Allow me to save you guys some time - Endowment Expert Veracity Hawkeye Go and don't forget!

This came with the biochem nerf, when they changed Rakata Medpacks. In doing so, they also tuned all the ones that come beforehand. Green madpack > (reverses) Blue prototype with up front HEAL and backend Heal over time > Purple Medpack with the upfront heal + Heal over time. After they patch - they removed the HOT on the reusable medpack, but kept it on the prototype. Part of the reasoning was that Biochem was stronger than intended for lvling - Chain pulling, no meditates. Hell you Biochem a tank right now post nerf and you can pull 15 weak mobs and aoe it down with no companion - it's still ultra potent for lvling - far from needed, but potent.

I love tumult - shock/tumult is a fairly decent combo, you should be combing through your mob packs and killing the weaker ones first for your tank - since the weak mobs can hit rather hard, but all roughly have 4.5k hp and are fully disruptable. And there is absolutely nothing funner than jumping into your tumult and getting that 5k crit.

According to some theorycrafting site - Sithwarrior, Lightning, Madness, and 13/28 are all ~ 3% dps of eachother, with 13/28 ahead of the pack. 13/28 does however take a fair amount of force management, Chain Lightnings can become back breakingly expensive during boss fights where you find yourself occasionally forced (or at times simply due to reflex) bubble yourself - it really adds up and can burn through force. I think I read somewhere on the same site - ~2000 seconds until you're out of force following your standard madness rotation. In comparision, you're out of force ~200 seconds if you don't throttle your wrath procs and let those chain lightnings fly. With fights that have smaller windows of DPS, like KP's droid - you'll find that wrath proccing chain lightnings is far and ahead superior to the 18second duration madness dot. Think I've crit him for upward to 14.5-15k with a power adrenal right after his armor was torched with a relentless chain wrath proc. And with my kind of crit, my wrath can easily proc 4 times within the span of that madness dot - now CD gets priority, but even so, you'll have force to spare for chains so long as you learn whens the proper time to throttle and regen. Lightning was kind of my first love - but the lack of mobility can make it weak. Its funny - a couple months ago I almost refused to change from deep lightning ---> 13/28 wrath CL procs Now I couldn't imagine ditching the mobility for any other spec. EDIT : You can also go to Sithwarrior.com >>> Sage/Sorc Forums >>>> Madness Compendium, you'll get 41 pages of worthwhile information there. It will certainly include theory crafting on various specs and how they compete relative to one another.

Have you ever played a game like DOTA / LEAGUE / HON ? Your character really does excel, it's an exceptional harass class - CC Snares Stuns Ranged Aoe Cleanse Heals Bubbles Instant DD DOTS (Breaks flag/captures) Sprint Aoe knockback Ability interupt Stun break Your utility, if properly applied is ultra potent. But just like those games - Dota / League / Hon, POSITIONING IS EVERYTHING. If your positioning is poor, if your presence of mind and awareness is lacking, if you don't constantly shield yourself beind objects and line of sight people - you'll die. My spec is 13/28, I smash pretty well. Being a Biochem also helps. But most importantly, positioning positioning positioning.

Nerf it now please I want equality.

Go **** yourself, our consumables are weaker than exotech. L2 make money and buy stims for raids you baby.

See - that logic may have reached me if we weren't already at such a laughable state - you know, when Synthweavers/Artifice can crit craft themselves BiS augmented relics/belts/bracers, then land on Biochem for reusables, while we're concussed by the nerfbat every other week.

Makes me butt hurt.

power in medium values, and paired with either really high surge (fairly useless past 250) and alacrity (fairly useless). We as sorcs are still stuck with battle or adept enhancements, and still forced to push surge way past dr - because alacrity has yet to be reworked and the stat spread on enhancements don't allow us to stack power without inordinate amounts of surge - As is, even if we did want to stack power, its at the expense of really harshly diminished Surge Rating or trashy Alacrity. Did we not know this? Did this game just come out?

Heres a Biochem lesson from one of the best - Endowment Veracity Expert Hawkeye I'm a mega rich biochem, and only a fraction of my money comes from COLUMI raid implants, none of my income comes from stims, most of my income comes from 49 implants.

Battle and Adept enhancements appear to still be the best thing around - yet the top end of my crits dropped from 92% yesterday to 78% today. Shedding ~ 44 surge dropped me into the 77% range. I'm currently sitting at 444 surge, and given the current changes, I'll likely need to lose around ~200. Heres the issue - Power values on enhancements come in medium amounts, and is coupled with Alacrity (Savant) and Surge (Adept). Now the spread on the enhancement generally follows this suit.. ADEPT Low Endurance Medium Power High Surge BATTLE Low Endurance Medium Crit High Surge SAVANT Low Endurance Medium Power High Alacrity These are the 3 general options we have at our disposal. Alacrity is a fairly weak stat for Sorc's atm. Sure - if has an effect on FL. But its DR curve is pretty harsh, and even with the added bonus to cast time on Force Lightnings, until alacrity is reworked, it doesn't effect dots, wrath procs, or anything else for that matter - it is not a heavily weighted stat. This pretty much leaves us with Battle and Adept Enhancements, both of which come with very attractive pow/crit, but an even higher value of surge. Do these enhancements need to be reworked? to offer more power/crit at the expense of some surge? Because the incredibly high surge values on these enhancements are semi wasteful with the new patch - shedding 44 surge dropped the top end of my crit by 1%. If the stat spread on the enhancements won't change, Reworking the way Alacrity functions cannot come soon enough. Currently we're forced to push our SURGE far past the diminishing curve, because high surge values are still paired with medium power / crit values - we certainly won't opt for savant until you fix Alacrity.

I made a post about it earlier, its preferred for Jugg dps. I'm almost certain that the schematic is bugged, I've talked to many people - we've consumed thousands of critical nano mights. Have everything the base branches off to but that recipe. I'm waiting myself for a reply, so I can finally stop guessing and just know whether its in game or not. Sorry misread your post- YES, that implant is in game. IT WORKS - I've seen it on the auction house.. The one thats bugged is the one without power, that has 60-65crit. That one that branches off overkill is 100% in game, looking at it right now on Sword of Ajunta auction. Now - the critical nano, endowment, that's a myth.

Certainly adding insult to injury. Also, they don't know what the mat cost of blue stims are (last for 2 hours through death) - otherwise they would know that barring a fair amount of procs, there was little or no profit in making them. I don't know about your servers, mats are pricey on mine. Namely red goo, a component of every dps stim, in addition to quick growth. See - the ENDURANCE stim takes easier to attain, g6 materials, where the DPS stims take precious goo, a component that also happens to be important in every worthwhile DPS implant. And even if there was profit in it, I could use 4 red goo for 1 dps stim, or 4 red goo on 2 dps implants - if those implants proc, I'm pricing it @ 149k on my server and its selling. Heres your problem, the mat costs are too heavy. George apparently acknowledged that earlier in his post - alluding to the fact that they are looking at various crafting material requirements.

Is the endowment prefix on Critical Nano-Optic Might Bugged? I have every other path that the base can stretch out too. I've talked to another top flight biochemist. Both of us are in agreement that perhaps, the endowment mark on critical nano-optic is bugged, is unattainable? This fear is underscored on theorycrafting websites that cite the augmented crit crafted BLUE BASE OF THE ITEM, without 40 surge as BEST IN SLOT (62 Str/50 end/60 crit/29 acc) -----> reversing this blue base to endowment should add 40 surge. I've got the 4 other ones, and have had them for quite some time Fervor, Tempest, Supremecy etc (+40 accuracy, +40 shield, +40 alacrity) Those 3 for jugg dps, are rather weak. What I'm seeking, and have been seeking for a very long time, is Endowment, +40 surge. The conversations I've had with some people is that they schematic is bugged - I fully understand RNG, I fully understand randomness. This post is an attempt to find 1 person out there, who has attained this particular recipe - so that I can stop worry about it being bugged and just eat more mats. As of now, I'm very suspicious that ENDOWMENT NANO-OPTIC MIGHT 62 str 50 end 65crit, 29accuracy, 40 surge, DOES NOT EXIST. Someone please tell me how wrong I am - Critical (+Critical) -Endowment (+Critical, +Surge) -Fervor (+Critical, +Accuracy) -Leadership (+Critical, +Presence) -Supremacy (+Critical, +Alacrity) -Tempest (+Critical, +Shield) Here is the particular base and potential paths I'm playing with, and its all with respect to a MIGHT AFFIX. I have attained or have seen all the other endowments. Help me gear my jug dps buddies up !

Thats the second time you dodged the point, probably because you have no answer. Heres a portion of that post ... Additionally, we've reduced the effectiveness of the BioChem exclusive Rakata Stimpacks to be equal to Energized stimpacks. Their intended benefit is the cost savings they provide over time, not an increase in power. We are also in progress of reviewing the creation costs of many consumables in the game against the economic realities (acquisition cost of purple mission materials on our live servers) and will likely make adjustments to these in the future. See what I had bold? Now if a Synthweaver were to augment craft a belt and bracer, and pop 100 stat stim, they're already beyond the 136 rakata. If that same Synthweaver crit crafted bracers/belt/2relics, and popped 100 stim, they are now well beyond a simple Biochemist. Now if the same Synthweaver crit crafted belt/bracers/2relics, then instead of popping 100 stim, dropped his professions for Rakata Stims/adrenals/meds, then he is in quite a position. Keep dodging the underlaying issue to the entire problem, because you, like Bioware, have no answer. You're a bit of a joke. Lets see if you'll dodge it for a third time. That post from a yellow claimed that Biochem had access to "more power" that derailed an element of skill from raiding. What he and you seem to ignore is that other professions already had access to a MUCH LARGER GAIN - we just saved money. I can teach both you and George a bit about this game.

Ok, my fault, add an TO BE ON PAR WITH - after the forced to drop professions segment - eitherway, I wouldn't ever drop BIOCHEM. Doesn't change the fact, a fact that not even you can change, that it's hypocritical on its face. Get over yourself. Feel free to address the more important point that you glossed over because it deflated your argument... Prior to this patch, if you were a Synth, you had access to more stats with a simple 2 augments+ a 100stim. Bringing our 400/400 required on use stims below 136 was not entirely warranted - people already had access to better. Biochem was just a money saver/fostered lazy people. Unless you tap into the implant market which is probably the most viable one to date. Again, learn the game.

Is anyone playing around with that EV med unit drop, the invalid schematic that can now be learned? Does it follow suit with other consumables, and are BOP upon purple reversal? Personally trying to it out, and am 0/4. The materials can get pricey depending on what server you are on, so I figured I ask to see if I can find people trying out the same thing. I was hoping to be able to reverse BOE purple medpacks that are reusable for sale.

Haven't switched my profession once, not sure what gave you that impression. Biochem never gave you a stat boost, you have no idea what you're talking about. You can attain more stats than rakata via 2 augments on bracer/belt/relic + 1 ~100 main stat stim, so that arguments a complete wash. Learn the game a bit - you missed some very key facts.

On a side note, I wonder if we can reverse the med unit into a boe consumable that can be traded. i'm 0/3 - 4 radioactive paste per.

I've made upwards to 40-50mil selling implants. Get a little better at the game, listen to some rap music, and start hustling a little harder. As for biochem nerfs, its more the fact that Artifice/Synth can crit craft bracers/belt/relic, then go BIO for bio perks. Thats my first and only issue with any of this.

This game doesn't have that magic!

I started out biochem, and have been since december 13th. People like me are forced to drop the profession they started with, lose recipes that took thousands of implant reversing, to pickup synth, crit craft bracers/belt, then grab artifice and crit craft relics, then relearn our initial profession and re-attain our recipes. Thats just bull man, 300% bull.

True indeed, I can't use mine - however the madpack does work.

Hope so, I made a thread about it that got a decent amount of attention - cause its unequivically hypocritical.