I support this comment. Even when Lightning was supposedly better because it parsed higher, on most actual fights (aka not the dummy) I was doing consistently better with Madness simply for the mobility reason. Obviously in some fights it's more pronounced than others, but just as a prime example: Tyrans. Well, in NiM anyway, you are forced to fall to the ground, you can't even see the boss, but if you were Madness you could have 3 dots rolling the whole time and be continually doing damage despite not even being able to target the boss. I often have the same thoughts as you OP on Lightning though. Having to cancel a Tblast to move out of a reticle is the most infuriating thing. So I just avoid the situation all together if possible.

Yes but it's 5% alacrity that lasts 15s. So it has 75% uptime. That's very significant. And effects everything you do. Faster GCD, faster channels. -1.5 on CD means over a 5 minute parse you will use it 2 more times. For a healer, trance only has a 9s cd to begin with so -1.5s is more significant. The main reason that healer set bonus is so good however is because with the cd reduction it puts trance and rejuv in sync rotation wise. So to break that down. Would you rather have. A) Two more crushing darkness casts every 5 mins. vs. B) Static +3.75% Alacrity (5 x 0.75) and +74 Willpower (dps stat difference of two 69 pvp and 81 pve armorings)

To maximize DPS you want the 4-piece for either spec. (2) Reduces cost of Lightning Strike and Force Lightning or Disturbance and Telekinetic Throw by 2 and reduces the cooldown of Polarity Shift or Mental Alacrity by 15 seconds. (4) Affliction or Weaken Mind damage has a 30% chance to increase alacrity by 5% for 15 seconds. Cannot occur more than once every 20 seconds.

Sounds fun, pub or imp? What day/time? I've got a mid level mando, low level merc and have never played sent/mara so could start new either side as well.

Apparently I'm out of touch with the pugs. My friends give 1000 yard stares at my idea. "You.... you have no idea what you are asking."

Ascension fizzled out on JC. Most just stopped playing. The remaining merged into The Covenant, which is also using a few Torva Nex members pub alts, I believe. I'm still poking around too. Joining Covenant runs every now and again. I was thinking about putting together a PvE school to teach people of all skill levels and maybe stir up the pug scene on the server. Mostly I just get made fun of for the idea haha.

Here's a graphic I made to help those working on Tyrans. http://i.imgur.com/pjaHmZI.png

Crux - Sage - Balance - 5/5/36 - 4m 43.914s http://www.torparse.com/a/521478/time/1386998847/1386999131/0/Damage+Dealt http://swtor.askmrrobot.com/character/17ce5efd-983b-40d3-8e53-218b914a3634

So what's the deal with the adjustments? My first log said 4m43s but dps was 3496, so i did another one to break 3500 and this one http://www.torparse.com/a/521478/2/0/Damage+Dealt is also 4m43s but has the 3525 number you adjusted my first one too?? Edit: well i guess i do see the total damage is higher in my 3525 parse so it must be closer to actual?

Crux <Ascension> Sage Balance 5/5/36 3413.17 (7m 19.224s) http://www.torparse.com/a/521477/1/0/Overview http://swtor.askmrrobot.com/character/17ce5efd-983b-40d3-8e53-218b914a3634 For 1.5M bracket. I made several mistakes. Should be easy to beat. 7mins is a long time to not get distracted hahaha

Crux <Ascension> Sage Balance 3496.4 (4m43s) http://www.torparse.com/a/521463 http://swtor.askmrrobot.com/character/17ce5efd-983b-40d3-8e53-218b914a3634 1st try. c'mon Viviana, gimme some competition.

This sounds like a ton of fun! I stand no chance, but will come throw my body at you regardless. My plan may involve sexy clothing to distract you.

Nice thanks. I see where doing balance screws me up in tk. I see wm drop and feel the need to immediately reapply it. Doing so I invariably always end up with out of sync timing on turb for the crit. I can see where waiting like you do to reapply would make this much better. Also. Press buttons faster. haha. 42apm. In balance my 33 is good. That might be the lowest APM of any dps haha. Actually I wonder now. What spec/class has the lowest APM I wonder.

Wow that is impressive. Nice job! If possible, could you do me a favor and record yourself doing a parse sometime. I'd like to get a good look at the minor details and timings you use, hopefully make some improvements on my use of the spec.

Presence of Mind - procs from crits on Tk Throw.