Best in Slot for SMN after 2.1?

[xxalucard]

Few extra critical hits? That's asking for a lot from 1%.

You have to consider that Garuda has his own crit rate (scaled from gear) along with me. His auto-attack is always going off parallel to whatever I happen to be doing. So if the gear would grant me 1 extra critical hit, then I think it's fair to assume it would also grant Garuda 1 extra critical hit as well.

It's [I believe] more than 1% of a crit-rate difference between gearsets. Counting the pants, head, and hero ring, the crit BiS gearset has 71 more crit. (Pants +34, Head +21, Hero Ring +16)

Actually, no. The moment you get that Ruin crit, you've partially caught up to the +1 damage I've accrued over every attack thus far.

You're assuming it's taken over 100 casts for me to get 1 extra crit. (Because the crit would add at least +100 damage compared to a normal ruin.) You're also assuming that your ruins hit higher in the damage window every single time, which is not always true. The same applies to our pets.

It's possible to happen, I agree. But I feel the likelihood of hitting at least one extra one per 100 casts would be worth it.

You also have to take into account that only ruin gets that small +100 damage bonus; fester and enkindle get bigger bonuses and are on longer cooldowns, so an extra crit off one of those abilities is huge.

No. Focusing on Crit "bets" that you will get insanely lucky with crit procs.
Focusing on DTR "bets" that the Crit build will be statistically average or worse*.

I respectfully disagree.


*edit*

Crit set- 496INT, 552Crit, 282 Det, 400SS Det Set- 496INT, 497Crit, 314Det, 400SS SS Set- 492INT, 447Crit, 309DET, 477SS

Your crit set is not optimal (less than 71 more crit than the other set). If you don't have the BiS pieces to compare, then the tests have little value.