Hating my Sorc right now

You gotta go some hybrid spec and dont let melee kill you, run around and stuff.

In rates it depends alot on your spec how useful you can be your team. 20 21 hybrid is good. Full balance used to be good but force starvation is not great and you will die easier - more dmg but less force and easier to kill from melee. Hybrid spec lowers your dps output but it's respectable in rated and your not playing pure dps (if you are dps) your are playing a utility/dps/support role - no other class will be able to shield control as well you, but you aren't going to dps as well as full balance - equally though you are not gonna die as easily or run out of force.

I was a big fan of full balance but, hybrid spec edges it out of rateds, trains of melee focusing you have pretty much made 31 point builds a bit outdated. You need more survival and utility and you are better off playing to those strengths - pressuring healers and bubbling team mates/rescuing healers.

People keep saying dps sage are not viable for rated etc, it's a bunch of ********, - if you are any good you will thrive.

Well, yes you can go hybrid to get more cc for PvP, but that will lower your dps or healing. There is also the problem that Bioware don't like us being hybrids (see patch1.2). So where does this leave Sorc PvP? We are probably the third best healing class and in DPS well behind Marauder and Pyro.

you should be rooting marauders and rolling with another sorc or sniper that can also root. chain roots shut down marauder DPS potential (along with powertechs, juggernauts if you wait until 4 sec after their leap to KB and root)

I can only 1v1 someone if no one else is around.

12-0 rated warzone 3/7/31 Madness sorc. here. All i can say is that melee shouldn't pose any semblance of a threat to you until you're focus-fired by multiple of them (only time ravage gets to run full cycle is if someone else hard-stuns or chokes me). Individual warriors/knights are a joke to me - only Vengeance Juggs (and the guardian mirror) have the potential to put enough hurt on me in a 1v1 situation (marauders are all burst offensive windows, which are easily countered, vengeance jugg excels at sustained with some very decent spike damage... and... well... madness sorc. is less significant sustained dps and made of glass... but we get a bubble and reactive healing potential -which isn't actually producing the correct healing values, even if you factor in the healing debuff %'s, mind you-).

All-in-all I can honestly say that I play my madness sorc. well enough to significantly reduce good enemy teams from constantly dedicating focus-fire on healers (bait, basically), I'm better than others at dealing "spread damage" (Death Field hits 3 targets and I can put DoT's on multiple targets - which makes it more difficult for enemy healers to determine exactly who is getting focus-fired), and my overall survivability is surprisingly high even without a healer to back me up, so I can force enemy teams to dedicate more than 1 person to guard an objective point or they'll risk losing it.