SWTOR Guardian Leveling Builds – SWTOR Guardian Leveling Guide

In this section, you will discover the best SWTOR Guardian leveling builds available to the Jedi Knight. I will say outright that we do not recommend leveling up as a Guardian to be the ideal choice in Star Wars The Old Republic, and it would be faster to level up as a Sentinel.

However, you may be playing with a group of friends or as part of a pre-made guild and may plan on tanking flashpoints for your group. If this is the case, then I can see why you might pick a Guardian to level up as.

Below, we will include the best SWTOR Guardian leveling builds so that you can level up as a Guardian if that is what you choose to do.

Best SWTOR Guardian Leveling Builds – Hybrids

If you do choose to level up as a Guardian, I would recommend picking a hybrid specialization. There are several reasons for this:

Flash points, or entry level dungeons, are designed to be very easy. You do not need to spec fully into the Defense tree in order to tank these. You can split your points between Defense, Vigilance, and Focus and still be good enough to tank.

By splitting your points, you give yourself some damage-dealing abilities to fall back on once you are outside of the dungeon and playing as a solo player.

If you are going to go full DPS (Vigilance), then why would you not just level up as a Sentinel and switch over to Guardian once you are at the level cap? This way you can maximize your damage output while leveling and then switch over to a tanking-oriented job once you are at max level.

For these reasons, your SWTOR Guardian leveling builds should include talents from all three trees. You should take the bare minimum required to tank a dungeon (i.e. picking up the basic threat-generating and damage-reducing abilities) and then putting the rest of your talent points into abilities which deal damage.

SWTOR Guardian Leveling Guide – Specific Talents

Since the game is not yet ready to play, we do not have specific SWTOR Guardian leveling builds up on the site yet. Once the game comes out, we will be adding builds that you can use to level up as a Guardian with quickly and effectively that are ideal for both tanking and leveling up solo.

SWTOR Guardian Leveling Builds – Conclusion

The best SWTOR Guardian leveling builds do not have all your points in protection. Remember that most of the leveling process is catered to playing solo and there are only a handful of flashpoints to run as a low-level player. Be sure to pick up abilities which allow you to deal damage for this very reason.

When the game comes out, come back to this page and you will find a good list of SWTOR Sentinel leveling builds that you can use in order to create the type of leveling build discussed in this article.