Damage output

Hello everyone, you probbably heard this question hundred of times, tough i searched on the forums, couldnt find anything ...
Anyway this is what i would like to ask you ... what at / primary/ secondary has the highest damage output ( per second, minute, in general) in the following situations :

1. fully slotted for damage. playing team only.
2. soft capped for mellee defense.
3. softcapped for range def.

Considering that influence wouldnt be an issue and if you could advice red side too , would be great.

Thanks.

With no influence limits and strictly for personal damage numbers I think the answer to all of the above might be a fire/shield scrapper.

With those specific conditions, */Shield on a Brute or Scrapper. And being that you're teaming all the time, you can indirectly influence overall team damage output by making things safer for squishier toons through AAO (through debuff, aggro control, and positioning caused by aggro control) and Grant Cover.

As for primary, it's a toss-up. I wouldn't really say any one set is inherently better overall, just that each does the same things in a different way. However, I will say that, while it's a combination I haven't done personally, Electric/Shield seems to be a fan favorite both in my circle and, by a quick gander at the large number of threads referring to the combination here on the forums, a favorite in general. So, you may want to take a look at that (and most of the threads should be on the first few pages of the respective AT forums, even).

I tend to stay away from these type of posts "make me an uber build! inf is not a problem!" because people with unlimited budget and very limited ingame knowledge tend to be RMT clients, sorry.

For overall team damage nothing can beat a kin/sonic defender.

As with all these things, it really depends. The second and third Kins on a team add very little practical benefit. (I'm thinking of the damage cap here, but I remember trying to do Siege's tower on a nonflying character under double speed boost once. The whole team was playing Wile E. Coyote.)

I'd think Rad/Sonic defender for whole team goodness. For individual superstar status it's hard to beat a Fire/Mental blaster with a lotta recharge.

So untill now i have played only blasters and a fire.kin. tried a tank and a broadsword scrapper. I'm looking for a long term toon asi dont like having lots of alts and want to make the best out of it in terms of damage. I do only teams and tf's so will slot for damage only and maybe recharge. I'll leave the def mitigation on the hands of trollers and defenders and purely make this toon a damage dealer.
Atm i'm trying a fire blaster but if you have better suggestions i'll gladly take them and start an new character concept around a good dmg at.

fire melee/shield defense brute or scrapper. the actual numbers are so close, you may as well just pick red or blue side and go with the AT there.

i would say look at blasters as well but i can't get into ranged so hopefully others will help with that.

wait wait wait.....why have blasters been mentioned only like, twice here?

Because assuming you don't run into stacking limits (seldom an issue), a buffing/debuffing defender who uses their abilities well adds more damage to a full team than a blaster does. The fact that the damage increase shows up mostly on your teammates' orange numbers and not your own is irrelevant, if the goal is to do the most damage and you aren't a glory hound.

No, that's not correct. Resistance debuffs are definitely affected by the purple patch.

What uberguy said. I don't know of any debuffs that are unaffected by the purple patch.

Blasters are high damage in general, but other ATs outdo them in a variety of scenarios. Stalkers can potentially output more burst single-target damage. Most Mastermings, Corruptors, Controllers and Defenders fare better against single hard targets because -Regen and -Resistance debuffs effectively grant them more damage. Some Scrapper, Brute, Tanker and Controller combinations can output more AoE damage (Scrapper - and I assume Tanker/Brutes too - APP blasts use their 1.125 melee modifer, which helps).

On paper, Defenders and other support classes contribute vastly more damage than "proper" DPS classes. In practice, the difference in offensive power between a team heavy in damage dealers and a team heavy in support ATs isn't all that significant and a lot less than the hypothetical numbers suggest (however, the latter tends to be much safer). Enemy HP is low enough that any team with enough Blasters on it is going to wipe out all the minions and Lts. in the opening AoE volley, whether or not there are any buffs or debuffs around, hence the debuffs only contribute to bosses and other hard targets, which are a smaller proportion of enemies in total.