Still no sic/read delay -5 shield for bst?

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Is it a higher dps potential though? The magic burst way of doing things seems like a lot more damage than any melee could put out. Jug pets are about on par with melee damage, but bsts do pretty well without needing pld tanks.

Hard to say It's certainly superior dps to other ranged strategies though... I don't think the new bonuses for magic bursting were completely quantified... it's also rather well bursty so like short fights where you can basically end it in a single skillchain MB yeah I doubt anything will compare to that. Longer fights it probably still is best until the sch starts running out of charges but might depend on how well/quickly go from skillchain to skillchain and still MB. Doing that quickly with little pause between and consistently actually does require a bit of skill/coordination. And of course mileage will vary by mob. Like does it have high eva/meva mdb dts and then even player things like if it has strong debuffs can you bring a 2nd geo etc.