Originally Posted by galzohar
While it isn't a linear fuction, it is incredibly close to being one at almost any level of gear - the smaller the gear level gap the closer it is to being linear. In practical terms, damage VS crit is very very close to linear I would never really bother checking if their ratio changed until I upgrade to full T6 or something... Upping my spell damage from no pots to flask+food+wizard oil (all add flat spell damage) the crit->damage conversion value only changes by ~0.02 (or less? I forgot). This is nothing and the different of sclaing of crit vs damage at different gear levels can be almost safely ignored.
So yes, you can say 4 crit is inferior to 5 spell damage and if you are correct for him (which I bet it is for shamans too), it will be correct for probably 99.9% of the raiding shamans, and the 0.1% remaining shamans probably suck anyway due to having some kind of extreme gear setup which would only be possible with crappy gear...
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As i agree with you for the most part, and unless i am mistaken, the poster i was responding to was comparing 9 spell dmg gems to 4 crit 5 dmg gems. I would have to do the math, and you may be right that it would take an impossible amount of +dmg to make the 4 crit add more dps than 5 dmg(especially since 4 crit is about .2 crit%), but nevertheless, dmg does give dimishing returns and crit does not. Thusly, if it is possible to get high enough +dmg to make 4 crit give more dps than 5 dmg, then adding 9 dmg gems is just a waste.
I guess i just dont like people who post absolutes. Also, crit is very very very important to ele shammy for mana conservation, so even if the crit doesnt do more dps, it can add sustainability, which in turn adds dps in raids.
P.S. did u check out my post on the other forum, i would like to know if my math is fairly accurate when comparing crit to dmg. thanks
