Critical Strike increases your chaos bolt damage but does mastery. Wich one is best for a higer chaos bolt damage perspective (Not overall damage done)?
Critical Strike increases your chaos bolt damage but does mastery. Wich one is best for a higer chaos bolt damage perspective (Not overall damage done)?
Mastery does. I put together a quick and dirty spreadsheet testing it on the tournament realm against full Malevolent PvP geared players. By the way, each figure is an average of 10 hits (non-crits, except for Chaos Bolt). No items with procs were used.
docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ai1StaqV-ZfEdFR3REtWZkt1OEVqcnZiZEk1RDRZX2c#gid=8
Don't forget that while Mastery will generate higher damage Chaos Bolts, Critical Strike will generate more Chaos Bolts.
It really depends on who you are killing, and their gear. Having the biggest chaos bolts is a nice blanket way to ensure you kill someone, but if you are capable of killing them anyway then it is better to get those chaos bolts faster.
For example, if three big hits kills someone, and three slightly smaller hits does not kill someone then you needed bigger hits. If three slightly smaller hits still kills someone then you needed faster hits. Also, there is merit to getting your slightly smaller hits ready to launch quickly, before you end up dead.
Just reached 90 with my lock, i have the intention to play as Destruction cause its the spec that i enjoyed most playing during WoTLK... Im still relearning to play, how to use properly the embers, the new spells, glyphs, and about this one i wanted to know what u guys think about the Glyph of Dark Soul... Is it worth to use? Do you recomend?
Btw, which are the best ones for Destruction? Im using 'Dark Soul', 'Siphon Life' and 'Soul Consumption'...
" So much lost time... that you'll never get back!"....
I prefer haste, only because when in arena, I fend to felflame more than I incinerate, and since felflame is such a mana hog I like the haste for the Mp5. I go Mastery > haste > crit considering I also use my embers for ember tap.
Soulburn: Unstable Affliction. A boy can dream.
The reason i want to get as big chaos bolts as possible is beacuse they are really hard to get off. In duels aginst a warrior i most likely get one off, if not even at all. Also is pretty fun to do incredibly high burst damage..
for pve full mastery>crit i took mastery even over gemming int i found it scales much higher and for pvp go pvppower>crit thats all you need other than the hit cap