Do not bother wasting 5 points on this, it does not increase your holy crit. Roll a lvl 1 priest and spam smite, same crit % also shown through extended character stats UI. Every other % weapon or % talent displays correctly through extended character stats BUT this one because it does not add 5%!
FYI you can check to see if the talent is working or not by using this script:
/dump GetSpellCritChance(2)
whereas (2) represents the Holy school
we checked this for Holy Paladins in case our talent wasn’t working but it is according to some Holy Paladins in our theory crafting discord
The script linked above only lists the base Crit Chance for that school, or so it seems. It does not take into account gear, such as the +2% crit to Holy spells that Benediction gives. Also, there is a difference between Holy Crit and Healing Spells Crit that this script does not have the ability to differentiate from.
With that said, both the Crit gained from the Holy Priest Tier One talent and Benediction crit seems to work. So false alarm by the first guy.
Bump. I’m not seeing the holy crit on my better character stats addon… anyone actually test this?
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How are you basing it’s working or not?
So first I tested to see what exactly the extended character stats addon was parsing from when displaying the Crit. It does seem to be from the script linked above. Unfortunately that script only lists a base Holy Critical Strike chance and does not take into account items that increase only Holy Crit or Talents. The Critical strike chance from that script seems to match the 59.2 Intellect per Priest Critical strike rating, that Tseric the blizzard CM posted in original Vanilla WoW. So the scipt is not wrong, it just is not capable of parsing all avenues of Critical strike gain.
Secondly to test this I went and parsed 200 flash heals with just a base Critical Strike chance as gained from just intellect. Over 200 casts I was within .5% critical strike chance on the expected critical strike chance. Then I did an additional 200 casts with Benediction equipped to see if the +2% Crit gained from the staff was working, as the script provided above did not include it. These 200 casts parsed within .1% of the expected value. Finally I specced into the full 5 points and completed another 200 casts of Flash heal. This also parsed within .1% of the expected value.
The initial 200 casts were off by a bigger margin than the remaining tests, but that could be explained by a very small base % Crit that stands outside of Intellect.
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