Whats the highest sustained DPS controller?
By
Candlestick,
Posted on: 2010-07-16 06:01 in Controllers
Controller DPS is a little hard to figure out from what I understand. The reason is because pets don't always use the same attack chain, and because many sets have buffs/debuffs that alter the potential damage of each power. One could easily say a fire/kin has the most DPS because of maxed out damage buffing, but put it against an av and anything with regen debuffs will be killing at a much faster pace. Either way you look at it, I would say the general opinion is that fire/ will be doing the most damage, but depending on the situation, the optimal secondary will differ.
*Keep in mind I am not an expert number cruncher and this is just my opinion based on what I have read and experienced in game.
Fire/Kin
The answer is, it depends on what variables you allow.
Fire/Kin is way up near the top for Controllers, as long as three things are true:
1) The Fire/Kin can avoid getting mezzed
2) The Fire/Kin can survive the incoming damage
3) The Fire/Kin can get containment
Any Controller who can't get Containment is going to have pretty awful DPS. The game changes in particular for Controllers who have +Damage or -Resistance, since without Containment they actually lose twice the effect of their buff or debuff. This is especially true of any /kin Controller.
(The reason /Kin is so high damage, FYI, is due in large part to this Containment issue. Essentially even though you are damage capped at +300%, when things are Contained you're really getting twice the value of the buff, while simultaneously dodging ED caps. The net result is actually something like +800% Damage if you were to roll it back to compare to what another AT like Defenders or Corruptors get. If you then factor in the fact that because you're damage capped you can replace damage IOs with damage procs for even more damage you effectively have a toggle nuke, hence the popularity of Fire/Kin farmers.)
Sustained... it's easily Fire/Kin or Fire/Rad. Fire/Rad is probably a tad better for sustained Vs. AVs but Kin Vs. everything else.
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Ammo switching for Dual Pistols was my idea:
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=135484
Fire's single target damage is pretty awful so I doubt if Fire is the best DPS against an AV. Out of the box Fire only out damages Ice on average by about 3 points of damage per single target power. Fire's reputation as a damage dealer rests almost entirely on Hot Feet and the pets. Bonfire also adds a little extra damage, but not enough to carry it to the top of the list IMO.
Overall the best DPS versus "an AV" is pretty much incalculable because it depends on the AV. On its own merits Mind Control puts out the best single target numbers but lacks containment--Mind/Trick Arrow fixes this but lacks -Regen to keep the enemy from healing back. Fire might do ok if it could find some way to avoid having the pets get obliterated, but any fight with an AV that has AoE is probably going to put Fire in the lowest echelon of damage. In the end the consistent winner is probably Illusion just based on the way AV fights tend to go (i.e. stand in one place and mash buttons until they die) but this is extremely difficult to quantify.
As the title says. Given current states of each powerset, whats the current highest sustainable damage output controller?
The damage can be situational, DoT, or direct.
I'm not planning to FOTM, I'm just curious.