Originally Posted by Oprahwinfury
Does anyone know if this wowhead description is up to date or not? http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=39957
I'm using the meta gem now but I can't say if it did anything to improve my DPS (as Elemental), I did get a couple of new crit records with Fubar_Topscore once I first raided with it, without changing anything else (gear wise) but that's hardly any conclusive evidence.
If the gem does increase all types of crits with 3% how should we weight spell crit rating vs. spell damage on Lootzor.com now? |
I'm pretty clueless about shaman, but I'm interested in how that gem works for casters.
I checked thottbot, and you have "Flame Shock", which deal a fixed amount of damage - 377 (+spell damage stuff) on impact, and some DoT. And I assume that it can crit, right?
Now you go out and flame shock stuff. Make sure you have no sily proc trinkets, get no buffs, drop no totems.
Then all your Flame Shocks should deal a certain amount of damage, something like 600 and 601 (it should be 2 numbers due to rounding, X and X+1).
Some of them will be crits, those crits should also be a certain amount of damage, like 1200 and 1201 (Y and Y+1).
You go and kill stuff and tell me what your X and Y are, and I'll figure out how the gem works for caster, and how it changes your value of crit.
As for TCing the gem: Assuming you hit for 600, you crit bonus is 300, and you have a talent that increases the crit bonus by 100%. So you crit for ( 600 + 300 * (1+100%) ) = 1200.
Now the gem could make you crit for ( 600 + 300 * (1+100%+3%) ) = 1209,
or could make you crit for ( 600 + (300 * (1+100%) + 3%) ) = 1218,
or it could work as ( 600 + 300 * (1+100%) ) + 3% = 1236.
I need your numbers to find that out really