armor pen or crit?

oriyellow8

hi all. at last gut all grear in place and have all slots open. have 1552 crit 1331 ap . what slots to put first ap or crit?
also please give me cap for : crit ,ap.
/ thanxs

fondlez

Armor Penetration (arp not "ap" which is something else entirely).

No cap for crit.

Soft cap for arp is believed to be 24% on bosses in PvE (~ 2536 arp). No cap in PvP.

You can determine diminishing returns range for your build from here: https://www.desmos.com/calculator/3dqpvhuavj

daswooly

Well, the basic information for you is rather simple. 2540 Armor penetration (24%) is needed to deal full damage to bosses. But some will argue CW doesn't need as much given they spend most of their dps time on adds (which only 22% is needed.) Regardless, armor penetration above crit til you get the desired number you want. I personally went for 22% because my enchants are low (6 and 7) which meant my crit was sub 2k. I just made the decision 2% more boss dps, or slightly more dps all the time. Take that with a grain of salt though and make your own choice. But you'll never deal full damage til you cap your armor penetration. Crit has no relative soft cap. How good crit is for you depends on your other stats. But a rule of thumb I think is recovery (3k) > armor pen (22-24%) > crit (3k) > power. If you run EotS mostly, I'd say power > crit.