[1.2 Sorcs: What DPS are you seeing?]

Oh my, then hybrid must be a full 8.7% better than Lightning! Everyone start using it immediately!

 

This is why I hate parses. There are far too many variables to actually get reliable data on spec comparisons. Did it perhaps occur to you that Lightning has a significantly more complex (and easier to screw up) damage system than the hybrid build?

 

The hybrid build is literally nothing more than keeping Affliction active and Crushing Darkness and DF on cooldown, and spamming FL otherwise.

 

Lightning relies on keeping Affliction active, Crushing Darkness and TB on cooldown (TB only if Affliction won't expire before the cast finishes), using Lightning Barrage on proc, CL on proc, and LS filler, weaving LS to keep Subversion and Conduction active. In addition, Lightning Barrage and CL must be delayed as necessary to ensure that Aff, CD, and TB remain active/on cooldown, as there's no DPS loss to delaying FL or CL as long as you cast them within 10 seconds of the proc.

 

So perhaps you're just better at the hybrid build? No, that couldn't possibly be it, could it?

 

Sorry to be pretty excessively sarcastic here, but I'm kinda sick of people trying to post parses as if they hold any statistical weight at all, much less as if they are definitive markers of the performance differences between the specs.

 

Wow you really sound like an elitiest *** who thinks only he knows what it takes to play a relatively simple rotation. You're being a jerk without really offering any input other than "I bet you need to lrn3playnoob".

 

On a target dummy either rotation is stupidly simply to keep up, so being "better at a build" doesn't really come into play. On boss fights it doesn't matter how good you are, rotations that require more standing still will typically lose out to rotations that are instant/dot based, all else being equal.

 

You're an emo sarcastic *** with the social skills of a 12 yr old going through pre-puberty tantrums, keep your sarcasm to yourself and feel free to add to the helpful discussion the rest of us are having here, minus your obviously mistaken superior attitude.

[1.2 Sorcs: What DPS are you seeing?]

An Update on my post, I tried hybrid yesterday, went to KP and on Bonecrusher did 1350 dps on average (we did both normal and hard mode on this boss and DPS didnt really change much). Looks like hybrid is significantly better than lightning, which makes sense since movement doesn't affect it as much.

 

On the test dummys, with no class buffs other than the SI one, and no debuffs on the boss as I was the only one hitting it, I was at 1250 using hybrid, and 1150 using lightning. Hybrid wins out again with a 100 dps difference.

[1.2 Sorcs: What DPS are you seeing?]

See my post above on "Log Analyzer" Mox : http://memoriesofxendor.com/parser/desktop/ I like it as it's real time, and has a pop-out I overlay on top of my game to see my DPS

[1.2 Sorcs: What DPS are you seeing?]

 

See a problem here?

 

 

Actually I've seen the QQ about this on other sites, and I don't see a big problem. For target dummy this looks fine for two reasons:

1. There's a bug where dummys don't parry or dodge. This should decrease the DPS when this issue fixed.

2. Way more important than the point above, is how DPS changes in operations scenarios for melee vs ranged. Ranged has a huge advantage - fewer boss actions to run away from resulting in reduced dps time as well as easier to stay alive. Boss repositioning doesn't require movement for ranged etc.

 

TL;DR:If these were the numbers in a raiding environment then yes I'd see a problem. On the dummy it looks fine.

[1.2 Sorcs: What DPS are you seeing?]

Last night my guild ran a few attempts on EC. I was pulling around 1100 dps with a pure lightning build. In the interest of getting both an idea of where dps should be for each spec, and which spec seems to pull ahead, could you please post your noted DPS in the following format:

 

Spec: Lightning (3/31/7)

DPS: 1100

 

Other helpful info:

Noted on: (Operation/Warzone/Training Dummy): EC on Zorn and Toth

Gear: 80% Rakata

Log Analyzer: MOX