Question between pen and crit for pvp

Micah_Bayer · August 2022

2700 pen vs 6% crit dmg. Which one is better?

DaisyRay · August 2022

Someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe pen is better? I think a lot of people in pvp run crit resist, so unless you have a lot of crit chance and damage it might not be as good as pen. I'm just guessing though, maybe someone will come school us both.

baselesschart · August 2022

I would say pen. No reason to stack crit damage unless you are ganking or are a class that is heavily oriented around crit.

taugrim · August 2022

DaisyRay wrote: »

Someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe pen is better? I think a lot of people in pvp run crit resist, so unless you have a lot of crit chance and damage it might not be as good as pen. I'm just guessing though, maybe someone will come school us both.

Yup.

2700 pen removes 2700 armor, which provides ~4.1% mitigation.

Crit damage of 6% has to factor in the crit chance percentage. E.g. @ 50% crit chance, crit damage of 6% will provide ~3% damage increase. Of course, crits provide spike.

AndreNoir · August 2022

taugrim wrote: »

Crit damage of 6% has to factor in the crit chance percentage. E.g. @ 50% crit chance, crit damage of 6% will provide ~3% damage increase.

...and the same healing increase