SCH Bubble Question

[Vyserion]

I decided to do the math. Crit myself with Adloquium for 553. Fought a Natalan swiftbeak, and looked at the log. Regular attacks did around 120, parried attacks did around 90~, and crit for around 180. He hit me 9 times total, with 2 parries, 2 crits, and the last hit doing 80 damage (so, absorbing the last 40 damage of the shield).

First, a quick observation. My regular Adloquium hit for around 350~. The mobs auto attack crit for 50% than a standard attack, so it seems like crit potency is 150% of base.

The mob did around 1,060 damage total before dropping the shield, which seems to clarify that a crit shield is double the stated value on the crit heal itself. So, this basically means that a crit shield is 300%+ more powerful than a regular shield. Added up, Adloquium's crit potency is ((300x1.5)x(450x2)), so around 1350, compared to the base potency of 600, including the shield. If there's any really dumb mistakes here, please let me know!

If this is true, it certainly makes our shielding a lot more godlike than I previously believed. If only we could stack Crit gear.

[Sotek]

If this is true, it certainly makes our shielding a lot more godlike than I previously believed. If only we could stack Crit gear.

Errr... What's stopping you? There is Critical Hit Rate on plenty of Scholar gear, including AF gear. You can meld Savage Aim to plenty of gear, too. Heck, Omnilex +1 offers 37 Spell Speed while the Allagan weapon for Scholar offers 37 Critical Hit Rate, other than that they're identical... Usually I'd dismiss Omnilex +1 out of sheer spite for how worthless Spell Speed has shown to be thus far, but if any Class gets anything out of Spell Speed, it's Arcanist/Scholar; Enhances Pet Actions (also benefits from Critical Hit Rate) and Fey Glow offer us nice boosts to Spell Speed, so maybe the stat will be noticeable on Scholar (not holding my breath on that, though).

[Rainsford]

but if any Class gets anything out of Spell Speed, it's Arcanist/Scholar; Enhances Pet Actions (also benefits from Critical Hit Rate) and Fey Glow offer us nice boosts to Spell Speed.

Keep in mind that Fey Glow (and Fey Light) are very, very powerful. The 20% increase shaves about .1 seconds off GCD, which is the equivalent of around 100 Skill/Spell speed at 50.