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Ghome Farming Emerald or Dimond in wep?

cleverbs

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I have a very well geared WD I am wondering whats better a Dimond or Emerald in my wep?
 
did some testing, emerald for sure, with emerald i kill in 7 secs with diamond it takes 11
 
This should be pretty easy to figure out with some basic math, but it depends on the rest of your gear and your values for CC, CD and Elite % outside of the socket. Short answer though, Diamond is very underpowered and the Emerald will almost always outperform it.

Assuming you have say, 50% CC and 350% CD not counting your weapon (50% base, 50% paragon, 100% amulet, 50% ring x2, 50% gloves). Your current crit multiplier is:

1 + (0.5 * 3.5) = 2.75x

If you add 130% CD from an emerald your CD goes up to 480% and your new formula is:

1 + (0.5 * 4.8) = 3.40x

This means your effective damage increase is 3.4 / 2.75 = 1.236 or ~23.6%. Right away it should be obvious that this is going to outperform a diamond since diamond only gives +20% vs Elite. But let's continue anyway. Let's say your damage vs elite right now is 45% from Aughild's 3-pc and SoJ. That means your elite damage multiplier is 1.45x. If you add a diamond, that will increase to 1.65x, which gives you an effective damage increase of 1.65 / 1.45 = 1.138 or ~13.8%. If you're also using a high Elite % Sunkeeper (say 25%), then your increase from a diamond will only be 1.9 / 1.7 = 1.118 or ~11.8%.

tl;dr: The emerald will always outperform on a well geared character, and can even be up to twice as effective as a diamond (or more).
 
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