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Anoroth
I always just thought you coul get as much crit as you wanted and that would go to the percentage you crit. Obviously if you got to 99.9% or something you wouldnt need any more crit rating, but up until then, I dont see why not to stack crit, unless your not hit capped.
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Chaoslux
At what percent would it be more beneficial to stack spell damage or hit rather then crit because the "odds" of the dice landing on a crit are more heavily in your favor?
It would be more beneficial to your dps to stack spell damage as soon as your crit goes above 1%.
It's even more benefeicial to stack hit until it hits hitcap.
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nickseng
IMHO, it's always more benificial to stack damage than crit.
1 spelldamage is roughly a increase of 0.28 dps.
22.08 crit rating increases crit rating by 1%, which is less than 0.28 dps increase.
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Skyfire
and please. if you want information, take the time to help yourself before crapping up the forums with a question that has already been answered.
Don't need the insult, dood.
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nickseng
Which is what I said above. :P
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Post by
greywolfsage
100%.
but arcane doesn't use crit as much as mastery or haste. Technically, what 85% because of the Potency 15% proc?
Post by
xavierpjg
Ok. here we go. I got an arc mage i'm using for heroics/raids at the moment. As well because on my thread there is such a big debate between arcane and fire i'm respeccing frost into fire, Crit cap i don't know about but i can say crit is important. On my rotation i cast arc blast 5x then arc missles and throw whatever else i have to into the mix. 2 outta 5 blast do not crit hit for me so they land for 15k to 18k, the other 3 outta 5 casts almost always crit hit for 35-50k. Currently i'm ave about 15k dps. I have 15.77 crit chance (crit rate 981). The important this is to balance your haste with your crit. I know i'll probably get yelled at or something but this is from personal exp.
Note: I forgot about mentioning to make sure you use focus magic on someone else also it gives u a 3% crit increase whenever the other person crits for a period of time. So that raises my crit chance also.
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xavierpjg
Link to EJ:
http://elitistjerks.com/f75/t110326-cataclysm_fire_mage_compendium/
Yes it does say that about fire mages. However it kind of contradicts itself because if you scroll down to the introduction and read the str and weaknesses. The first weakness stats that " Crit is the heart of the Fire spec"
With the arcane build u are correct however like i stated in my previous post u need to find an equilibrium between haste and crit. Many ppl underestimate crit. However a 15-30k increase in damage per ab significantly increases ur dps.
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