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Originally Posted by Ripzz
100% is the cap and 100% crit would yield more DPS than 100% double attack since double attack can't proc a thing and is just double of your normal auto attack, whereas crits affects CAs and procs and can be huge sometimes, not to mention we're talking about an average 30% damage increase to every single melee hit.
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That's not necessarily true.
When you double attack, while dual wielding, you're doubling your melee DPS. When you crit, it varies a lot depending on what your damage roll is and your weapon spreads. Sometimes it's more than double, sometimes it's only 30%.
The reason I prefer double attacking over melee crits is because you don't crit a miss, however, you do double attack a miss. Also as Echo mentioned crits scale slightly depending on the con so 25% melee crits isn't 25% melee crits on a level 87 mob. The flipside is that double attack has no impact on CAs while melee crits obviously increase them by 30%.
Considering our average hit rate on orange cons is about 63-68% and about 73-78% on yellow cons that's a significant amount of auto attacks missing out on crits while all those auto attacks that missed have a chance to double attack.
Again, they're both about equally important, however I think double attack has the slight edge.
Edit - Also melee crits affecting procs is completely insignificant considering 99% of the procs in game are not melee based. The 2 common ones that are that come to mind are the planar orb of the wanderer and the rallos zek cloak.
Melee Crit Cap ?
. Looks like 23% is a cap for a dirge, cause my GF's brig can go 35% easy, or im gettin a bug or sth.
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