Ruin?

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Post by Blightman

Before it got patched, it used to be 100% bonus damage for critical hits. It's 1.5x for a spell crit, 1000 hit would be 1500 when it crits, and would have been 2000 with the former Ruin. But I don't get the new 5 point Ruin. It increases bonus crit dmg by 20% for each point, so if you put 1 or 2 points, you actually crit for less than you would if you didn't invest those points? 1 = 120%? 2 = 140%? am I right in thinking this? Or do you add 20% and 40% respectively? So the outcome will be 250% crit damage (50% buff)?

The tootltip can be misleading. 5/5 ruin increases the bonus damage from a critical strike with a destruction spell. The end result is that destrucion spell critical strikes do 2x normal damage.

Example:
Normal damage is 1000.
Crit is 1000 + (1000/2) = 1000+500 = 1500 (fast method is 1000*1.5)
So 5/5 ruin will increase the bonus damage of 500 points by 100%. This makes the total damage = 1000 + (1000/2)*2 = 1000 +500*2=1000+1000=2000(fast method 1000*2)

Hope this makes how ruin works clearer.

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Post by Kritis

Because they moved it up 2 tiers in the destro tree... same talent but instead of being 1 point as the 21 point talent, its 5 points as the 10 point talent... If that makes any sense...

Post by asakawa

it's not a nerf it's a really good change.
it allows other builds to get ruin without having to drop something else (eg, the top tier talent) while making zero difference to destro builds.

Ruin?

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