2011-07-15, 05:15 PM
Blades4hire Wrote:But since the damage difference between the two is so minimal, woudnt the higher crit chance offset the slightly lower %per second?
He's already taken everything like that into account. Criticals affect everything the same way anyways (except for Final Blow since that always crits), so stop worrying about what will crit more often or not... because you're crit rate is always the same.
Remember that in Joe's calculations the attacks did nearly the same % damage.... only that one hits more often... so with that in mind, have a look at this example:
Ex: say your crit rate is 50%, and your crit damage is +100% damage (just to make the calculations easy, it doesn't matter)
10 hit attack doing 100 damage each time vs 4 hit attack doing 250 damage each time.
These are obviously the same without criticals. With crit:
10 hit attack will on average crit 5 times:
100+100+100+100+100+200(crit)+200(crit)+200(crit)+200(crit)+200(crit) =1500 damage
4 hit attack
250+250+500(crit)+500(crit) = 1500 damage.
More chances to crit doesn't mean anything when both of the damages are the same in the first place. On average the damage will be the same.