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Your knowledge is more than sufficient.
above Kaox Krul, who created a potent nexus
No he didn't or at the very least, not alone. Crian Maru had also fallen to the dark side. I would argue that that would have a greater effect as a light sider falling to the dark side is more significant. And it happened because they fought for hours, and then killed each other simultaneously. As for the place, the dark side was stronger there obviously, but that wasn't due to Kaox Krul. The fact that a child had been killed, and that an otherwise dedicated Jedi Knight fell to the dark side, and just to avenge her Padawan, would honestly have a greater impact on the place being a DS Nexus than Krul would. As for the "potent" part:
It was more swamp than lake, actually The trees around it were twisted and black, with barren branches that reached like skeletal limbs toward the dark, muddy center. The whole place felt ill, deformed. Haunted.
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He looked out over the bleak lake, trying to make sense of what happened. All he found in the Force, though, was darkness and despair.
Credit: Darkness Shared
The darkness and the "despair" in the force had happened simply due to the tragedy that ensued, and this is in no way, potent. I really( severely) doubt that his power alone would be the reason for this place to be filled with "despair" and darkness.
being stronger than the nexus of Ambria (before Thon sealed it)
Where was this stated? If you are referring to the argument about the Huntress, first of all, she just saw the past, there is no telling how much she estimated the power of Ambria. She also saw it in the past, so obviously, the power she felt wouldn't have been what it really was.
He also has feats like destroying a massive 30 meter gate
He didn't destroy it bro, he merely tore it off its hinges and pushed it inside, in his prime. Also I don't want to nitpick on this thing, but the walls rose up to 30 metres, we are simply assuming that the gates also rose up to that height.
disintegrating a dozen technobeasts.
If he did grow weaker in power, though, his Tython feats wouldn't be scaled to Doe Bane.
Ironically, it is this reason why he "did" grow weaker in DoE than in late ROT. As for the scaling, that is due to an argument presented on the basis of Zannah, which isn't convincing actually.
she was strong enough to shield herself from the ritual storm of the BOD as a child
It wasn't a planet wide storm by any means. The army of light were still on the planet. Yeah, she was, only, the same ritual caused Bane headaches and hallucinations for hours/days. And she was just kilometres away. And also strong enough to resist it( completely) were the two fodder Jedi whose necks she snapped with the force.
Imo, this stuff is a bit more impressive than what Maul has shown.
I don't know, holding a very convincing edge over Obi Wan and Qui Gon, leaving behind a nexus on the very same spot( though the exact same argument for Kaox Krul applies here as well, but it is worth a mention), all pre prime, Savage Opress being in awe of his power, him creating a disturbance in the force itself which can be felt by Obi Wan, Yoda, Anakin( and Sidious) from across the galaxy, dragging massive shuttles while injured, casually collapsing caves, beating almost 2nd year of TCW Obi Wan, blasting back an army along with Savage Opress( who was in awe of is power), and of course his trump card, surviving being cut in half, and even using the force afterwards( not only is base Maul pre-prime, but the fact that he can tank such an injury and then use a force pull when his potential/power is obviously reduced on being cut in half is pretty impressive, and actually more than what it seems), and many more are a tad more impressive than what Bane has done.
The major doubt I have about Bane, tho, is whether he grew stronger than his late ROT incarnation
No IMO, he actually grew weaker. There is a slew of quotes implying it, and the one you posted actually states it( wasn't aware of it). The main argument for it is, derived from proving increase in Force Augmentation, based scaling off Zannah, that too on a single exchange of blades, and even that was before he was in the vicinity of the bastion of dark side power, Tython, and the nexus of Darzu's temple! Actually that isn't convincing. First off:
The aging process was subtle, but inescapable. Bane accepted this; what he lost in strength and speed he could easily compensate for with wisdom, knowledge, and experience.
Credit: Dynasty of Evil
The strength "may" refer to physical strength, but the loss in speed clearly, and irrefutably says that his force augmentation( and by extension, power) had decreased.
Then you have this:
But a tiny sliver of the brute strength he once possessed had been whittled away.
Credit: Dynasty of Evil
Which clearly says that his physicals had degraded only by a small amount which means that if his speed has decreased, his force power has too( through the same augmentation).
Further we also have this which you gave:
As Bane aged and grew weaker after years of using the dark side, and from his injuries sustained at the battle on Tython, he became obsessed with learning the secret of immortality.
Credit: Star Wars Fact File 64 ( Relaunched)
Which is further evidence of the matter. And now, for a feat by feat comparison:
Bane thrust out with the Force, and a dozen of the oncoming creatures exploded into dust and tiny flecks of small, twisted metal.
Credit: Rule of Two
So here, in the nexus of Tython, he basically disintegrated a dozen "mechanical" monsters, which are no doubt harder, faster, stronger than normal humans. Further some of them were creatures like rancors, which are quite larger than even Bane himself. He actually disintegrates two more. But even after this, he doesn't seem to be exhausted at all given by:
The slaughter lasted over an hour. He used his lightsaber to repeatedly dismember his enemies, conserving his Force abilities to stave off exhaustion in arms, legs, shoulders, and back. Three times during the one-sided melee he allowed himself to lose focus, his martial instincts thrown out of sync by the unnerving silence of his enemies as they were butchered. Each time his attention lapsed he was knocked to the ground by the blows of one of the lumbering creatures that got close enough to make contact and forced to battle his way back to his feet. Two other times during the battle he felt the burning in his brain as the orbalisks purged his system of yet another cloud of nanogene spores he had unknowingly inhaled.
Credit: Rule of Two
So he managed to fight and kill these creatures for over an hour, which is a very long time, relatively speaking, after he disintegrated 14 technobeasts. Let us compare this to his similar fight in DoE:
Bane extinguished his weapon and stood perfectly still, allowing the swarming horde to close in on him as he gathered his strength. He called upon the power of the temple itself, feeding on it to bolster his own abilities as he created a deadly field around his body. It began as a tight circle, but quickly spread outward until it extended to a radius of ten meters, with the Sith Lord at the center. The air within the circumference of the field suddenly became darker, as if the light from the red sun above had been suddenly dimmed.
Cloaked in the shadowy gloom, Bane simply held his ground against the enemy assault. The front ranks of onrushing cultists shrieked in agony as they entered the field, their life essence violently sucked out of their bodies, aging them a thousand years in only a few seconds. Muscles and tendons atrophied instantaneously; their skin withered and shrank, pulling tight across their bones. Eyes and tongues shriveled, turning them into mummified husks before their desiccated flesh crumbled away, leaving only skeletal remains and a few strands of hair.
The effort of creating an aura of pure dark side energy would have quickly exhausted even Bane.
Credit: Dynasty of Evil
So around 15 cultists were destroyed in the process. And even then, Bane would have gotten exhausted after performing this feat. Now if you think that it wasn't a simple disintegration, but an "aura of dark energy", the power of the aura is questionable given that the cultists weren't destroyed, as in disintegrated completely, and some skeletal parts of the cultists still managed to remain, and in ROT we are talking of things outright much better than them, and in similar numbers. At best, the power of this aura is around equal to the power of the force that he used to disintegrate the technobeasts, and he was exhausted after doing this in DoE( Big thing, coming straight from the pen of Drew Karpyshyn), while he was just unfazed after the same in late ROT. His "field of death"( I believe the technique is actually canonical in the EU, and is named something like this)'s power at best, was equal to the power he used in late ROT, and we can clearly compare their condition afterwards. All in all, I think it is rather firmly set that DoE Bane is weaker than ROT( late) Bane in the force, and in physicals( by a small amount, though the rate of degradation at that point had started reaching unprecedented levels, still his physical condition, at that point was only somewhat lesser than his ROT form, barring the impenetrable shells of the Orbalisks of course).
Now, this as it is is just plain unfair to Bane, as of DoE, and I have already stated my opinion on it. Now, late ROT Bane vs Maul and Savage, will be pretty interesting to watch. Collectively, their force power should be only just greater than his own( as he is obviously greater than DoE Bane in that regard, and IMO, notably), but the Orbalisks, not only ensure him unlimited offense, but I also don't believe Savage is skilled enough to penetrate that small spot in Bane's hand, or powerful enough to contend with this version of Bane. I think the battle should "logically" be a small edge in favor of the team, but we know that team ups don't exactly work seamlessly in SW, so Bane could take it in that regard. Then again, even BM amped Farfalla and Raskta would get straight up massacred by the brothers, and while in the BM, were holding their own rather impressively with Bane. All in all, that would be a great fight.
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