Quote Originally Posted by Havenchild View Post
The strength if your DoTs are stronger using a max Det novus or a book of spades then using a HA book.

However the overall strength of your spells like Ruins and Fester do "decrease". Reason for quotes is more the window of damage is greater on the lower end. You can still hit as high as the HA book with say a Fester but you can also hit lower more often.
I hate to break it to you, but the only thing that DET augments is your Ruin, Ruin 2 and Fester damage. It does not augment any of your DoT damage by any significant amount. Considering that most of your damage dealt is from DoTs, it would be foolish to not try to increase that damage as much as possible. INT has always been the only way to raise your DoT damage and raising your DET is only valuable up to a certain point, so the DR on critical strike rate is not so heavy. Like accuracy, once DET reaches a certain point, the value per point greatly diminishes.