[galahan]

I've been trying to figure out why this other warlock does so much more damage than me on raids. Some reasons are obvious: he has more haste and more damage. But it still didn't explain everything. I found that he was casting a lot more than I was so I focused more on the quartz bar and really boosted my casts. The only difference now I think it due to haste.

But he's still doing a lot more overall damage, which I don't think is fully explainable by gear. One thing I noticed is that he crits a lot more than I do. As an example on one boss fight I cast 24 sbs, he cast 28, but while i only crited for 14% of my bolts, he crited for 40%. (we're both hit-capped btw). I cast 3 immolates because I'm hybrid destro (5 pts in improved immolate rather than cataclysm; the rest is shadow), and crited 33%. He's pure shadow and didn't cast any immolates.

But that's kind of an extreme example. Overall for the for all bosses in the raid he crited on 28% of his sbs, while I did on 20%.

Now the thing is we both have similar tooltip crits. He has 20.05% and I have 20.97%, so I'm actually a little higher. Neither of us were using any crit buffs and we were in the same group within the raid. One thing I found was that he has round 42 more intellect than i do than I do. I found the crit formula of: (Intellect/82) + (Spell Critical Strike Rating/22.08) + Class Specific Constant. But that only represents a 0.5% difference, and I think that might actually be included in the tooltip figure.

So after this long boring dissertation, my question is, why is this person criting significantly more than me in percentage terms. I can understand him doing more damage due to his haste and spell damage advantage, but why the crit difference?

Thanks