the key to sorc/sage DPS is to move. It's really that simple they leap at you you move, they run after you you move... Vs's Mara/ sents Always dot the living hell outta them, you have 3, always use force slow then force sprint get distance and pew pew them for the insta proc for Crushing Darkness, then bail once again. If your maddness always drop your death field on cd, even single target! tbh it doesn't matter whether it's vs a mara/sent or any other class it's the same, you only stay in range to do what you gotta do to get insta procs then bam your on the move again. & tbh I've found stabby stabby ops & scroundrals to be more of a pain than sents/mara's. at the end of the day the most annoying things I've found for a sorc is A) Grav round from commando's (not the 1st one but the 2nd and 3rd ones I can't interupt) B) Me being silly and not playing the way I should C) Melee up in my face. Can Sorc's /Sages do with some more burst? I wouldn't say no to it, but they have to be careful how they do it. Can Sorcs / Sages do with some more defence to combat those pesky melee classes? Again I wouldn't say no to it, and again they need to careful how to impliment it, but we are a ranged class and should not expect the defences of those melee folk who are up in peoples faces all wf long. Think of it like this. Melee = Pawns on a chess board in the front lines, Sorcs / Sages are the Bishops we hang back to play our role.

What a complete and utter waste of an Q&A. Full of nothingness and dribbly drab responses. How about giving the community alot more indepth replies to the more important questions. The only major thing you addressed was the PVE relics, not that they are major for myself since I only PVP. Give us soem real answers for PVP/PVE Balance, propper responces to resolve. How about you put a things to look foward to in swtor blog..no wait I'll put that to be ignored in the suggestion forums. I really feel for SWTOR, since you have GW2 in a month, then another month after that people can play Panda's and roll about laughing about how badly you guys have treated your community.

Bottom line is Rating in preseason has no baring on a person skill at a class. Just remember that not all people have teams that will only play rated war fronts.

No one else has any other sites?

having fun then running around using lightning strike. And of course there is a prioity system in use. Else your not taking advantage of the procs you get from the maddness tree and are reliant on skills being used prior to other skills in order to give them a little boost.

Absolutely they should, they are more group orientated than just about ANY PVE content (raiding excepted)... How am I gunna get past social 1 when I don't PVE and only PVP???

one thing to note, for a Maddness Sorc, the Priority abilities are used in are almost identical to the pve Priority systems, with the exception of shock which is used, from my understanding a little more in PVP

I am not sure of the spec, hopefully some one else can jump in here with that, however, a number of sorc healers I run regularly with are now using the hybrid healing spec and say they are having better success with that rather than a pure healing spec.

Peoples!! What sites are people using for their sorc information? For me specifically it would be PVP prefered but there is a fair wack of overlap with PVE Ask Mr Robot MMO-Mechanics Noxxic Darth Hater - Forum seems outta date Sith Specs Any ways lets see some of the other sites out there

So just to clarify, because I am, you know, using your own words here, in your eyes a sorc is only good for huttball and only because of the pulls to team mates.. correct? go stand on top of that bridge your hiding under troll and jump off.

I've sat with another team chatting away for ages while that team and my teams are queued for ranked... It is a queueing bug imo that also affects normal WF's

at the end of the day there is no wrong strat, sure some work better than others, but the number 1 thing to make a strat sucessful is to communicate it at before the speeders appear and making sure every one sticks to the strat. that is the down fall with any strat ... people not sticking to it.

inrelation to the OP, a thread which is now deleted that was posted in the CS forum, had a reply from a CS MEMBER stating that the 80 comms for a win was infact working as indended. Then to find after yet another ticketed entered about a week or so ago, to get a reply i believe over the weekend where the CS respondant states that this was and UNKNOWN ISSUE, and after sooo many bug reports and posts on the subject plasted all over the forums on it... what the OP is after, and something alot of other MMO's, even "dieing ones", do well is ... COMMUNICATE, even if it wasn't what the community wanted to hear, they at least knew which way the cookie crumbled! and I think a blue cleese would suite you better BT

best result for a sorc, doesn't matter whether heals or dps, is LOS as much as possible, and rarely stay still. this will improve surivability alot, throw what your out while on the move, stop do 1 to 2 casts max, then be on the move again. I see alot of sorcs go out there and pick a spot and stay there, then comlain they get owned really and can't do anything. always make sure you maintain a near as possible 100% barrier uptime on yourself!, it's it's a choice between you and some one else you should always be the receiver 1st.

hehe i reedited ma post and you beat me to it.... and i blame my laziness for not going back through the thread .. damn links direct posts hehehe

"somethign about me not reading back further in the thread" But to your point.... The damage a Sorc can put out is fine, some classes can rip through a sorc's defence in a matter of miliiseconds, but that's for another story. People playing sorcs just need to relize that we're not going to see the bigg crits like some classes and that's fine.

to be perfectly honest, I was on my way to west (from starting zone), I just know that by the time my sorc hit the speed buff in the middle of the wf south was capped. I used force speed as soon as i hit the deck as well to get there. and I didn't think preditation stacked with another preditation?

The legacy system is a joke, what's the point in a legacy when you have to buy things for every toon you ever create from inside the legacy????? leg·a·cy (lg-s) n. pl. leg·a·cies 1. Money or property bequeathed to another by will. 2. Something handed down from an ancestor or a predecessor or from the past the mear difinition of the word legacy tells you it's a pass down thing, the implimentation of this so called legacy in SWTOR is just wrong wrong wrong wrong!

Here is my suggestion! COMMUNICATE WITH US!!!!!!! Please.

Hej folks!, What's the quickest time you've seen done legally for capping south in NC? Was in there last night our opposing team had sth capping inside of 4 seconds. From memory the 3 cappers they had (i know that makes capping go faster), only one was a sage, I believe 1 was a sent ( so 2 speed buffs for the sage) other was an gunny. I am baffled as to how they all got there so quick, since they capped from INSIDE the bunker @ sth.

Hai!, Since you are bring down the servers, yet again, your community would like to know what the intended fixes are going to be implimented? If you can please actually give us some information other than we're shutting down for 2 hours yet again it would be greatly apreciated, and you will find your community alot more happy knowing what is happening. Is it to fix the launcher issue some people are having? if so great we're fine with that, but TELL US. Is it to fix the still laggy WF's especially Huttball? Again Great!!! we're also fine with that, but Tell us. Is it to fix the comms reward resetting after x amount of medals, that is far from working as intended? Awesome!! but please tell us. Is it to fix a blue colour on 1 set of armor, that only people with certain Graphic Cards see?... well that really could wait until regular maintanence, however! Tell us!! As you can see by the above, what's the common theme amoungst all of those things? Still can't see it? Well let me spell it out COMMUNICATE WITH US!!!!!! Tell us what is actually intended to be resolved by this uncheduled (that is really scheduled) downtime! Regards, ME!

Are there plans in greatly improve the very bad communication between the community and the devs? and on that can you please include all changes made during maintanence in the patch notes, as 4 hrs to fix augments, which should of waited until the normal maintanence period to be fixed, seems rather excessive. I guess you can read this as Can you give us propper communication rather than treat us like s**t?

To the OP: from an Aussie, So wait you didn't lhe look at the games main site, email, didn't look at any other gaming site, and wait for it, didn't even look at the launcher, nor pay attention to server chat about it IN GAME, because it was mentioned multiple times at all of these places. So saying you didn't know and blaming BW is just your ignorance to admit you stuffed up. Sorry this is completely YOUR OWN fault. BW can't force you to open your eyes and pay attention.

I shall put this more tactfully that I did in my ticket, under frustration. I have gone outta my way to avoid getting this disease, however with daily quests to blow each other up and to collect DNA, and people clumping on the imperial fleet this is basically impossible to do (pvp terminals moving to your class door for for your ship etc. While yes you have put in a stim to remove the disease, I suggest making it perminate for the duration of the world event, or keep the current timer on it, and make it so it survives through death. My wish is not to detract from those wanting to do the world event, but give people who don't peace from the world event, thus making it a win win situation for both sides of the fence. Also 2k a pop for the current stim is a bit steep, especially when leveling a toon up, since it doesn't survive after death.

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