Power charge/crit vs Elemental overload

I can get 5 power charges but only around 200-250 multi.

At what point is crit better than the 40% more from ele overload?

Thanks, i remember reading or watching something on it in the past.

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Chadwixx wrote:

At what point is crit better than the 40% more from ele overload?

When crit gives you more than 40% more :P

There are a few different ways to calculate crit's effect on DPS, the one I've been fond of most recently is simply taking crit chance and multiplying it by the EXTRA damage from crits (so basically subtracting 100% from your crit multiplier). So for example at base crit stats you have 5% times 50%, or .05*.5, for .025 more damage, or 2.5% more damage.

So you could break even at 20% chance and 300% multi (.2*2.0 = .4 = 40% more), or at 25% chance and 260% multi (.25*1.6 = .4 = 40% more), or, say, 33.3% chance and 220% multi (.33*1.2 = .4 = 40% more).

Of course more is always better and I believe most people like to stack at least 40% crit chance and 350% crit multiplier before they start "feeling like a crit build."

Thanks, this is exactly what i was looking for :)