Originally Posted by galzohar
Depends, sometimes the socket bonus is good enough for the damage loss to be small to non-existant for a decent stamina gain when you use a glowing nightseye, but in general for dps hit>damage>crit and if you're hit capped forget about more hit ;p and stam is never an issue, but dropping for example effective 1-2 spell damage for 6 stam or 4 spell damage for 10 stam isn't totally bad. Argueable though and useless on many fights, but if it's an item you're never planning to take off (even in fights where you do need stam) then it's worth considering based on the actual item and its socket bonus and other gem slots.
As for meta requirements, just forget it, you're not going to have more blue than yellow unless you gimp your gems in 1 way or another, and besides, 1/2 cast time bolt is still 1.5s GCD.
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Hehe, definalty not going for more blue then yellow. I was looking more at the ones that (recently were reduced from 5?) to require 2 of each gem. Seeing as I need 2 minimum for the most interesting Metas, having the third the set has filled for the bonus is not terrible. None of my other gear even has a blue gem slot (yet).
BTW - I am loving the Netherstrike (went LW off of an Ezereth recommendation), it is not too often you add ~4% spell crit in the matter of a weekend farming. Hopefully I will pick up the Vet's Mail Sabatons this weekend and take my focus off of raw crit and back into Spell Damage (Goal Pre SSC for me is 25% paper doll crit and > 820 dam) easily doable with a few Tier 4 and the right chants.