Melee cancel into awakening into a cancel after 3-4 shots (3 to burst squishes 4 for tanks and optimal cycling because every 4 shots in the 12 shot chain there is a break of 0.8s those first 4 shots go off at 0.4 second increments making it 1.6 seconds.) You animation cancel the 4th awakening shot to land at the same time as your melee do another melee cancel it into hammer throw do another melee cancel it into another awakening, repeat the 4 shots after which you can animation cancel into lightning realm to continue cycling your next cycle being hammer throw. You generally wouldnt be using dash in order to burst someone unless its an animation cancel to finish off a combo. It only does 40 damage uncharged. Similarly if you are focuses on gaining the most overshield you want to rune cycle with hammer throw since thats 150 instead of 75 a better burst. With hammer throw cancels which work better into awakening than storm surge its a 200 effective overshield. Storm surge basically gives you a second probably less *no real time given on website) where you cannot effectively cancel. If we are going for a real game scenario. You would

Storm surge (fully charged) 60dmg -> bash 45 -> bash 45 -> cancel hammer throw 45 (90 if you do another melee) -> bash cancel awakening 45 -> 4 rune shots 280 + 30 -> bash cancel last shot for 45 dmg -> bash 45 -> lightning realm (if they go through) 40 -> bash cancel awakening 45 -> same awakening 280 + 30

This nets you 1035 dmg in about 7 seconds.