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Valimir · August 21, 2008, 03:03 AM

It's just luck, that's all there is to it. This other lock might put out more overall damage if his +spell damage is higher, and he might toss our a few more shadowbolts if his haste is higher but the difference in you crit rate for any boss fight is pure chance.

The way crit works (feel free to correct me if I'm wrong anyone) is that each shadowbolt you cast has (in your case) a 25% chance to crit and the crit chance of your next cast has nothing to do with the previous one. So if your last SB crit then the next one is not mroe or less likely to crit again, the chance remains 25%. In theory this should even out over the course of a fight so you see a crit rate that is in line with your character's crit, but you are not necessarily going to see that. It's like tossing a coin. Each toss has a 50/50 chance of being heads or tails but just because you have got heads 10 times in a row does not make the next toss any more or less likely to be tails, it's still 50/50.

I've seen some very odd examples of this. My worst was a Prince fight where I had 9% crit but I've also had over 40% on others.

Just do the things you are doing. Try and keep up with the other lock in terms of the number of SB's cast and that's all you can do other than improve your gear. I'd consider dropping Immolate from your rotation though.

August 21, 2008, 03:03 AM	#5 (permalink)
Valimir Member	Re: Understanding crit differences It's just luck, that's all there is to it. This other lock might put out more overall damage if his +spell damage is higher, and he might toss our a few more shadowbolts if his haste is higher but the difference in you crit rate for any boss fight is pure chance. The way crit works (feel free to correct me if I'm wrong anyone) is that each shadowbolt you cast has (in your case) a 25% chance to crit and the crit chance of your next cast has nothing to do with the previous one. So if your last SB crit then the next one is not mroe or less likely to crit again, the chance remains 25%. In theory this should even out over the course of a fight so you see a crit rate that is in line with your character's crit, but you are not necessarily going to see that. It's like tossing a coin. Each toss has a 50/50 chance of being heads or tails but just because you have got heads 10 times in a row does not make the next toss any more or less likely to be tails, it's still 50/50. I've seen some very odd examples of this. My worst was a Prince fight where I had 9% crit but I've also had over 40% on others. Just do the things you are doing. Try and keep up with the other lock in terms of the number of SB's cast and that's all you can do other than improve your gear. I'd consider dropping Immolate from your rotation though.