Totem Talk: Crit vs. mastery for enhancement shaman

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8-13-2011 @ 10:29PM

Angus said...

You forgot the other problem, Josh.

Crit on specials is cool and all, but on auto-attacks there you chance to miss. It along with your 25% glance means you are not seeing that great of a boost even to the melee aspect. The crit cap sucks.

8-13-2011 @ 11:30PM

Josh Myers said...

It's true. There's actually a few more problems too, such as crit suppression. I just didn't have the space to fit all of it into one post. :P

8-14-2011 @ 1:29AM

Angus said...

Very true.

What gets me is that Blizzard was told at the beginning of the Cat beta, "Enhance needs the 100% spell damage crit" and was ignored.

People showed how scaling would be hurt.
People showed how crit would be horrible.
People even showed how it was not a HUGE boost, but a modest one and a scaling one.

Looking at current levels, if a Shaman has 50% of their damage come from spells, and a 20% crit chance, that means that crit damage is 10% of their damage. Doubling that would make them get an extra 10%. For enhance, that's like screwing up and not having a searing totem down for a few CDs.

But hey, that would cause balance issues...

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