Shadow Priest Crit/Mastery

[Drewbies]

I have been looking through the forums here and other sites but unable to find the answer I am looking for.

What is the hard/soft caps for Crit and Mastery for a PVE lvl 85 Shadow Priest?

Thanks for the help.

[Arlee]

That would be because there aren't hard/soft caps for spriests on crit and/or mastery.

[Veiled]

What Arlee said^ Even if there were caps, no one would really care because you'd never reach them due to reforging your crit/mastery to haste/spirit. ;x

[Culexus]

That would be because there aren't hard/soft caps for spriests on crit and/or mastery.

Of course there is a crit hard cap. But since that is unreachable anyway theres no need to worry about it.

[Kerr0r]

I suppose you COULD say that crit is capped by how much hit you have... So in the extremely unlikely scenario that you have no hit, you can have a maximum of... 83% crit.

Nah, there's no crit cap. This might be something to consider for melee classes, where you can't replace glancing blows with crits, but for shadow... Nah. Just nah.

[Arlee]

Kerr0r... that sounds like you think hit and crit work for spells the same way that they do for melee. Basically for melee having more crit reduces the chance to miss (though it takes a lot more of crit to do this than hit) and that is not at all true. Crit does not affect a spell's chance to hit. We have separate "rolls" for hit and crit.

[Kerr0r]

Huh, I thought crit simply replaced hit on the combat table for all classes. Thanks for the clarification.

[Deleted]

if 17% of your spell miss then not 100% of them are critting. However it's irrelevant as 100% crit will still mean that all the spells that land will crit (ignoring DR etc)

Anyway yes, 100% is crit hardcap it's reachable when you recieve crit buffs (alys at 24 stacks)

I do not believe mastery has a cap, you can have 500% more damage from orbs without breaking physics.