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Since it seems to come up about every three pages on average, let me explain an important thing about gear scaling.
Hokay, so, let's say you have 15% crit and 1500 shadow damage, which is unreasonably low crit for that damage level. People will often ask, what crit should I shoot for before working on damage again? The answer is the amount of crit until the dmg:crit ratio is about 1:1 again in the spreadsheet that we tell everyone to look at.
HOWEVER, there is an important thing here that most people don't seem to realize. How much damage should you now stack before going back to crit? About one. Yes, one spell damage. Then crit becomes favorable again and you should go back to stacking crit rating. For one whole crit rating. And so on. Every so often you will want two instead of one, but the point stands. You have not reached the point where crit is less good than damage, you have reached the point where it is as good as damage, and you now focus on both, not on one.
In short: If you're asking about threshold values for your gear, you're doing it wrong. Unlike hit rating, there is no point where crit magically goes from awesome to useless. The idea of "build to 25% crit and then do damage" is wrong, and not just because of the number 25 (which is too high anyways). The idea is actually "your gear favors damage to crit at 1:0.75, so you should look for gear that prefers damage over crit, regardless of what absolute values you're looking at."
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