Jedi Knight Guide

Jedi Knights are the masters of the lightsaber arts. They jump, kick, and flash through the air while using the Force to clear a path in front of them. Jedi Knights have before served as generals, warriors, and guerilla fighters for generations. The Jedi Knight is the guardian of a dream for a better tomorrow.

Class Role

The Jedi Knights are a melee class with some force abilities. Jedi Knights can go down two specialization pathways The Jedi Sentinel for melee DPS (damage per second) and The Jedi Guardian as a melee tank. Neither of the Jedi Knight specializations has healing abilities.

Equipment

Jedi Knights can wear either Heavy or Medium armor depending on their Advanced Class. The Tank specialization, The Jedi Guardian, wears Heavy armor while the the DPS Specialization, the Jedi Sentinel, wears Medium armor. As the Jedi Sentinel you want to stack Strength and the Jedi Guardian tanks want Endurance and Strength on their gear.

Recommended Crew Skills(Professions)

Jedi Knight DPS Crew Skills

Artifice, Archaeology and Treasure Hunting

Artifice will create modifications that add attributes to your gear, such as your lightsaber. You will also be able to create your own relics, which are very similiar to trinkets used in other games. These relics give you more attributes (usually Endurance) and then have an ability that boosts your damage for 20 seconds. Artifice also creates the Crystals and gems that go into your lightsaber or blaster pistol to change their glowing effecting. This crew skill will also allow you craft your own powerful lightsabers, enhancements and hilts.

Some of the items that you can make for your Jedi Sentinel or Jedi Guardian with Artifice are the following items:

• [Rakata Relic of Boundless Ages]
• [Rakata Relic of Imperiling Serenity]
• [Niman Master's Primary Lightsaber]
• [Niman Master's Secondary Lightsaber]
• [Advanced Might Hilt 24]

If you pick Artifice as one of your crew skills then you should also get the Archaeology and Treasure Hunting crew skills. These two crew skills will give you most of the materials you will need for Artifice.

Jedi Knight Tanking Crew Skills

If you plan on being a Tank then you will want to pick up Biochem for the [Rakata Fortitude Stim]. Bioanalysis and Diplomacy are the gathering crew skills for Biochem.

Abilities and Combat

Jedi Sentinel The Jedi Sentinel advanced class is a very high DPS class in SWTOR on the Republic side and they dual wield lightsabers. Within the Jedi Sentinel advanced class there are two talent trees. The Watchmen Specialization is a damage over time (DoT) tree, which means that your attacks won’t deal a lot of damage in the very beginning, but instead they will kill the enemy via the DoT (called “Burn” damage). This tree also has a talent called Merciless Zeal that heals you every time your Burn effect crits. This will likely be a PvP (player vs player) specialization, and is not recommended for leveling. The Combat Specialization will do a lot of immediate damage to your opponent and attacks with both lightsabers at the same time. This is also a good PvP and PvE specialization, but since there is a lot of damage upfront it is highly recommended to level as the Combat Jedi Sentinel.

Jedi Guardian The Guardian is a melee tank that wears heavy armor. Guardians use one lightsaber and will have talents that allow them to evade damage and allow them to also take a great deal of damage without dying. The Guardian has two specialization trees the Defense tree and the Vigilance tree. The Defense tree is the best Jedi Knight tanking tree, while the Vigilance tree does allow the Jedi Guardian to do some damage, but it’s not recommend to become a Jedi Guardian if you wish to DPS. The Jedi Guardian Defense tree will be the most used Melee tank in SWTOR on the galactic republic side.

Jedi Knight Companions
	T7-01 – Typhon Combat Type: Ranged Tank Armor: Heavy Weapon Types: Blaster Rifle Crew Skills: +10 Bioanalysis Efficency, +2 Slicing Critical Starting Kit: Grenade, Suppresion Primary Stat: Aim Secondary Stat: Endurance
	Kira Carsen (Romance-able) – Courscant Combat Type: Melee Damage Armor: Light Weapon Types: Doublebladed Lightsaber Crew Skills: +5 Synthweaving Critical, +1 Rescarch Critical Special: AOE Sweep and AOE with a stun. Primary Stat: Willpower Secondary Stat: Endurance
	Doc (Romance-able) – Balmorra Combat Type: Ranged Healer Armor: Weapon Types: Pistol Crew Skills: +5 Underworld Trading Efficiency, +5 Biochem Critical Starting Kit: Special: Healing Primary Stat: Cunning Secondary Stat: Endurance
	Sargent Rusk – Hoth Combat Type: Ranged Tank Armor: Heavy Weapon Types: Sniper Rifle Crew Skills: +10 Scavenging Efficiency, +10 Armstech Efficiency Starting Kit: Med Pack Special: AOE Barrage Primary Stat: Aim Secondary Stat: Endurance
	Lord Scourge – After Hoth Combat Type: Melee Damage and Tank Armor: Heavy Weapon Types: Lightsaber and Shield generator Crew Skills: +10 Artifice Efficiency, +10 Archaeology Efficiency Starting Kit: Special: Tank Primary Stat: Strength Secondary Stat: Endurance
	C2-N2 – Comes with Corellian Defender Starship Combat Type: Non-combat, but can craft and do missions.

Suggested Companion: Taking into consideration that you are a melee class and your wearing either Medium or Heavy armor, Doc is a good choice as a companion due to his ability to keep your health up while you kill mobs. If you don’t need a healer, then Kira would be the best companion to use for the extra damage to kill the mob faster and keep moving on.
You can find the Full Companion List Here

Starship

The Defender was custom-built for the Jedi Order. The Defender includes two levels. The Formal upper level features diplomatic meeting rooms and an elegant conference room. The lower level includes a cargo hold, medical bay, and a small private space in which they can mediate. The Defender has high-powered shields and twin turbo lasers.