How should one weight elemental damage compared to other damage stats?
With the new system of elemental damage, I was wondering when given the choice (for a reroll at the Mystic) if I should pick elemental damage over another historical damage stats (like Crit Chance or Crit Damage) ? How does elemental damage affect my overall DPS compared to those stats ?
Best Answer
Here is a good summary on how +Elemental Damage works:
The video advises a good way to estimate if a new piece of gear with +Elemental damage is worth equipping: If you have one piece of gear with +20% fire damage then your damage looks like this:
100 * 1.2 = 120
120 / 100 = 1.2 = 20% Gained
If you are looking at adding another new piece of gear with +20% you can calculate the damage gained by:
100 * 1.4 (+20% on two items) = 140
140 / 120 = 1.166 = 16.6%
Which means adding a second piece of gear that adds +20% fire damage only nets you roughly 16% damage. He goes into much more detail in the video, but this is a nice way to determine if that item you found is worth it.
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You should prefer Elemental Damage over other stats in the most cases, meaning you want to keep a good balance between Elemental DMG and other stats.
Let's assume you deal 1000 DPS, have 20% crit chance and 200% crit dmg and 0% Elemental Damage.
You will result in 1000 + 2/10 x (1000 x 2) DPS = 1400 DPS
If you now add 20% Elemental DMG (that's the maximum an amulet can provide) you would result in 1400 x 1.2 = 1680 DPS
If you would instead add 10% crit chance you would be at 1000 + 3/10 x (1000 x 2) DPS = 1600 DPS
So with this assumption you would end up in a DPS loss if you would go for the crit chance. This is the because because we are assuming we have a default 0 Elemental Damage.
If we now look at the same calculation having 1000 DPS, 20% crit chance, 200% crit dmg BUT 100% Elemental DMG already it looks like this:
We are dealing right now (1000 + 2/10 x (1000 x 2) x 2 = 2800 DPS Now we get an item which upgrades our Elemental Damage by another 20%, so we have (1000 + 2/10 x (1000 x 2)) x 2.2 = 3080 DPS
If we would reroll the 20% Elemental DMG into 10% crit chance we end up with this: (1000 + 3/10 x (1000 x 2)) x 2 = 3200 DPS
As you can see the crit is way better after you got a decent amount of Elemental Damage, same with +Elite DMG, crit hit dmg, strength and attack speed.
What does this mean?
You should always have a proper balance between ALL stats, and not only the commonly known 0.1% crit chance for 1% crit hit damage. Try to balance, having for example 5 items with crit chance, 5 with hit damage, 5 with elemental damage, 2-3 with elite dmg and a few with +Skill DMG% (your mainly used skill preferably)!
Additionally Moldran calculated around this a bit too and i link you the video he made:
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