Which class deals consistent armor ignore/penetration damage?

Which class has access to the skills that deal damage that ignores damage or armor?

I've tried Eles with their 25% armor penetration air skills, but still don't really get wow'd by it when facing rangers.

I've heard that Domination mesmers and some necro builds are good at dealing armor ignoring damage but haven't really had the time to test it out (i'm one of those time starved gamers). What's everyone's thoughts?

All classes have skills that ignore armor, and for pure damage, warrior deals the most, in pressure, and DPS(single target damge).

Top damage makes in this order:

- Elementalist

- Necro

- Dervish

- Assassin

- Mesmer

- Ritualist

- Warrior

- Paragon

- Monk

- Wammo

i think most mesmer skills can do full dmg no matter what the armour rating. take it from me... i know about mesmers.

if you want consistent, good, useful armor ignoring attacks or spells...then NO CONTEST, go with a necro.
a blood necros blood spikes will ignore armor, as will any of the shadow damage skills delivered by most death magic.
curses are self explanatory; they (usually) do an indirect type of damage; in the way of degeneration or crippling an enemies ability to function.
necros, when used propperly, are probably guildwars' most versatile damage-dealer, which is why its such a shame most people simply use them as minionmasters.

^Couldnt agree more^
Lifestealing damage totally ignores armour, deals significant damage and often acts as a form of self heal. Oh yeah, it ignores Protective spirit and several other enchants too...
Been on the wrong end of a bloodspike more times than I care to remember....

Thankies, I suppose this is a good enough reason for me to try out the mesmer and necro.

Edit: Oookay, I'm sold. Definitely rolling the Necro when i get home from work.

Wait, Rangers didn't even make the list? O.o

Ele's with max earth can also do 118 dmg (no reduction due to armor, only certain spells) with obsidian flame every 5 seconds (give or take). The only drawback is that the spell causes exhaustion so you really don't want to spam it a huge amount if you can avoid it, unless you have a means of dealing with that.

any degeneration damage ignores armor - poison, bleeding, syphon, burning, etc
but direct and instant armor ignoring damage has only necromancer
that is why toucher build is so "powerfull"

if you want the most armor ignoring damage, use a mesmer for degen and all other skills are armor ignoring. necro blood magic is also armor ignoring.

Mesmers have direct armor ignoring damage as well, albeit, its mostly conditional. What makes me sad is this is probably the mentality of the GW community in general, refusing to accept the talents of a good mesmer can rival that of a necro in a party most if not any day.

Mesmers do have some incredibly high damage armour ignoring skills though.
Ineptitude = 150+
E-Burn/Surge = 80
Backfire = 150+
Spirit Something = 100+
Visions of Regret = 120
And don't forget good old Empathy, at 45, now a significant threat for a warrior (especially if he has plans to frenzy spike someone)

A smiting monk can dish out a lot of armor-ignoring damage and vs the right enemies get double or bonus damage.

necros definitely. Hexs, degen, shadow.

and for the longest amount of time, at least for pve, due to soul reaping.

EI would say Earth Eles, then Mesmers then Necros do the most damage.

You gotta love an Earth Ele with Crystal Wave + Teinai's crystals = 238 armour ignoring damage in 1.5 seconds and then obsidian flame on top.

All ranger armor has natural protection against elemental damage.

That;s exactly what he was saying... He never claimed otherwise.

Necros give the best armor ignoring damage, in specific blood magic for single targets and curses (spiteful spirit) for groups of enemies.

My bad; just that it seemed like the OP was puzzled by why they couldn't kill rangers with the uberairskilz.

that list is so flawed