Math is wrong.

180 RP * 1.5 = 270 effective ranged power = 3.7 multiplier -> 50 * 3.7 = 185

500 spellpower -> 6 multiplier -> 20*6 = 120

500 spellpower is VERY generous....requires deep gear investment as well.

Sneak attack damage is better by miles - energy resistance / immunity on nearly every key mob in endgame.

Personally, I prefer using Force Imbues and Epic Spellpower: Force for the lvl 26 feat.  20 Force spellpower is roughly 7 extra damage per hit with T2-T5 Elemental damage.

Holy Strike averages out to something like 1-2 damage per hit with a 5% Vorpal rate and only works on Evil mobs so more realistically, it's probably worth 1 damage per hit. 

Lots of stuff is resistant, immune, or even healed by Acid and Electricity.  Golems are about the only mobs resistant or immune to Force damage.  I think Force is far more reliable and consistent damage over the long haul.

Use the Search & Rescue cloak for Force spell power and +4 quality Wis bonus.

The most important point of course I'll
Your bonus proc damage of SA vs a Scion spell type damage is....drum roll please
NOT FUCKING RELEVANT.


15-25K adrenaline/sniper shot animations are relevant. Your occasionally larger SA damage number versus a smaller but more consistent lightning damage number outside of mega giant crit burst damage just doesn't matter.

Did you forget the part where lvl 30 feats dont just provide elemental power but a separate scaling proc? You sort of leave that out when you mention Hide/3 * RP.

If your Hide is 150 Perma, that's 50dmg * (180RP*1.5) = 135dmg (very good, when it procs).  2d20 from Scion of Air * 500 Spell power is 100 avg damage, and you dont have a range or Sneak Attack requirement on it. The damage portion is basically a wash if youve slotted deception gear and have LOTS of Armor piercing, and extended SA range. Even then calling it a wash is being a little generous but whatever. And that's just on stuff that has fort, not SA attack immune.

You might be on crack.

I'm not advocating against SA. I made the original SA thrower build (Dark Stars) like 2 years ago. BEFORE scalling and RP. But SA never applied 100% of the time, and with range issue, ON A THROWER, its far less than 100% of the time. I know this from years of playing throwers. SA is awesome on thrower, but it should be your tertiary concern AFTER

1. Throw Speed (Easy to max since mostly feats + haste, but still number 1)
2. Missile Proc Rate (SE/ANT/Doubleshot)
3. Physical Damage
4. Elemental/Alignment proc dmg/missile
5. SA Damage

*If you dont want to be a piece of shit noob who can only kill trash.

A tropical, Caribbean island is not "a fantasy world" as you so ineloquently put it.

I know he is talking about imbues, when I say third path I mean not taking an imbue to match your legendary feat to double up on Spell power maximization. Like Scion of Air + Electric Imbue.

Good point, that's a major thing I forgot. Thanks for not being a douche about pointing it out.

Epic Destiny is identical
Twists idenitcal
Feats are identical
AP's are identical (I've always given 2 paths: elf AA or DWS path, but AA previously was slower to kill red names as of update 29/30ish)
Haper+6AP in Ninja Spy all totally the same
Equipment is identical except I quit and you've added in some leg GS which wasn't out the last time I posted a build with excecption of Enchant focused Terror stars build using Terror arrow

Only other diff is updates, not any actual substantial changes or improvements.

Many lolz being had, youre welcome for all the of the years of effort. This is like when libertarians say they don't want to pay taxes but they made their fortunes on roads built by tax dollars, and protected by government funded security and a stable government organized financial system.

people lie, numbers won't!

What I've opted to do nowadays is (since you are right, lamm is hardly ever up):

run an LE shroud (less laggy conditions obviously better): record a video.

Sum damage on target, divide by time (high framerate recording).

Do this for all 15 portals (assuming you aren't on portal keeper duty) - average between them.

Do this for harry, kittykat, and book.

Real word dps numbers (unfortunately they will fluctuate a lot between runs depending on lag on ranged builds like this).

The next best alternative to this is bruntsmash (kobold is the least real world of the 3 - though still relevant).

Imo kobold dps numbers are only relevant for ordering builds not providing a numeric value to your dps. I'd be willing to bet that higher kobold dps numbers correlates well to higher real world dps....but there's still a scaling factor for real world issues (running out of adrenaline, running out of blitz, lag, healing, etc etc).

This is way off topic but are you playing Warhammer Online?