Powertech/Vanguard DPS Compendium

[sleepingzzz]

Has anyone tried using the 4 piece pvp set to get the 15% crit bonus instead of the Rakata combat set for pve? I have rakata for every other slot. I then replaced most of my mods with power & surge. This allows me to skimp out on crit and max out power and surge. I get a better amount of crits with high impact bolt/rail shot due to the set bonus without having to stack a lot of crit. My high impact bolts hits very hard even without the 8% damage bonus because I stack everything into power and surge. It crits a lot more often with the pvp set bonus. The way I test it is timing how fast I can kill the solo tank boss in EV. With full rakata set I usually finish a bit after a sentinel in my guild. With the pvp set I finish right around the same time if not sooner.

The numbers should back it up as vanguards/powertech crit rating scales very poorly. Even if I stack crit I can barely get it past 30% with self buffs. The stats I lose from the 4 piece rakata gear is easily made up with the 15% to crit on high impact bolt.

I got this idea from watching a imp powertech on my server finish every warzone with at least 600k+ dps. I logged on my imp character to talk to him and view his stats. I can't quite get my dps as high as him. Best I've gotten was around 550K in voidstar. I chalk this up to vanguards having about 40 or so lower damage on our rifles than powertechs on their main gun. The extra damage from the main weapon doesn't effect the tech abilities but it sure as hell effects rail shot/HIB since it's white damage.