The Single Most Damaging Attack

So if you're reading this thread then you've probably read the title and you know what it's about.

Assuming optimal conditions (maxed out damage buff, debuffed resists etc) and assuming a standard, non-temp power, what power can do the most damage to a single target in a single activation?

Assassin's whatevers, snipes and so on are going to be a special case, of course...

Blizzard, I think.

It might be Blizzard, assuming target is immobilized in the area of effect AND all of the tics hit.

I am not sure that the Blizzard pseudo-pet inherits all of the caster's buffs, so it might be enough of a special case to not really be the highest damage. Also, that's damage over time. If you are looking for the single biggest orange number, Blizzard won't even be close. But seeing a string of 150 small numbers is pretty amazing too

Maxed out Blaster Total Focus ftw!




*This is personal opinion and should in no way be considered 'accurate'

If not Blizzard do to its psuedo pet nature, then I would think Brute Energy Transfer.

Stalker's Assassin Strike with Hecatomb set slotted, Build Up and Hide in effect would be pretty strong.

I don't know what the attack will be, but I am betting it will be paired with a dose of Fiery Embrace for maximum goodness.

HA the next attack I throw with anything at anybody !!!!!

Thats my mindset... if this attack dont get you the next one will !!!!!

Pushing someone off the tallest building in Paragon would be pretty devastating.

Assuming that lightning rod on a scrapper inherits damage buffs and can crit, I think it wins. At scrapper's 500% damage cap, and with a crit, it does almost 3000 damage. Blizzard is about 2500.

Lightning rod can't crit.

Also, Inferno from a Fire Blaster does the most damage if it's DoT sticks while he's at the damage cap.

EDIT:

Inferno does 2721.5 damage at the damage cap if the DoT sticks.

The highest non-nuke attack is a scrapper's Greater Fire Sword with Fiery embrace and a crit at 2201 damage.

For single target it would be Knockout Blow

From Hidden with as much +dmg as possible: Build up > Placate > Double Assassin's Strike.

I don't believe they've fixed that bug but if you use Placate while hidden, there's a 10% chance for base AS dmg x2 + assassination bonus damage.

Probably not the most damaging but putting it on the table

How does Tornado compare assuming it's used against a single target with KB protection?

Whatever it is, I dunno.

What it SHOULD be is some kind of Blaster attack.

Probably not what the OP meant, but the highest damage attack that still exists in the game and is repeatable is the attack that Steel Canyon buildings execute on targets when the buildings explode. They have a bug in the coding that the devs have never bothered to fix because it gets the job done: they will do, at level 50 (meaning the level of the target), something like about 360 times your health in damage, whatever your health (as in health bar size) is at the moment of detonation.

I think we calculated that this little exercise caused the detonation to deliver over eight million points of damage to the Kronos Titan. Per damage tick. For three ticks. Plus one more tick of about a half million. About 26 million points of damage total.

Too bad you can't buff the building.

I actually had it listed as Corruptor Blizzard (specifically, since that's the only one that Scourges) a while back - and it's still the case if you have a target with a ridiculous number of hit points so that you can hit Blizzard while it's guaranteed to Scourge (ie, they're under 10% health).

However, my numbers were off when I did that, solely because I forgot about one minor detail - Blizzard is a pet, and thus has a 400% damage cap, not the 500% I was using. It still has the top spot in conditional and corner cases, but not as a general case: if all of the ticks hit, and all of them Scourge, it will do 4002 damage to each target in a single activation (note that this means it deals a capped damage of 2001 for Blasters and Defenders, and edges higher only due to Scourge for Corruptors).

Coming in next is Blaster Inferno, which at the damage cap and assuming all of the ticks hit, will do 2736.45 damage. The double critical on Assassin's Strike, on a damage capped Stalker, will do 2641.55 (it's ([139.03 * 2] + 250.25) * 5, not (139.03 + [250.25 * 2]) * 5), and this is the hardest you're going to see immediately since the other powers deal their full damage over 15 seconds (for Blizzard) or 8.1 seconds (for the DoT on Inferno). If you're just looking at what the initial hit does, the initial blast for Inferno is 1876.8 at the cap if both of the "chance for" ticks hit, which is less than a damage capped Assassin's Strike "from hidden" critical at 1946.4; also note that the double critical isn't completely reliable but does happen at the Stalker's regular critical rate after a Placate (so it's as valid to use as any Scrapper critical).

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