BiggTerror Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 Which of the 3; Power, Crit, and END, is more important for a Marauder? I'm trying to determine which crystals, enhancements and hilts I should make with Artifice. If endurance is the best to pick, which is better after that, Power or Crit? Or is it something else altogether? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kibaken Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 Crit crystals until you can get 25-30% Crit, then switch to Power.. If you're using an Endurance crystal you're doing it wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quiet Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 IMO... Str + End hilt Crit color crystal Str + Crit + Surge enhancement Str + Crit + Surge mod Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruddy Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 IMO, you're better off going Biochem if your focus is PvE or PvP - until BioWare lets the other crafting professions have access to more relevant patterns. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AcaciaDragon Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 IMO... Str + End hilt Crit color crystal Str + Crit + Surge enhancement Str + Crit + Surge mod There are no Str Enhancements, Also finidng the right enhancements is hard. Accuracy + power or Crit is best. If your Carnage, Your SOL as there are no Power + Crit Enhancements. Surge is only useful(or so im told) up to a certain point, 25-30% bonus, after that Power is your best bet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dranmarth Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 There are no Str Enhancements, Also finidng the right enhancements is hard. Accuracy + power or Crit is best. If your Carnage, Your SOL as there are no Power + Crit Enhancements. Surge is only useful(or so im told) up to a certain point, 25-30% bonus, after that Power is your best bet. Actually, as Carnage, you'd rather have Power + Surge since you'll be critting with Force Scream 100% of the time as is, and those are made by artificers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AcaciaDragon Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 Actually, as Carnage, you'd rather have Power + Surge since you'll be critting with Force Scream 100% of the time as is, and those are made by artificers. Actually no. Power is better. It effects Scream as well and in a much better way. Popping my crit/surge trinket grants me a 2.8k on average crit. 3.2k with Gore. Power trinket + Gore grants me a 3.8k crit. Go try it out. Like i said, surge is only good up to a certain point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exertim Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 (edited) Why would you ever use a Surge trinket? Any kind of clicky (relic, adrenal) will push you well beyond the Surge softcap. Of course Power relics/adrenals are better in this case unless you have 0 Surge on any of your slots. Surge is good up until 90% (+40%) before it starts to heavily DR. If you're running with a preset HM FP group, just spam the FP that drops boots and pray that the Inquisitor boots drop - I'm pretty sure the enchantment has power + surge on them that you can steal. Alternatively, you can get the lvl 58 ones from HM/NM Karagga bounty hunter fight. Edited January 29, 2012 by Exertim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AcaciaDragon Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 Why would you ever use a Surge trinket? Any kind of clicky (relic, adrenal) will push you well beyond the Surge softcap. Of course Power relics/adrenals are better in this case unless you have 0 Surge on any of your slots. Surge is good up until 90% (+40%) before it starts to heavily DR. If you're running with a preset HM FP group, just spam the FP that drops boots and pray that the Inquisitor boots drop - I'm pretty sure the enchantment has power + surge on them that you can steal. Alternatively, you can get the lvl 58 ones from HM/NM Karagga bounty hunter fight. I use it because having two power trinkets is pointless as they share the same Cool down. I would use the Crit/Surge Trinket for the Crit alot. Massacre Crits are godly, and it also effect Ataru procs for me, making Massacre hit for over 2.5k on Average. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xteek Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 (edited) my base surge is 65.66% (+93 surge rating on top of 50% base) in full champ. after i pop my cds i'm seeing increases of 29% (95.36% total) surge and approx 1300-1500 dmg on *decently* geared players). so for the 450 + 185 extra surge rating (635) you're only receiving 30% where you're receiving 15.66% for 93. popping only my relic i get 185 surge rating which jumps to 85%.. popping only my adrenal i get 450 surge rating which jumps to 95.33% you can safely assume a soft cap would be somewhere around 300 surge, give or take a bit in terms of overall dps gains i'd have to go with power as well because surge is always going to be preceded by your crit chance, although in anni the extra chance to crit for 15s can really be the difference between life or death also, 100% accuracy is very easy to hit with the 3% bonus in carnage until you have the gear to afford sub out the points Edited January 29, 2012 by xteek Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoritomo Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 Why does the champion gear have superior mods to the battlemaster gear is my question. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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