Gun/Bow Enchant Question: +12 Dmg? or +2% Crit?Follow

I would say that getting more crit rating would not hurt you at all. In fact it would still help you more. As for the damage it only adds to the damage that your weapon itself does, not you DPS. I am pretty sure about that too. I would personally go with the crit. That's just me though.

I think it is 1.27% crit at 70, not the 2% that the sticky implies(which I believe is how it would work out at level 60). I'm not positive, but I wrote a generic mark-up(which was extremely flawed), that brought up good points about the two scopes. I'll look it up in a minute and link it.

Edit:

Here is the link to the thread.

http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/class.html?wclass=5;mid=1196371369287399084#m1196373087247969389

Ultimately what was discussed is that the +damage scope only affects white damage(auto shot), while the crit scope affects everything.

Crit scope works out to be better but at the same time, unless you are using an endgame weapon that you don't plan to replace any time soon, go with the cheaper +12 damage scope.

Edited, Feb 6th 2008 3:27pm by SynnTastic

Since the vast majority of Arena teams are still fairly weak (like mine) and the players lesser equipped, Crit appears to me to still be a good stat. I will admit that fighting in the Arena certainly humbles you crit wise. I'm so used to getting crits off of Multi that I could count on at least one per shot, sometimes more. Now I see one every 3rd or 4th Multishot. Arena players and that resil gear just makes it harder.

Probably by the time WotLK comes out and all the gear changes you might see very high resil gear on more players and crit may be worth less. At that point, you'll be grinding to 80 and the mobs will probably not be as resillient so that scope will continue to be useful for at least a few levels.

So, I agree, crit is better but make sure you have a weapon you wanna keep through the first few 70 levels.

The scope goes for 500g on my server, and I'm very lazy so money is hard to come by lol. I don't have an epic mount so I can't do netherwing dailies, so my gold income is low. I stay with the +dmg anyway because out of the countless times I've ran Kara, only 1 bow has dropped, the Xbow, which is good, but isn't a keeper.

To sum it up as easy as possible. I don't know how many auto shots you are getting out in one arena match, but for me it was maybe maybe about 15-20%. The rest were special shots while I was running around wing clipping and traping and running.

+damage scope only works with your auto shots. +crit scope works with all your shots. For me the choice is simple, I would go with the +crit scope. You may get off more auto shots than I do, I don't know. I know that I was usually the prime target in my 5v5 so I was busy running around jump shotting to not get killed off, your mileage may vary.

Once you get the Sunfury Bow or the Wolfslayer Sniper Rifle slap the crit scope on it, anything other than those just isn't worth it (unless you only PvP then stick it on the S3 Arena Ranged weapon you get).