Game-Changing New Powers

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Straight Devestate works great. Think of Devestate as half a Mortal Strike for a one-hander that has no cooldown and use it accordingly. :) I saw very, very little drop in DPS with Skybreak when she swapped from 0/31/20 to 5/5/41.

I think that depends on the weapon. My Shadowrend Longblade only does about 130 damage without sunders in Ramparts on the armored mobs, less than half the damage of shield slam, for about 70% of the rage (12 vs. 17). With 5 sunders, it's around 250. I think if I had finished my PvP grind to get a HWL Blade, straight Devastate would be worthwhile without sunders, as they have no eqaul in Devastate damage until at least level 68. I haven't run any hard numbers, but I start with sunders if I think I'll have time for Devastate, but some things I don't bother with as they won't be upright long enough to get to that point.