• Cryic

Nope. I'm a cookie cutter 10/48/3 fire mage. I do not have Arcane Instability. And I was just farming some mobs solo.

Here's some more data on the new and improved Lightning Cap

**** Again, sorry for the format, this was posted to my guild mage forums, just wanted to share the new numbers***

WWS File for me: http://www.lossendil.com/wws/?report=rshwa6dkomstq&a=14

We had a pretty rough night relearning some stuff, killed Mag, Maulgar and Gruul for the test data:

Post 1 ---

My +to hit was much better last night, wanting to compute the LightCap again.

427 Crits = 142 Procs, actually got 133. 96.7% this time! woot! (less trash, more spaming on a boss where the proc actually lands).

The new buffed proc averaged 826 damage factoring in misses.

So each crit was worth = 826 / 3 * .967 = 266. (up from 200) woot!

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Post 2 --

Same as above, with new numbers from last night:
For me,
Fireball spam: 266 * .29 (shity crit rate) = 77.14 damage. Same as above, hard to compare to a trinket, but here's a shot:
A regular 77 damage trinket is worth: Fireballs receive .90% from +damage (assuming improved FB) = 77*.9 = 69.4.
Crit is ugly considering the mob has to stay alive for the ignite to tick, but lets assume it does:
Crit is then worth an addition 1.1 = 69.4*1.1 = 76.36 * Crit chance .29 = 22.14 for a total worth of 91.57. Same as above, have to factor in debuffs on the mob that do not effect the Lighting Cap (Scorch and CoE) would add another 10% or so damage (scorch is not always up) ~ 100.7

Now have to take out misses and partial resists.

My miss rate was 6.7 for fireballs, which gives us 100.7 * .933 = 93.9. My partial resist mitagation was another 4.2%. 82.5 * .958 = 90.03

So a regular +77 damage trinket is worth +90.03 damage when spaming fireballs with my current gear/ build.

Scorch spam: 266 *.36 = 95.76 damage. 95.76* .4286 = 41.04. Working crit the same way as above:
41.04 *1.1 = 45.14 * .36 = 16.25 for a total worth of +57 damage. Work in the debuffs and it would add in roughly 6 more damage for roughly + 63 damage trinket. After miss rates (4.6) and partial resist (4.1 mit), its worth roughly 57.6.

So in new summary, the Lightning Cap is worth a flat +77 damage on fireballs and 95.76 damage on scorch. If I'm just spaming fireballs, to replace the Lighting Cap i would need a trinket that is +66 Damage.

When spamming Scorch, I would need a trinket that is +169 Damage to replace it.

Nifty how the fireball spam worked out to +66 damage trinket, which is what the Eye worked out for Drak.

** Numbers are only based on one night of testing, around 700 spells a piece.

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