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Which is part of why I chose electric over sr for my db. But with electric you need to get some s/l defense for comparable survivability with an sr, which leaves sr able to slot more +dmg. Whether that extra +dmg is enough to overcome a damage aura (especially with reactive) remains to be seen.

That's 200 dps before pets. With three pets, add ~150 dps, and subtract a chunk for the rather large animation time of summoning one every minute. Regardless, that's plenty to solo an AV.

It's certainly true that multiple builds helps. I've got all 3 of my builds IO'd out just so I can max certain aspects for what I need.

Edit: Just checked, and (if they would just fix the stupid pet AI so they wouldn't get right next to the enemy) my non-optimized build could take out a pylon in no time. Easily 300 dps range.

? Human does more single target damage with orbiting death and reactive.

You're missing Shadow Blast, which is normal for a triformer to skip, but essential to the best human chain. I added SBlast to your build (took out Unchain for it), turned on the reactive and one enemy hit by Sunless Mire, and I'm showing ~138 dps before pets (GWell>SBlast>GSnare>Eye), without going into an extremely accurate analysis.

The build of mine I think you're referencing uses GWell>SBlast>EDrain>SBlast; or, with enough recharge boost either from Ageless or others to get GWell down to 4.88s recharge, it uses GWell>SBlast>SBolt>SBlast. It's slotted much differently though.

Edit: Actually, just checked, the 200 dps one uses GWell>SBlast>Eye>SBlast, but it's a dual form build.

Well, you don't have the ideal setup for human attack chain, but if you add the t4 Reactive radial, Orbiting Debt should become more desirable.

Stil m4d @ u

If you have the old version of mids it lists dark blast's damage as if it was always a crit.

Never again

That seems close enough to accurate. And I do personally use Ageless when I don't need rebirth on my db/elec, which removes more of the pause. (I don't need barrier and definitely don't need clarion...)

I can't look at the sheet on my phone, but I'm betting you aren't calculating the gaussian proc in blinding feint. That makes a big difference, as otherwise db and kat can slot almost exactly the same things.

Edit: lol, 'blinding front'

Because the way you said it means no one wants to change the way their own character functions, except as a means of ultimately messing with other people. If people are going to kick others from a team for doing knockback, they don't have to wait for a change like this. I would like to play my own peace bringer without knocking everything I touch away from me and my teammates. If your peace bringer does knockback, I truly don't care. If you are on my team and do it well, I probably just won't notice; if you do it poorly, I will be annoyed and just make sure I kill things before you get to them. But for myself, there is no other set like a peace bringer, so I can't just "go play a fire blaster."

That was a while ago, and we ended up deciding a bane spider actually will do more by a small margin (still pre-incarnate), as well as I believe an ill/cold/mace controller. Incidentally, the ill/cold/mace troller should be quite survivable as well.

Lol, so true.

I'll have to agree with warshade, if at the absolute height of build/investment. Other things may do better damage or survive better, but not both at the same time.

Eclipse offers the same resistance to psi as it does to everything else.

I think shifting to dwarf for its mire is not really worth it anymore, since it has the shorter duration. If you start in a mob in Dwarf and do the double mire bind trick, then it's still worth it, but I don't waste time switching to dwarf then back to nova. YMMV though, as obviously you'll get a larger damage bonus.

My personal take on it is if you plan to stay in nova form most of the time, go ranged defense; if you plan on giving a little more time to either of the other forms, go s/l. I have two builds for that reason myself.

Electric melee will be better with nin for the reason brandx said. As far as everything else, nin will still have more mitigation. /EA will have loads and loads of endurance though, so it will be sort of the defense version of electric armor. An /electric stalker that can softcap s/l will eventually have more mitigation than /ea, but the /ea will be better than a non-softcapped /electric.