stealth<\/td>6<\/td>Stealth<\/td>Stealth turns your character invisible to everyone not in your group, and can allow you to sneak past weaker enemies or perform stealth sneak attacks. As soon as you enter combat, you'll be pushed out of stealth.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Force Lift<\/td>7<\/td>Crowd Control \/ Soft Stun<\/td>Force Lift is your crowd control soft stun - you can use it to stun weaker enemies for 8 seconds, but it breaks on damage, so only use it on enemies you\u2019re not going to hit soon.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Force of Will<\/td>9<\/td>Stun Breaker<\/td>Force of Will is your stun breaker. If you are stunned and can\u2019t move, you can use this ability to unstun yourself.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Mind Control<\/td>14<\/td>Taunt<\/td>Mind Control is your taunt. A taunt forces most enemies to attack you, and only you, for six seconds, and also increases the chance they'll continue attacking you afterwards. As a tank, in a group fight it's your job to keep the enemy's attention, because unlike your other team members, you have stats and the abilities that will help keep you alive and allow your team members to focus on defeating the enemy. Apart from taunts, you can keep the enemy focused on you with what's known as threat or aggro, which means using your abilities in a way that aggravates your enemy to continue attacking you. The higher your threat, the less likely a team member is going to catch the enemy's attention.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Force Speed<\/td>16<\/td>Speed Boost<\/td>Force Speed is your speed boost. It helps you move faster. You can use it for fun while running around, to get to a strategic location in battle faster, or most importantly to run out of stuff that\u2019s hurting you.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Guard<\/td>16<\/td>Guard<\/td>Guarding another player reduces the chances of the enemy attacking them as long as you are within 15 meters of each other. The guarded player also takes 5% less damage, but players mainly use guard on a team mate who is often attracting the attention of the boss enemy - either a strong healer or DPS character - not the weakest player who needs \"help\".<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Mind Snap<\/td>18<\/td>Interrupt<\/td>Mind Snap is your interrupt. Every class has an interrupt ability that allows them to interrupt an enemy while they are casting. This can be useful when fighting low-level enemies as many abilities can be interrupted, and in some max-level fights interrupts are a mandatory part of combat. Castbars that fill up from left right are called channels and can be interrupted and the ability will be stopped, but castbars that go from right to left deal damage the entire time they are casting.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Mass Mind Control<\/td>20<\/td>Group Taunt<\/td>Mass Mind Control is your group taunt, commonly know as an AOE taunt. It will force all enemies within 15 metered of you to attack only you for six seconds, similar to your single-target mind control ability.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Mind Maze<\/td>20<\/td>Crowd Control \/ Soft Stun<\/td>Mind Maze is your soft stun, sometimes called your cc, your crowd control or your mez. While in stealth, you can stun an enemy, and they will stay stunned for one minute as long as no one attacks them. Players use this to either take one enemy out of the equation for a short time in a fight, or to sneak past enemies without attracting their attention. You can only use Mind Trap while not in combat.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Force Slow<\/td>22<\/td>Slow<\/td>Force Slow is your slow, and slows your enemy\u2019s movement speed by 50% for 6 seconds. This can be used to keep Melee enemies away from you as you move farther away, or to slow down enemies who are running away.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Force Cloak<\/td>22<\/td>Combat Stealth<\/td>Force Cloak allows you to enter stealth while in combat. As a tank, you usually will not want to use this ability while tanking an enemy for your team, as you will lose all the threat you've built up over time. Force Cloak is useful if you enter a fight but want to exit it quickly, or can be used to revive a fallen team member since you will no longer be in combat once you stealth out. Force Cloak can also be used by skilled player to avoid channeled damage abilities or knockbacks which are canceled when you stealth out - just make sure to taunt back immediately afterwards, as you'll have lost all your threat.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Resilience<\/td>36<\/td>Cleanse<\/td>Resilience, which make you almost invincible by increasing your chance to resist Force and tech attacks by 200% for a few seconds and will also cleanse any cleanseable debuffs you have. It\u2019s one of the strongest defensive abilities in the entire game and allows you to negate a lot of Force or Tech attacks, and even ignore some mechanics by using it at the right time.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Spinning Kick<\/td>42<\/td>Short Hard Stun<\/td>Spinning Kick is a second short stun you can use that lasts 2 seconds, and also knocks down weaker enemies. As a Shadow Consular you can use it out of stealth. If you collect the [[Efficient Termination]] 6-piece set bonus, Spike turns in to a defensive ability that increases your damage reduction by 10% for 6 seconds.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Shadow Stride<\/td>51<\/td>Leap<\/td>Shadow Stride is your leap - it allows you to instantly teleport forward to an enemy within range. <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Force Pull<\/td>58<\/td>Pull<\/td>Force Pull allows you to pull an enemy to you, and also generates a lot of threat. Although this does not work against most boss enemies, you can still use it to gain threat.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Cleaving Cut<\/td>72<\/td>Short Slow
\n<\/td>		Cleaving Cut is a second slow. It does slightly more damage than Force Slow but lasts for half the time.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n

Defensive Abilities<\/h3>\n

The Shadow tank has a variety of abilities that helps keep them alive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
Icon<\/th>Ability Name<\/th>Level<\/th>Type<\/th>Description<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
<\/td>Kinetic Ward<\/td>26<\/td>Perpetual Shield<\/td>Kinetic Ward is your most important ability as an assassin tank. This ability surrounds you with a shield that starts with 15 charges that increases your shield chance by 15% for 20 seconds. Each time you successfully shield an attack, you'll lose one of the charges. As a Shadow Consular, every time you shield an attack with Kinetic Ward, you'll also get a stack of [[Dark Bulwark]], an additional defensive buff that increases your absorption by 1% per stack, and it can stack up to 10 times. If you cast Kinetic Ward again, it will reset your [[Dark Bulwark]] shields back to zero. A big part of Shadow tanking is balancing these two defensive buffs - you want to try and always keep Kinetic Ward up, but anytime you re-use Kinetic Ward, it will reset your [[Dark Bulwark]] stacks back to zero. This means you'll want to wait until your Kinetic Ward is about to run out of time before you refresh it, allowing [[Dark Bulwark]] to build up as long as it can before resetting it.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Deflection<\/td>24<\/td>Shield<\/td>Deflection is your shield - it increases your ranged and melee defenses by 50% for 12 seconds. As a Darknes Assasin, it also causes all enemies within 8 meters to deal 15% less Force and tech damage.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Resilience<\/td>36<\/td>Invincibility Shield<\/td>Resilience is your invincibility shield which increases your chance to resist Force and tech attacks by 200% for 3 seconds. Resilience is an extremely powerful defensive ability when used pre-emptively against powerful attacks. If you choose the Mind Over Matter utility, Resilience will last 5 seconds instead.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Force Cloak\t<\/td>22<\/td>Stealth Out<\/td>Cloak is not a defensive move, but it can be used as one. First, you can stealth out and use an extra medpac if you've already used one in your fight. Second, you can use it in all kinds of creative ways including resetting certain stacking debuffs, cancelling casted abilities to avoid knockbacks or damage, or even using it as an extra tank swap if your co-tank has the second highest threat. Just make sure to taunt back and start building threat immediately after exiting stealth.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Spinning Kick<\/td>42 (75)<\/td>Small Defensive from Set Bonus<\/td> If you collect the [[Efficient Termination]] 6-piece set bonus, Spike turns in to a defensive ability that increases your damage reduction by 10% for 6 seconds.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Force Potency<\/td>8<\/td>Absorb Shield, mainly use for damage<\/td>Force Potency increases the Force critical chance of your direct attacks, but as a Shadow tank, activating Force Potency also grants 30% shield absorption for 20 seconds. Force Potency is usually not used defensively, instead it's used to cause more damage.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Battle Readiness<\/td>50<\/td>Shield and Heal<\/td>Battle Readiness immediately restores 15% of your max health, and as a Shadow Consular, your damage reduction is increased by 25% for 15 seconds. This is a very useful defensive ability to use when you are expecting a large wave of damage over time.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Damage Abilities<\/td>10<\/td>Rotation<\/td>As a Shadow Tank, your damage abilities, when used correctly, will also reduce the amount of damage enemies do to you. Your key damage abilities for defense are Cascading Debris, Project and Slow Time.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Advanced Kyrprax Shield Adrenal<\/td>75<\/td>Adrenal<\/td>Absorbs 30% of damage for a short time. Keep a pile of these on hand!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Relic of the Shrouded Crusader<\/td>75<\/td>Relic<\/td>Increases Shield Rating and Absorption Rating for a short time<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n

Damage Abilities<\/h3>\n

Although the Shadow tank should be focusing on tanking rather than doing damage, using certain abilities efficiently can actually raise the Shadow tank’s survivability, and help keep threat with enemies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
Icon<\/th>Ability<\/th>Level<\/th>Description<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
<\/td>Cascading Debris<\/td>10<\/td>Cascading Debris is your key damage ability as an Assassin tank, but it's most powerful when you also have 3 stacks of Harnessed Shadows, a special buff you get from using either Project or Slow Time as a Shadow Consular. If you get three stacks of Harnessed Shadows, then each tick of Cascading Debris will increase your damage reduction by 1% for 12 seconds. This makes Cascading Debris when you have 3 stacks of Harnessed Shadows both a powerful damage attack as well as a strong defensive boost which you can keep up during most of the fight.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Project<\/td>1<\/td>Project is one of your two abilities that builds up those special stacks of Harnessed Shadows. You can use it once every six seconds, so Project is one of your abilities you will use the most.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Slow Time<\/td>42<\/td>Slow Time is your other ability that builds stacks of Harnessed Shadows. It's a great multi-enemy damage ability, and it generates a high amount of threat to help you tank, and it also weakens enemies so they deal 5% less melee and ranged damage. You can use it roughly once every ten seconds, so use it whenever you see it available.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Force Breach<\/td>2<\/td>Force Breach is another multi-enemy attack you'll be using often to blast your enemy with raw lightning and do damage over time. As a Darkness Assassin, Force Breach also causes its targets to become unsteady, which means they have their melee and ranged accuracy reduced by 5%. While targets are unsteady, your Lacerate ability also does more damage to them.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Double Strike<\/td>1<\/td>Thrash is your basic Aassassin lightsaber attack. Although it's not very interesting on its own, as a Darkness Assassin, damage dealt by Thrash, Maul, Lacerate, and Assassinate have a 30% chance to finish the cooldown on your Shock ability and make your next Shock an Energized critical hit. Energized Shocks that consume a charge of Recklessness also deal an additional 50% critical damage, so you'll want to combine your Recklessness Ability with a Shock that is Energized from Thrash.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Force Potency<\/td>8<\/td>Force Potency is not an ability you use against an enemy, instead you use it to give your attacks a boost. Using Force Potency grants you 2 charges of Force Potency, which increases the Force critical chance of your direct attacks by 60%. Each time a direct Force ability critically hits or each time you activate a channeled ability, you use one charge of Force Potency. These Force Potencystacks wear off after 20 seconds, so make sure to use them before they disappear. You'll be combining this with an [[energized shock]] or Cascading Debris to do a lot of extra damage when possible, otherwise it's useful with a normal Project as well. Additionally as a Shadow Consular, Force Potency grants 30% shield absorption for 20 seconds.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Whirling Blow<\/td>4<\/td>Whirling Blow is similar to your Cleaving Cut attack, but it can hit up to 8 targets around you. It can also cause [[Energized Shock]] just like Cleaving Cut can.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Shadow Strike<\/td>28<\/td>Shadow Strike is your backup single-target basic attack, and it does more damage if you are behind your target. As a Shadow Consular, your Cleaving Cut, Whirling Blow, Spinning Strike, and Shadow Stride abilities all grant a Conspirator's Cloak buff, which makes your next Maul consume 50% less Force and damage your enemy as if you're behind them. This makes Maul most worth using when you have Conspirator's Cloak available. Maul also has the ability to Energize your Shock ability.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Spinning Strike<\/td>32<\/td>Spinning Strike is a special ability you can only use when your enemy is below 30% health which does a lot of damage.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Saber Strike<\/td>1<\/td>Only use Saber Strike if you ran out of Force and can't do anything else. Even if you're doing your rotation perfectly you'll still need to use Saber Strike sometimes. Saber Strike does damage and restores your Force.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n

Rotation \/ Priority System<\/h2>\n

Using your abilities efficiently can help you survive longer, do more damage and gain more threat. This efficiency is gained by using abilities in an order that causes them to amplify each other. This order is sometimes called a rotation or a priority system – what abilities take priority over others.<\/p>\n

Opener<\/h3>\n

Your opener is the ideal set of abilities you will use in order as a Shadow tank during the beginning of a fight to gain the most threat with an enemy, and to set up your success for the rest of the fight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
#<\/th>Icon<\/th>Ability<\/th>Description<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
1<\/td><\/td>Stealth<\/td>Starting in Stealth gives you a free defensive boost<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td><\/td>Force Pull<\/td>Generates threat<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td><\/td>Shadow Stride<\/td>Leap to enemy, careful, in some fights this bugs and sends you off a cliff. Or use Force Speed to get to the target quicker.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td><\/td>Project<\/td>Damage creating one stack of Harnessed Shadows<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td><\/td>Slow Time<\/td>Damage creating second stack of Harnessed Shadows<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td><\/td> Mind Control<\/td>Taunt<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td><\/td>Force Breach<\/td>Damage which reduces accuracy of enemy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/td><\/td>Shadow Strike<\/td>Free damage from using Shadow Stride earlier (if it is not sparkling, use Double Strike instead)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9<\/td><\/td>Force Potency<\/td>Damage boost<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10<\/td><\/td>Project<\/td>Damage creating third and final stack of Harnessed Shadows<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11<\/td><\/td>Cascading Debris<\/td>Damage which uses the three stacks of Harnessed Shadows to reduce damage taken<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12<\/td><\/td>Mass Mind Control<\/td>Group taunt<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13<\/td><\/td>Double Strike<\/td>30% chance to finish the cooldown on your Project ability and make your next Project an Accelerated critical hit<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14<\/td><\/td>Force Slow<\/td>Start the next round of Harnessed Shadows stacks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15<\/td><\/td>Project<\/td>Hopefully you also go a Particle Acceleration from Double Strike earlier!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n

Single Target<\/h3>\n

Your single-target rotation \/ priority system is a list of abilities you should use after your opener, and for the rest of the fight. These abilities shouldn’t be used one after another – instead, abilities higher up the list take priority over those at the bottom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
#<\/th>Icon<\/th>Ability<\/th>Description<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
1<\/td><\/td>Spinning Strike<\/td>Spinning Strike is one of your strongest-hitting abilities. Normally, it only becomes available when your enemy is under 30%. If you choose the utility Stalker's Swiftness, it becomes available all the time.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td><\/td>Cascading Debris<\/td>Use when it's glowing, which means you have 3 stacks of Harnessed Shadows.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td><\/td>Project<\/td>Use whenever it's available, unless you have 3 stacks of Harnessed Shadows.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td><\/td>Slow Time<\/td>Use whenever it's available.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td><\/td>Shadow Strike<\/td>Use only when you have Shadow Wrap up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td><\/td>Double Strike<\/td>Use when everything above is not available.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td><\/td>Force Breach<\/td>Only use once every 45 seconds to apply Unsteady, if it's glowing<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/td><\/td>Saber Strike<\/td>Only use if you ran out of Force to do anything else. Even if you're doing your rotation perfectly you'll still need to use Saber Strike sometimes.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n

Multi Target \/ AOE<\/h3>\n

Your multi-target \/ AOE rotation \/ priority system is a list of abilities you should use after your opener, and for the rest of the fight. These abilities shouldn’t be used one after another – instead, abilities higher up the list take priority over those at the bottom.<\/p>\n

Wither is your hardest hitting AoE ability and builds stacks of Harnessed Darkness. Discharge is your second hardest hitting AoE and applies Unsteady debuff and makes your Lacerate deals 15% more damage to affected targets. Severing Slash does more damage than Lacerate but it’s a conal, while Lacerate is a 360 cleave, so if you aren’t going to hit all your targets, don’t use Severing Slash.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
#<\/th>Icon<\/th>Ability<\/th>Description<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
1<\/td><\/td>Slow Time<\/td>Use whenever it's available.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td><\/td>Force Breach<\/td>Use whenever it's available.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td><\/td>Cleaving Cut<\/td>Use when you'll hit all enemies in a conal shape in front of you.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td><\/td>Whirling Blow<\/td>Use as a filler move to hit all enemies in a circle around you.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n

Utilities<\/h2>\n

Utilities are a special type of ability that you can choose. As you level up, you’ll be able to use additional utilities slots.<\/p>\n

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Recommended Utilities<\/h3>\n

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Icon<\/th>Utility<\/th>Tooltip<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
<\/td>Celerity<\/td>Reduces the cooldown of Mind Snap by 2 seconds, Force of Will by 30 seconds, and Force Speed by 5 seconds.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Intangible Spirit<\/td>As Kinetic Combat reduces all damage taken while stunned by 30%. As Infiltration and Serenity, reduces the damage taken from area attacks by 30%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Lambaste<\/td>Increases the damage done by Whirling Blow by 25%.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Fade<\/td>https:\/\/swtorfiles.jedipedia.net\/icons\/56\/bladedance.png<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Misdirection<\/td>Increases your movement speed by 15% and your effect stealth level by 10.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Force Harmonics<\/td>Reduces the cooldown of Force Wave by 2.5 seconds and Force Potency grants 1 additional charge when activated.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Cloak of Resilience<\/td>Activating Force Cload grants 2 seconds of Resilience.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Mind Over Matter<\/td>Increases the durations of Resilence by 2 seconds and Force Speed by 0.5 seconds. Additionally, Force Speed slows all enemies within 5 meters by 75% for 2.5 seconds when activated.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Stalker's Swiftness<\/td>Shadow Stride grants Stalker's Swiftness, allowing your next Spinning Strike to be used on any target, regardless of remaining health. Stalker's Swiftness lasts for 10 seconds. Additionally, if the target of your Shadow Stride is killed within 10 seconds of using Shadow Stride, Shadow Stride's cooldown is reset.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

All Utility Options<\/h3>\n

Utilities are a series of abilities that you can choose from for your Advanced Class. On the list below, these utilities have been rated for their use in difficult boss fights in Operations, the most difficult group content in the game. However, if you are playing solo, playing less difficult content, or PvPing, you’ll want to read the descriptions of the utilities carefully and instead either choose ones that sound fun, or choose ones that seem useful for the type of content you like to play. For example, if you enjoy using Whirlwind while leveling or running Heroics, there are a ton of\u00a0 Whirlwind-focused utilities available to you that are all useless in Operations.<\/p>\n