09-24-2005, 10:45 AM
Most of the time you want to really consider 1% crit = 1% damage increase, because pretty much everyone puts points into Ice Shards or Ignite.
Finding a balance a quite tricky, since it depends on damage you already have. For example on Frostbolt, which gets ~86% of the spelldamage bonus:
450 dmg Frostbolt = 450/100 / .86 = +5.3 dmg = 1% spellcrit
600 dmg Frostbolt = 600/100 / .86 = +7.0 dmg
750 dmg Frostbolt = 750/100 / .86 = +8.7 dmg
So the higher damage you already have, the more valuable spellcrit is. But if you look at most items, the +dmg ones usually have more than +10 dmg and thus beat the crit ones typically having +1% spellcrit.
For fire mages this can be even trickier though, due to Ignite stacking. Since I never played fire mage for long enough, I can't comment on that.
Finding a balance a quite tricky, since it depends on damage you already have. For example on Frostbolt, which gets ~86% of the spelldamage bonus:
450 dmg Frostbolt = 450/100 / .86 = +5.3 dmg = 1% spellcrit
600 dmg Frostbolt = 600/100 / .86 = +7.0 dmg
750 dmg Frostbolt = 750/100 / .86 = +8.7 dmg
So the higher damage you already have, the more valuable spellcrit is. But if you look at most items, the +dmg ones usually have more than +10 dmg and thus beat the crit ones typically having +1% spellcrit.
For fire mages this can be even trickier though, due to Ignite stacking. Since I never played fire mage for long enough, I can't comment on that.