Microcosm

Power surge has all the toxic resistance in the set, so I wouldn't necessarily get rid of it even if you could.

I agree with bAss on not picking Cardiac, though instead of Spiritual I recommend musculature radial for more damage plus better endmod (affects both stamina and power sink). On that note, power sink could use a couple more slots in all of these builds. Three endmod IO's plus the musculature radial tier 4 make power sink able to completely sap an entire spawn--even bosses--after their first attack.

Edit: Also, you don't actually need Havoc Punch in that last build you posted. You have just enough recharge to run CI>CB>JL>CB while hasten is up, which is the best chain anyway.

I would think it is the same, just inserting Nimble every time you need to refresh the debuff.

S/L. It covers more than melee does by a large margin, including many defense debuff attacks.

If you are able to do two, I would probably softcap melee and range. If three, definitely the positionals.

Don't expect the 100% critical for Fireball to last forever, as it is definitely a bug.

Your build looks good. I would want to get some damage in dwarf drain, but otherwise, there aren't any glaring issues popping out at me.

As far as incarnate stuff goes,

Alpha: Spiritual, either core or radial, but I suggest core

Judgment: An issue of taste, really

Lore: If you spend a lot of time playing hover-blaster-tank, then your best bet for pets to stay alive is Seers, as they will hover with you, attacking from range. Otherwise, Warworks do the most single target damage, and Clocks do a bunch of AoE damage from range. I like Clocks best, but I went with Seers on my ultrashade.

Interface: Reactive. 'nuff said.

Destiny: Clarion can give you mez protection (I'd rather use break free binds myself); barrier can give you defense/resistance (the resistance portion is worthless to you); ageless can give you recovery+recharge+debuff protection (we lack debuff protection); rebirth can give you +hp or +regen (the +regen one is more potent). My choice was rebirth +regen, but my shade always has enough break frees and is soft capped to range.

The data chunk you posted appears to be for an undeveloped mastermind...

The sweep combo is especially nonsensical; there are no AoE's in it and they had to change Ablating strike to have the AoE affect. That's just weird.

And yes, the lack of Blinding Feint is not at all helpful.

K, putting in purple procs, applying the tohit clamp and the -res from procs, Ninja Blade comes out to ~172.3 dps, not including Buildup (that gets messier than I'd like at the moment).

Actually, Electric Melee's chain gets really complicated, and even more so if you use the special trick with /nin, but that increases its dps dramatically.

With nin, it will end up being more like this:

Waterspout or Caltrops->BU->LR->AS->(Repeat CI->CB->JL->CB until others recharge) {Notice no placate}

Well I'm either going to put a damage proc in or the Gaussian. I know the fire rate is very low, but I'm just looking at long-term single target dps. The point about outside buffs possibly rendering the Gaussian useless is something I hadn't thought of.

The set it's put in does matter, at least theory-wise. For general play, I don't much care; I have enough dps to take down normal stuff quite easily. It's the pylons/AV's that I am tweaking for.

I've heard many times that the Gaussian's Chance for Buildup proc is not worthwhile in Follow from Claws, but I am wondering if it is in Blinding Feint from Dual Blades. I'm thinking Dual Blades has slightly better damage, so a buildup proc might do more than a regular proc here, unlike in Claws. Thoughts?

(BF>AV chain)

Edit: I think I just calculated for a random build that a proc would add something like 2.2 dps over the long run, but the Gaussian would add about 12 dps...