Originally Posted by Ellezard
If you're talking about 40 wits 10 fin, that's a crap build anyway because crit build needs some base damage going.

I wasn't talking about builds, I was talking about mathematics.

You should have made this breakdown the first time.


Okay, after some juggling, still not convinced (but maths tend to make my head spin, so I might have overlooked something or gone the wrong way) :

Getting 1 % more crit means that 1 % more of your hits will do 550 % damage, with the rest doing 250 %.
Getting 5% more base damage means that all your regular hits will do 255 % damage, with the crit doing 561 %.

So taking 100 damage as the base :
1 % more crit means 1 hit out of 100 does 300 more damage, so on average over 100 strikes you gain 300 damages.
5 % more base damage means all hits will do 5 more damage, and crit will do 11 more. So on average over 100 strikes you gain 500 damage, plus 6 times your crit percentage.

5 % more base damage seems to still be about twice as effective.

Last edited by Akka; 20/09/17 10:05 AM.