At least according to Icyveins and Noxxic.
Intellect [7.52] > Mastery [6.02] > Versatility [4.52] > Haste [3.02] > Crit [1.52]
I know these numbers are based off specific gear and talents, but it says that Critical Strike is generally bad. Critical Strike shouldn’t be trash for Fire Mages, it just feels wrong.
This is just an alt, so I’m going to just continue to stack critical strike, and spec into Pyromaniac.
don’t use noxxic…for anything…ever…
stat weights are gear dependent. they’re different for everyone. crit is a weak stat in general for fire because we get a lot of baseline crit from passives and guaranteed ones from searing touch/fire blast.
Fire gets free crit from just being fire and it even has crit boosting mechanics. Generally Fire does not need much extra crit at all because of these but it is always best to sim yourself instead of using any kind of generic stat readings from a resource page.
Always forever sim yourself.
It’s the ramping crit of fireball. It’s better than when fire was RNG. Back then there were no ramping crit you have to keep fireballing. And there was no 100% crit bad luck protection. Sometimes 10 fireballs and not crit once.
I totally agree.
I just wish they didn’t bake the bad luck protection into the class itself. If it was an optional talent, you could have builds where you aim to stack crit, and builds where you don’t. It might even feel like you are playing an RPG.