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Critical strike chance or damage?

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Amorpho
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I don't have twice born star yet. Which is better for dps? Critical strike chance or critical strike damage?
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  • Avran_Sylt
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    I guess it depends on what your base Crit Rating currently is. at or near 45% I'd go crit chance. damage otherwise.
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  • idk
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    Amorpho wrote: »
    I don't have twice born star yet. Which is better for dps? Critical strike chance or critical strike damage?

    TBS is not what it used to be. It shines due to Agressive WH and with the changes it is no longer as good.

    To answer your question, Theif is best when using one mundus. Theif and Shadow is best when using TBS.
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  • Artanis
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    I think I've heard that, the difference between the two makes little difference on paper. If you are a min/max guy, I've heard crit damage works better above 45-50% crit chance.

    But my question is why TBS? If you want to run critical build, there are many other great sets like Julianos, Scathing Mage, and Nightmother which are also easy to craft/farm. To my knowledge, they function better than TBS with Shadow + Thief.
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  • Cêltic421
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    Crit chance! Most people like to be between 60-70%.
  • Amorpho
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    Artanis wrote: »
    I think I've heard that, the difference between the two makes little difference on paper. If you are a min/max guy, I've heard crit damage works better above 45-50% crit chance.

    But my question is why TBS? If you want to run critical build, there are many other great sets like Julianos, Scathing Mage, and Nightmother which are also easy to craft/farm. To my knowledge, they function better than TBS with Shadow + Thief.

    I have a full gold Julianos but I wanted to try TBS. My base crit percentage is 43% if I remember well. I guess I'll have to switch from crit damage to crit chance and see how it goes. My main focus at the moment is to farm VMA. Julianos works well but I wonder if I could pump more damage out with TBS.
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  • SublimeSparo
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    For burst , crit damage > chance
    For long sustained dps crit chance > damage
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  • KochDerDamonen
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    You always want to boost whichever is lower. Default crit mod is 50%(55% for NB, 60% for Temp) so get your chance at least that high first.

    After that, you don't have many options for crit damage other than the M/mForce buffs so you can keep pumping crit if that's your fetish, or nab other stats :p

    Edit: and yes, TBS with divines is huge for raw critical stats. Combine with a looted crit set if aforementioned critical fetishism. :p
    Edited by KochDerDamonen on March 18, 2017 6:49PM
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