Critical Affliction AA Line

[Nefarious]

I had a question regarding the Critical Affliction line. I did some searches and read that with Improved Critical Affliction maxed, its 18% chance to crit.

http://www.necrotalk.com/showpost.php?p=45524&postcount=7

This sounds great. But I was kind of hoping for a breakdown in percentage per rank. For exampled CA1 = 2%, CA2, = 4%, et cetera. As it stands right now, I’ve had CA3 for some time now, and I just got ICA1 last night. I was just curious. I’ve heard its diminishing returns. I remember someone saying that the CA mastery line only gave 1% per rank.

At any rate, just curious if anyone had a breakdown. Thanks.

[Evil]

Since I only have CA3, I'm no expert, but other AAs which do not specifically show percentages in their descriptions, have a tendancy to be very minor upgrades at the first 2 levels with a signifigant upgrade with the 3rd.

I recall seeing very few crits with the first 2 levels of CA, but they are quite common with CA3.

[Kuursed]

I always refer to

http://samanna.net/eq.shaman/demystified.shtml

[Xislaben]

Ca1 3% - 3%
Ca2 3% - 6%
Ca3 4% - 10%
ICA1 2% - 12%
ICA2 2% - 14%
ICA3 2% - 16%
AM1 2% - 18%
AM2 2% - 20%
AM3 2% - 22%
BT1 2% - 24%
BT2 2% - 26%
BT3 2% - 28%
GBT1 1% - 29%
GBT2 1% - 30%
GBT3 1% - 31%

DoN4 - 3%
Epic 1.5 - 4%
Epic 2.0 - 8%
Epic 2.5 - 10%

[Lashden]

Hmm...where did you get that Xis? That's 2% Off from what I calculated based on other info (from here I believe) for my current aa's/gear (all buyable crit aa's + 2.0, no DoN aa).

[Nefarious]

Thanks guys.

[Zandramadass]

I thought 2.0 was 10% and 2.5 was 12%... but that is just hearsay no documentation to support it. Course it could explain Lash's 2% difference...

[Xislaben]

I thought 2.0 was 10% and 2.5 was 12%... but that is just hearsay no documentation to support it. Course it could explain Lash's 2% difference...

Shadow Whisper (http://lucy.allakhazam.com/spell.html?id=6258)
1: Critical DoT(4)

Dark Whisper (http://lucy.allakhazam.com/spell.html?id=6290)
1: Critical DoT(8)

Empowerment of Shadows (http://lucy.allakhazam.com/spell.html?id=7859)
1: Critical DoT(10)

I got most of the numbers from Samanna which is pretty accurate, and I believe that Greater Blood Tithe is only 1%/tier.

I've not done extensive parsing lately due to other issues with critting that can muddy the numbers. I may go back and and write a sneakier parse to make sure I disinclude all other sources, but until it's roughly accurate.

I thought CA was only 3% per tier, Samanna says 3/3/4. And the DoN AA may be 4% instead of 3% as Samanna claims. ICA may be 3% per tier instead of 2% too.

[Lashden]

No we are in agreement about the epic focus :D

Sounds like I found a conflicting source for the other aa's though.

[Zandramadass]

Heh, see I told you just hearsay.... wouldnt it just be simpler if they would put the % gained in the actual AA description online anyway.... its not like people dont parse that shit anyway. Why hide it in the first place?

Everything I have read about DoN was 3% but again no official SoE post... thought ICA was 3% myself and later lines started dropping off.

[Delandra]

Probably because it would hold them to a certain specification...sounds good anyway

[Zandramadass]

Ahh yes accountability and the desire to avoid it...

[Dethfang]

Anyone else notice they accidentally added three more ranks of crit dots when they consolidated the AA lines?