Originally Posted by
Windry
I have a lvl 50 Sorc. Half lvl 50 blues, and half epics
First off, I recommend against playing the Inquisitor period if you care about the story. We have the worse story arc in the empire.
If you don't care about leveling story then:
For PvP:
Healing as a Sorc is probably the most OP right now, but that's only if you enjoy healing.
DPS: a Sorc as DPS in PvP is quite bad. You have no burst, you have huge ramp up time. You can't offer the same kind of multidot pressure as an aff lock/sp/or fire mage (even though you are a dot class).
There is an achievement in each BG to get a do a single hit for 2.5k health in a single blow (everyone has at least 11k). In order to get this achievement, I have to get the berserk buff, flask, potion, activate trinket, pop recklessness (remember there are no macros) and chain lightning a non-tank class with no bubble presently on them and EVEN THEN the damage will be a 2.2k-2.6k crit.
As a dps Sorc in PvP, you pretty much have decent cc, and you just mind flay people all day.
DPS: As an assasin, you have a very hard hitting backstab, a good opening cheap shot, a very annoying sap, and a cloak of shadows, sprint, everything like that. They are very solid, however seem to do less opening burst than a stealthed agent. However, they have much more control and utility.
Tank: Assasins can also be the tank in a BG, keeping people off the nodes/carrying the flag (hutball). Carrying the flag they seem vastly inferior to a Powertech (which has much more mobility...) for this roll. Keeping people off the flag they excel with pulse AoE, sprint in circles, pulse AoE, Vanish, pulse AoE, Shield Wall, pulse AoE, sprint again (30 sec cd on sprint)
PvE:
DPS sorc is very unplesant to play because there are no ad-dons, and no way of turning off allied debuffs. So it's really hard to track your own dots when you have multiple inquisitors in the group
I can't really speak for Assasin PvE DPS... there're no meters, and I haven't actually ran with one that tanks yet, but they can tank.