Kujata.Argettio said:
The 4m.acc + 4mab option does beat mahatma slops, but not by much (worse than morrigans), certainly not enough to make it worth 'wasting' and expansion item on.
If you use the 2int~1MAB/1macc it is the same. Howerver depends on the nuke and dint and MAB/MDB. It is right between morrigans and valkryie. It can never be better than both no matter the nuke (with those augments) however it will always be better than or equal to 1 or the other. So using part of the magic dmg formula... to find when morrigan is as a good as these how much int 1 MAB is.
Ignoring crap like weather staff blah blah blah that will be same and multiplied later so wont matter the magic dmg equation is (V+(dint+10)M)*MAB.
So the how much int takes equals 1MAB will look like (V+(dint+xint)*M)*MAB= (V+(dint*M)*MAB+.01
MAB+.01=MAB2 for the algebra
(V+ (dint+xint)*M)*MAB=(V+ (dint)*M)*MAB2
(V+Mdint+Mxint)*MAB=(V+Mdint)*MAB2
(V+Mdint)MAB+M*MABxint=(V+Mdint)MAB2
M*MABxint=(V+Mdint)MAB2-(V+Mdint)MAB
M*MABxint=(MAB-MAB2)(V+Mdint)
xint=(MAB2-MAB)(V+Mdint)/(M*MAB)
xint=.01 (V/M+dint)/MAB
xint=(V/M+dint)/100MAB
on AM2 V=710 and M=2
on Blizz4 V=506 and M=2
Now just need player and mobs ints yay.
For me using my normal nuking set...
I have +28MAB (42 from jobtrait/merits) and +46 int. I have 84 base int as a blm/rdm 85 as a blm/sch. Lets just take 6 int off now since were playing with legs (but will get at least 2 from the expansion ones). Lets assume nuking in melon pies+1 or really any 5int food that gives nice HMP. So without external buffs or latents or day/weather effects etc I'd have 129int on ice spells and +70MAB. No Burn either.
Let's do puddings (89) and the generally 110 int HNM model.
So dints of 40 and 19.
AM2 pudding xint=(710/2+40)/100MAB=2.32
blizz4 pudding xint=(506/2+40)/100MAB=1.72
110int xint=(710/2+19)/100MAB=2.2
AM2 110int xint=(506/2+19)/100MAB=1.6
tl;dr So on pretty much anything your gunna nuke expansion better for AM2 morrigans for blizz4. Less MAB will make MAB effective compared to int and to a lesser extent less int will make int more effective compared to MAB. But it would take pretty much nekkid MAB to make expansion better on T4 and pretty decent negative dints to make morrigan better than expansion on AM2.
Kujata.Argettio said:
The m.crit damage +10% is pretty damn lol. It makes all magic crits = +20 mab (normally +10mab) which doesn't make any of the m.crit items worth while , other than witch sash.
Wait wheres it say it only adds another 10MAB? I mean the way it reads it should give an additional +10% dmg on magic crits. If it only is another 10MAB it is crap since even with full +15% magic crit that is effectively on average only +1.5 magic crit.