I was messing around with solo skillchains (pup/sam) yesterday trying to expand my arsenal so I could come up with some better lead off SC's for VE tanking. The 2 best ones I came up with were - Stringing Pummel > Dragon Kick > Shijin Spiral making light with an end result of around 14.5k total, Shijin did about 3k with 4.5k light. The other Combo I came up with was Howling Fist > String Shredder > Stringing Pummel making Darkness, Pummel hit for around 5k that time and darkness was around 7k after which I just vented it to VE and let him do his thing.
I'm curious about other SC's people have come up with or if anyone else plays around with /sam as much as I do. I'm not against hearing any Victory Smite SC's either, but I mainly use my pet pdt- claws for this kind of thing. Post anything you've come up with, I'd like to hear other ideas.