I'll answer this. You have the same crit rate as many other mages, but typically with the little bit of extra bit of skill points in fire and drain (the highest flat damage spells in a mage's spellpool), it increases base damage by a noticeable amount while increasing crit damage by a very significant amount. The reason for their seemingly "mirrored" damage, is because you have slightly lower armor, which means you take their damage with less resistance, whereas you output more damage, but they have more armor while their buff is up, so it nerfs your damage to them a bit.Originally Posted by birdmasta
Your build would surpass others in theory once the 10 second armor buff from BOV wears off because you have more skill points being used afterward. To clarify my explanation, here's an example:
mage 1:
points in attack spells, heal, BOM, and mana shield at level 26: 19
points in BOV: 6
mage 2:
points in attack spells, heal, BOM, and mana shield at level 26: 22
points in BOV: 3
So while in the beginning of the fight, mage 1 and mage 2 would be utilizing all 25 of their skill points, let's assume both mages survive the first set of combos until the BOV self-buff wears off. Now once this happens, both Mages still have one point of BOV being used for the 2 minute party buff, but any extra points invested in the skill have worn off since it only applies to the self-buff. mage 1 had 5 extra points invested, while mage 2 only had 2 extra points invested. So now the difference is between all the skills except 1 point is BOV.
mage 1 skill points used after BOV self-buff expires: 19+1
mage 2 skill points used after BOV self-buff expires: 22+1
after the BOM self-buff wears off (both at 6), mage 2 still has 3 more skill points being used than mage 1. Until the buffs cool down, mage 2 has the upper hand.
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