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Below are the expected changes to Annihilation Marauder and Watchman Sentinel Disciplines that Bioware is planing to introduce for SWTOR Patch 5.5 in October. These are not final.
Annihilation Marauder
- Reduced Deadly Saber’s damage by 6%
- Juyo Mastery now gives bleed effects an additional 1% critical hit chance per stack of Juyo Form, down from 2%,
- The temporary bleed damage bonus applied by Annihilate due to the Devious Wounds passive has been reduced from 5% to 3%
Check out my Annihilation Marauder Class Guide.
Watchman Sentinel
- Reduced Overload Saber’s damage by 6%
- Juyo Mastery now gives burn effects an additional 1% critical hit chance per stack of Juyo Form, down from 2%,
- The temporary burn damage bonus applied by Merciless Slash due to the Smoldering Burns passive has been reduced from 5% to 3%
Check out my Watchman Sentinel Class Guide.
DevNotes
The text below is a direct quote from the Bioware Combat Dev team with their reasons why are the above mentioned changes needed and what the goal for this discipline is. To better understand their means, check this post: SWTOR Class Balancing Explained: How it works and why is it NEEDED
The Annihilation / Watchman discipline was overperforming, so we made some changes to bring its overall DPS in line with its target. Deadly Saber / Overload Saber made up a large part of its damage, so we brought that down slightly to level its damage out with some of the discipline’s other abilities, while still maintaining its place in the rotation.
Additionally, we slightly lowered the effectiveness of some other damage over time abilities through changes to a couple of passives which brought the discipline’s DPS to where it needed to be.
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