Brute Primary Powerset DMG Averages

Alright, so I do not remember who it was but a while back someone had questioned whether or not the Primary Powersets for a Brute were truly equal in terms of damage output. This is hard question to answer because some Powersets specialize in AoE damage while other focus on single target damage. Also, there is the matter of damage type and enemy resistances.

But, I used a program to run statistical analysis on the damage to see if one does technically do more damage than the other.

The damage tested "as is"; that means Lv.50 damage with no enchancements and ignoring enemy resistances. What I did was find the average (Mean) damage for each Powerset for the Brute and it is presented in a table. In statistical terms none of them are significantly different. You can tell from looking at the Means that some are a bit higher than others overall but that is raw damage. You should also take into account that although your ultimate may not do as much damage as another powerset, your recharge is probably slower than a uber strong Tier 9 ability from that other powerset. I could not add what is called a Scheffe's Test, which tests not only for significance but which Powersets would be significantly different. Again, the base damage output of all Brute Primary powersets is pretty much equal.

So choose what flavor you like, not which one "does more damage" cause technically (and statistically) none of them are "better" than the other in terms of damage.

If you have any questions about the tables or what they mean please feel free to ask.
(The document is a word document with the output tables pasted in there and in docx format. If you can not open it please PM me and I can send you an email with the stats pasted in it.)
http://www.2shared.com/file/B9GzgWxb..._DMGstats.html

I plan to run more analyses on other powersets to determine if there is a significant difference in terms of better damage, defense, resistance, healing, etc.