Playing a frost mage lvl 20 and i see Critical Strike (to 33.34%); on a site i go for explanation what does this mean ??? At my lvl what should be my priority ? Confusing
Recommendations for stat weights and priorities are made for max-level (level 80) characters.
Nobody really cares about stat priorities for levelling.
It’s all actually much more confusing than you think.
To be specific, theorycrafters start with a rotation/attack sequence, a sequence of spell casts for attack, and then they get a computer to simulate that hundreds of thousands of times with different stats to figure out which combination of stats work best.
But that answer applies strictly only when performing that specific rotation. If you change the rotation, say by choosing different talents, it will change the answer.
So top players run their own simulations using their own gear and builds to calculate their own stat weights.
What you’re looking at are just averages that mostly-kinda work well for most instances, most builds, most players.
Frost Mage wants 33.3% Crit because of our talent Shatter, which multiplies the critical strike chance of your spells against frozen targets by 1.5, and adds an additional 50% critical strike chance. So that means that while a target has the Frozen debuff, which we apply a lot, any hit we make against it is guaranteed to be a Critical Strike, since
33.3% * 1.5 = 50%, and then 50% + 50% = 100%.
So if you have 33% Crit, you are guaranteed to crit everything against a Frozen target. This is a huge source of damage for us. That’s why we have a high priority to get our Crit up to 33%, but it becomes less important after that.
However, while levelling, there is no chance on earth you will get your stats up to 33%.
Nobody bothers working out stat weights for levelling characters, because they would change so much between levels, say between 20 and 30. And then again by 45. And levelling is so easy that it doesn’t really make any practical difference, because you will blow everything away regardless of your stat distribution. At least up to level 70.
To make it simpler for a Frost Mage, I would say favor
- Intellect
- Haste
- Critical Strike
in that order while levelling, but of the three, only Intellect will make a noticeable difference in levelling content. Intellect is much more important than the others.
Even at max level and high-performance competitive PvE play, balancing the secondary stats really only amounts to maybe a 10-20% throughput difference. What’s 20% of a level 20’s sustained DPS?
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You must be Einstein’s son .Thanks for your answer . As a new player ( playing on my brother’s account until he deletes it )There are so many questions without answers .The game is easy but when looking for progression or ‘git gud’ not easy. Thanks man you are a great person
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