Comments on: Critical Hits, a very misunderstood mechanic in WoW.

By: Necroz

Necroz — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:12:20 +0000

I agree with what has been said, but I’m not sure why crit was singled out. The fundamental logic is true for every stat. Strength, Armor Pen, Haste, Hit, Expertise, etc. It doesn’t matter.

For example, gaining +20 str will have a bigger % increase on your dps when your current str is at 1000 than it will when it is at 1020. The absolute increase will be the same, but the % increase will be less.

Charts showing the APE curve for each stat would be extremely useful. That way you could make decisions based on where you are at on each curve.

By: Skeleton Jack

Skeleton Jack — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 09:07:51 +0000

These comments show me that most people don’t understand what Attack Power Equivalency really is, so I’ll do a post soon about APE which will highlight many things here and show you all the bigger picture.

By: ODk

ODk — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 03:53:49 +0000

What about expertise, you take strength before expertise hits 26?

By: Dyna

Dyna — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 13:12:42 +0000

Thanks for removing the mud from my eyes, Jack. Have a great weekend 8 )

By: Skeleton Jack

Skeleton Jack — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 08:32:45 +0000

Strength is always the best thing to gem for unless you are under the melee hit cap for some odd reason. Occasionally Apr can be best (say for Blood).

This is more to show people how crit% is really good up to about 30-40%, and then after that point you start to get less and less from it.

By: Dyna

Dyna — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 05:42:07 +0000

So is this pretty much in a nut shell saying, crit is good, but don’t go out of your way to gem for it unless you’re really low on crit in a raid dps situation?

Sorry, all these figures and what is being said is still just a bit confusing. Make sure I understand.

Also, “The more of any stat that you gain, the less you benefit.” Can you put this in context a bit more?

By: CreepTheProphet

CreepTheProphet — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 18:22:45 +0000

Epic image!

By: Grey

Grey — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:33:00 +0000

@ SJ: Does that apply to strength as well? i mean stacking strength

By: Landfill

Landfill — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 08:43:06 +0000

I guess taking this one step further, for PVP, how would resilence formulate into this equation? W/ the minus % chance to crit does stacking additional crit over atk power (i.e. WG trinket) become a viable increase in PVP DPS?

By: Skeleton Jack

Skeleton Jack — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:18:34 +0000

There’s no real soft cap – it’s the essence of Effective Attack Power, or EP. The more of any stat that you gain, the less you benefit. The 2 exceptions are Hit and Expertise which do have caps.