SpaceGoat wrote on Feb 6
th, 2018 at 12:43pm:
Do you have spots where you dps for more then 30 seconds? How about for more then a minute? Each time you have to continue to DPS, you’re losing a lot of ground vs the melee set. When your boosts are up, you’re almost even.
That’s what he is saying
I understand what he's saying. It is exceedingly rare that I am DPS'ing for a full minute straight. Even if I was I have to take small breaks to:
-heal
-kite
-refresh shorter buffs (tensers, KTA macro, etc)
-reposition
-raise dead friends
This is a fact of playing the game, and it is also a playstyle preference. Over 11 years, I've found I perform better with the option to turn it up to 11 when I need to, to get dangerous things dead faster. The difference between trash and not trash in DDO is HUGE. Trash can be instakilled, level drained, pinned, whistled, etc. Red names can not be any'd of those. That's where the DPS actually matters, and it's a small amount of overall time spent attacking in DDO. For me, playstyle wise, that means burst is where it's at.
If I exclusively solo'd high reaper quests with giant HP bags that took 5 minutes to kill, I would wholeheartedly disagree with myself about burst. But that's not really how I spend any of my time in DDO.
Also for your scenario, while it's true that you do less damage between 10k's on an RP, build, you actually do MORE DPS during 10k on the RP build. You have 30 seconds of your highest possible RP/MP simultaneously during your highest Doubleshot (+100% from 10k).
With the MP build you get only 20 seconds (At most with perfect timing) of Prowess along with 10k doubleshot, or 66% of the time. Between 10k's you ONLY get 10 whole seconds of prowess due to cooldowns.
So the question is: Is marginal +10 seconds of Prowess without 10k on the MP build as valuable as the marginal +10 seconds of RP during 10k? Obviously the answer is no, because you're throwing MORE shurikens during 10k than in between 10k's (close to 30% more for most builds). You are actually maximizing boosts with an RP build as opposed to the MP build.