Quote Originally Posted by valkry View Post
I always though that crit = dmg increases when lava burst is taken out. Please excuse this very basic math and let me know if it's wrong.

Example:
You have 0% crit and hit for 1 dmg per spell. You do 100 casts, thats 100 dmg.

You gain 3% extra dmg from talent, that makes 103 dmg.

You instead gain 3% extra crit, making, on average, 3 of those 100 casts hit for 2. 97x1 + 3x2 = 103 dmg.
Yeah that is correct (as far as I know there is no 'hidden' extra modifier for crit chance for ele). But there are 2 things to look at:

- you multibox pvp, so personally I prefer to have a 65% chance to do 100k (normal 80k) on a target, rather than doing 82.4k normally with a 59% chance to do 103k., at least for arena
- your overload benefits as well from crit rating (also from EP of course, but only for 75% of the inital value))