09-23-2005, 02:47 AM
A good rule of thumb is 1% to crit increases your damage by 1% (for a frost mage, a bit more for fire mages because ignite stacks).
Frostbolt does roughly 450 damage at it's highest rank, so to increase DPS by 1% you would need 45/.857 = 53 +frost damage. (Frostbolt is only a 3 second cast, so recieves only 0.857 of your bonus.)
The more +spell damage items you have, the better %crit items get relative to more +spell damage.
Frostbolt does roughly 450 damage at it's highest rank, so to increase DPS by 1% you would need 45/.857 = 53 +frost damage. (Frostbolt is only a 3 second cast, so recieves only 0.857 of your bonus.)
The more +spell damage items you have, the better %crit items get relative to more +spell damage.