So you guys can check out my build in the armory link the signature, but my question is as follows:
I've been seeing some of the really high DPS wizzies running with disintegrate instead of Arcane Orb/WW. I like the idea of having a laser all the time, so this appeals to me... BUT
Can Disintegrate not crit? I know I've asked this before, but does my crit damage/ chance stack become completely worthless if I switch from orb or laser?
Short answer: Yes.
Long answer: The numbers you see are not the damage Disintegrate is doing, it is how much damage the spell has done since the last display tick (including any crits). Enemy health bars decrease smoothly, (as Disintegrate deals damage continuously), but you only see the cumulative damage periodically.
Each cicle (some believe 4 cicles per second), beam damage is applied to the monster. This damage is the rolled damage, including crit, divided by number of cicles per second. The smooth degradation of monster health is client side; your game engine calculates what to show each frame. Crits are not displayed, but CM and APoC are still kicking in.
Disintegrate ticks 4 times per second, however, by design, the game doesn't display values that rapidly - if they do, the numbers would all be overlapping each other. Damage and healing numbers are displayed every half second by the game client.
So with disintegrate (along with other damage over time abilities like blizzard or venom hydra, etc.), what the game does, is adds the damage that you've done in the previous half second, then displays this as a white number. Each of the individual ticks can and do crit, this is why your disintegrate numbers fluctuate.
All on-crit procs and on-hit procs work per tick, but at a significantly reduced coefficient (I think it's something like 11% for most disintegrate runes?).
That being said ... why wouldn't you run stormchaser? I find disintegrate near unusable with 240k dps.
Disintegrate ticks 4 times per second, however, by design, the game doesn't display values that rapidly - if they do, the numbers would all be overlapping each other. Damage and healing numbers are displayed every half second by the game client.
So with disintegrate (along with other damage over time abilities like blizzard or venom hydra, etc.), what the game does, is adds the damage that you've done in the previous half second, then displays this as a white number. Each of the individual ticks can and do crit, this is why your disintegrate numbers fluctuate.
All on-crit procs and on-hit procs work per tick, but at a significantly reduced coefficient (I think it's something like 11% for most disintegrate runes?).
That being said ... why wouldn't you run stormchaser? I find disintegrate near unusable with 240k dps.
Thanks for the info. I did run with stormchaser for a while, but I just prefer to use orb/disint if I could. I dont have any trouble in act 3 as it is now, just wanted to switch it up a bit.
I've been seeing some of the really high DPS wizzies running with disintegrate instead of Arcane Orb/WW. I like the idea of having a laser all the time, so this appeals to me... BUT
Can Disintegrate not crit? I know I've asked this before, but does my crit damage/ chance stack become completely worthless if I switch from orb or laser?
Long answer: The numbers you see are not the damage Disintegrate is doing, it is how much damage the spell has done since the last display tick (including any crits). Enemy health bars decrease smoothly, (as Disintegrate deals damage continuously), but you only see the cumulative damage periodically.
So with disintegrate (along with other damage over time abilities like blizzard or venom hydra, etc.), what the game does, is adds the damage that you've done in the previous half second, then displays this as a white number. Each of the individual ticks can and do crit, this is why your disintegrate numbers fluctuate.
All on-crit procs and on-hit procs work per tick, but at a significantly reduced coefficient (I think it's something like 11% for most disintegrate runes?).
That being said ... why wouldn't you run stormchaser? I find disintegrate near unusable with 240k dps.
Thanks for the info. I did run with stormchaser for a while, but I just prefer to use orb/disint if I could. I dont have any trouble in act 3 as it is now, just wanted to switch it up a bit.