2013-09-13, 05:16 PM
Mazz Wrote:I just looked it up actually and it's 10/20% minimum crit damage, I thought it was max, but minimum is still useful, your crit damage should always be 150% - 150% with one of those rings unless you have a ton of max crit damage cubed onto gloves or something. If we get Tyrant gloves I'd try and cube those for %max crit damage and at that point a Critical Ring would be a really big boost, I'd probably sacrifice one of my potential rings for it, but I doubt we'll get another event for them as good as the previous ones.
Actually, I forgot about SE/dSE, which is +15%/25% max crit damage, so even without %max crit damage cubed one of those rings would still be a nice damage boost.
On average, without Decent SE, for a DB, the damage increase for a critical ring on top of what you would have on average is 1.69% damage (1.5/1.475), with Decent SE, it goes up to 3.22% (1.6/1.55), and with actual SE it actually goes down to 3.07% (1.675/1.625)
If you were to get a % LUK Ring to replace it, the amount of % LUK, then the % LUK ring should beat the crit ring so long as you have under the following amounts of % LUK:
| Ring | Base | DSE | SE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3% | 77% | ||
| 6% | 254% | 86% | 95% |
| 9% | 431% | 179% | 193% |
| 12% | 608% | 272% | 290% |
| 15% | 785% | 365% | 388% |
| 18% | 962% | 458% | 485% |
| 21% | 1139% | 551% | 583% |
| 24% | 1316% | 644% | 680% |
| 27% | 1493% | 737% | 778% |
The blank cells indicate situations in which the critical ring is always better.
Math
While critical rings are very nice rings as they are, I'm pretty sure if you had the funding required to reach one of the milestones (i.e. After 272% LUK with Decent SE, the crit ring would beat a 12% LUK ring), you could afford to get the next % ring (following the previous example, a 15% LUK ring). However, I'm sure there also comes a point at which getting the next ring is unlikely, for example, you have 645% LUK (is that even possible?) with Decent SE, but it's improbable that you could get a 27% LUK ring, at which point, the crit ring would pretty much be your best option. (Note, that I completely forgot that a primary and two secondary lines of the same stat at Legendary would be 30%, and a perfect ring would be 36%).
For now, this is a moot point, given that there are not yet 4 readily available third tier potential rings, but it won't be that way for long. But then, given that Tempest, Pinnacle, and Unleashed rings are no longer obtainable, you gotta think eventually the supply on those will run out, especially pinnacle.