To obtain the best direct damage you need to spend all your traits and equipment to be berserker. That make you powerfull in attack but if the enemy hit you… well… you die in 0,00000000000001 sec.
And a Necro can output more than 3k damage x second, whit the equip whit Pow-prec-Cond (I don’t remember the name), 2k or more whit only condition damage.
If a “dps” class fight a Condi class, the dps die 80% of the times.
That’s why there’s so much boons and conditions that reduces the damage you can recive and the speed of the enemy. The best direct damage weapon is always a melee weapon and that reduce the chance for the enemy to hit you, if you run and he can’t.
You can reduce the enemy damage whit: Traits (example: Ranger, Guardian or Warrior, in different way), Runes (Vampire runes transform you into a mist form at 10% hp), Sigil (there’s a sigil that increase your toughness), Defensive Skills (so many skills adsorb or reduce to 0 the enemy direct damage), Boons (Protection, that reduce the damage you take by 33%) and Conditions (Weakness make the enemy inflict 50% less damage every hit whit 50% chance). Then you can use Blind, Block skills, Aegis, dodge, fear, etc to avoid the enemy attacks and work better whit direct damage than against condition damage dealer. If you cripple/Chill a melee dps class you can flee easy or kill it from the distance. And you can increase your Toughness to reduce the damage of enemy direct damage skills, a thing that isn’t applied to condition damage.
There’s a large amount of active and passive skills, traits and equipments to reduce or avoid the direct damage.
That’s why a direct damage dps class can inflict a large amount of damage: there’s a large amount of things that can reduce the direct damage and a dps class have no defence and low survavibility.
(the only 2 classes that can play pure dps is Warrior, whit Stances, and Thief, whit Hide, but if you catch them whitout the skills ready or stun them they die anyway)
