Dreaming_Shadow

Yes, my apologies I meant Fury. And yes, you made the point I did at the end of my post. The player that originally asked the question should choose a powerset based on what it does (it's flavor) not which ones "does more damage" because technically none of them do a significantly larger amount of damage than another. That would be broken.

(( CAPS words are not mean to be interpreted as anger, I capitalize them to emphasize important points and words in my analysis. I appreciate your questions and your side of argument. My position is completely neutral. ))

I was not setting out to give detailed information on the powersets. I was setting out to make a point that NONE of them are SIGNIFICANTLY different, meaning much greater than another in terms in damage. If you has the 198% damage boost from Rage and the best Enhancements in the game, for all powersets, they would still basically be on even ground.

AoE damage can also ruin damage numbers because it is a different type of damage. For example if you do AoE damage and I only do single target damage; in a mob you're always going to be pumping out more numbers. AoE will ALWAYS appear to do more damage in a crowd but against a single foe, I might outdamage your AoE abilities like the ones presented in Fiery Melee. I do not take recharge time into account because then I would have to analyze the data by time intervals.

Example: Abilitie 1 does 50 damage takes 10 seconds to recharge
Ability 2 does 30 damage by only takes 5 seconds to recharge,

technically, Ability 2 is better because it does 60 damage per 10 seconds while Ability one only does 50 damage per 10 seconds. However! there is no viable statistical method to measure that because variability would be EXTREMELY high between powersets based on their recharge time and powersets like Claws, with fast recharge would instantly appear to do twice if not three times as much damage as all the other powersets. Also, you have to ask the question, "Is the difference significant with recharge time factored in for all the abilities?"

I think you will find that recharge time, damage and cost (energy) are balanced.

But, to help out: I will run another analysis; to show the average recharge time for the powersets rather than their average damage. It may help give clarity to my point about the lower damage powersets having faster recharge to be balanced with the hard hitting slower recharge powersets.

The analysis was meant to answer a question that was asked a while back in hopes that the OP would see this. Rage was not factored in because it's a simple stat, and in quantitative statistics adding the same amount of damage to each ability would still yield the same Mean. So adding rage to all the base stats would still give the descriptives in the table. Abilities like Follow Up and Momentum were included in the overall analysis. They were still not significantly higher than the other powersets. Significance is decided through a forumla that is a little complex to explain. However, to put it in terms for people that has no interest in Statistics, it's a threshold that decides what is and is not much greater than the average. None of the powerset for the Brute are greater by a large amount than the others.

As you pointed out, it is balanced. That was my point from the very beginning. It is all preference. You should chose which powerset you want based on HOW you want to play not doing the most damage. In the end all the builds are capable of doing the same damage output assuming you have the best enhances possible and the enemy has 0 resistance to your damage type.

If you log into the game and look at your primary powerset abilities just slide the bars up to Lv.50 and observe the damage. That damage is added up and then divided by the total number of abilities in the powerset that cause damage. It's an average (a mean). So, numbers wise, katana does do more than BS. If you do not believe it add each damage ability in BS up and then divide by the number of abilities in BS that do damage. You'll get the same mean. Repeat that for Katana

Also, you should note that is a Mean in statistical terms not a "rank". Just because BS mean is lower than Katan does not mean Katana is better at doing damage. Again, the analysis does not take into consideration damage per second (adding in recharge time) or enemy resistances. It's just raw numbers with no additional game mechanics effecting it.

Oh sorry! I'm in the EST