What character can achieve the highest DPS?

well, that would be an assassin, but when we talk about DPS it usually means sustained. sounds like you want to know about a spike...

Highest spike possible is someone using Grenth's Balance on you while he/she has 1 HP.

'Sin

downfalls on survivability though

[skill]Famine[/skill][skill]Sympathetic Visage[/skill]
R/Me

As always, you have to specify whether you mean real damage or dragon slash.

Warriors can alway switch targets they don't need to be attacking one all the time.

Thanks Rotten for posting that I have it all except that last skill.

I believe the highest possible spike from one character is an MM with 10 minions all enchanted with Death nova using signet of creation and waiting for 30 seconds....BOOM (at 16 death magic it should be 1050 damage all at once.)

Touch Rangers have the highest dps can kill both warrior and sin at same time attacking me. Therefore touch ranger best dpser of all.

I feel like being spiteful now cause war and sin are my fav professions. No, touchers don't achieve highest dps. Dps is damage per second. Touchers use health-stealing, a variant of health-loss. Health-loss is, by in game mechanics, different than damage.


Anyways, I think that Famine with Ancestor's Visage and Sympathetic Visage used against a mob of raptors would result in fairly high dps. That or your typical DSlash spam.

I also think that using the Strength of Honor+Judge's Insight could work as well with DB-MS spam sin.

Actually, even if you count the health-loss as DPS, they still don't beat a Warrior at DPS.

Single-target, sustainable DPS is definitely the Warrior, hands down. Probably sword (DS, as already mentioned). However, depending on the size and grouping of mobs, the Ele may win out as highest sustainable DPS overall. That's kinda hard to test, though. Of course, it also depends on the mob type and their armor/protection setup. Some types of damage may be great on one type, and horrid on another. Physicals generally win on that front because other than other warrior mobs (which only have an additional 20 armor vs. physical), it works on just about everything evenly.

Some awesome DPS, and it may be near the top if not at the top, is good old Order of Undeath MM'ing. Like all MMs, it takes a bit to get rolling, but then you are left with a virtually unstoppable killing machine.

DPS over a length of time isn't really a good measure of how good a character is at killing things, unless whatever you're fighting has no form of healing.

I'd agree that in general the Warrior has the highest sustainable DPS over a longer period of time. However other classes/builds can do far more damage to far more targets but that damage tends to come in "waves" with a cooldown period between. Like an Assassin for instance. A good sin can do a massive amount of damage to a single target in just a few seconds but usually has to wait before they can repeat the attack chain. A nuker Elementalist can pump out some insane damage over a short period to multiple targets but again has a large cooldown period before they can do it again and has the added trouble of keeping the foes in the AoE.

One combo i use a lot in PvE as an ele is dropping MS, echoed MS, SH, Teinei's Heat and Searing Heat all while under Mindbender. The whole combo takes 9 seconds to pull off (once Mindbender is up) and the damage lasts for around 10 seconds. If you can keep the targets in the AoE you'll be doing 1449 fire damage muliplied by the number of targets. That's a helluva lot of damage but for the time it takes to recharge you'll be doing very little. The DPS over those 10 secs could potentially be massive. The DPS over the course of say 1 minute is pretty low.

I wouldn't pay too much attention to DPS personally. More important is if you can kill your target or not.

QFT! Not a single caster can match the DPS of a DS Warrior. Caster cool downs are a huge draw back to whatever DPS an Ele/Necro/Mes etc... could possibly do, even under ideal conditions. 10 seconds of massive dmg followed by wasted time waiting for e-regen or skill recharge is not good DPS. Not even close. The evidence is all there, just need to do the math to put it all into perspective.

I once used OoU with Vamp Horrors in Isle of the Nameless. It wrecks.
Vamp Horrors+more damage=more healing to cover extra sac and enough to sac for your minions. It does take time to build it up, but once you've got it, it'll steam roll the dummies.

Nevertheless, a warrior with EH+FGJ!+DS will probably keep ridiculously high dps going.

If we are talking multi target spike damage beat this



done by my ele today

You're casting against a level 14 or lower monster right there...

I could probably achieve that if I fought a level 0 -.-

Not only are they low lvl, they are also less resistant to fire dmg than normal creatures.

Nah , an assassin spamming moeb strike with deathblossom + crit eye (chance of more energy) + critical agility (attacks very fast then )

Where in the OP did it says i have to attack lvl 20's or they can't be less resistant to fire than normal. Even then in 15 seconds or less as stated in the OP an Ele WILL out DPS ANYTHING.

No. A warrior does the highest DPS at level 20 against foes equal or above his level. This has been proved many times before. This is not about spike damage.

Where's Ensign when you need him?

Good question...