I did ~180k damage on my Smallville run yesterday. Don't remember what my other numbers were. Closest other person in group was controller, at ~100k. Keep in mind, also...I was running in DPS mode, but all of my gear is tank oriented, so I have relatively low power/might. I switched a few pieces of gear, but not much. I doubt that my dual pistol DPS was crazy (I was using ranged attacks), but that wasn't the point. I was using the pistols because you gain ~45 power per melee hit (according to someone I was debating weapons with ingame). Pistols hit faster than any other weapon in the game. In fact, one of my "combos" is just holding down the right mouse button -- as long as I hold it down, the gun will just keep shooting bullets. It's not as fast as my other combos, but it's also constant. However, I'm not looking at my melee to provide DPS -- it's there to provide energy, so that I can use my big spells. I was hitting mobs with Fireball to set them on fire (does ~150dmg for me), another single-target nuke that would do ~180dmg, and then hit them with Massive Detonation, which would hit mobs for ~500 damage when they were on fire, and hit all of the mobs around the target for ~180. This would generally take my (admittedly small) power gauge down just below the threshold for another Massive Detonation, so I'd do chain together the three pistol ranged combos (right click, right hold, right hold) and would have enough power to do another MD. By that point, I'd done ~1300 dmg without a crit (not counting pistol damage, which was hitting for ~55 per bullet), and would either throw in another hit with the 180dmg nuke or throw on another MD, depending on how much health the mob had left. During the "protect" phase of the Smallville missions, I could take the giants down after the first MD, if I got lucky with a crit (which I did, several times).
I respec'ed back to Tank tonight to do some alerts, but I'll definitely be keeping my eye out for people who need DPS. It was a lot of fun. My league generally needs more tanks than DPS, but heck...it's great to know that I can easily fill either roll in a group. I might experiment with my tanking build to see if I can tweak it to be a bit closer to my DPS build...if I can get them closer, then I might be able to feat-farm my way into having enough skill points to specialize in both pistols and martial arts. If I didn't have to respec every time, but could find some balance between the two, it would be pretty sweet.
Was a good setup.
