Voltaic Sentinel

[Riverdusk]

So, was doing some checking on the stats of Electric blast Voltaic Sentinel.  Per the in-game stats for each AT at level 50, they are as follows:

 

Blaster - 44.49 damage, -5% endurance

Corrupter - 44.49 damage, -5% endurance, + can scourge

Sentinel - 35.39 damage, -6% endurance

Defender - 35.39 damage, -6% endurance

 

All other stats are identical for each version.

 

 

So, the obvious question to me, assuming the in-game stats are correct, why does a sentinel (supposedly a more damaging AT), get the weaker damaging defender level version of this power?

 

I know there are a few pets/pseudo pets out there that are the same across AT's, but when there is actually two different versions, seems like Sentinels should get the stronger one in this case imo, and an extra 1% endurance drain isn't going to make a difference compared to 25% damage boost.

 

[indigni]

It's somewhat defensible that the decision was made because of Sentinel's opportunity -20% RES debuff, which VS benefits from. Sure, the debuff doesn't have 100% uptime, but it's boosting the rest of the team, too, so it's arguably still the better deal.