Increases the Centering built by 1 when activating abilities that spend focus, and reduces the cooldown of Valorous Call by 15 seconds. Lowers the cooldown of Force Leap by 1.5 seconds. This effect cannot occur more than once every 1.5 seconds. 2 ranks.Д¬harges your lightsabers with deadly energy for 15 seconds, causing your next 3 successful melee attacks to make the target burn for X elemental damage over 6 seconds. Increases the critical strike damage of your burn effects by 15%. 2 ranks.Д¬ritical hits with burn effects heal you for 1% of your maximum health. 3 ranks.Д¬auterize has a 50% chance to also reduce the target's movement speed by 30% for the duration. Your burn effects are 1% more likely to critcally hit per stack of Juyo Form. Slash, Dispatch, Blade Rush and Merciless Slash have a 33.33% chance to refund 1 focus when used. Reduces the focus cost of Force Sweep and Cyclone Slash by 1 and reduces the cooldown of Force Sweep by 1.5 seconds. 2 ranks.Д®ach use of Riposte reduces the active cooldown of Rebuke by 3 seconds. Reduces the cooldown of all Force abilities in Shii-Cho Form by 1.5 seconds. Strikes with both weapons if dual wielding. Leaps to a target, stabbing it for X weapon damage. This effect cannot occur more than once every 6 seconds. You now generate 1 focus when attacked in Shii-Cho Form. Increases the critical strike chance of Slash by 7.5%. Lowers the cooldown of Saber Throw by 2.5 seconds and causes Saber Throw to apply 1 stack of sunder armor to the target. Increases the duration of Force Leap's immobilize effect by 0.5 seconds.

2 ranks.Д®ach tick of Force Stasis and Force Exhaustion grants you Singularity, increasing the damage your next Force Sweep deal by 12.5%. While in Shii-cho Form, your attacks ignore 10% of your target's armor. Resolve has a 50% chance to heal you for 10% of your maximum health. Increases the damage dealt by Slash and Zealous Leap by 3%. Reduces the pushback suffered while channeling Force Stasis by 50%. Reduces the cooldown of Master Strike by 1.5 seconds and Force Stasis by 5 seconds. Increases the critical strike chance of your Force attacks by 2%. Reduces the focus cost of all movement-speed effects by 1.Д¬ombat Focus immediately grants 1 additional focus. Gradually slows a target from 60% to 10%, while dealing gradual kinetic damage, culminating in a powerful blow. Increases the critical strike damage of all Force attacks by 10%. 2 ranks.ДЇorce Leap and Zealous Leap have a 50% chance to make your next Sweep used within 15 seconds an automatic critical hit. Increases movement speed by 20% for 5 seconds after using Zealous Leap.

See: Star Wars: The Old Republic Sentinel Skill Builder Focus Skill Name I believe this also affects the ranged classes, but I donвЂ™t have enough experience with them yet to know if they dual-wield all that much.Build out your Sentinel's skill tree with IGN's skill builder tool and share your favorite builds with a simple link.

I will definitely keep this in mind for my future builds though. In that build, none of the skills have a cooldown, so any combination of weapon speeds for dual-wielding should have equivalent DPS. The only time it doesnвЂ™t even out is with cooldown skills and a few other special cases (Sweeping Wind).ДЄfter reading about this I thought back to my fast dual-wielding Monk build. Two fast weapons will generate вЂњresourceвЂќ (Hatred/Spirit/Fury) faster, and you can use the skill faster. While other skills, such as Wave of Light, also use only main-hand damage, they donвЂ™t have cooldowns.

Note that only skills with cooldowns are affected by this. What this means for gearing is if your dual-wield build depends on lots of skills with cooldowns, you should use a slow and fast set of weapons. They all have the same DPS, but since cooldown skills only use main-hand damage, the mace will give you more damage.

500 DPS 1.4 Speed, One-Hand Fist WeaponДual-wielding weapons 1 & 2 will be better damage using cooldown skills than Weapons 2 & 3.

For example, the following three weapons: Skills with cooldowns will get optimal damage when using a slow main-hand with high damage and a fast off-hand with similar DPS. I just assumed the other skills would average the damage between the weapons. I knew that the Primary skills alternated between weapons. It turns out that most skills only use the main-hand damage. I did some searching and found a good answer on Arqade (StackExchange) referring to these forum posts. I had not really looked into this yet but just happened to see a thread asking about optimal dual-wield weapons for Sweeping Wind builds.

The old republic dual wield