The optimal build for Watchman takes time to achieve due to requiring many different types of mods and enhancements. My experience over the last few years has exponentially grown, and I’m happy to share my knowledge and experience with others. We’ve had so many changes in the last 9 years of the game, and it’s truly been a journey to experience it all. I only played Carnage (Combat) up until mid-4.0 when I decided to learn the other Marauder specs (I didn’t start playing pubside for a while). I have been playing the game since 1.2, and my main Marauder is the first character I made.
In PVP or non-scaled content, this problem is negated, and it does comparable damage to most other classes. Unfortunately, this spec suffers from the weapon damage scaling in Nightmare compared to Force/Tech users since everything that is not a DoT is weapon damage (it suffers less than Concentration or Combat, however). This spec is one of the highest parsing specs in the game, and does the highest damage overall in Nightmare level content compared to the other Sentinel specs. On top of these bonuses over other Sentinel specs, Watchman will help other classes that rely heavily on DoT abilities tremendously with its 7% internal and elemental damage debuff it applies to targets you hit Merciless Slash on. Its sustained damage is better than the other two Sentinel specs, meaning it relies less on crit for bigger hits to do damage. It offers more damage than the other Sentinel specs in higher level raid content, as well as provides some small healing for raid utility over the other specs. Watchman Sentinel is a spec that revolves around managing damage over time (DoT) abilities to do damage. With its frequent DoT spreading capabilities, you can do a lot of damage to multiple targets, but this spec excels at single-target damage as well. The more frequent uptime you have a target, the more damage you will end up doing with this spec.
This guide is tuned towards PVE, but I will also include tips for PVP. Welcome everyone to my Watchman Sentinel guide.