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RE: Madness/Balance Sorcerer DPS Compendium - frmorrison - 03-03-2012 05:58 AM
(03-03-2012 05:12 AM)NegativeChirality Wrote: Buy gear and rip out mods. Awful system.
I think it is a fair system, because it is a way one can show off, compared to a player that doesn't fully know their class. Note the difference between the two (using all bad enhancements versus good ones) is no more than 2% dps.
Here is the list of all 56+ enhancements in the game:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqGh8DCSdR5FdEVWRzdwSk1DVWQwN3pTMWV0NXlRamc#gid=16
RE: Madness/Balance Sorcerer DPS Compendium - Talint - 03-05-2012 02:16 AM
Hello all,
Long time reader, first time poster.
As I was reading about the mods it made me think about this particular topic. If I'm at the "soft-cap" for the stats of Critical Rating and Alacrity, IE. 30% for Critical rating, and 10% for Alacrity, would it still benefit me to drop my Alacrity + Power MODS, IE. 51 Alacrity, 20 power (I can't remember the exact stats in the mod) to pick up the Power + Surge mods? It would bring me down until the Alacrity Soft Cap. The same would go for my Critical Rating mods.
Thanks in advanced!
Talint
RE: Madness/Balance Sorcerer DPS Compendium - Kaedis - 03-05-2012 08:52 AM
Quote:Hello all,
Long time reader, first time poster.
As I was reading about the mods it made me think about this particular topic. If I'm at the "soft-cap" for the stats of Critical Rating and Alacrity, IE. 30% for Critical rating, and 10% for Alacrity, would it still benefit me to drop my Alacrity + Power MODS, IE. 51 Alacrity, 20 power (I can't remember the exact stats in the mod) to pick up the Power + Surge mods? It would bring me down until the Alacrity Soft Cap. The same would go for my Critical Rating mods.
Thanks in advanced!
Talint
Well, to be perfectly clear, there aren't any "softcaps", in the traditional sense of the word. There may be recommended values (and even I have been known to espouse some), but these are not soft-caps (softcaps being points where a stat suddenly becomes significantly worse that it was previously, and therefore the point at which you want to keep your stats as close to as possible). SWTOR's stat system doesn't really tolerate them, except possibly with Accuracy (which doesn't apply to Sorcs).
In general, however, 10% Alacrity is too high for Sorc dps. At that point, you'll be getting noticeably less return per point from the Alacrity that you will from other stats. Since Surge and Alacrity are essentially directly competing (and can't be replaced with any other stats, at least for Enhancements), I generally recommend a 2:1 ratio of Surge to Alacrity, with the ratio going down somewhat as your overall gear level increases towards current BIS (to around 1.75:1 in full Rakata).
RE: Madness/Balance Sorcerer DPS Compendium - Spren - 03-05-2012 11:50 AM
Hey all, I'm now in full Rakata and just trying to see what's next in terms of tweaking things for maximum performance.
I've managed to snag 1x rank 25 power/surge enhancement, and a rank 24 surge/crit to replace some alacrity. So right now I'm sitting at:
390 Crit rating
252 Surge
255 Alacrity
279 power
I'm wondering if I should replace my 2x (29 End, 48 WP, 37 Crit) mods with the (37 End, 61 WP, 11 crit) versions (from other Rakata gear).
Also, should I remove one more Alacrity enhancement to bring Surge to ~300 and Alacrity to ~200 (though I would be using rank 24s until I get lucky and see another random 25 drop off a boss).
I play the typical madness hybrid spec.
Thanks!
RE: Madness/Balance Sorcerer DPS Compendium - Kaedis - 03-05-2012 12:14 PM
Quote:I'm wondering if I should replace my 2x (29 End, 48 WP, 37 Crit) mods with the (37 End, 61 WP, 11 crit) versions (from other Rakata gear).
Also, should I remove one more Alacrity enhancement to bring Surge to ~300 and Alacrity to ~200 (though I would be using rank 24s until I get lucky and see another random 25 drop off a boss).
I recommend both of these. Also, you can replace a couple of your WP/Crit mods or Crit/Surge mods with WP/Power or Power/Surge, to boost your power at the expect of crit a bit.
RE: Madness/Balance Sorcerer DPS Compendium - Spren - 03-05-2012 12:33 PM
(03-05-2012 12:14 PM)Kor Wrote: I recommend both of these. Also, you can replace a couple of your WP/Crit mods or Crit/Surge mods with WP/Power or Power/Surge, to boost your power at the expect of crit a bit.
Thanks Kor. I will go for Power if I can find it, but I think the couple of healing pieces I've gotten so far (but never used) are only WP/Crit.
RE: Madness/Balance Sorcerer DPS Compendium - Kantern - 03-05-2012 01:50 PM
Where did you get the power/crit enhancement????
RE: Madness/Balance Sorcerer DPS Compendium - frmorrison - 03-05-2012 02:31 PM
(03-05-2012 01:50 PM)Kantern Wrote: Where did you get the power/crit enhancement????
About five posts up are all enhancements and where they come from, there are none with power/crit. However there are mods with power/crit that come with some Rakata gear.
RE: Madness/Balance Sorcerer DPS Compendium - Kantern - 03-05-2012 02:35 PM
Sorry I should have quoted him. I know where all the mods/enhancements are from. I was replying to Spren. He said he had a 24 power/crit one...
RE: Madness/Balance Sorcerer DPS Compendium - Kaedis - 03-05-2012 04:42 PM
Quote:Sorry I should have quoted him. I know where all the mods/enhancements are from. I was replying to Spren. He said he had a 24 power/crit one...
That was probably supposed to be a Crit/Surge one. As far as I know, there are no modifications in the game with both Power and Crit on them.