Everyone has valid points towards this discussion. It is, in fact, too early to tell what class will trump other dps classes. However, I think its safe to say that we've all had beta experience and some of us have experimented with several classes and therefor have somewhat of a knowledge base for which they can comment on. I think it should be noted that any conclusions made shouldn't be set in stone (as far as I know) as I don't think anyone has seen the full potential of any one class with "tier" level gear. Myself, I played a BH and a IA. I found the BH has much more sustainable damage as it was mentioned before. The BH has utilities that can be used to maintain steady DPS where an IA is similar to a vanilla POM pyro mage from WoW (sorry for the reference). It may seem irrelevant now but I think this something worth while to discuss because it will give other players some insight as to how certain classes will operate and hence give them some direction for what they want to do/play. Looking forward to EGA as well as further input into this thread. Gets people thinking and thats good! Cheers.