DPS Class with the Highest Burst Damage?

[AniCelestine]

But those 2 are lowest on sustain remember that.

[Drakeos]

SMN with Deathflare burst upto 9-10k crit

[Sleigh]

MCH at the time of Wild Fire hitting is basically the best burst in the game. DRG, BRD, and BLM are super high up there, BLM especially if there are lucky crits since they have the opportunity to add many thousands per crit in their opener. SMN doesn't burst super amazing even if they get a couple good hits in. NIN and MNK do burst a bit but not to the extent of the above 4.

I will say I'm a bit curious on why you care so much about burst, OP. AoE capabilities are more important for dungeons, and a whole mess of other things are more important for Alexander/Savage. Is it just something you have fun with or were you interested in burst for a gameplay reason?

[Aiselia]

I will say I'm a bit curious on why you care so much about burst, OP.

The only reason I could think of for caring specifically about burst is PVP, although admittedly I've never touched PVP in this game so I don't know how important that is over other aspects. In most games I've played PVP in, burst is king (barring broken CC) so they don't have a chance to fight back.

[Arkenne]

DRG seems like a good option from my melee point of view, but since DRG has 2 DoTs and you hate DoTs, BLM should be for you.
BRD, MCH and SMN seems to have a few good bursts but BLM's DPS is all about burst :v (even their DoT can burst)

[Kuroyasha]

DRG seems like a good option from my melee point of view, but since DRG has 2 DoTs and you hate DoTs, BLM should be for you.
BRD, MCH and SMN seems to have a few good bursts but BLM's DPS is all about burst :v (even their DoT can burst)

Feel like this needs a Xzibit meme; Ayo dawg, heard u like burst dmg, so we put burst dmg in your burst dmg so u can burst dmg while u burst dmg.

[Meow9000]

Highest burst dps? Warrior. Have you ever hit triple crit fellcleaves in one berserk window? Barrage + EA has nothing on berserk cleaves lol

[AniCelestine]

Highest burst dps? Warrior. Have you ever hit triple crit fellcleaves in one berserk window? Barrage + EA has nothing on berserk cleaves lol

Eventhough warrior has high dmg, the thread is about DPS class wth highest burst.

Also, what if you don't crit any of them? Can warrior even reach 1,7k opener that way? How would you get 3 fell cleaves without using up your CD'S if you have to tank that time and there's something coming within past 1min that needs longer than 6 second IB and you need to save Holmgang for a little later for other mechanic.

And mch done properly beats warrior on opener burst, sure warrior has best 2gcd burst each minute if you can fell cleave infuriate fell cleave.

But once again, warrior is still designwise tank not dps that the OP asked for.

[Waliel]

Highest burst dps? Warrior. Have you ever hit triple crit fellcleaves in one berserk window? Barrage + EA has nothing on berserk cleaves lol

Still seems to crit for less than F4 by decent margin.

[EpicOreo80]

I will say I'm a bit curious on why you care so much about burst, OP. AoE capabilities are more important for dungeons, and a whole mess of other things are more important for Alexander/Savage. Is it just something you have fun with or were you interested in burst for a gameplay reason?

I just have fun with burst damage.