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Old August 20, 2008, 07:54 PM   #3 (permalink)
levinho
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80 Blood Elf Warlock
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Guild: Defiant
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Talent Spec: 56/0/15
Re: Understanding crit differences

Welll I don't really consider the overall crit for a whole raid to be an interesting mark of performance because you rarely look at an overview to see exactly how someone performed. You should probably look at each fight individually in WWS. Crit can be frustrating because for example I had a crit rate of 20% on Rage and a crit rate of 30% on azgalor. My Crit rate buffed and with devestation should come out to be 31-2% (with AI an MotW etc. . .) Most often on an individual fight that doesn't happen.

The only thing that shouldn't be included in the TT for crit is the 5% for devestation. Other than that your TT does factor in the contribution from your intellect and your crit rating and talents like backlash which do all Trees for spells. Theoretically if you are both around 20% TT then you should both be doing about 25% crits on shadowbolts.

Hmm 24 casts sounds like a wipe to me. It isn't a large enough sample size for your crit rating to approach the TT value. Remember that crit is a function of a Random Number between 1 and 100 that rolls every time you cast. There is never a guarantee that you will get a crit on any given cast. Since it is actually a statistic and not a 1/4 will do more damage thing, you will only find your crit rating when you start to approach a sample size beyond the number of digits which are significant (TT is rounded to hundreths place); therefore, you can only find your crit rating accurately with thousands of casts done. Since in most fights you will be doing only a hundred or so casts you will never see precision and accuracy of crit data for those samples.
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