I believe the 15% crit bonus from the PVE set is from 4 pieces, not 2. I'd so much like to have it but I hate pve... Walking around with 2 pve 3 pvp parts is just silly.

You play this game for pvp but you are asking advice for pve am I right? Bit confused here. For PVP I suggest 24/0/17. PVE I have no idea ^^

Yup it's the only AOE dmg (besides Overload ofcourse which we all have).

I'd go for the A one with more endurance, but maybe that's because I am Darkness specced and like to see a big HP pool..

I have tried healing with the Hollow talent and recklessness up, but never once has it critted

It's better even, it's a flat 6% damage increase for Thrash regardless of crit or not.

If you wish to survive and be able to pull people to your location I suggest this spec: http://www.torhead.com/skill-calc#200rcrozrco.1 Running around with Dark Charge really makes you harder to kill compared to Deception and the damage of this spec might be a bit lower but it just feels better to me. I am personally walking around with 27/0/14 and it's the best spec for my style of gameplay. Go up to Harnessed Darkness and put the rest in Madness for Thrash crit damage and the Death Field skill (with 1 point in reduced cost). Might not have as much burst as Deception but your Shocks will always crit with Energize being up most of the time. Also being able to pull people and guard allies (4 medals to be earned from guarding) is really nice ^^

http://www.torhead.com/skill-calc#200ZRGrRk0R0z.1 I'd go with this one. When you lvl up put the next 3 points in Exploitive Strikes (Madness tree). You will be thrashing a lot. Whenever Induction reaches 2 stacks use Shock. Also pop Recklessness everycooldown and use it for Discharge twice or a Discharge and a Shock. Also watch for Insulation procs and don't be afraid to use Blackout every fight (when your energy is getting below 50%). Use Low Slash for interrupts/killing people in the fire hazard or when you have a hard time getting a Maul off. After filling Exploitive Strikes fill Thrashing Blades (Darkness Tree) and when you reach lvl 37 respec and start filling Crackling Blasts in Deception and don't stop untill you get Voltaic Slash. After that you should know what to do yourself Hope I was helpfull.

It's not 100%, it's 60% And the low cooldown on it makes it look like almost every fight it's back up ^^

So your only attacks would be Thrash and Wither? I think even a lvl 10 would beat you with this...

Hey guys it's me again. Just wanted to let you know I tried the 27/0/14 spec and loving it big time!! (http://www.torhead.com/skill-calc#200rfrozrskbZZf0cRd.1) At least the same dmg as Deception but more, way more fun

Keep 1 point in it and put the other 2 in Insulation. 10% is enough to keep it up every 10 seconds.

You spend the time reading my entire post and you come up with that reply? You actually deserve a cookie -_-

I know there are quite a few topics about this but I just wanted to share my vision on this matter. I've always been Deception and always loved it. Have switched to Madness 3 times now and every time I respecced back to Deception the very same day. This choice is based on personal preference, though. With Madness I always do way more damage then Deception (every warzone at least 300K-400K which is easily obtainable, whereas Deception would get me to 250K if I'm lucky and have healers, but usually only around 200K) Highest crit in Madness, with Death Field, is 3.4K popping both Recklessness and the crit/surge champion trinket. Highest crit in Deception, with Assassinate, was exactly 5K without popping anything. So maybe that was on a player with no expertise and low defense, but still 5K was the damage . Shock will crit for 4k, Discharge 4.5k and Voltaic Slash gets me 2.4k if both hits crit. You will absolutely never see those numbers as Madness. You might do more damage per second, but trust me, you ain't killing no healers 1on1!! We might be squishy as Deception, but it's not like speccing Madness will change ANYTHING about that. The dot-heals are still way too small in my opinion. I see a 257 heal popping every few seconds if I dot enough targets. It never saved my life even once! And that's with 30% (35% with imp agent buff) crit chance. Madness can be nice though, for snaring people 30m range with Creeping Terror, always getting the 300k dmg Medal, attempting to dot everyone in range so they can't plant bombs/activate turrets and ofcourse the instant whirlwind is something we'd all like to have However, I am 100% sure I will never spec Madness again (unless a patch changes many things). It just doesn't feel good to me. With Deception I have so much burst it's no problem killing most classes 1on1. Healers are usually screwed when I start whacking them and no1 comes interfering. Force regen is no problem either with Blackout having only a 45 sec cooldown. Also, many nice pvp talents are located in the Deception tree; Obfuscation, Darkswell, Avoidance, Entropic Field, Fade, Static Cling (1 point in this one is enough, 2 would not be a waste though) and I'm not going to continue playing without those babies People can say whatever they want about Madness being the superior spec for PVP right now, but I for one will not listen to you! It just comes down to personal preference/play style. I'll probably go Darkness before I try out Madness again ^^ If anyone's interested here's my Deception spec: http://www.torhead.com/skill-calc#200MczZRGbRkGRbtzZc.1 Yes I know only 1 point in Duplicity. Trust me, even with 10% chance you will get that proc every 10 seconds as Deception. More points just increase chance nothing else. Rather get Insulation instead Entropic Field is something you might wanna skip if you really need the points, but I sure as hell don't I love it! I am full champion by the way, only valor rank 50 now so BM gear will still take me a week or 2..

No idea, don't think this is possible yet?