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I would however certainly consider swapping out a couple of HP gems for Crit.
As you say the return on a crit gem is peanuts in comparison to the effectiveness of other gem choices and mostly not really worth it.
ginger noob, the trade out is still very high, at lvl 5, it is 880hp + sc (sc affect will be greater for hp than crit since obviously hp offers a way higher boost than everything.) but yea trading 880 hp for 88 crit is a big trade off.
It's a choice - at higher levels, crit mage seems to accomplish more than EWD mages. As for people saying crit gems are bad, perhaps, but after lv. 6, crit/block gem levels get a higher total % boost per level than stat gems (i.e. MATK/MDEF/PDEF gems lv. 6 -> level 7 is 220 -> 280 - delta is 60, 60/220 = +27.27% gain; crit gem lv. 6 -> lv. 7 is 120 ->180, delta is 60, 60/120 = +50% gain) so as you can see, after level 6, the boost % for leveling a crit gem becomes higher than that for stat gems. Also, it's not always necessary to have crit gems in every piece - just have enough crit value (the stat) to make you feel comfortable with your crit-rate (actual chance to crit only discovered through experience) - the amount of crit value a player needs to get a consistent crit-rate will fluctuate from player to player (fairly certain crit rate decreases as crit value -the stat- remains constant while BR increases).
ginger noob, the trade out is still very high, at lvl 5, it is 880hp + sc (sc affect will be greater for hp than crit since obviously hp offers a way higher boost than everything.) but yea trading 880 hp for 88 crit is a big trade off.
That depends on your point of view & immediate circumstances.
Right now - if I thought an additional ~200 Crit would assist my build better than ~2K HP, I would swap in an instant.
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Crit mage works very well for all pve activities...but it is always less reliable but possibly higher damage output than wd
Personally i've been crit since lv 70 and ic...thats around when the switch felt doable with the extra from medal and the astral slot...i switch to wd for cw only
And as said above, crit refines are better value then the lower end gems, but starting at level 6, crit gems gain more per level than same level atk/def/hp etc does...which is something to keep in mind as well
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