I love VE more then SS. I think part is because his weaponskill plays nicely with my set. We have an emp katana and dagger in set and I dont have VS yet. So was we are all spamming ws you tend to see lots of dark chains one after another. The 2k+ extra dmg adds up fast and we tend to take down mobs very fast. VE's ws tends to do almost as much dmg as SS, tbh, I am not sure in my situation SS does more damage.