I know, I’m on the fence too. Problem is that it’s not a fence I knew I’d be straddling right now. It’s wicked tempting.
On the bright side one can easily mod the thing or have somebody mod it to kick the King’s butt in raw output.
Edit- Thankfully I don’t have to worry about buying it because my ISP has decided it can’t find the FancyFlashlights site (or CNQualitygoods for that matter). Fortitude by proxy is better than nothing.
I think its a stretch to consider output “identical” to the King. The NW review said it’s about the same as… That is not identical.
Shocker has tons more throw. With tons of overall output. It puts the TK75 to shame out the box, and can be modded even better. I understand the comparisons to the King since they are both triple XML, driven pretty hard. But you really can’t group them together as that similar. It’s the combination of both mega output and throw that is so unique and awesome with the Shocker. It’s pretty easy to have tons of throw OR output. Lots of [cheaper] options for one or the other.
OK, so a BTU driver-equipped Shocker would have more output than a CW King? If so, by how much? I’d love to justify this enough to pull the trigger.
The CW BTU in stock form is already about 600 lumens over the original SRK (2200otf) and at least double the throw. Buy it Joe. At this price I promise you wont regret it. Later you can get it modded and very few led lights will touch it in combination of flood and throw.
that was my point
I am just going off what I have read, I don’t have a shocker. I do have a King clone FWIW.
I saw your post saying basically the same thing after I posted. Evidently I type too slow. Three posts showed up in the time I was typing my reply. Lol.
Joe - As manxbuggy1 and Haterade said... But also the new stock Shocker comes with an AR lens which it didn't have originally, so the new BTU driver/CW ones I've been testing stock are doing over 3,000 lumens - 800 over the king, and the throw, for get a bout it.
Fine. I can resist no longer.
Batteries. Dont forget batteries.
@ Rusty Joe……
Buy the friggin’ thing!!!
It will put pretty much any light to shame, including the ‘king’.
…the ‘king’ is dead, long live the king.
Maybe the MT-G2 version is coming……. 
I want one off those but if it was it wont be $99.00. :_(
I just ordered one, Cool white BTU Driver. Now the wait is on!!
You could’nt resist a great deal could ya?
I was this close to buying a used TK70 off of ebay before I seen this post. I did the math and chose this one due to taking 18650’s and I don’t have to buy 4 more D NIMH batteries and a new charger. It was a no brainer for me. I just hope we like the BTU. I’m sure that we will.
No I couldn’t… 
Everyone raves about it so it’s gotta be good. Love the idea of 18650’s also I hate dealing with the D’s. Does anyone know how long it takes to get an order from them?
He usually ships DHL so seems pretty quick, forget, but like 10-14 days maybe? The light is a beast - I like to compare it to a HD 2010 on steroids -- it's simple, over-sized, but gets outstanding results. Battery carrier isn't at the same level as a TN31, TK75, or even the new 7G9v2, but it's not awful budget either.
What puts it over the top now, I believe, is the real AR lens shipping now -- my tests show a definite bump - two Shockers I tested with the new AR lens get over 3,000 lumens stock. It seems to be better than the UCL/p lens, unless it's variations on my side with the lightbox, or other production mods I'm not aware of, dunno.
Thanks, Sounds awesome!!
Without doubt, go for the NW! I highly doubt that the brightness difference would be noticeable, and the fantastic color rendition with the NW definitely WILL be noticeable.
Is the Fancyflashlights website down? I haven’t been able to access it all day.
its down for me