What kind of person would like madness and lighting? Cant pick which is most fun Edited December 23, 2011 by Totalchicken

A lot of my guild is saying madness is better dps simply due to the speed it improves in delivering said dps. At the moment I am pure lightning and notices right away that its not as fast as I would like it to be, however it does offer significant force saving choices and even a force battery option so if your splitting time as dps and heals a lot I think lightning is a good option.

 

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Edited December 23, 2011 by Seraki

im splitting madness and lightning.

I find madness 100 times better...instant and aoe Whirlwind is real nice..as is no cooldown force lightning. Edited December 23, 2011 by Xkore

They are both pretty decent, but you could always go hybrid, i hear it works pretty well.

Lightning is a better DPS spec, madness is better for PvP. Check the stickied thread in the sorcerer forums for specs and a priority list for abilities, it will help you immensely.

I find madness just plain better and way more fun, having force lightning with no cool-down is just winning, not to mention the instant cast whirl-wind and Death field is a nice AoE to have.

I think leveling as either is acceptable, and a definite hybrid at 50.

 

combining procs of both trees with chain lightning is insane.

Madness is easy mode I swapped today and the area CC along with no cool down force lightning makes questing so much easier.

Going into both IMO is better than going into just one. A lot of the good skills for both are obtainable near the middle of both and its just so viable to do a hybrid with them.

Hybrid.

 

Started out with madness, now finishing lightning.

 

My spec is

 

Ligh/Mad

23/18

 

High mobility and a lot of instant casts.

Edited December 26, 2011 by yokubou

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I went madness. I think its much better but I split madness and healing. Wirlwind and removed cool down on force lightning made it a better choice for me. I also think its better for group play as the attacks here dont have a casting time.

however it does offer significant force saving choices and even a force battery option so if your splitting time as dps and heals a lot I think lightning is a good option.

 

Madness actually is FAR more force-efficient. With Sith Efficacy, Force Lightning actually generates force (You gain back 48 force, including base regen, over the 3 second channel, for a cost of 30). Madness definitely has the better hybrid dps/healing options.

 

Lightning is a better DPS spec, madness is better for PvP. Check the stickied thread in the sorcerer forums for specs and a priority list for abilities, it will help you immensely.

 

Abundantly wrong, tbh. While their PvP prowess is debatable, stating a claim that Lightning is better for PvE dps is just unsustainable. We're still working on full theorycrafting on it, but so far most of the data seems to show Madness pulling ahead over Lightning, particularly on longer fights. Even with Subversion, and even skipping Lightning Storm procs, Lightning only has a force endurance of around 2-3 minutes. Madness has a rotation that is in fact force positive, and thus infinitely sustainable.