Originally Posted by Whitemane
Actually I found it the other way around due to how special attacks work with crit. I went from having all +8 Str gems in my gear to having all +8 Agi gems in my gear. I'm up to around 39% crit or something with only motw.
What I found was the shred, mangle and pretty much all my special attacks would have a significantly lower crit percentage than what my stats said. At the same time my normal melee crit % was around where it should be.
That experience seriously pissed me off, several times I'd run around with 26-27% crit rates on my specials while my sheet said 40%+ 
I'm not 100% sure how yellow attacks and crit works, there was a post earlier but as I had already given up on playing a feral at that point I didn't really bother studying it. All I know is that my switch from Str -> Agi was a disappointment. |
If Druid specials are rolled the same way rogue specials are(roll for avoidance, roll for crit), the observed crit rate should only match across attacks that landed, whereas the observed crit rate for white attacks should match across all swings.
Dropping from 40 to 27 is more than I would expect, but it's not outside the realm of being flat out unlucky. Back when we were raiding Naxx, I parsed patchwerk kills with as low as 40% backstab crit, when it should have been nearly 70. Several of our rogues were routinely seeing 55% where it should have been 65%, and the 2-roll system just doesn't explain a gap that big, but then occasionally we'd have good days too.