By a mile lightning sorc. 2 secs to cast your 31pt skill for a total of 3.5k damage to 1 toon nice. Less if affliction not on. 3 sec chain lightning for 2k -2.5k aoe hit man this makes me feel powerful. This was so OP we had it taken off wraith cant be doing 2.5k aoe hits instant after a proc can we. erm wait a sec? Cleary the sorc was op back in the day and if CL was back on wrath again would destroy every other char. I might even run upto 5 Warriors bunched up and lay the smack down with this aoe hit. (ROFLMAO).... 1.5 sec for a lightning strike 1.3k clearly 1.3k is amazing damage this will soon be nerfed to minimum 2 sec cast at least we have an amazing force recovery mechanism, 2k -2.5k health dumped and 10 secs gimped force regen (which is already slowest regen in the game) for 8% force that seems cool better do it twice or 4 skills on your bar are still greyed out from 1 consumption. I forgot me resource free hits!!!!! Every char has them who needs to regen force I can still hit him. Erm maybe the tooltip is incorrect my RANGED sorc has 2 MELEE attacks resorce free? You know what, the above is a lot of casting & turret play let me use my kitting abilities. so I keep him off me with my conned KB & skilfully use my force runaway let me hit him on the move with erm.erm,erm oh yeah got my shock 1.5k 6sec cd erm ok now there is affliction, slow wait thats it? I guess my kiting rotation is shock -> aff -> slow -> X -> Shock -> X -> X -> X Where X is my filler. Erm filler you say? you must mean the other skills not greyed out on the run, like Cleanse, consumption. Signed A Retired Sorc:

As he said snipers are a bit different to other classes with there being no "official" way to min/max. Despite this, there is a few things you can think about. Accuracy 95% (150 Accuracy) would be the minimum you require. Remember every class has a base 5% or even 10% defence to dodge/resist our attacks. you need 5% so worse case you will in effect be at 85% on normal attacks vs some classes. you mentioned the 1% from companion & 3% from skills, how about 1% companion 1% skills (minimum you can take as a Marksman) 3% (100) from accuracy and now you have 2 free points to spend in your skill trees. Cunning Crit Surge Power Cunning as much as possible. Due to diminishing returns I go for 35% crit, (with buff) 75% Surge, & after hitting all other targets rest in power. Some snipers have gone crazy IMHO and stacked power power power! yes you can get stupid shots off at 8K crit but the amount of times it happens isn't enough to reliably use. the below link provides some info but I must say I disagree on Imperial Demarcation over Siege Bunker for pvp 60% AOE Damage reduction is amazing. http://www.noxxic.com/swtor/pvp/imperial-agent/sniper/marksmanship/stat-priority-and-details