Shadow

Comments: BIS for all Shadow DPS and particularly powerful for Infiltration, as the 4-piece CD reduction enables Force Cloak to instantly reset the CD of Force Potency. The critical buff and 6-piece set bonus are really strong for both specs and provide a high uptime of a 10-30% melee damage buff. The set is also a viable option for "DPS tank" sets due to the relatively weak tank set bonus options.

Comments: A useful tank set bonus for operations and especially for flashpoints. The set overall is not very strong compared to options for other classes, so entertaining the use of a DPS set to increase tank DPS is reasonable.

Comments: This set has viability as a tank set bonus due to the 6-piece bonus and 10% DR. It has more frequent availability than the Saber Master set but a short duration. Given the class has a plethora of defensive cooldowns, it is a very interesting option to give a semi-frequent small defensive buff for any damage abilities that don't merit a cooldown. Usually preferred for operations content in higher difficulties and during progression.

Comments: For Infiltration, could have situational use to dramatically increase burst capability for fights with hard short duration DPS checks or in PVP. The 4-piece alone could change the opener from 3 Force Breach to 5.

Comments: Very limited situational use for adds. Could be highly useful for players who primarily run FPs rather than Ops.

Comments: May be useful in PVP for extended immobilization (enabling free DPS while behind the enemy player) and the 6-piece provides a nice but very short buff to mitigating white damage (via reduced accuracy) and yellow damage (via the Resilience duration extension).

Comments: This set bonus was added in 6.1.2 with MM Dxun. The 4-piece is interesting if it provides immunity to mechanics for which Force Speed (with utility) cannot. An example would be aberrations on the HM Revan encounter. The 6 piece is helpful extra DR but is relatively small. This set bonus is borderline useful and a simpler alternative to Efficient Termination but due to the difficulty in obtaining it via MM operations it seems unlikely to be that useful.

Comments: All 3 disciplines can occasionally be resource constrained and forced to use a basic attack, so higher energy regeneration can be helpful. That said, the incremental DPS is very low and provides no survivability or utility benefit. This should be a tactical of last resort and never taken.

Comments: Friend of the Force is a really cool tactical that has niche use but in situations where it is helpful it can be really helpful. For fights where another tank or a non-tank takes predictable very high Force/Tech damage, the player can Resilience to mitigate the hit. It can also be used to provide a combined self + guarded player cleanse for mechanics like Death Mark on Dread Council or Contagion on Apex Vanguard.

Comments: Could have situational use in PVP and has some interesting synergy for Deception with the Murderous Revelation set bonus to provide some truly awesome opening burst DPS potential.

Comments: I do not think most PVP players would prefer this tactical over other options like Two Cloaks in particular or even Jerra's Persistence for Deception. However, a 20% heal debuff could be very useful in PVP when trying to burn down a skilled tank/healer pair.

Comments: Some Infiltration players ilke to use this tactical in the opener to get an extra use of Force Potency. When they use the second cloak, they hot-swap with another tactical for the remainder of the encounter.