Gotta say, that level 70 talent row is god awful. You're forcing players to choose between their best DCD or their hard stun (hydraulic overrides is w/e). Like.....why?

Was the most replied topic on the PTS forum. Changes still went through.

As the title says, the Kingpin's Lightstaff has the tuning going the wrong way on the backblade of the weapon. The tuning starts at the hilt, but extends up the hilt to the front of the weapon instead of back towards the backend of the weapon. Showing tuning directions: https://i.imgur.com/LJPzu9r.png What it looks like in game: https://i.imgur.com/KltenIv.png (only front blade has the tuning.) What it should look like: https://i.imgur.com/E4YVrl4.png (weapon used was Imperial E-1 Enforcer Dualsaber)

Can only hope the devs have been listening and will have to wait and see for the 5.3 notes for Madness since it was on the list. As for lightning, I believe they've said they know it sucks right now. But as to how they wanna make it better, god only knows.

I've yet to see any Sorc in pvp able to burst someone down. Hell I've yet to see a sorc put pressure on someone to the point they'd say "wow, i really need to do something about this sorc". Lightning -- the supposed burst spec -- does piss poor burst, crits that are well behind other specs of the same type even when exploiting the CL bug. Madness is in the same boat, it has no kill pressure. you can dot someone up with every DoT and a heal or 2 from a healer completely negates the damage.

lol when #1 dps can crack 10k. yes...yes it is.

yeah... that's Hatred/Deception Assassins. Just with a double bladed lightsaber. Also, there are people out there who like the DoT theme of Madness as it is. I'd absolutely hate it if they changed it to that. Considering I could just go play an assassin.

I mean odd as in the way the player character holds the lightsaber while doing it, the animation is wonky, not that the feat of using both hands was foreign . The blade is almost smacking the character in the face because of how he holds it. The blade hovers in the hand and is angled in such a way that it almost clips through the head it's so close some times. Need some more ability animation updates soon.

Gonna have to wait till 5.3 if anything. Cause for some reason BW refuses to do mini balances when maintenance happens. They let classes go for months and months and months without anything changing even if they're super OP or trashcan tier.

I'm on the opposite side of the coin on this one. I'd rather my Sorcerer not even hold the lightsaber when throwing lightning around. Looks odd holding a lightsaber when using both hands to cast Force Lightning. Think Valkorian, dude blocks lightsabers with his force powers and waves his big Force-D around with giant Force Lightning attacks. Then there's Satele Shan during the cinematic trailers against Darth Malgus. That massive force attack to crush him against a wall. Could the animations be updated? Of course.

Make Force Lightning free to cast. (removes negative force rotation) and add Force Lightning to the Force Mobility utility. Gives Madness some mobility when they hit 62 (or add it to Force Barrage at 56 so the utility doesn't become overloaded) so they can keep their rotation going during movement.

Sad but true. It's why Blizzard has started doing stat templates for classes. It changes your character stats and ability stat ratios based on whether you're in PvE or PvP combat. That way a PvP balance change doesn't completely screw up their PvE balance and vise versa. It's something Bioware should consider doing so they can stop completely ruining a class spec when they nerf it in one area of the game that affects the other.

"Congrats you can finally super crit...buuuuuut we're nerfing the base damage. Have fun!"

I don't think the auto crit on Thundering Blast benefits from super crits either. which probably hurts it a lot.

Bug has been around for a long time as well. Should just be made base line as part of a buff to the class spec.