Upcoming Sith Inquistor Changes

Sith Inquisitor


Assassin

All Saber Charges now cost 100 Force.
Lightning Charge’s Discharge now also deals damage when applied. Overall damage dealt by this ability has not changed.


Darkness

Charge Mastery: No longer increases the duration of Lightning Charge’s Discharge effect. It now increases the damage dealt by Lightning Charge.
Energize: This skill now also triggers from Assassinate. It now triggers from damage dealt (rather than ability use) such that each hit of Assassinate, Thrash, and Lacerate have an individual chance to yield the Energize buff. The chance to trigger has been reduced to 30% per hit.
Harnessed Darkness: Stacks of Harnessed Darkness now last 30 seconds. Using Wither now yields a stack of Harnessed Darkness.


Deception

Induction: Now requires the Surging Charge skill to be purchased and requires that Surging Charge is active in order to trigger the Induction buff. This skill now also triggers from Assassinate.


Madness (Shared Tree)

Crackling Charge: Now additionally lowers the cooldown of Discharge while Lightning Charge is active.
Raze: Now triggers from activating melee attacks that hit a target affected by Lightning Charge’s Discharge effect. This effect now triggers more easily but cannot trigger as frequently.
Death Field: Heals the caster for 1% of maximum health for each target struck. This healing effect can no longer crit and no longer consumes Recklessness charges.
Devour: Now doubles the amount of healing generated by Death Field and Parasitism.

source http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=260938

Discuss

buff or nerf, cant quite tell. and does it affect sorcs?

Definitely a nerf to one of the three most lack luster ACs on everyone's list. It's a big nerf to hybrid specs. We will be penalized 100 force for switching stances.

Reducing Energize's proc rate from 50% to 30% is a big hit to the dps of darkness spec and the nerf to Induction is another slap in the face.

And the nerfs to Madness are just plain rediculous.

I don't think I've ever seen a "nerf assasins" thread, so, why all the hate BW?

This is what happens when you let a company that has never done an mmo before hire failures from Mythic to design pvp. This crap doesnt surprise me at all.

I give it 6 months before pvp is so stale and watered down people wont even play it.

These changes make 0 sense. Deception gets 1 buff that increases are killing power when someone is sub 30%, the rest of the trees get crapped on. Leave the tank tree alone. Make raze proc if lightning charge is active (not discharged on a target). Trying way too hard to make hybrids not worth it.

If people feel the need to play hybrids you probably designed the top tier of the tree badly or made the bottom too good. Make wither better so tanks stop going induction or into the madness tree.

Yup, not a dam thing wrong with sorcs, according to the vast multitudes of FOTM button mashers that play them.

Induction only in surging charge ? What are you smoking BW ? Why the fk you nerf assassin who is already underpowered ? We wear light armor ***! Buff Insulation then!! *** are you doing ? Our damage is plain, if we cant live while being DPSed - we cant damage in pvp.
*** are you smoking ?

Go examine deception dps rotation, we lack darkness energy regen, we lack healing abilities, we lack agent openers, just why the fk you nerf what if already nerfed ?

Assasin is my only character, I have no intension on playing another class...

Why title it sith inquisitor changes when it's assassin?

I don't see how this was a nerf to overall damage, this was obviously intended to un-hybrid Assassins and Shadows.

So they buff Watchman/Annihilation which destroy me as a tank (!), nerf Shadows/Sins who I don't really feel very strong as I play one and I've played against some and leave Sorcs untouched.

I'm not complaining but this is just hilarious.