Actually the tooltip is broken, not the skill, the skill is working perfectly fine.

The thing is, if you like looks it is you, if you don't like them, it is you too. I for my part love the look of the level 50 pvp armor (one of the reasons I am closing in on champion rank) and pvp seems the only way to get a purple saber, though not sure what blade colour the pve raid weapons have.

Madness was great for me when I was at the beginning of pvp, but meanwhile I enjoy my 31 points deception and 10 points darkness (for reduced cooldown on shroud and runspeed), deception comes more into play the better your gear is, I think. I still have to try full darkness as I am still working on my tank pvp set.

I really love Force Choke in Huttball as an Immortal Juggernaut, first push enemies into the acid and then keep them there with Force Choke kills full enemies without a problem, holding someone who runs over the deactivated flames almost always lets them get a few ticks of fire before they can get out. It also helps in keeping enemies away from misson objectives in the other flashpoints, just keep an eye out on the enemies resolve bar, don't use choke when it is full.

To best level biochem you will need at least bioanalyses. To get the blue and purple items you need to craft your reverse engineered schematics, you will also need diplomacy.