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An Obsession With Jugs: A comprehensive Juggernaut playstyle/build guide

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    Runo/Sic here with another attempt at a Juggernaut guide -- this time with multiple builds complete with tips, tricks and suggestions on optimizing your playstyle... An Obsession With Jugs! Sicarius of the <Shattered Sun> from the Lord Adraas server brings you ways to build up and deploy your Jug by 50, whether it's in PvP or PvE.

    These builds located in this guide are NOT the final say on how to play a Jug, merely basic outlines on how you COULD build your Jug; you can feel free to fine-tune these builds as you see fit, as they're probably not even the best of the best that you could build them to be -- they may not be any good at all! They're here for ideas and inspiration! You could even say it's titillating! [Huhuhuh. I'm so mature.]

    (Links may vary between DarthHater and TORHead. Respects to both sites for their incredible work on their respective skill-calcs.)

    H4ND1-D4ND1, THE TEMPLATE DECODER DROID
    BUILD TITLE (most often contains the link itself): The name and location of the build. Durr.
    TIPS & TRICKS: How to drive your Jug-Truck straight into combat.
    PLAYSTYLE: PvP, PvE? Tank, DPS? Unstoppable death truck?
    SPEC(S) USED: Which of the three skill trees are utilized in this build. No vegetation was harmed in the making of this spec.
    KEY ABILITIES: How to make your POW hit like a WHAMMO, or in other words, what ability or abilities the build centers around.
    KEY ITEMIZATION: Strength, Surge Rating, Critical Rating, Power / Force Power, Endurance, Shield Rating and Absorption, etc.

    BLOODY SCREAMIN' HELL, MATE
    TIPS & TRICKS: Stack as many bleeds as you can on one target and fire off Scream as often as possible. You can Intercede to a friendly target and Force Charge to a hostile for a free Scream between stacking bleeds.
    PLAYSTYLE: DPS -- PvP & PvE
    SPEC(S) USED: Vengeance/Immortal
    KEY ABILITIES: SHIEN or SHII-CHO FORM. Force Scream, Impale, Sundering Assault, Shatter, Vicious Throw, Ravage
    KEY ITEMIZATION: Strength, Surge, Crit, Power, Force Power (Optional Itemization: Expertise)

    THE CLASSY BUT SMASHING GENT
    TIPS & TRICKS: Fire off Force Choke to build four stacks of Shock Wave, fire off Obliterate for Dominate, and watch the numbers fly.
    PLAYSTYLE: DPS -- PvP & PvE
    SPEC(S) USED: Rage/Vengeance
    KEY ABILITIES: SHII-CHO FORM. Smash, Force Choke, Force Crush, Vicious Slash, Ravage
    KEY ITEMIZATION: Strength, Power, Force Power, Surge (Optional Itemization: Expertise)

    MY LOVE FOR YOU IS LIKE A JUGGERNAUT
    TIPS & TRICKS: Pop Sundering Assault with for two stacks of armor reduction. For some reason this lets you do Crushing Blow's full damage as though the target had five stacks already on it, when it only brings it up to five stacks concurrently.
    PLAYSTYLE: Tank, Debuffer & Soft CC -- PvE & PvP
    SPEC(S) USED: Immortal/Vengeance
    KEY ABILITIES: SORESU FORM. Smash, Riposte, Scream, Backhand, Crushing Blow
    KEY ITEMIZATION: Endurance, Shield Absorption, Shield Rating, Damage Reduction, Strength (Optional Itemization: Expertise)

    COMING SOON:
    *A rundown of every last Juggernaut ability and hotbar skill. (Coming shortly after launching the guide)
    *Better formatting and a cleaner overall guide. (Almost immediately)
    *Improved indexing. (Probably a few days out)
    *Key Talents/Skills. (Probably a few days out)
    *Gear and set suggestions. (MUCH later down the line)
    *Levelling building blocks: levels 25 and 35 in addendum to the level 50 guides here. (Weeks out) 

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