Also, the chance of any specific sequence of 100 flips (say 50 heads followed by 50 tails) is as probable as getting exactly the 100 heads sequence. The improbable, often mistaken as impossible, happens all the time.

This. No matter if there were a thousand heads in a row, which is certainly possible if improbable, the chance of the next flip being heads will always be 50% (or 49.99997). What is being confused here is the chance of getting 101 heads in a row, versus the chance of getting a heads on a single flip at the end of a 100 heads sequence.

Honestly, I get more kills because of this than anything.

I'm in much the same boat on my Sorc. It was either to focus on healing primarily, or do a hybrid build, to be competent in PVP. Possibly others may fare better with pure lightning or madness and I just suck, but I've tried enough different builds in PVP and PVE to break myself early on due to respec costs. And the hybrids are the only one that really put me on the charts per se. The 1v1 scenarios are just entirely different. Some classes it seems we can wreck fairly easily, and some hold their own well, but a marauder eats through hybrid dps sorcs like nothing else and a good PT can cause serious trouble. I think you're right, a pure nerf would miss the point, because hybrid builds are really what makes sorcs feel viable in a PVP sense. And if you simply nerf, that's not going to be addressed.

Absolutely. In my experience, I've seen a lot more people using the 0/13/28 builds than other DPS builds. I may be wrong, and my local sample more skewed versus a global one.

No doubt that those both are far more squishy to play. Sorc feels squishy when out bubble is burst and on CD, but I don't think it's even close to as squishy as this.

Well, if there are 2.5 builds, and only one has it, then by math wouldn't you say that even most do not Not trying to be contrarian, it just seems that it was assumed that this is par for the course of sorc builds. In PVP, in my experience, it's common but not that common.

That's only if someone's investing a minimum seventeen points into lightning. Plenty of builds that don't, even popular and fotm builds. The bubble is not near as strong in practice at it appears in theory. That said, I could see some need for changes to sorc, but it's not the bubble.

Nobody remembers Reginald Denny from the 1992 LA riots? I'm guessing that's what the reginal dinny incodent refers to?

Yes, please.

Excellent guide, thanks.

Sept 10th here, so praying for tomorrow.