Rocksteady

What's everyone's feelings about going for the 7/7 set bonus vs going for a mix/match setup that will yield more dps but hinder your ability to aquire other items:

Take my situation for example - I'm 5/7 atm on the set gear - just need sariah to cough up some boots, and mayong to decide to give me a chest piece. Obviously +8% Melee crit chance is a huge bonus all by itself.

On the other hand - i blew all my dkp on the Scout Hood from PHH a couple months back (so i wear 4/7 set pieces and replace the set hat with the PHH hood until i have 7/7) and with a couple more items (avatar robe, matron legs (why won't they drop?) - etc etc) i'll have a setup that's better than my setgear bonus. But in aquiring those items - i'm pretty much eliminated my chances of getting CCM or any top jewelery. Since it's likely that the expansion won't be in effect nearly long enough for all the top scout dps gear to start going for the DKP minimum before a level cap or end game content change takes place.

So what's everyone's thoughts? all in on the melee dps armor pieces, or save it for weapons and jewelery and fall back on a set bonus?

Henladar Bloodheart

Depends on what i have. If i got a robe of resplendent battle from Flames (i think that is the name) i probably would not. That is just one example.

Henladar Bloodheart

Here are some numbers. Probably not right... but a general idea.

100% crit for 5 seconds procing every 1.8 times every minute. That is a average of 9 seconds of 100% crit per minute.

9 seconds is 15% of a minute.

Now that doesnt even prove anything numbers wise... youd have to factor in how many times you hit CA's/ melee attacks per minute but with that i feel you would get more crits out of the robe then the 8% boost. I wont be able to test it and probably wont be able to for a long time to come heh.