Well if your going to use dark charge in madness spec the only downside is that you will never proc raze(crushing darkness) because it requires lightning charge to work. Though with the increased survivablty it will makes fight much easier. What i would suggest is indeed using madness with darkcharge when soloing content. When your fighting groups of mobs use andronikos with his +AoE dmg stance and they should fall right away. When fighting boss level mobs you may was to try using talos in his offensive stance, the dmg will be a little lower than normal but you will probably need the healing he provides aswell. Though if your fighting boss level mobs you could also just pop lightning charge and use khem val

i leveled madness use adronikos for normal and silver ranked guys the aoe dmg you can do with deathfield plus his aoe is stupid. you can kill entire packs near instantly on elites use talos also you can use xalek if you want hes pretty cool, no other real reason besides that

There are a few fights where the burst from deception are favorable i.e 3rd phase SOA and fabricator but for the most part i think madness is better having the utility of two 30 yard range abilities is very useful especially on any fight with a knockback because you can just keep doing your rotation. I also enjoy the fact that its a harder rotation but in the end it does all just come down to preference, ive played both specs nightmare mode and the dmg seems about the same. If you like big numbers go deception if you like dots, dot timers, buffs, and buff timers then madness is the way to go

andronikos is better AoE dmg Ashara is better single target dps so it depends on the situation

though you may not use maul all the time when it procs with duplicity it hits pretty hard also the force regen as madness is pretty good if your using death field on cooldown i rarely have to use saber strike. I think Dark embrace may be to over the top for froce regen especially when you have to sacrafice maul for it. but if it works all the power to you

madness spec and just AoE the crap outta everything with andrinkos

for an assassin Crit > Surge > Power > Accuracy > other the reason for this is because most of the abilities in the madness spec proc off crit chance including raze, exploitive strikes, Claws of Decay, and Creeping death. also youd want accuracy over alacrity because we dont cast anything but we do use melee attacks to proc raze and use our assassinate

the idea seems to be based off of this classic villian http://www.rovang.org/wiki/rita-with-wand.jpg from power rangers

its whatever youd prefer personally i went with 2 force-master pieces to gain the extra healing from crushing darkness the healing it gives is actually pretty powerful in regards to mods crit/surge is always best for madness

exactly just throw the rancor in a cage and have an activate thing like hit the hutt with a ranged attack that makes him release bonethrasher

my guild mates and I were running a hutt hospitality hardmode run, we unfortunatly wiped our first time through and when we went to attempt it again the fight started and we were all stunned on the ground from the stupid fall through the floor thing. BOOM bonethrasher swipes everyone in the group. we eventually solved it by making the tank go in first and turning him around before we entered but i mean we shouldn't have to........did they even test this in beta cause its pretty obvious

edit looked at the wrong talents

Ive run both deception and madness spec at level 50 PVE and from what i can tell they are ruffly the same deception hits hard for short periods of time aka burst dps and madness has alot of dots and is more sustained so really pick what ever you prefer to play. BTW you can easily pull off the tank in both specs madness i often pull twice but that may be just because my gear has improved since i switched. oh and the healing from madness is hardly noticable The reason i prefer madness spec is because 1. harder rotation, there alot of buff/debuff timers to watch and a decent priority list of abilities 2. several range abilities even 30 yard range which means i can dps while avoiding boss mechanics 3. sustained dps is better for boss fights while burst(deception) is better for weak bosses and trash 4. no as reliant on the positional requirments heres my madness spec http://www.torhead.com/skill-calc#200Mc0MZhZcMfRrMkrfz.1 edit: btw stack crit>surge>power madness relys on alot of crit

madness speced assassin. Besides being constantly moving you have to always watch 3 debuff timers and be looking for 2 buff timers while doing a reasonably complex rotation. Besides just that for pve in pvp you have to determine when to use roots and stuns and 2-3 second buffs to stay alive in the light armor you have to wear

I leveled up in the early access weekend and therefore did alot of solo questing and not a lot of flashpoints and now my character is stuck at half way to level one social. I figured its all fine and dandy because i would get some social points in HMs but apparently that is not the case at all i dont get any point in a HM so now im just stuck. How am i suppose to level this up?