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Q: I have a 3300 Arcane Barb and a 3300 Calamity with the same dex and discipline values, which one should I take?

A: In this case it's pretty clear that the Calamity is better, the reason being that you lose one primary on your Arcane Barb. For the spreadsheet, I always assumed you would have RCR on your weapon, a 3300 AB obviously has Dmg + IAS, which is worse than RCR. All of the differences assume equally well rolled weapons as a % of the maximum rolls. Having a 3000 dps Arcane Barb and a 3000 dps Calamity with equal stats will favor the AB because your Calamity rolled like crap.

Q: I have a 3200 dps Bow and a 3100 dps Crossbow with almost equal stats, which should I use?

A: The crossbow. Generally, your Bow has to have about 5% more dps to break even, Calamity and Balefire are pretty close if they only have about the same dps as your crossbow. To be safe, I'd use them if they have 50-100 dps more.

First off, thanks wudijo for this awesome source of information.

The above answers just confused me a bit.

In the 1st question you said that a 3000 dps arcane barb is better than a 3000 dps calamity (with equal stats).

However, in the 2nd question you said that Calamity and Balefire are pretty close if they have the same dps as the crossbow.

So I guess my question is how much more dps should a calamity / balefire have over an XBow for the calamity / balefire to be better?

Thanks in advance.

For lightning sentries, you guys should consider going impale - ricochet instead of multishot - fire at will. Impale is such good single target dps. The cluster arrow handles aoe well enough anyway.

Note: edited some typos.