Jedi Consular Basics

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Introduction to the Jedi Consular Class

The Jedi Consular class is a cloth-wearing, lightsaber-wielding class that can act as melee/mid-range DPS, through the Shadow specialization, long-range DPS/healers, through the Sage specialization, and light armor tanks, through the Kinetic Combat talent tree.

Consulars are only available to Republic races. The Sith counterpart to the Consular is the Inquisitor.

Playable races include Human, Mirialan, Miraluka, Twi’lek, and Zabrak. Each Consular’s companion in their travels will be Qyzen Fess, a male Trandoshen hunter, or Nadia, a Jedi female with an additional romance option.

Consulars use the power of the Force to wound enemies from a distance and heal themselves and companions, and utilize their lightsabers to both defend from attacks and deal additional damage. Nimble and flexible, Consulars rely on the Force rather than heavy armor to protect them in battle.

To compare them to Warcraft classes, Consulars have abilities similar to a rogue (with stealth and finishing moves; Infiltration talent tree), a shadow priest (multiple mind-control spells and ranged Force damage), and a generic healer (with multiple comprehensive healing spells and the Fade-like ‘Rescue’).

Shadow Consulars also have a cloth-wearing tanking talent tree, Kinetic Combat, which is unlike any existing Warcraft class.

Jedi Consulars begin on the planet Tython, the birthplace of the Force. Each class has its own starship type; the starship for the Consular class is the Defender.

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Specializations: Sage

Sage Jedi Consulars may act as ranged damage dealers or healers.

Sage Consulars who utilize the Telekinetics talent tree act are able to use their abilities to manipulate waves of energy and cause enemies to rip apart from within. Damage abilities for Sages revolve around manipulating the physical world of and near an enemy- through lifting them up and slamming them to the ground, say, or causing a Force earthquake around them- and by directing walls of Force towards an enemy.

The lightsaber is not utilized as heavily in the Sage specialization as the Shadow specialization.

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Specializations: Shadow

Shadow Jedi Consulars use double-blade Lightsabers and Force abilities to deal both melee and ranged damage. Shadow Consulars can utilize stealth to get close to a target and then unleash close-range melee damage, or perform a series of ranged kinetic attacks. The Shadow Consular may then follow up a stealthed attack with additional melee or ranged damage, or perform mind control in an attempt to crowd control.

Somewhat akin to a rogue-shadow priest hybrid (for readers familiar with WoW classes), the Shadow Consular has multiple mind-control abilities and ranged attacks coupled with stealth and finishing moves, which are featured in the Infiltration talent tree. The Shadow Consular can also act as a tank by specializing in the Kinetic Combat talent tree.

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Talent Tree: Sage

Each class specialization is able to further specialize by choosing one of three talent trees. For Sage Consulars, those are Seer, Telekinetics, and Balance.

Seer: Healing and protection specialization. Signature abilities:

Resplendence
Passive
Reduces the cooldown of Revitalize by 2 minutes. In addition, your Healing Trance crits have a 100% chance to make your next Noble Sacrifice not degenerate your Force and spend no health.
Healing Trance
Channeled: 3s, Cooldown: 9s, Range: 30m
Heals a target for 469 immediately and a further 469 per second for 3 seconds.

Telekinetics: Focused on distorting reality and energy to tear up the bodies of enemies. Ranged DPS. Signature abilities:

Tidal Force
Passive
Your Disturbance has a 30% chance and your Forcequake has a 9% chance when dealing damage to grant Tidal Force, immediately finishing the cooldown on Telekinetic Wave and reducing the cast time of your next Telekinetic Wave by 100%. This effect cannot occur more than once every 10 seconds.
Telekinetic Momentum
Passive
When you cast Disturbance or Telekinetic Wave, there is a 30% chance the ability will produce a second attack that strikes the same targets for 30% damage and no additional threat.

Balance: Usable by both Shadow and Sage specializations. Balances Sage attacks with Shadow lightsaber and positioning abilities. Signature abilities:

Containment
Passive
Lowers the cast time of Force Lift by 100%. In addition, when your Force Lift breaks early from damage, the target is stunned for 2 seconds.
Presence of Mind
Passive
When your Telekinetic Throw deals damage, you have a 30% chance to cause your next Force damaging attack with a cast time to cast instantly and deal 20% more damage.

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Official Forums: Known Consular Facts 2.0 Thread

Talent Tree: Shadow

Each class specialization is able to further specialize by choosing one of three talent trees. For Shadow Consulars, those talent trees are:

Kinetic Combat: Utilizes the dual-blade lightsaber for self and group defense. Signature abilities:

Particle Acceleration
Passive
Double Strike and Whirling Blow have a 50% chance to reset the cooldown on Project and make your next Project a critical hit.
Spinning Kick
Instant, Cooldown: 30s, Range: 4m
Perform a spin kick that deals 560 kinetic damage and stuns the target for 3 seconds.

Infiltration: Specializes in stealth, utilizing positioning for surprise attacks. Signature abilities:

Shadow’s Respite
Passive
While in stealth mode and for 6 seconds after leaving stealth mode, all damage dealt is increased by 10% and the rate at which your force regenerates is increased by 50%.
Infiltration Tactics
Passive
Direct damage attacks have a 30% chance to grant Find Weakness, causing your next Shadow Strike to ignore 50% of the target’s armor and cost 50% less force. Cannot occur more than once every 10 seconds.

Balance: Usable by both Shadow and Sage specializations. Balances Sage attacks with Shadow lightsaber and positioning abilities. Signature abilities:
1. Containment
  Passive
  Lowers the cast time of Force Lift by 100%. In addition, when your Force Lift breaks early from damage, the target is stunned for 2 seconds.
2. Presence of Mind
  Passive
  When your Telekinetic Throw deals damage, you have a 30% chance to cause your next Force damaging attack with a cast time to cast instantly and deal 20% more damage.

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Official Forums: Known Consular Facts 2.0 Thread

Abilities

Starting Passive Abilities . Starting Active Abilities . Trainable Passive Abilities (Sage & Shadow) . Trainable Active Abilities (Sage & Shadow) . Trainable Active Abilities: Sage . Trainable Active Abilities: Shadow

The main attributes desired by a Consular are Strength, Endurance, Presence, and Willpower.

The abilities listed here are neither complete nor set in stone, as many will no doubt change during the beta testing stage of SWTOR. However, for use as a rough guide, this is what is currently known:

Starting Passive Abilities

Ability	Description
Weapon Proficiency: Lightsaber	Able to equip training sabers and standard single-blade lightsabers
Weapon Proficiency: Vibrosword	Able to equip single-bladed vibro swords, conventional swords, and other bladed melee weapons
Armor Proficiency: Light	Able to equip light armor and robes

Starting Active Abilities

Ability	Cast Time	Cooldown	Force Cost	Range	Description
Quick Travel	10 sec	30 min	None	Self	Returns you to your bind point. Equivalent to a WoW Heartstone.
Holoconference	unknown	unknown	None	Self	unknown
Saber Strike	Instant	None	None	4m	Deals 100% damage spread across a flurry of three melee attacks
Project	Instant	6 sec	45	15m	Throws debris at the target, dealing moderate kinetic damage. Standard and weak targets take an additional Stun effect for 3 sec.
Force Valor	Instant	None	10	30m	Buff. Increases target’s attributes and internal elemental resistances for 30 min.
Meditation	15 sec (channeled)	None	None	Self	Pause and meditate to restore your health and Force. Interruptable by damage. Not usable in combat.
Revive	5 sec	None	None	10m	Revive an incapacitated player or companion

Trainable Passive Abilities

Ability	Level	Description
Weapon Proficiency: Double-Bladed Lightsaber	10	Shadow. Able to equip double-bladed lightsabers.
Martial Studies	10	Shadow. Increases the rate of Force regeneration by 3 per second.
Combat Trance	10	Shadow. The Jedi Shadow can occasionally enter a combat trance which unrestricts the use of powerful finishing moves. Your Shadow Strike has 100% chance to grant Combat Trance with each use, which lasts for 20s and is consumed by your next finishing move.
Shadow Stamina	10	Shadow. Increase your total endurance by 24 per rank.
Force Studies	10	Sage. Versed in the Force, your maximum Force is increased by 400. In addition, your Presence increases at the rate at which your Force regenerates.
Force Reach	10	Sage. Increases the range of Project and Telekinetic Throw by 15m.

Trainable Active Abilities: Shadow and Sage

Ability	Level	Cast Time	Cooldown	Force Cost	Range	Description
Telekinetic Throw	2	3 sec	None	30	15m	Channeled. Hurls a volley of debris at the target dealing high kinetic damage and slowing movement speed by 50%. Standard and weak targets are instead immobilized for that duration.
Force Wave	3	Instant	18 sec	20	Self	Deals high kinetic damage and knocks down all enemies within 8m for 2 seconds.
Stasis Field	4	Instant	45 sec	20	30 min	Suspends a target in a stasis field, preventing all action for 10 seconds. Suspended targets take 100% more damage from Project. Damage will break effect.
Project (II)	5	Instant	6 sec	25	15 min	Throws debris at target, dealing moderate kinetic damage. Standard and weak targets are additionally stunned for 3 seconds.
Force Potency	6	Instant	1 min	unknown	Self	Grants three targets Force Potency, which increases critical chance of your force attacks and healing by 60%. Each time a Force ability criys, you lose one charge. Lasts 20 seconds.
Telekinetic Throw (II)	7	3 sec	None	30	15 min	Channeled. Hurls a volley of debris at the target, dealing high kinetic damage and slowing movement speed by 50%. Standard and weak targets are instead immobilized for that duration.
Benevolence	8	1.5 sec	None	45	30 min	Heals friendly target for a moderate amount of health.
Destruction	8	Instant	4 sec	unknown	20 min	Destroys obstacles and explosive containers.
Force Wave (II)	9	Instant	18 sec	20	Self	Deals high kinetic damage and knocks down all enemies within 8m for 2 seconds.
Force Valor (II)	10	Instant	None	10	30m	Buff. Increase target’s attributes and internal elemental resistances for 30 minutes.
Force Potency (II)	12	Instant	1 min	unknown	Self	Grants three targets of Force Potency which increase critical chance of your force attacks and heals by 60%. Each time a Force ability crits you lose one charge. Lasts for 20 seconds.
Project (III)	12	Instant	6 sec	25	15m	Throws debris at target dealing moderate kinetic damage. Standard and weak targets are additionally stunned for 3 seconds.
Mind Crush	14	2 sec	9 sec	35	30m	Crush the target with the Force, instantly dealing moderate kinetic damage and a moderate amount of kinetic damage every second for 6 seconds.
Benevolence (II)	none	1.5 sec	None	45	30m	Heals friendly target for a moderate amount of health.
Sprint	15	Instant	6 sec	unknown	Self	Buff. Increase your speed and that of all your companions by 20%.
Force Speed	24	Instant	20 sec	unknown	Self	Increase your movement speed by 70% for 2 seconds. Does not break stealth.
Mind Sooth	28	Instant	30 sec	unknown	unknown	Sooth the mind of your enemies, instantly lowering your threat by a moderate amount.
Replenish	32	6 sec	3 min	None	Self	Channeled. Replenishes 60% of your maximum Force and health over 6 seconds.

Trainable Active Abilities: Sage Only

Ability	Level	Cast Time	Cooldown	Force Cost	Range	Description
Disturbance	10	2 sec		30	30m	Fires a blast of telekinetic energy at the target dealing moderate kinetic damage.
Rejuvenate	12	Instant		60	30m	Heal the target for a moderate amount over 12s.
Force Armor	14	Instant	6 sec	65	30m	Surrounds the caster in a Force shield that lasts 30s and absorbs a high amount of damage. Affected targets become Force-imbalanced and cannot benefit from Force Armor again for 20s.
Weaken Mind	16	Instant	Instant	65	30m	Weakens the target’s mind, dealing high internal damage over 15s.
Restoration	18	Instant	4.5 sec	60	30m	Cleanses a friendly target of up to 2 hostile mental or Force effects.
Deliverance	22	3 sec	Instant	55	30m	Heals a friendly target for a high amount of health.
Rescue	22	Instant	1 min	30	30m	Greatly lowers the target’s threat and if the target is a party member, pulls the target to your location.
Force Push	34	Instant	1.5 min	20	15m	Pushes the target back several meters with the Force and deals moderate kinetic damage. Standard and weak enemies are additionally knocked prone for 3s.
Revitalize	40	1.5 sec	5 min	75	30m	Revives an incapacitated ally. This ability is usable while in combat.
Resilience	46	Instant	1 min			Increases your chance to resist Force and Tech attacks by 100% for 4s.
Force Quake	50	6 sec	Instant	100	30m	Channeled. Channel the Force into the ground at the target location, causing it to quake and tremble. All enemies within 8m of the target location are struck for moderate kinetic damage every second for 6s. Each second, the Force Quake has a 33% chance to knock its targets down. No single target can be knocked down more than once from a single Force Quake.

Trainable Active Abilities: Shadow Only

Ability	Level	Cast Time	Cooldown	Force Cost	Range	Description
Stealth	10	Instant				Enter stealth mode, making your movements difficult to detect but slowing movement speed to 85% of normal. Most hostile actions prematurely end the effect. Cannot be used in combat.
Run Through	10	Instant	15 sec	30	4m	Finishing Move: Runs the target through, dealing 250% weapon damage plus moderate damage. Shares a cooldown with other finishing moves. Requires a double-bladed lightsaber.
Shadow Strike	10	Instant		45	4m	Deals 150% weapon damage plus a moderate amount to a single target. Only usable from behind the target. Requires a double bladed lightsaber.
Double Strike	12	Instant		30	4m	Strikes the target twice. Each hit deals 100% weapon damage plus a low amount. Requires a double bladed lightsaber.
Deflection	14	Instant				Increases your range and melee defense by 50% for 15s. Requires a melee weapon.
Mind Maze	16	Instant		50	8m	Confuses the target, leaving it bewildered and unable to act for 60s. Damage will break the effect prematurely. This ability is only usable in Stealth mode and cannot be used against a target in combat. Only one target can be incapacitated at any given time.
Mind Snap	18	Instant	9 sec	10	15m	Traps the target’s current action and prevents that ability from being used for 4s.
Hemorrhage	22	Instant	15 sec	30	4m	Finishing move. Deals 100% weapon damage and causes the target to bleed dealing high internal damage over 18s. Shares a cooldown with other finishing moves.
Force Slow	26	Instant	6 sec	25	15m	Slows the target’s movement speed by 500% for 9s.

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Gear

Consulars may equip cloth armor or robes, dual- and single-bladed lightsabers, and vibroswords. Please see screenshots in the Images section.

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Starship: Defender

Consulars have access to the battle-ready starship Defender, a light corvette model with two decks. The main upper deck is equipped with cockpit, meeting rooms, and a main conference room, which comes equipped with a Holocom system to communicate directly to the Jedi Consul. The smaller lower deck contains a medical bay, personal meditation space, and cargo hold.