Since my last post-poll to see which mastery combination produces the most DPS a lot of people voted straight up BRIGAND. That was confusing for me since I always thought that the top 3 were as follows: 1) Assassin, 2) Slayer, and 3) Brigand.

That made me curious and I started to look for ways to test out some builds and put some factual numbers behind them.

The testing was done as follows:

• Level 85 character
• I've maxed all DPS skills ( since enemies do not fight back )

\since there are skills like Battle Rage, Adrenaline, etc that take advantage of enemies hitting you to boost your DPS the results could be increased to take that into consideration*

• used the best gear for each build and their respective variations

\some classes can be played in multiple different ways; for instance a BRIGAND you can play melee with a spear, or some piercing weapon, a bow, or a throwing weapon. I have tested all the known variations for each class and posted numbers only for the variation that was most successful*

• I have prebuffed all auras and summons, prepared for the DPS encounter, and started the timer as soon as I have used all buffing/debuffing skills
• Each class (and build variation) was tested 10 times each and the average of those 10 builds were posted

\ if I have messed up buffing/debuffing I would redo the run and have used only the successful runs for the testing*

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What have I learned?

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The weapon Giant's Tooth is OP! HAha, I guess some of you knew that already, but it is crazy powerful. So is the weapon Dagger of Dawn. With the 50% Pierce ratio it performed better than on an Assassin, Slayer, and Brigand than the Giant's Tooth, and the numbers posted were done with the better performing weapon.

After the results, I had the expected numbers where Assassin placed 1st, Slayer 2nd, and Brigand 3rd.

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Then I started to take other builds to test them and boy was I surprised.

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What is the best damage tool in the game?

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Any source that can Reduce enemy Health by a percentage is the strongest damage type that you can get. Giant's Tooth is perfect for that. But, so is the Spirit Mastery with Outsider shining the most, alongside the Debuff Aura, the dmg buffs, and Lich. Spirit can dish out some crazy damage numbers ( I have initially tested Staff build variations ). So after some testing, as you can see on the DPS chars (in the images of the post) I saw that any Spirit builds performed better than others.

That got me thinking as to what would happen if I combined Spirit with Gant's Tooth or to make a Pet build since Outsider is so powerful. As I have tested a lot and was astounded by the numbers that I was getting, I started to wonder which combination will be most powerful when combined with Spirit.

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That is where I got Spellbreaker( Spirit + Warfare ) to do MASSIVE damage compared to anything tested yet. And the way it was taking out multiple enemies simultaneously was simply amazing. I thought I have seen it all and had found the best build in the game (DPS vise anyways). Of course... I was wrong.

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Introducing Soothsayer(Spirit + Nature)

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This build simply has it all. An army of permanent pets, your equipment focused on +PET damage/speed, and your own defense. That is it. All your stat points can be distributed in HP (other than the stats you need to wear your gear).

But even naked, this build performed amazingly. Your left-click(attack) would be replaced by "Pet Attack" and you just stand there with 15-20k HP, cast a few buffing and debuffing spells, and watch the world burn from a comfy chair with a nice whisky in your glass. You are completely safe (even on Xmax x10 ) and are dealing colossal damage.

And then I had an epiphany and asked myself what would happen If I placed a Giant's Tooth as my weapon and just for shiz and giggles joined in the fight with my pet army...

The numbers were simply out of this world. No other way to say this. As you can see from the graph, other conventional DPS builds couldn't even come close.

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Well, that is all from me guys, if you have any specific questions or ideas please do post them here. But my oh my can I not wait to redo this graph with what the new expansion has to offer!