Highest single-target Damage skill

What do you believe to be the highest single target damage skill in the game? Which has the best potential and I'm speaking about pure damage not DPS.

I'm personally thinking about shield charge.

its heavy strike

Crit dagger any skill

Discharge 5+ charges of each element crit, Bear Trap crit, Facebreaker Infernal Blow punch crit (Assassin's Mark)

All these above have insane dmg per hit = good for overkill bonus and bad because reflect^^

I guess max distance shield charge will provide the hardest single hit.

P.S.
Though discharge probably will do better with enough charges. True.

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kolton wrote:

Crit dagger any skill

you are right my bad

Bashing on crit mechanics is cute. But it's irrelevant in this case. Besides that daggers don't have the highest base damage stats.
Thread is not about dps, if I got it right.

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torturo wrote:

Bashing on crit mechanics is cute. But it's irrelevant in this case. Besides that daggers don't have the highest base damage stats.
Thread is not about dps, if I got it right.

dagger crit one shot dmg of 1000x multiplier rules

For attacks Viper Strike probably wins because it's 110% base + 50% chance for 25%/s for 7s base. Which is like 197.5% without any duration nodes.

Barrage with +1 arrow on quiver/bow could beat it though 5*40%.

A shotgun Tornado Shot that hits all 5 with GMP would be 5*110%*0.5 = 275%, not op at all.

Dual strike by a mile.

To add to it:

You get effectively 180% weapon damage on one strike vs 150% of heavy strike. On top of this, you get a special dual weild 10% more attack speed modifier, that you just can't get with a 2 hander.

Highest 2hander dps: 881
Highest 1hander dps: 564
Highest Dagger dps: 556
- Doesn't look like it even is close between 2 1hander and a 2h'er.

So, with two 1 handers, dual strike bonus, being able to spec more into 1h crit than 2 handers on tree - I honestly can't see anything competing. Happy to be proven wrong!