Black Mage Sanctuary - A Guide to DPS

[Psycofang]

So apparently

Direcr hit is 1% per 38 and +25t bonus damage (static)

Crit is +1%/1% chance/damage per 108 (+ innate 5%)

Spell speed is -.01 on caster per 68-381.
So if your spell speed is 1781 its actually 1400.

We wont be seeing good old 2.64 cast times till 2300 spell speed or 2285 ss.

Seems like until we can get crit to 2500+ its better to go SS/ Direct hit since it scales stupidly well.

[Ferrasper]

So apparently

Direcr hit is 1% per 38 and +25t bonus damage (static)

Crit is +1%/1% chance/damage per 108 (+ innate 5%)

Spell speed is -.01 on caster per 68-381.
So if your spell speed is 1781 its actually 1400.

We wont be seeing good old 2.64 cast times till 2300 spell speed or 2285 ss.

Seems like until we can get crit to 2500+ its better to go SS/ Direct hit since it scales stupidly well.

TY for the math. So on pieces that don't want SS, I should go direct hit.

[Zyler]

So apparently

Direcr hit is 1% per 38 and +25t bonus damage (static)

Crit is +1%/1% chance/damage per 108 (+ innate 5%)

Spell speed is -.01 on caster per 68-381.
So if your spell speed is 1781 its actually 1400.

We wont be seeing good old 2.64 cast times till 2300 spell speed or 2285 ss.

Seems like until we can get crit to 2500+ its better to go SS/ Direct hit since it scales stupidly well.

If thats true wouldnt direct hit easily be better then spell speed now n far better then crit?

[Lodinn]

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Seems like until we can get crit to 2500+ its better to go SS/ Direct hit since it scales stupidly well.

How did you get your numbers?
I mean... 2500/108 =~ 23% chance/multiplier, so it results in 0.28*0.63-0.05*0.4=15.6%; (assuming base crit multiplier is 1.4)
2500/38 =~ 65.8, 0.658*0.25=16.45%.
Looks more like 3.5k (at 3.5k they both actually merge at +23% damage and that's with respect to base 364 so ~3.9k total pool between crit and DH).

[Galvuu]

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Crit still affects the crit damage, correct?
Not sure if you're accounting for that in your "napkin math" (forum math really) when trying to equate the expected value per spell of either source.
That would change the breakpoint (lowering the amount of crit needed, as not just the chance but also the crit damage is scaling with crit).

[Lodinn]

Crit still affects the crit damage, correct?

Tha's what 0.63 in the formula stands for (base 0.4 + 0.23 from crit rating).
Actual calculation is
f(crit)=(crit_chance*crit_multiplier+(1-crit_chance)*noncrit_multiplier)
damage increase is f(crit)-f(base_crit).
And increase over base value is (given noncrit_multiplier is just 1) delta_multiplier = crit_chance*crit_multiplier+(1-crit_chance) - 1 = crit_chance*(crit_multiplier-1).
Absense of explicitly coded diminishing returns makes calculations quite simple.

What MIGHT change the outcome is if i got base values wrong, i.e. if base crit multiplier is 1.5 then breakpoint indeed happens noticeably earlier.