Nostalrius Begins - Quality wow vanilla realm (1.12)

sumail wrote:Okay so with Arcane Instability I was getting 469 average damage. So 469/1.03 = ~455.

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How to calculate your CRIT value:

Your frost bolt does 456 avg dmg. (not the 446 its supposed to be, don't know why)
A solid preraid set of gear gives you spellpower of 400.
Full Raid consumes of +86 spellpower. (36 from Brilliant Wizard Oil and 35 Greater Arcane Elixir and 15 Elixir of Frost Power)
Frostbolt's spellpower coefficient is .814 (3/3.5 = .857 then .857*.95 = .814)
3/3.5 = cast time
5% reduction is because it has a slowing effect.
A few things we can ignore since we're trying to find equal values between crit and spellpower.

456 + (.814 coefficient * 486) = 852 dmg per frostbolt.
1% crit would over a long average be equal to 1% more damage per frost bolt. 852*.01 = 8.52 dmg.
8.52 / (spell coefficent = .814) = 10.46 Spellpower.

At this gear level 10.46 spellpower would be equal to 1% crit, and that would be the ratio you tradeoff your items for max theoretical DPS.

Now lets say you have better gear at a level of 450 Spellpower. +86 from Raid consumables.
1% crit = 10.96 SP

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How to value HIT:
You can't go above 16% hit (you get 6% from talents)

For spells, it is a 2 table roll. First the server rolls to see if you hit, then if you successfully landed your spell; it checks if you made a crit.

So 1 hit again, like crit adds 1% more damage per frostbolt in the long average, however this hit can cause a crit.
So a hit that would of missed, but this 1% hit changed it into successfully landing, this successful hit may now crit. So we need to take crit chance into calculation.

So 1 hit = [1% dmg of your frost bolt * your crit chance (5% base ~5% from gear 3% talents 10% WC = 23%)] / spell coefficient (.814)
OR 1 hit = [SP value of crit] * crit chance.

Gear: 400 SP +86 (from consumables) = 486.
852 dmg per frostbolt.
[8.52/.814 = 10.46] * 1.23 = 12.86 SP

At this gear level 12.86 spellpower would be equal to 1% hit, and that would be the ratio you tradeoff your items for max theoretical DPS.

Spellpower level: 450+86 = 536 SP
1% hit = 13.48 SP

The more spellpower you have, the more each crit and hit is worth.
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So you make tradeoffs on your items until you find your max DPS combination. If you want an item that is +15 sp OR 1% crit? You go with the 15 sp.
You want 8 sp OR 1 % hit? You go with the 1% hit.

Good luck!