Ever since the balance update madness sorcs don't have any problems with energy management anymore. Even if you butcher the rotation you'll still be near full force the entire time.

Active yes, Friday/Saturday group is full. We'll be doing weekly HM ToS runs on Wednesdays at 11 est however. Other NiM/HM stuff just ask me and I'll try to put a group together if there's enough interest.

Understatement of the year

After a bit of practice I parsed around 4.3-4.5 (albeit with a lot of mistakes) so I guess madness is decent enough to bring to a raid but lightning is still better all around for damage assuming you're playing them both equally well. I guess bring madness if your healers suck and want some self heals.

Cortell - Sorcerer - Lightning - 4706 - Crimson Blood Post 3.1.2

You know there's a guild recruitment section right?

Special thanks to vicious for helping me get my 4 piece. Suck it zoar Cortell - Sorcerer - Lightning - 5073 - <Crimson Blood>

Yes but a lot of these things don't stack, which means there's no point in spamming lightning bolt when you already have these buffs. Shock has a cooldown of 6 seconds which means you can't completely replace it with lightning bolt. When you're in a proper fight the things you should look out for are: •Is polarity shift off cooldown? •Is polarity shift active right now? •Do I have 3 stacks of the force regen from lightning bolt? Depending on how you answer is how you would use shock, but generally, you will be wanting to use shock more often. Not to mention, in more movement intensive fights you can use shock to make sure you don't have any downtime in your dps. Also I wouldn't be saying "use shock moar!!" all willy nilly. I actually have tested the rotation using shock and it was an average increase of 100-200 dps depending on how lucky I got, but I'll admit I haven't checked the differences in an actual boss fight.

How about you try to contradict the argument instead of trying to insult me. It doesn't matter how long a boss fight is because the extra damage from shock more than compensates for the decreased CD on polarity shift. Even in a boss fight you're going to be saving the polarity shift for a tight burn phase, and if there is no burn phase then you're going to be using your usual rotation (ergo, with shock because it does more dps).

Beat ya zoar Cortell - Sorcerer - Lightning - 4845 - <Crimson Blood>

The decrease in cd for polarity shift doesn't matter because you're never going to be able to get more than 4 polarity shifts on one parse. And honestly I'd rather have the extra overall damage than to have the extra alacrity for a few seconds

Shock does about the same damage as lightning bolt but the thing about it is that the second shock hit from the utility does 50% damage while the second lightning bolt hit is only 30% damage, so overall shock does more damage.

Cortell - Sorcerer - Lightning - 4805 - <Crimson Blood> Special thanks to Aetrus for revealing the amazingness that is shock

Cortell - Sorcerer - Lightning - 4620 - <Crimson Blood> It looks like torparse is reading battles two at a time for whatever reason...

I've always had a funny thought to get the best possible parse by just stacking crit and surge and hoping everything hits

WTB NiM DP run need moar deeps

Scratch that did a better one Cortell - Sorcerer - Lightning 4527 DPS - Crimson Blood I don't know why but the log's not working right with torparse, I doubt that I did 2 million damage in 4 minutes

Cortell - Sorcerer - Lightning - 4447 DPS - Crimson Blood

You don't need to be officer rank as long as you have the permissions to withdraw 20k from the guild bank.

?? You get 4 stacks from one round of force lightning. Wrath procs for every tick of damage from force lightning and force lightning does four ticks

Cortell - Sorcerer - Lightning - 3/36/7 - 4'29.552 http://swtor.askmrrobot.com/character/6f9cde49-97e7-40e6-8fd2-ae0dd51c5b7e http://www.torparse.com/a/682087/time/1400985223/1400985492/0/Overview

Cortell - 4' 28 - 3713 - Sorcerer - Lightning - Crimson Blood http://www.torparse.com/a/682087 http://swtor.askmrrobot.com/character/6f9cde49-97e7-40e6-8fd2-ae0dd51c5b7e

Updated numbers Cortell - 4'41s - 3544.27 - Sorceror - Lightning - Crimson Blood http://www.torparse.com/a/645102/20/0/Overview

Cortell 4' 53s 3400.99 - Sorcerer - Lightning - Crimson Blood http://www.torparse.com/a/625528