+%Critical or +Damage?

[Nor]

<p>The title says it all, but was just curious as to the thoughts of the warlock community.</p><p> I recently changed from a +25 damage to all spells cloak to a +2% Critical Boost...</p>

[miliskel]

imo critical boost, what was the cape with crit chance? i want it now..only got cloak of zet atm

[MugnMo]

<p>I've got a rather large spreadsheet that I use to compare these types of cases.  In today's world 1% crit change adds about 0.45% DPS.  To get that same increase from +spell damage it takes ~20-25 spell damage.</p><p>After GU 38 goes live, it will only take ~15 spell damage.  </p><p>I think for now you've probably gained some DPS and will be about break even in the future.  However, if you can get the sol ro cloak, I don't believe anything will parse close to that cloak after GU 38. </p>

[Nor]

<p>The cloak is a quest item actually, from MMC.</p><p>However, that being said let me also say that I am an idiot.</p><p>It's actually +2% MELEE critical.  </p><p>A good discussion just the same...Back to the +damage cloak I go!</p>

[Agaxiq]

<cite>MugnMobs wrote:</cite><blockquote>I think for now you've probably gained some DPS and will be about break even in the future.  However, if you can get the sol ro cloak, I don't believe anything will parse close to that cloak after GU 38. </blockquote>That being the case, I'd be curious to see the comparison between Sol Ro and Cloak of Unrest at that point.  Cloak of Unrest indirectly helps DPS, so its hard to compare.  As it stands now, I'd say the Unrest Cloak is better.  More spells = more damage.I'm at the last step of Sol Ro with my warlock (had completed it on my Fury, the last step sucks) - but I was just going to wait and see what Bertoxx had in store for us, but might finish Sol Ro if I can ever muster up the group.agressiv

[miliskel]

is bert gonna be evil only? or will good warlocks stay godless forever..

[Araxes]

Bertoxxulous is an evil god, and good warlocks are S.O.L.=P

[miliskel]

<cite>Araxes@Antonia Bayle wrote:</cite><blockquote>Bertoxxulous is an evil god, and good warlocks are S.O.L.=P</blockquote>S.O.L? si it true that if u betray to haven u dont loose any spells and u can choose any god?

[Foosa]

well last time i exiled one of my chars, you do not lose your spells untill the end of the quests and, you are warned about that inside the city you betray to.

[Araxes]

Warlocks are a neutral class.  You can betray and still remain a warlock.  Is that what you are asking?As for choosing a god - if you are good-aligned, no, obviously you cannot choose an evil god.  You have to be evil-aligned to worship an evil god.  And Bertoxxulous is an evil god.  Since he is also the god of poisons and decay, it would be to any warlock's advantage to be evil and worship him.  Thus, I made the statement that if you are a good warlock, you are SOL.  (sh** outta luck)

[Hellswrath]

On that note, if you were going to consider betraying to evil in order to get Bert., this expansion will be a good time.  Since all normal spell lines will be upgraded, the loss of master spells will be recovered when you master out the new tier.  You will just be weaker until you finish upgrading to the new tier.

[miliskel]

i only play to raid atm so betrayinbg and losing every master and ad3 i have really isnt an option but i was wondering if exiles can worship any god or just the neutral ones

[ThadeusOfShibboleth]

<p>Nice hijack....lol</p><p>However to answer your question..you can worship any god you choose as an Exile.</p>

[miliskel]

yeh..sorry about that <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/49869fe8223507d7223db3451e5321aa.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" width="15" height="15" />

[MugnMo]

<cite>Agaxax@Unrest wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>MugnMobs wrote:</cite><blockquote>I think for now you've probably gained some DPS and will be about break even in the future.  However, if you can get the sol ro cloak, I don't believe anything will parse close to that cloak after GU 38. </blockquote>That being the case, I'd be curious to see the comparison between Sol Ro and Cloak of Unrest at that point.  Cloak of Unrest indirectly helps DPS, so its hard to compare.  As it stands now, I'd say the Unrest Cloak is better.  More spells = more damage.I'm at the last step of Sol Ro with my warlock (had completed it on my Fury, the last step sucks) - but I was just going to wait and see what Bertoxx had in store for us, but might finish Sol Ro if I can ever muster up the group.agressiv</blockquote><p>I estimated the cloak by 10% reuse haste all the time as with propogations it should be up most if not all of the time.  </p><p> With this assumption, I'm showing a 2.2% increase in DPS on a single target which would be pretty close to to the sol ro cloak.    However, on multiple targets, the cloak of unrest blows the sol ro cloak out of the water (4.5% increase on 3 targets).</p>