I'm far from fully geared on my Sorc (mostly Rakata and Black Hole), but in my experience I also get more dps with my 1/13/28 madness hybrid than going lightning spec against the training dummy. I cant seen to match it regardless of the lightning rotations I try. It might be due to requiring more alacrity with lightning spec though. I think madness hybrid it's better single target dps, but lightning is undisputably more multi target dps. I also think it's easier to mess up the lightning rotation since I believe it's a much more active and advanced rotation to maintain. It's also less mobile. Madness hybrid simply requires the use of 4 skills the majority of the time, as I'm sure you know, so it's easy to maintain. This probably isn't too helpful, but I'm interested in this too as I have also read a lot of threads that claim lightning has higher dps potential and I would like to sere some evidence of this because my experience says it is not.
