What character can achieve the highest DPS?

Just like the topic asks; which character can achieve the highest dps? This post is not to be taken as "what is the best character damage wise" or whatever, I just want to know what the highest dps in a short amount of time is (15 seconds or less) via Master of Damage. Pics would help, thanks.

warrior is hands down the best DPS :

http://users.pandora.be/rotten/ss/damage.jpg

roughly 90 DPS with a minor weapon mastery rune.
would be even higher with a superior rune...

the peak of 210 is impressive to say the least

http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...%21+cool+thing

Found this for ya

I want that template 210 that is good.I got mine up past over 100.

the mast of damage calculates single target or 3 target damage though, where real DPS shines is something like an ele spamming 4 heats on a mob of 15 creatures, thats at least 1000 dps.

I did a 256 damage in 1/2 second with my mesmer. (On a Charr Firestarter? Power leak meteor storm + interrupt fire storm, echoed surge, and another E drain forgot the name) then Aneurysm = BOOM 256 damage in my fast cast time of 1/2 sec abouts. Goes without saying he died.

By the way, aneurysm doesnt alwasy work out that smoothly. Hmm and I guess to stay on topic I should have added up the time it took to do the E drain skills.

how the hack is that posible,and with a sword?and with only 14 sword mastery(u said minor rune) i cant think of any skill in tide to sword that can do such dmg.

perhaps it's counting deep wound as damage?

Try this :

[skill]dragon slash[/skill]

In terms of Damage per Second, each sword swing takes, what 1.33 seconds to hit. With Frenzy it brings the swings to a little under one hit per second. Or are my times incorrect? Even with a Dragon Slash critical hit, that would be about 90 dps in that one instant to a single enemy, but probably not maintainable. I gotta go check wiki to see attack speeds again. I also dont know how you can reach averaging 210 per second.

Well it certainly isnt 100% maintainable, but pretty darn close.

And if deep wound is calculated in I guess that could account for the 210 in one second?

[skill]Dragon Slash[/skill][skill]"For Great Justice!"[/skill][skill]Enduring Harmony[/skill][skill]Frenzy[/skill]

Something like that I presume. Perhaps a [skill]Strength of Honor[/skill], [skill]Brutal Weapon[/skill], or other skills on an off-character?

Yeah Dragon Slash would have the best single target DPS. Assassin should be decent too.

Assassins (excluding perhaps MS + DB) would be spikers, not DPS-ers.

DPS doesn't matter in a game which makes you win through one or more of this:
coordinated spikes
hex-pressure
condition-pressure
shutdown
passive offense
over defense
ganking
bodyblocks
positioning
use of NPC's
and last but certainly not least: TEAMPLAY (so DPS on a single character doesn't mean scrap)

You can't win with DPS, it's not like your target is going to be like a Suit of 80 Armor standing there, doing nothing.

Yes that would be true in PvP, but for someone such as myself who plays PvE mostly, DPS can be very valueable, warriors and assassins have the best DPS for a single target, on the other hand, over multiple targets, the Dervish is clear winner in PvE where mobs seem to clump together.
It comes down to the skill of the player and the build they use to determine the best DPS of a single class.

My 2 cents

DPS is a moot point, for various reasons.

If you want to kill a priority target ASAP, you would be looking at Spike damage, which is not the same as DPS.

If you want to pressure a mob, DPS is just one of several ways to keep up the pressure. May not even be the most efficient (time) way.

Also, DPS gets completely situational when it comes to multiple targets. Savannah Heat, Spiteful Spirit, Splinter+Barrage, etc. would do stratospheric DPS under perfect conditions (however, perfect conditions aren't very common.)

I thank several of you for your posts. I clearly stated this is not to be used for tactics/opinions, I just want to know what can hit the highest dps in the lowest amount of time.

i used 6 skills for that result actually, no deep wound

smiting : 12
sword mastery : 12+1+1

[skill]Dragon Slash[/skill][skill]"For Great justice!"[/skill][skill]Frenzy[/skill][skill]strength of honor[/skill][skill]judge's insight[/skill][skill]"i am the strongest!"[/skill]

basically 20% AP, 2 damage buffs, and then plain DS spamming

Add in Sun and Moon, and you'll have even higher DPS i think.