+ spell damage neck adornment

Zebsen · 03-28-2008, 08:56 AM

Before I use my only crystallized mana on something that may or may not be worth it, I thought I'd seek some advice.

I was looking to adorn my Pendant of Swirling Energies with a +30 spell damage adornment. I'm assuming this works just like other + damage items (caps at 50% base damage spell, but is applied after any multipliers). Right now, I'm already capped on UV Beam with VM invoked and my WoCP procced. I'm not capped with VM invoked + WoCP + crits. My crit %s though are only at about 38% self buffed.

Am I assuming correctly on how this works? I'm thinking the +30 damage would still be better than any other adornment option out there since the DoT one only procs once/minute.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Zebsen

Slips · 03-28-2008, 10:17 AM

I had the dot proc for a short while on a different piece of gear while I was waiting for a new neck. It was the biggest mistake I ever made, what a piece of crap. I originally thought it would be good for additional damage since I'm at BOE cap as well, but it does such a small amount of dmg (less than 10k dmg zone wide), +30dmg is much more worthwhile. The most annoying part of all, is it feels like it's almost guaranteed to proc off any MEZ, which means that dot is going to fuck your mob up as soon as it ticks. Having that adorn off has made my life less stressful.

TANGARTH · 03-28-2008, 11:28 AM

if beam is capped, put the +30 (or +25 for those poor folks) on your pendant, and try and find anyway whatsoever to switch some of your other +spell damage for crits

Cerium · 04-01-2008, 07:33 PM

I use the +12 dps mod. its legendary and semi useful

TANGARTH · 04-01-2008, 10:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Cerium

I use the +12 dps mod. its legendary and semi useful

No it's not.
You're retarded.

Cerium · 04-02-2008, 02:13 AM

im all ready high on + spell damage, the proc adornment sucks, and my alterate line is STR so how wouldnt it be useful?

Slips · 04-02-2008, 09:53 AM

ROFL.

TANGARTH · 04-02-2008, 01:05 PM

swap out any of your other +damage pieces for procs or crits

30 spell damage is small, but 12 dps mod is much smaller

agressiv · 04-02-2008, 02:42 PM

My only debate has been forearms - +16 WIS or the +crush/+slash/ etc resist?

I'm doing the +16 WIS just cause its cheaper, I guess it probably doesn't matter much.

Pinski · 04-02-2008, 02:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by agressiv

My only debate has been forearms - +16 WIS or the +crush/+slash/ etc resist?

I'm doing the +16 WIS just cause its cheaper, I guess it probably doesn't matter much.

Basically!