Keep Attack Speed Inner Ability on my Angelic Buster?

[Soph]

Yesterday I got this ability while looking for crit.

Is it a noticeable increase in dps or should I still aim for crit?

It feels quite a bit faster and have looked at raw numbers but still not really sure.

Thanks for your time.

[hadriel]

Not using any hurricane-type skills? Then it's approximately 10% increase in final DPS (as in, this is the final final "multiplier"). I'd say, keep it.

Some math for you: with Star Gazer and a rough 45% base crit rate (30% SS mastery, Hyper and bits and pieces here and there), you are doing 207% damage when you crit (1.2x * 1.45 min crit from SS mastery and SG, 1.5 * 1.6 max crit from SG) i.e. 148%/s raw average. If you now get a reasonable 25% crit from Azwan, then at 70% crit rate you will do 174.9%/s raw average. That is about 18% increase in DPS. It is alot to be fair. The minimal amount without overshooting 100% crit i.e. starting from 75% base then your increase in DPS is about 14.8%.

Numbers seem to be telling me that %crit is better, because of Star Gazer's massive bonuses to crit damage. But 10% increase in DPS from IAS is already very respectable... will you kill yourself for running through 500 circulators and not getting any %crit better than 15-20%?

Hadriel

[Soph]

Not using any hurricane-type skills? Then it's approximately 10% increase in final DPS (as in, this is the final final "multiplier"). I'd say, keep it.

Some math for you: with Star Gazer and a rough 45% base crit rate (30% SS mastery, Hyper and bits and pieces here and there), you are doing 207% damage when you crit (1.2x * 1.45 min crit from SS mastery and SG, 1.5 * 1.6 max crit from SG) i.e. 148%/s raw average. If you now get a reasonable 25% crit from Azwan, then at 70% crit rate you will do 174.9%/s raw average. That is about 18% increase in DPS. It is alot to be fair. The minimal amount without overshooting 100% crit i.e. starting from 75% base then your increase in DPS is about 14.8%.

Numbers seem to be telling me that %crit is better, because of Star Gazer's massive bonuses to crit damage. But 10% increase in DPS from IAS is already very respectable... will you kill yourself for running through 500 circulators and not getting any %crit better than 15-20%?

Hadriel

Thank you for the detailed answer. If it comes down to needing the high end crit bonuses I will gladly stick with the attack speed. The extra dps from crit sounds very nice though, which gives me some motivation to get the phantom link.

[CarrionCrow]

Attack speed increase also have the perk of utility. The difference in speed might be what kills HTs black wyverns before they use dispell on you.

[Even]

I'd like to point out that you'd be sitting on 60% crit chance with level 2 phantom link. After that you're already above avg and the critical damage increase isnt as much as below 50. Not to mention that you can probaly easily get a 5% crit ring sometime, which puts you at 65%.

[Soph]

I'd like to point out that you'd be sitting on 60% crit chance with level 2 phantom link. After that you're already above avg and the critical damage increase isnt as much as below 50. Not to mention that you can probaly easily get a 5% crit ring sometime, which puts you at 65%.

That's a good point. I am still using the hat from hot time which gives 5 crit. With that, hypers and phantom link 2 I can get 65 which is very respectable. Chuck in a crit neb and it can go higher.