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SWTOR, Sith Inquisitor, Star Wars: The Old Republic, talent trees, talent builds, inquisitor sorcerer talents
I’ve been playing around with the Talent Calculator on Darth Hater, to get some ideas around how I will eventually be building out my talent tree for my Sorcerer. I’m a little torn regarding PvE or PvP build, given I expect to be doing a good amount of PvE, but will be playing on a PvP server. Also, having not been in BETA, I’m going based on my past gaming experience and talent choices versus having seen first hand how much utility there is in some of the noted abilities.
That said, here is what I’m considering:
I should note that I wouldn’t normally take an ability that limits pushback when casting as part of a PvE build, but Subversion snuck in that Force regeneration component, so I had to tag it.
At this point, I am leaning towards the PvE build; we’ll see if I stick with it. After next weekend’s BETA test, I’ll have a better handle on if the lightning tree’s initial abilities work well for leveling, or if I need to go with the PvP talents instead.
As you are poking through the talent calculators, it’s likely you will start wondering what some of the listed abilities *are* exactly. Luckily, crewskills.net has a nice overview post that include a list of the primary stats for each class. For Inquisitors, that would be Willpower, which affects our Force damage. And of the secondary stats, most seem pretty self explanatory, but I had to look up Alacrity, which turns out to be spell haste, which means it’s my new favorite secondary stat.
What builds are you considering? And what sites are you finding to have the best theorycrafting around talent builds?
Inquisitor's Roadhouse 
So far the only theorycrafting site I have seen is sithwarrior.com. Would be nice to see more pop up now that the NDA is lifted.
It will be interesting to see if there ends up being an Elitist Jerks or MaxDPS equivalent site.
I realize this is somewhat of an older post, and I’m not sure if you’ve looked into it more since then, but I’d like to point your attention to a very interesting read when it comes to Subversion.
http://theniquisition.com/2011/12/11/my-aversion-to-subversion/#more-976
Of course, this is strictly based on a healing perspective, when you’re obviously taking a more destructive approach. The work he did here would still apply, however, as you will be spending a lot more of your time using Lightning Strike than following through with a more ‘balls out’ rotation.
I don’t want to say not to take the talent, or that it’s bad, because it certainly doesn’t look at way in the Lightning tree, just something to think about. I’d love to see more results with/without the talent in an actual operation standpoint.
By the way, this is jd-inflames from JediTank.com, and I will be subbing here to see what more you have in store 🙂 Keep up the good work!
If I were healing, I think there are other places I would spend my last 10 points, definitely. But as a DPS sorcerer, it would be criminal not to take it given how frequently we use lightning strike et al. I can say that with having these talent points I have rarely found myself in need of seething in order to regen mana, which is a nice change of pace compared to leveling casters in other MMOs.
Ok, good deal. I was somewhat curious how well that would work out in the end in terms of DPS. I’ve been leveling my inquisitor alt by healing with Corruption, so I haven’t really gotten to play with it. Thanks for the answer.