Spell haste vs. Spell crit (in 2.4)Follow

So my guild has everything but Illidan on farm (who will be dying next week). Assuming I'll get all my gear, and that I'll have all the sunwell items that I want, I should have a 2.24 cast on my shadowbolt. What I'm wondering is whether I should gem for crit or for haste. Two of my sockets are reserved for 4 haste and 6 stam for my meta (this is included with the previous mentioned cast). This leaves me with 6 sockets left (I'm not getting the t6 chest). Now, the question is whether I should get crit or haste in that. 48 haste vs. 60 spell crit, or bringing my shadowbolt down to a 2.18 second cast or gaining 2.5% crit plus 5 spell crit rating, I don't know the conversion of one spell crit.

To get the main point of the thread out of that paragraph, which is better: minus 0.06 seconds on my shadowbolt cast, or getting 2.5% crit and 5 spell crit rating.

never gem for crit as a warlock. it's the worst stat around. a rough comparison is:

3crit = 1haste / 1hit
2crit = 1dmg

crit is the worst stat to go for, period. after hit. haste is the best to go for.

If your going to be specing into destruction crit is what I would gem for.

To get enough spell haste to make a different you would be severely nerfing your self in all other stats and I dont believe that you could make up for this nerf by casting quicker spells in either talent tree.

You are not a warrior, shammy, or paladin. You do not gem for crit. You get the bare minimum to sustain the spec, and then you ignore it.

Haste is worth 50% more than damage, which is worth about twice as much as crit. Which makes haste three times better than crit. You should be gemming straight +dmg or dmg/haste, though will the Sunwell gear you'll probably need to throw in a few +10 hits from the total lack of +hit.

Edited, Feb 14th 2008 12:54pm by lsfreak