Lunar tide during non-equilibrium stages

15% min crit from mastery
SE 30% max crit, 20% crit rate or
DSE 20% max crit, 10% crit rate
30% damage from dark cresendo
20% damage from lunar tide?
10% damage from da's link skill
20% damage for apocalypse - hyper
none for reflection
117% boss

I'll consider DSE only. Assume base 15% crit rate. Assume use Apocalypse.

Lunar Tide - crit rate

Range = (1 + 0.45*(0.35+0.7)/2)*(1 + 1.17 + 0.3 + 0.1 + 0.2)
= 3.424

Lunar Tide - damage

Range = (1 + 0.15*(0.35+0.7)/2)*(1 + 1.17 + 0.3 + 0.1 + 0.2 + 0.2)
= 3.203

Now consider Reflection:

Lunar Crit - 3.177; Lunar Dmg - 2.988

Basically you have so much Boss damage that 20% from Lunar Tide is insignificant, and because your DPS is weighted more heavily by crits due to a maxcritdmg component, so Lunar Tide is far superior when in crit rate mode.

Note: [MENTION=10351]MountLag[/MENTION]; it is much faster to calculate average damage this way: (1 + critrate*bonuscritdmg). Saves a step.

Hadriel