Sith Marauder: Bleed vs Ataru

[Trajer]

So as Dec 15th gets closer, I've been having a hard time deciding which way to go with my Marauder. There seems to be two logical choices, 31 into Annihilation, or 31 into Carnage (Rage being the pvp tree).

Annihilation (the bleed tree)
This tree is very interesting, and is focused around Rupture and bleed damage, with talents that increase bleed tick crit %, bleed damage, makes rupture slow targets, make bleed ticks heal, etc. I only got my marauder to level 17 on the weekend beta, so my testing is limited, but it seems that this tree is the sustained dps tree. I'd probably go something like this: http://torguild.net/calculator/sith-...00000000000000

Carnage (Ataru Form tree)
This tree is focused around the talented Ataru Form, which adds a 2nd weapon attack on your attacks (similar to Arms Warriors mastery, or Wild Quiver). Not only can you talent into Ataru Form, but other talents increase the damage of the attack, make those attacks increase dmg of other attacks, generate more rage, etc. It also has several talents benefiting Force Scream, which, as of level 17, is the Marauder's strongest single-target attack (costs 4 rage, ~10 second cooldown, quite strong). I'd probably go something like this: http://torguild.net/calculator/sith-...00000000000000 opting out of bleed talents because I probably would completely ignore rupture... Unless we get other bleeds at higher levels.



Thoughts? I will probably try Carnage when TOR goes live, just because I've never been a fan of bleeds. Plus if I level through a good amount of pvp, I'll want a more bursty tree.

[Harnace]

I'm planning to go Carnage at launch on my SW:Marauder, because bleeds just isn't appealing to me, also Ataru Form seems intresting...


Offtopic: That talent calc is out-dated. This one is http://www.torhead.com/calculator/skill much better.


edit: I'm planning to go something like this http://www.torhead.com/calculator/sk...rddMoMsZG00M.1

I've put the 4 optional points into Erupting Fury and Defensive Roll

[Trajer]

Ah cool, yea I just googled swtor talent calculator and that showed up lol. Ataru Form is very interesting, one of the reasons I want to try Carnage too.

[Quincey]

I went ataru form on the beta - it served me well and the end of that tree looks mighty interesting....

[JustintimeSS]

Carnage for me. Annihilation might end up being nice for raids but I'll just have to wait for theory crafters to crunch numbers. For now and until then, Ataru form was nice to level with and it felt pretty strong in groups.

Alanni's build is identical to the one I had in mind. Truthfully, there isn't much wiggle room. Talents to take are obvious.

[Drihan]

I'll be going Carnage on my SM. It just feels like a very interesting and fun tree.