shadowmalic Posted March 22, 2021 Share Posted March 22, 2021 Returning player trying to get a feel on what is playing better currently was told that madness and balance have been making a return. Or is lightning/ telekinesis still reigning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ceryxp Posted March 22, 2021 Share Posted March 22, 2021 Balance / Madness are doing alright right now. Whilst the disciplines lack a strong set bonus (or, any set bonus, really) they are sitting well with tacticals, but TK / Lit are still on top. There are two good set bonuses: Gathering Storm and Endless Offensive. Gathering Storm is more accessible as it can be found on the class gear vendor on the fleet. Endless Offensive can only be acquired from the Dxun OP and Kai Zykken. Here are their stats. Gathering Storm (2) +2% Mastery (4) Force Speed makes your next Force attack deal 20% more damage and Force attacks deal 20% more damage while Mental Alacrity / Polarity Shift is active (6) The duration of Mental Alacrity / Polarity Shift is increased by 5 seconds, and using Force Speed reduces the active cooldown of Mental Alacrity / Polarity Shift by 5 seconds Endless Offensive (2) +2% Mastery (4) Telekinetic Blitz / Volt Rush deals 10% more damage, and if applicable, healing (6) Energize now stack up to 3 times. Force Speed immediately recharges two stacks Telekinetic Blitz / Volt Rush ability charges With regard to tacticals both TK / Lit and Balance / Madness have two really good options. For TK / Lit there are Stormwatch for single target and Elemental Convection for AoE. Stormwatch: Telekinetic Gust / Volt Rush applies Stormwatch to its target for the next 10 seconds. Whenever the target takes damage from Weaken Mind / Affliction, Turbulence / Thundering Blast, and Mind Crush / Crushing Darkness, a force gust is called down upon the target dealing 1764 kinetic damage. Elemental Convection: Telekinetic Blitz / Volt Rush Triggers Tidal Force when activated (on a separate rate limit). Telekinetic Wave / Chain Lightning gives you Telekinetic Flux, causing your Telekinetic Blitz / Volt Rush to arc to multiple targets for the next 10 seconds. Elemental Convection allows for chaining multiple Telekinetic Wave / Chain Lightning attacks whilst Stormwatch basically gives you another DOT. Balance / Madness have Tempest of Rho for single target and Slow Mercy for AoE. Tempest of Rho: Disturbance / Lightning Strike has a 100% chance and Telekinetic Throw / Force Lightning has a 50% chance to cause Sever Force / Creeping Terror to tick an additional time whenever they deal damage. Slow Mercy: Force in Balance / Death Field spreads Force Slow’s effect. Vanquish / Force Leech hits all nearby targets affected by your Force Suppression and Forcequake / Force Storm deals 15% more damage to targets affected by your Force Suppression. Tempest of Rho gives you many more ticks of Sever Force / Creeping Terror. The spreading of Force Slow on Slow Mercy is irrelevant. The juicy part is spreading Vanquish / Force Leech. The added damage with Forcequake / Force Storm is a nice little bonus that helps with AoE damage. Overall, without a doubt, TK / Lit are ahead. Both of the DPS set bonuses work well for them and they have some strong tacticals. Whilst their tacticals are good, Balance / Madness really lack for a decent set bonus and that is holding back the disciplines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowmalic Posted March 23, 2021 Author Share Posted March 23, 2021 Thanks I used to run madness and balance until they they needed them to the ground but I’ll go lightning and tell on my sage and sorc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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