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PVE Raiding Compendium V3.1
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This is an old, invalid argument. You should probably do some more reading before posting again.
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Originally Posted by Zakalwe
Because 3% increased crit damage massively outweighs 2% extra intellect? How can you not even consider the main component of the meta gem's bonus?
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The Ember Skyflare was recommended as best for all builds on one of these threads. I think it was the Mage Equivalent - Destro Lock thread.
3% increased crit damage comes down to about 0.6% to 1% total damage increase presuming crit rate of 20-33%. The 21 crit component of the gem supposedly translates to 8SP using a conversion factor from that same thread (0.40) but is only barely relevant as is the 2% int increase and slight crit that comes with that. The 35SP from the Ember Skyflare approaches, and will dip below, a 1% increase as SP from all the other sources increase. A simple way of looking at it is like this:
Assume you have 2000SP. The bigger the number, the smaller the fraction of the damage that is the base damage so I'm setting base damage aside for the purpose of this example. 35SP out of 2000SP is about 1.75% and hence roughly as much an increase in your DPS. If you have been busy and have accumulated 3500SP, 35SP is down to being worth 1% of your DPS.
It's a bit of a see-saw with crit and SP to determine if the Chaotic is better than the Ember. As a deep destro with only a small chunk of the T7.5 grade gear on and a crit rate only nearing 20% UB, it's not even close to being able to take the Chaotic over the Ember yet.
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04/21/09, 4:26 PM
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