Channel vs. Crit Rings.

Calibix - Heavens Tear wrote: »

Being LA at 80-99(or whatever it works out to) means 4 more crit than Pure assuming same gear. Would -12 channel be worth it as constant dps increase w/o sacrificing crit compared to pure?

I'm pure int, and have 8% crit with two crit rings. Playing devil's advocate here.

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...lolwut?

xP I dunno, honestly, I'm just goin' with what works for me. Crit's seem to like me, and LA is pretty reliable. After all, there are a few good LA Wizards that are endgame.

As for the channeling, I dunno...I'm going to probably get Denied Fate Wheel because that seems to be a good all-around weapon for TT90. (Bye, Yaksa!) So after I get that, I may get a few -chanelling ornaments to add to it. :P

Forp - Heavens Tear wrote: »

light armour should always stack crit. they need it. light does much less damage, and rely on crits for everything.

and, correct me if i'm wrong, but your light-armoured god "Pandora" stacks it as well. so should you hippies be falling head over heals for it?

I...guess? I dunno, the only other LA Wizard that I saw was PlazmaStryke...I want that armor...and weapon...and clothes...and...everything.

ಥ_ಥ

JEEbez - Dreamweaver wrote: »

I think the parts I put in red are the key. Wizards are known for their high, reliable damage (At least pure wizards from my experience), so it would just make sense that we would pick something to boost our ability to do high reliable damage instead of boosting our chances of doing extremely high damage. If you can give high constant damage at an accelerated speed, in my opinion, that is better then boosting our ability to double our damage by 4%. I believe that if you boosted the channeling speed to the levels stated above, or even -12% as the OP stated, you will get higher overall damage because you launch more attacks in the same time period and you are not praying on a bunch of randomly generated numbers b:chuckle .

Well, I started out LA, and it's too expensive to switch over now...so LA all the way I go!

I'd stack crit tbh.
-12% isn't noticable, and lol @ any serious pvp player who is robes and uses mdef ornaments. I have 7% atm, and I crit quite a bit. Looking forward to another 5% at 99.

Kristoph - Lost City wrote: »

24% isn't very noticable.

is what i heard.

by chance, are you on crack?

You'll have a very difficult time fighting late game 80s+ barbarians (not end game) if you do not have a good crit %. It is very hard to fight barbs without a good crit here and there.

no doubt about that.
Barbs are anyway hard to take down even with sutra unless u crit.
But hey, avoid the barbs as much as possible and pwn whatever else

Lunar Glade Rings b:victory

and here i thought you were smart or something, the way you question what i do. did you even think this one through? chanting 1/4 faster is noticable even if it's 1 second.

Ursa - Dreamweaver wrote: »

I have now 9%, and it makes a difference.It's not a life changing experience, but it is faster. Best indicator is the way I have to do my combos, a blind gush/pyro/gush/pyro is not working anymore. At 12% ( I had 12, i sold the belt 'cause it sucked) the diff isn't big. But 24? man, that has to be a change. Prolly not very visible, but has to count for something.
You can channel in 0.75s a gush, in 1.13s a Pyro, 1.5 sec a SR, 1.85 a SS, 1.9 a divine Pyro.
I mean...to have a SS channel close to the normal Pyro channel is just sick. And DP at 1.9S? man...You could FoW someone, Lay a SS/DP and have time to do Soporific Whisper and another SS after. That has to be a sick dmg( unless u fight a wizz).

...or you can crit and one-two shot. ~.^

this is just another hard choice for wizzies like sage and demon.
I change my vote to channeling, Fate Denial-Godspeed FTW

Ursa - Dreamweaver wrote: »

IF (crit)
{
System.out.println("Yay");
}else
{
System.out.println("****");
}
I don't like the chances of going into "else" path

Your code is sloppy. You don't need block quantifiers in it.

if (bool crit = true)
cout << "Feel the pain of true power!" << endl;
else
cout << "...don't hurt me!!" << endl << Character.Flee();

Konariraiden - Heavens Tear wrote: »

Your code is sloppy. You don't need block quantifiers in it.

if (bool crit = true)
cout << "Feel the pain of true power!" << endl;
else
cout << "...don't hurt me!!" << endl << Character.Flee();

Side tracked:
Its often good practice to include the brackets even on one liner codes, because it makes the code easier to read.
Whether you want the brackets to be on the same line as the condition is up to you. Not to mention your code is always going to be true because you just placed an assign operator, and created a new boolean variable everytime your code runs. You've got 100% crit! Holy ****!

On topic:
PvE perspective: +Channel will waste your mana faster since you're casting spells more often, whereas crit will save mana because in one crit you're dealing two spells worth =D

PvE perspective: For a .5 second difference, you will have to throw as many spells as you can hoping to kill an opponent before his hiero ticks again.
Or have a chance to crit and bypass his hiero completely.

Your pick!

- Channeling if you wanna blow even more as a wizard,
+ critical if you want to blow slightly less

you really don't have a clue do you spirea?