Is Greater Fire Sword Worth Taking?

[Darkir]

In looking at mids, it looks like greater fire sword is slightly worse than Scorch, Incinerate, or Cremate in terms of dps. In high recharge builds could you get away with a Scorch > Cremate > Incenerate ST attack chain? It looks like this would actually  be better dps than including greater fire sword at all. Of coursem this is very disappointing for a T9 power.

Edited September 29, 2019 by Darkir

[Mr. Vee]

If you look at damage/animation - i.e. arcana time, GFS is 3rd highest behind incinerate and very slightly, cremate. Scorch is below regular fire sword as well.

[Darkir]

10 hours ago, Veelectric Boogaloo said:

If you look at damage/animation - i.e. arcana time, GFS is 3rd highest behind incinerate and very slightly, cremate. Scorch is below regular fire sword as well.

So I should be looking at DPA and not DPS? Why is DPA more of an accurate measure of damage over time than DPS?

[Mr. Vee]

That's a whole thing for the pylon people to answer. The way I understand it you look at dps until you have an uninterrupted chain at which point you look at dpa, but it's out of my depth really.

[Frostweaver]

It is not, but DPA directly affects mitigation through destruction, as well as how many attacks you can cram into the space of a single buildup, which can affect your DPS.